'Bout time I added some more stuff to this place, so here goes!!
I have surfed YouTube audio system videos over the years, largely to get a sense of how the sound would have come across if I were in that particular, recorded space in person. People might dispute that this is possible, because, "YouTube is compressed crap!!", but I find that it's relatively easy to separate the good'uns from the bad'uns. One of the spots I revisit is Peter Breuniger's AVshowreports channel, because he uses a standard recording technique, making comparisons between various sound environments very straightforward.
Just visited his latest clip, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHrXQ8L_IDI, and that inspired this post - unfortunately, in a very negative sense - sorry, Peter!!
This, is exactly what gives audio reproduction a bad name - a very brash, in your face, distorted, "hifi" sound - so many things wrong with it; impossible to live with. Yet, the video is about how to manipulate what's happening in the bass frequencies, so as to "fix" the sound - sorry, boys and girls, ain't gonna happen! Any variation of the bass behaviour will not do one iota of good in resolving the poor quality of what's occurring above those frequencies - a completely different strategy is required to extract competent sound from this setup.
So, this clip is an excellent example of what NOT to do to improve playback quality - unless, of course, one just wants to achieve variations of the typical hifi sound ... which is miles from conjuring an illusion of "real" music ...
