Totally Ridiculous....Auditions on YouTube!

Certainly not audition quality but of course you can ascertain qualitative differences in well-recorded YouTube video. If you can’t, there’s an issue with your aural apparatus and cognitive interpolation, and you shouldn’t be in hi-fi.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - -Arthur Schopenhauer

No way on Gods green earth can anyone accertain anything from these videos.

If you can tell a bad singer from a good singer on the radio, you can differentiate between a bad-sounding speaker and a good-sounding speaker on your headphones. 

Roy, you're starting to sound like a Flat Earther defending the indefensible. All other things being equal, it is possible to hear the difference in say, changing a cartridge or speaker, or tubes in a HD YouTube video. You can hear one being brighter, darker, or more detailed than the other. We are in agreement that you cannot hear the exact same sound as you would in a live audition. The medium and the transducers get in the way. Just like listening on a system is never as accurate as the real performance. Nevertheless, we are satisfied listening to our hi-fi systems which give a simulation of the real thing. So too does the YouTube video. It may not be as good but it is discernible. 

@frogman 

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Yes, actually. We used the room app on the Benjamin Moore website to redecorate our home.

Do you decide on a paint color for your home from your laptop?

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