Just Stop! - Posting Audio Clips on YouTube

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.)

@carlos269 

 where you there for any of the commercially released recordings that you listen to on your home system? If you, like the rest of us, were not at the recording session then you rely on exactly what to confirm and validate that your system is rendering the audio recording accurately and conveying the information that was captured during the recording sessions?

This would have been really profound if you had started with “Were”.

@macg19 1) the editor on the forum only gives you a limited time to edit the posts, 2) the word was corrected later on in the statement, and 3) the question still remains unanswered.

I get what you’re saying.  I don’t listen to the music clips on those review videos I focus on the equipment shown and the comments about their impressions and opinions. 

@bassbuyer you bring up a good point. Music clips during online reviews or show coverage do not tell me that much. The audio recordings that convey and provide value, at least to me and a few others, are the ones recorded from the listening chair position. In theory, when played back over speakers, in a near-field arrangement, our personal HRTF (Head Related Transfer Function) is applied to the sound, recreating what it would sound like if we were sitting at the listening chair. How well does reality match theory? It depends on a number of factors. It will never be a perfect duplication of the sound at the listening chair position chair in the room, for one microphones are limited in capturing the lowest frequencies, but enough information is conveyed to allow the listener to to assess the sound of the recorded system and its sound qualities, in most cases.