Just Stop! - Posting Audio Clips on YouTube

Of course you can hear differences, there are differences between phones/pads/computers/headphones/speakers and even browsers/apps you use to listen to them but they are completely useless for any kind of evaluation of that difference. 

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. 

1528 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9tjG3BNkY8

B&W: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOdzjyHy5p8

@fynnegan but what you are failing to understand is that the dominant factor  is the sound qualities of the audio recordings. Sure there are differences between phones/pads/computers/headphones/speakers and even browsers/apps you use to listen to them, BUT what prevails as the dominant factor is the audio recordings’ sound qualities. Let this sink in, if those differences between phones/pads/computers/headphones/speakers and even browsers/apps you use to listen to them where to be more relevant then the music industry as we know it wouldn’t exist as the recordings would sound vastly or dramatically different in each instance. The reason this hobby works and commercial music is a success is because the dominant factor, by large margins, during playback is the sound qualities of the recordings themselves and NOT the differences between phones/pads/computers/headphones/speakers and even browsers/apps you use to listen to them. Let that sink in for a while.

The actual audio recordings are what dominate by far and wide during their playback and not the differences between phones/pads/computers/headphones/speakers and even browsers/apps you use to listen to them.

I think it’s odd that someone would come to a forum to make a post of how other people, presumably folks they don’t know or have a relationship with, use the internet and some other social media site. 

@rjduncan that’s precisely what public forums are for…….and the irony in your post is that that’s exactly what you are doing yourself!