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Nice video I guess - unfortunately it all seemed to make perfect sense to me. Surely I could have made it to this point without understanding much of it at all - the fact that I do understand is a tribute to how audio equipment is marketed to the public. I was a music lover long before seriously considering audio equipment as an important consideration in the enjoyment of music. I had 100s of albums and established rituals surrounding the experiences of listening to music and my enjoyment of it. In a nutshell when I became more serious about audio the revelation was acceptance of the philosophical stuff, ie. taking any side, proved an affront to my enjoyment of my records and music than an enhancement of it. Of course if I would have been willing to give up my already established collection of music, and the rituals surrounding my enjoyment of them, and willingly created new ways to enjoy records of different music my results could have been much different. But like I said my habit, listening to the stereo, was formed decades before my exposure to good audio equipment. For me the important factors are selecting components that work well together, work well in the room it's being used and work best with all recordings of interest were barely even addressed in the about video. Of course room treatments can bring improvements and might be essential if a systems performance is unacceptable due to the room. IME - moving the system into a new room might require room treatments or a new system to recreate the results achieved in the old room. So YES environment is important. The best audio advice ever was from the audio critic - demo gear with YOUR favorite music. My corollary is what difference does it make to me how awesome a system sounds with someone else's records/music when it makes music I enjoy sound bad? How easy is that? Remember most industry magazines/resources have a vested interested in the industry. At one time there was more emphasis on creating audiophiles that would purchase upmarket than one of guiding audiophiles to build musically satisfying systems for reasonable money. That said they are serving all audiophiles so it's important for everyone to understand where they personally fit in. Which seems contrary to the purpose of the audio industry described in the video.
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