Why on earth?


Answer me this:  On You-Tube, there are endless of reviews, comparisons, and demos of equipment played in the creators room, recorded by a mic and published as if we could hear anything relevant considering we are listening to OUR stereo!  Some of these have high play counts.   Does anyone think they could hear differences in an amp or DAC picked up by some unknown mic, A2D, post processing and played back on their HT?   Are we really that stupid? 

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Showing 3 responses by macg19

Yes we are that stupid. Because there are people getting rich from posting crap on the various "social" media platforms mostly about mindless drivel and I'm guessing most of us here have missed that boat.

The upside is we are not contributing to the decline of the human race.

FYT.

@ticat 

Wow... why does Everything need to be about Absolutism? So... the YouTube audio of a Demo'd item is not the Be All and End All. I am convinced most people who are Audiogon participants are aware of the technical limitations on display there. Is it So totally egregious as to be important enough to publicly denounce the attempt to demonstate a product/system (to total strangers) and go on and on about it? Is not a Taste better than a Whiff?

I'd expect the Absolute Truth attitude from the patrons of a (Psuedo) Scientific Site or somewhere that everything gets reduced to Numbers, Ones and Zeros, graphs and measurements...Hmmmm 

No disrespect intended, but I don't understand your point or who/what it is directed to/at.

@ticat got it, thanks. 

I think there is lots of useful/interesting content on YouTube, but social media in general, so-called influencers, Tik-Tok videos etc. are contributing to the decline of society - and it starts early - an iPad is now the babysitter.

And way too much screen time + not spending enough time outside in the sun is contributing to the significant increase in Myopia...

Thread hijacked (sorry) rant over.