More Youtube Videos from The Audiophile Skeptics
Co-Hosted by Robert Brook
If you’re looking for a different take on the subjects we will be addressing with our new channel, we happily offer them for your viewing edification and pleasure.
If you would like to know more about audio and records, please feel free to ask any questions you have in the comments section, or send them directly to me at tom@better-records.com.
And whatever you do, stay skeptical.
Further Reading
More Youtube Videos from The Audiophile Skeptics
Robert Brook and I have now started a YouTube channel whose purpose is to help audiophiles gain a better understanding of analog records and the many difficulties one encounters when playing them. Here I speak from experience, as does Robert.
We felt that it would be worthwhile to briefly talk about our backstories, so that viewers could appreciate why we choose to call ourselves “Skeptical Audiophiles” in the first place. This is Episode 2. Episode 1 can be found here.
If you’re looking for a different take on the subjects we will be addressing with our new channel, we happily offer them for your viewing pleasure.
If you would like to know more about audio and records, please feel free to ask any questions you have in the comments section, or send them directly to me at tom@better-records.com. (The blog has hundreds of letters — from customers and critics alike — you may enjoy reading as well.)
One of the more popular pieces Robert has written recently was entitled: The Biggest Misconception about Modern Audiophile Records. We feel it is well worth reading.
Robert’s Approach
Robert has methodically and carefully — one might even say scientifically — approached the various problems he’s encountered in this hobby by doing the following:
More Youtube Videos from The Skeptical Audiophiles
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 analog records and the many 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 appreciate why we choose to call ourselves “Skeptical Audiophiles” in the first place.
Speaking for myself, I hope to encourage our audiophile viewers to be more skeptical of the claims made by the many experts who have popped up on youtube seemingly out of nowhere, as if there had been a big bang in the record 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 fifty 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 great many commentaries discussing every aspect of records and audio that I could manage to 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.)