His channel started with promise when it was just about cool audio under $100. Then he started getting paid and getting free stuff and it became about shilling for anything possible and blowing guys like Jason Stoddard. It became clear from his reviews that his hearing was poor as he favored bright speakers over and over when they clearly didn't sound that good.
Randy is just a guy with an opinion who is attempting to make a living off of his RUclips channel. The basic problem with many RUclips "experts" is that they don't really know anything more than anyone else.
Randy has said this in his videos, various times, in multiple videos. paraphrasing: "you dont have to listen to me. Im not an expert, Im just a guy making a video about something I like..Im a big dumb guy on YT"
I think you're over thinking this. When Cheap Audio man said you need 2 - 10 watts max he's talking about the average not transients which can peak well above the average. So depending on the efficiency of you're speakers you might well need more than ten watts to have sufficient power to cover those transients without amp clipping. He should have explained this more thoroughly, but to call him a hypocrite is a little strong. He does promote things, but as he's mentioned himself he does his channel for a living and he's certainly not alone in that, and most people can decern when he's truly excited by a product as opposed to just advertising it. If there are other reviewers pure as the wind driven snow then watch them, but for my self I watch Randy primarily for entertainment because he's a character and quite funny.
@@adrieltzu3565 I totally agree. I think a lot of people here just want him to continue reviewing sub $100 stuff. When he reviews things they can’t afford, they get pissed. It’s true that there is way better cheap equipment now than in the past, but if you spend more, you can get better sound, but you still need to look for value. Personally, I find CAM to be great entertainment, and a valuable source of information, just not the only one. I will say this, the equipment I bought because of his review I’m ecstatic about. The stuff I bought on Andrew Robinson’s account, not so much.
My problem with this ad is not Randy's previous statements about watts. The problem is he's doing an ad for emotiva. This is not a sponsored video of his. So he's getting paid to say what he has to say here. That makes him a completely unreliable reviewer. About anything. From my point of view, it's not the hypocrisy. It's the fact that he's for sale.
@jeffreylehman1159 He's literally doing an ad for emotiva. This is not a clip from one of his videos. You don't think he's getting paid for doing that? I think even allowing a clip from one's review to appear on a manufacturer's website is questionable. It's all a matter of scratching each other's back. But once you perform in an advertisement, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
The thing that will get me to unsubscribe from a RUclipsr is calling another RUclipsr out. Do your thing and dont worry about anyone else. A lot of these RUclipsrs with low subscribers try to build their channel faster by attacking other bigger RUclipsrs. I don’t think I’ve seen Randy ever do that. You take what RUclipsrs say with a grain of salt that includes yourself. It’s very distasteful on your part.
Well I don't think you need to call another content creator out as such, most of us come to your channel for a bit of humor with your opinions .I'm sure most of us viewers of your channel can see through the hype, funny thing is Randy kinda got me into this hobby which lead onto finding your channel. Now that being said is Emotiva a product that provides good value for the buck.
@@Prometheus1979 when he started, Randy was just a guy reviewing gear. He was just another person with an opinion. As his subscriber count has increased, he's still just a guy with an opinion. However, he's now got relationships with manufacturers. Nothing wrong with that, and he's supporting his family. Doesn't change the fact, that he's not the most technically sophisticated reviewer and sometimes speaks about things he doesn't fully understand. In my opinion, he is now more of a PR person for certain products. Also, his live streams seem more of a chance to raise $ with "super chats" than to provide unbiased audio information.. 🤔
Yes, emotiva makes very good products at decent price point. I’ve personally owned several of their products for home theater. It’s one of the better value companies out there.
The real story here is how does Cheap audio guy get that sweet ten watts of power to handle his massive tower speakers he’s crammed into his bedroom? By using high quality expensive cables no ordinary man can afford of course.
Thank you so much for calling this clown out. He does immeasurable damage with his often completely contradictory utter nonsense that seldom has any basis in fact.
This is just sad. He's not saying you only need 10w, he's saying you likely only use around 10w. He doesn't say anything about headroom, or sonic impact with higher wattage, etc. You sound bitter and envious.
When he initially appeared on RUclips, I found his stuff to be somewhat informative. Sadly, he's now just a talking head rep for whomever sends him gear. When he went on the junket to Italy and then suddenly began promoting gear from the company who paid for the trip, well that was the end for me. I'm all for a person making a living, but there should be a line of separation between reviewer and promoter...😴
I’m torn. Randy is 100% a shill. And him advertising for a company isn’t just blurring the lines. It’s crossing the lines as a “reviewer”. The ironic thing is Randy started his channel making fun of other YT reviewers and their sponsors by the whole “sponsored by Sith Audio” bit. And now he’s not just sponsored by brands but he’s making advertisements for them. There’s your hypocrisy. Randy is nothing more than an affiliate marketer. He’s good at it. But he’s the furthest thing I’d call from a legitimate reviewer. He started the “cheap” man channels (this and his watch channel) because he knew he could get people to come off a few hundred dollars pretty easily vs expensive stuff and make a lot of money through the combination of affiliate sales. That’s actually pretty genius. Of course plenty of millennial TikTokers do the same thing so maybe calling them geniuses it’s a bit high praise. Despite all this, this particular video is a stretch. I agree with Randy that a few watts is typically sufficient. Emotiva and other brands recommend their own power ratings. That’s not Randy’s fault. Bottom line: he’s the worst kind of reviewer. You could’ve picked any of those reasons. You squandered a good opportunity. Next time call out his old “sponsored by Sith Audio” videos. Better download them now before he sees this and makes them disappear!
