More Youtube Videos from The Skeptical Audiophiles
The Audiophile Skeptics – Co-Hosted by Robert Brook
Robert and I have now started a YouTube channel. Its purpose is to help audiophiles gain a better understanding of the mysteries of the analog record and the difficulties one encounters when playing them. Here I speak from experience, as does Robert. Hence the maiden voyage of our new channel!
We felt that it would be worthwhile to briefly talk about our backstories, so that viewers could see why we chose to call ourselves “The Audiophile Skeptics” in the first place.
Speaking for myself, I hope to encourage audiophiles to be more skeptical of the claims made by the huge numbers of audio experts who have popped up on Youtube, seemingly out of nowhere.
It’s as if there had been some kind of big bang in the audio universe. Vast numbers of these channels have exploded onto the scene, all positively overflowing with record and audio advice. Where on earth have so many accomplished, knowledgeable experts been hiding all these years?
When I see the claims made by these individuals, rarely do they comport with my years of experience in the world of audio. With these videos I hope to be able to explain what I mean by that in greater detail. (The blog you are now on has a commentaries discussing every aspect of records and audio that I could come up with, all of it informed by actually playing lots of records and working at improving my stereo, starting all the way back in the early 70s.)