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So many YouTube clips to evaluate sound quality. Why???

There are several audio gear Youtubers chronically playing clips displaying speakers and amplifiers and even cables to have YouTube listeners evaluate sound quality.  And then they go to shows and display music clips from the very small Hotel rooms.  And yes I watch a few and some can be interesting. It's gotta be tough for these manufactures to go to these hotels all the time and deal with all the people. Basically, it's a mixture of all kinds of higher end components and somehow it's possible to appreciate what individual components sound like. $200,000 speakers surrounded by lots of other high-priced gear. How does one charge anything?

Are they trying to fool people with sound comparison music clips? What is the point and why are they wasting their time?  Maybe headphones might detect something.  I fail to appreciate why these individuals do this, and why do they dedicate so much time to this.  Are they being paid to promote speakers and amplifiers?  And then reading the comments where all these people seem to really believe they hear differences.

Time might be better spent explaining technical merits of the gear and opinions on how it sounds. And why their recommended gear is so expensive.  
 

 

emergingsoul
ricmech23
102 posts
 

+1 @hilde45 

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carlsbad2
1,384 posts
 

They all sound like the tiny speakers on my laptop...can't figure out why.

I have no problem with them posting them and people watching them.  

Jerry

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wturkey
734 posts
 

People like their YouTubes….

 

Fight the trend or go with it….

mike_in_nc
1,125 posts
 

I suppose people who post this are trying to get views. I understand that if you get enough of them, you receive money.

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asvjerry
4,349 posts
 

...and it's Still difficult to be a heretic in the eyes of ones' peers...
Given the history of how 'they' were treated....

"Here, just clamber up onto this pile of gas-soaked logs...  Yes, a bit slippery...

Now, we're going to tie you to this post, so you don't fall off. 
Tight, but one can't be too lax when 'safety' is paramount. ;)

For sure, the crowd is pretty incoherent and loud....just enthusiasm....and the torches are here for the cameras....

Now we're just going to make sure you're warm, and not catch a cold...."

....generally what happens when one strays....😏
My humour 'bout it all is a bit....no, a lot oblique....

Follow your muse towards the music you seek and enjoy by whatever means you employ; end of any day that's what's important.
That's my excuse, and I fall or rise with it.

Oh, and I don't listen on a laptop, or my phone; a smaller version of my walsh' 2 ways in a small room I call an office.  So I can least try to act vaguely fair about listening to anything through multiple layers of digital processing..

 

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