As always I appreciate you calling these goobers out. Randy is the guy who inspired me to upgrade my setup, however I've followed none of his advice. I was set on getting a WiimAmp-- until I saw your video on the crosstalk issues. So I got a Yamaha as501 instead (w/ wiim mini via optical) and love it. Being an Audio Scientologist has really paid off!
I was running out of puke buckets so I stopped watching him... they Hypocrisy is on another level. Never mind if you state facts on his channel - he becomes quite snarky.
Thumbs down for taking a quote out of context, selectively applying it to a single specific product and then making personal attacks against that other, more successful RUclips channel host. A single general statement that does not apply universally is not “a lie,“ nor does it make anyone an idiot or a fraud. As soon as you called Randy an idiot at the beginning of your video, I had a suspicion that you weren’t going to back up your ad hominem attacks against him. I was correct. The Cheapaudioman does indeed shill for a number of brands and products, to some extent. There are indeed some inconsistencies in his praise for certain products. For instance, he claimed that the Denefrips Ares DAC opened up music and made it seem live like no other hi-fi component he had ever heard. Yet soon thereafter he stopped mentioning that product at all, but started recommending other DAC units, principally Geshelli Labs, instead. I personally bought a.Geshelli DAC and am very happy with it as it provides notably better sound compared to several other DACs that I’ve used. Like any reviewer that post links to Amazon or other retailers, and receives a commission off of any referral purchases, one needs to take that RUclips channel host with a grain of salt. But that does not make someone a fool and a fraud. I personally value the product links so that I can look at the information, as well as see the product price, without having to listen to a lengthy video if that information is more apparent from a retailers product listing.
I quit watching so much after he made a comment on Legacy Audio sounded like shit and some others also.I thought what an asshole to ditch a company on your RUclips channel without reviewing them in his own house. I owned Legacy back in the day and absolutely loved them. They weren’t the best but they were the best to me with all types of music. I would take Legacy speakers over almost any brand. Nothing to this day has moved me more then a pair of Legacy Focus speakers.
Scientific Audiophile: Randy is a shill. Meanwhile, join my members and maybe win something in 39-40 days. One thing for sure though, is that his videos aren't filmed in 480p. While you're entitled to an opinion, so am I and everyone else in these comments. It just seems all you do is complain IMO.
All reviewers are just giving their opinions! Only guy i believe is Danny Ritchie! He's forgotten more than all you reviewers put together. Props to Jay's Audio that dude buys everything he reviews! 😊
Even Danny is unrealistic in his approach in my opinion. Should you throw $400 worth of high-end parts at a significantly flawed 30 year old speaker? No, it's silly to pretend that old cheap drivers and cabinets can reveal the 0.05% difference between standard and high-end crossover parts. If that were the case, I could pick out $20 worth of drivers from Parts Express and make a killer speaker every time. Also, the idea that every speaker company is dumb and can't make their speakers work right is incorrect. Back in the day it was a lot of guesswork and voodoo, but today these guys have massive facilities for testing and have designed speakers that either satisfy their own tastes or that they feel will attract more people in a showroom setting. Some of them are indeed pretty awful to me, but maybe they sound great in a certain kind of space or maybe I'm not the target customer. Some other speakers are completely thrilling while not measuring nearly well enough to be considered by today's testing over listening crowd. I mean, at the end of the day this is a hobby. Do what makes you happy.
@@BillDouglass-m9d Danny is even worse, no one ever made a good speaker that he wasn’t involved with. He is selling crossover upgrades that may cost 50% of the cost of the speakers. Or he is selling speaker kits. He is most clearly a salesman. That being said, I would consider one of his kits if I was going DIY route.
The guitar Community is full of this snake oil bovine excrement as well, also the commercial that played proceeding this video was the cheap audioman hyping up some speakers.
The Emotivas have a 89 dB efficiency rating for 1 watt input. 8 watts would give you 95 dB. That is LOUD plus a stereo pair would add another 3dB so 98dB. If you listen like most people would at an average of 89dB or less, then 10 to 12 watts would suffice. The recommended 60 watt spec is just that, recommended in case you really want to crank things to lease breaking levels. I don't see the problem here. They also say 200 watts continuous and 300 watts peak power handling. Have you ever measured how many watts you send to your speakers? I doubt it.
