In Reply to: This topic has come up before posted by E-Stat on December 1, 2021 at 15:23:56:
You can hear the big problems with a system via a good quality audio capture, and most dedicated YouTube bloggers are using reasonably decent quality home studio equipment these days. Some are even making binaural recordings, so you can get some sense of the spatial presentation as well when listening through headphones.
The problems that usually stand out to me the most in these videos are with the room and/or placement. Sometimes it's hard to know whether the speaker is at fault or the room and setup, especially in the bass. But I've heard a video or two where there's an obvious suck-out in the crossover region off-axis. That's something unlikely to be coming from the room, and its mostly likely audible in all but the deadest rooms. I wish I could trust what I hear in the overall tonal balance of a speaker when it's playing a familiar track, but it could be the microphone response as well.
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- Agree. They could be of some use, but they're not an audition. - Dave_K 08:23:54 12/02/21 (3)
- RE: Agree. They could be of some use, but they're not an audition. - E-Stat 08:53:41 12/02/21 (2)
- RE: Agree. They could be of some use, but they're not an audition. - audio_d 16:36:38 12/02/21 (1)
- Yep - E-Stat 05:55:25 12/03/21 (0)