Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers?


I’d like to recognize that it takes a great set of self promotional skills to become successful in the Youtube world. That said most of the audio reviewers I’ve seen don’t have the experience to review, or the kind of space that would really allow gear to shine.

Most of them start of with K-Mart like gear, did their formula and got popular, and jumped far up the audio food chain. Of course everything they review is going to be great compared to the Service Merchandise system they sold last year.

Just throwing it out there that people should be careful listening to these guys that are mostly working for the views/money (not that some aren’t passionate).

Anyone else seeing this?

bjesien
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Appreciate the creative replies! I'm not knocking working people, and all these guys are working it. Just trying to state the obvious. There is much more to audiophilia  than piling a bunch of gear into the corner of an apartment, or a three season porch, and claiming to be an authority (or not). I don't know the pay scale.

I don't have the space to conduct what I would consider fair reviews (better than what I've seen on discussed videos most of the time) and we can all agree that you get to understand your room over time. Understanding what makes our room sing is a huge part of the learning that takes place as an audiophile. 

In my opinion the experience of this group (you) count much more (10%) than media reviews (3%) but sure- some are interesting to watch. Some of you are totally off your rocker 100%, but in general, in my 20 years on this site, I feel like most of you are true to your word and "in it" to share something genuine. We all sell what we own lol.

Service Merchandise started as a five-and-dime in 1934. The systems are all vintage at this point.  

Spiritual music category?- You all know this, but sound is a wave, a vibration, and we all have a frequency that we vibrate at. Is it from here that we pick up the frequencies we jive with? We can get at it faster with vinyl lol.

I like Zero Fidelity, Steve Huff, and Andrew Robinson quite a bit.  Probably because of the entertainment/enjoyment factor of their reviews.  I will say that I have tried gear they have reviewed and their reviews match what I heard.  I'm not embarrassed to say, I bought my amp and speakers based off of Andrew Robinson reviews.  

Steve Huff seems down to earth for me... I will check Andrew Robinson then .. 😊

 

@lanx0003 nice list.  One reviewer and Jay I personally would include is Jay’s iyagi with 84.1k subscribers.