How competitive are you with your system?

@carlos269  I don’t think the recording per se is the issue with listening on video. The problem is more likely due the reproduction equipment and what one is listening to it on. 

i have a fairly well liked video on YouTube from seven years ago with my Guarneri speakers playing Miles Davis…but while a lot of folks think it sounds really good, it pales in comparison to what it sounds like in my room.

@vinylrestingplace There is a huge fallacy with that thinking. The variables between any two systems will NEVER be the same. All the systems that I have here at home are in different rooms and made up of different components. The reason that I’m able to compare them is because the ONLY thing that I care about is the resultant sound at the listening position and that is ALL that I care about and compare. NOTHING else matters to me, the ONLY think that matters and that should be compared is the resultant sound at the listening position. All of those other variables are inconsequential and fully baked into the resultant sound at the listening position. So don’t pay any attention to the room or any other variable, the ONLY thing that matters and that should be judged and compared is the resultant sound at the listening position. The variables will NEVER be all the same but that doesn’t matter as they are incorporated into the resultant sound and that sum of all variable sound is what one hears at the listening position and that resultant sound at the listening position is the only thing that should be judged and compared between systems.

@daveyf The audio recordings embedded in the videos should be playback and listen to in near-field. When you playback the audio recordings embedded in videos in near-field, it allows you listen to and hear what the microphone (s) captured at the listening position. That is key, to use the same playback chain and to playback in near-field to make the comparisons.

Why don’t you post that audio recording of Miles Davis playing on your system that you received complements on?

Has anybody been able to post a video directly from their phone? 

@ronboco If you are able to host, give the public access to your server, then you can post the native recording from your phone. The reason people use YouTube is for 1) security reasons as you are not giving strangers access to your server and 2) because if the recordings being compared go through the same YouTube process then you are putting them on an even playing field.