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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.
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@rvpiano is just as absurd as saying because my system is better than yours then you cannot use your system to convey sound quality information. Even a table top radio conveys some information on the recording’s sound qualities. |
I enjoy the sound demos on Youtube and appreciate the people putting the effort to do it. Of course not all of the sound quality of the speaker or component video can be heard, but you get a taste of it. I’ve heard some YT demos of B&W 801D4 paired with Mcintosh that sounds sublime. I have not heard the Arendal 1528 IN PERSON. But it gets overwhelmingly positive reviews. There are many demos of the Arendal 1528 on Youtube. Based SOLELY on YT demos alone, these speakers sound slightly tinny, a bit metallic. I do not like it one bit. Despite some overwhelmingly positive reviews of the Arendal 1528, I am not convinced it is that good. Hey, I might be wrong, the Arendal 1528 might be amazing in person, and not the least metallic or tinny, but to my ears, the Arendal sounds just like the material of its drivers. I will link 2 sound demos, 2 different speakers, same room. To my ears the B&W sounds much better than the 1528. On top of 1528 being slightly metallic and tinny, the vocals also sounds quite bad. |
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