Well for what it's worth, Sir, I think you did a very good job, and I really enjoyed listening to you talk about your experiences , I suspect like many other people did. Your openness to listen to the "other side" and have the strength of character to change your point of view despite many years of invested time and personal relationships is something to which we can all aspire.
Our ears aren't reliable enough to trust, but they're not wrong often enough to ignore. I've had situations where something that previously sounded and measured great, suddenly didn't sound right. Purely subjective, but measurements revealed a problem had developed. I've had other situations where I was confident I could hear a difference, but measurements couldn't reveal anything nor could ABX testing, so I had to conclude my ears had fooled me. This makes the hobby interesting, keeps us honest, and promotes a nuanced perspective that measurements, blind testing, and subjective listening all matter. Of course saying they all matter does not necessarily imply they are all equal.
Most content creators these days use a lot of jump cuts to get rid of all the "fat" like pauses and "ums". Really helps in fixing the pacing of videos.
Why is Darko an Audio reviewer anyway? Is he a musician or sound engineer or sth or just a guy with a camera?
I think he was lucky with Youtube - probably knows how to play the 'game' and probably had a couple of video's early on that had the right SEO keywords. He plays the "everyman" who doesn't know the technical details but happy to tell people his opinions and be your "audiophile" buddy - he reminds me of a bunch of people I used to work with over the years.
True, his man of taste style has a charm of some sort and he provides some useful information at times as well. My problem with Darko is that his knowledge on the matters he is passing on judgement seems to be quite superficial. I don't think he understands what he is talking about very well himself. He is like this jacked up guy at gym who is giving people diet and exercise advice; there will be some good stuff and some bad stuff, but in the end all added up it will be a waste of time and money at best, compared to listening to certified trainer who knows what he is doing.
It has gone super expensive for a generation whose earning power on average, has dwindled. That's why there is not a lot of young blood.
Plus even the average mobile phone provides an audio quality which can be regarded as “good enough” by many especially in comparison to what we had available at the time (boom boxes, walk man, crappy turn tables etc). And therefore not creating the urge to “upgrade” today. I remember when the CD came out - now that was a wow effect in comparison to the aforementioned media. Not so much going from an iPhone to an HighEnd DAC.
I guess it depends on country and even region. Demographic data from mine shows that you have really high chances to be lower middle class to poor if you're less than 35. Over 35, things do not look better and rate of birth shows.
However, it does get my attention when Amir rates a speaker highly and Gutenberg also rates the same speaker highly.
