Just Stop! - Posting Audio Clips on YouTube
Does anyone else believe it is a very poor use of bandwidth for someone to try and show the quality of the sound produced by their $100k system on YouTube? Playing an expensive speaker or component on video that then feeds into a microphone and is combined with the video and then posted to YouTube then plays through my tv speakers, soundbar, etc... Eve stranger is when they use this delivery method to A/B components.
Instead of talking about this as if it is some sort of out of this world experience where the audio recordings on YouTube are unrecognizable from the sound in the room, I will use myself, one of my systems, and one of my audio recordings from this past weekend’s listening session: Who here could challenge me that the sound on the above audio recording is not representative of the sound in the room, when I was there and I was the one who recorded it??????? |
I enjoy them, I think they are fun. I’m under no illusions that they represent anything close to the actual sound if I were in the room. Many are done well enough to tell subtle differences in speakers and gear if using headphones. I often find myself feeling let down if a review doesn’t have a sound clip of the speaker under test. |
I’m not sure your YT link is a live recording. It’s pretending like a live but reserve for dubbing. Then it’s probably dubbing since there is no reason to hide the live recording. Below is my system live recording. I tried to show it’s a live recording. I even speak at last seconds. |
What people post on YT doesn’t bother me at all. What does bother me is when an AG member posts YT videos of their products recorded under ideal conditions and compares them with “inferior” competitors products recorded by random people under crap conditions to market their products here for free, because they don’t have the wherewithal to even pay someone in India to build them a cheap but decent website (which would be a good place to start.) |