In other words these speakers require much power to balance their efficiency. I have PP tube amplifier 15W/ch and another SE 3W /ch and I find no reason for using even 15W instead 3W. When I listen power is not exceeding 1 W/ch but in 95% it does not exceede 0,2 Watt.
He is full of crap. I can’t stand his videos. I have even seen him make some pretty hateful replies to comments saying he no longer reviews affordable gear.
@ oh look, an internet troll. Look up some of his videos where he is reviewing higher end end gear that’s thousands of dollars. People call him out and he his replies are far from kind.
I get what you are trying to say with the schill stuff, but man did you pick the wrong way to go about it. He's absolutely right about the amount of power a speaker is actually using. Most people will not listen to music or video over 70db, unless they're jammin or watching movies...but even then, 70db at the ear is pretty loud. This will require less than 10w/ch. Not including headroom. The mfg puts 60 watts because thats what they determined will result in the least warranty claims and least lawsuits....thats it. As a broke kid, I'd cut the headphone wires on my walkman and feed into cheap floorstanding speakers. I can't imagine that walkman was putting out even a single watt via its 4 AA batteries. It would play quite loud through speakers that required 50+ watts. Anyway, I like his channel and will continue to watch. Its not gospel. I like it cuz he's old like me, he listens to metal like me, and he is NOT scientific. He likes what sounds good to his ear....like me. He likes the mids scooped....like 98% of the planet. I guess you got your clicks...schill.
In the last video I ever watched from him he dissed an SMSL DAC, The SUX I believe and said it had a bad remote and hard to see display from several feet away and compared it with others that had neither. He also said SMSL should stay in their lane and keep to cheep audio products and not attempt the higher end segment. In that moment I quit and never watched another of his videos. Companies should always strive to better themselves as companies and by the products they put out. Also, how can someone compare negatively features and accessories of the reviewed equipment with others that have none. I did not feel his reviews were being sincere at all. Your video just reinforced my opinion. Thanks and all the best.
I agree. Those reviews behave like used car salesmen. How on earth can we trust their reviews. It's good to see reviewers just like this one to expose how they really operate and a total disregard to our money or circumstances with their shill bs. They probably don't like half the products they review and use inconsequential narratives to validate their opinion on a product to give it the upper hand.
Oops my mistake should've known by the center exhaust and if I remember now an S as it was a split. I should've known I had a 2006 Cayman S. He's still a shill though
Look. The issue is, does Randy, praise the high power handling of the speakers in his endorsement? If not, then your accusation is groundless. Just because he once said that we don't need more than ten watts doesn't mean speakers that can handle more than that are not good. It's really pretty simple. And by the way I'm no fan of Cheapaudioman. I find him irritating (which is entirely my problem)
I have no opinion one way or the other about Randy but did he say this about all speaker systems or that you could get a good sound from some systems with low power?
Pretty crappy takedown when I'm sure there is better material available. CheapAudioMan is likely correct that he is actually only using less than 10 watts to power his speakers. Emotiva is suggesting to use an amp that has 60 watts or greater, there aren't saying you actually need to send all 60 to the speakers! More powerful amps maintain better control of the power going to the speakers even when your aren't using all of it. Most of us know this, no controversy here.
@lsaideOK Yes he is saying that so itf you want to buy the speakers and don't have the amp to push the power consistently that it sounds great with 10 watts.
@@justinbowen2365 which is likely very poor advice considering the variety of speakers that are on the market and the various and sundry situations that people find themselves in in terms of their listening rooms and listening styles. At its most basic, you generally want headroom above the output needed for the general listening level. Add in listening to Beethoven's 5th in a large space with 85 DB peaks using 4 ohm, 85 DB sensitivity speakers and yeah, 10 W is going to be pretty limited. 200 wpc may not be enough. Randy's advice is nonsense.
Why so bitter? And it is true, at modest levels you are rarely even drawing 10 watts. You DO need more for bass heavy passages, and to preserve dynamics. Also, I don’t think he ever said that ALL you need is ten watts, you just don’t always need huge power ratings in all situations. You know, Steve Gutenberg raves about tube amps putting out less than three watts. How about just putting out original material, and stop trying to get clicks by putting popular creators down. Maybe then you’ll crack 2thousand subs. But I won’t be one.
@jeffreylehman1159 Totally agree with you. Whether Randy is a salesman or not, he is doing his job. The viewing public must be able to decide for themselves if it is worth following him or not. There is no need for another youtuber to warn us about the Cheapaudioman, John Darko or whoever. There are plenty of alternative opinions and information out there to allow someone with average intelligence and curiosity to double-check any reviewer's statement. Those who are not genuine reviewers, will eventually perish. We just do not want nannies.
@@jeffreylehman1159 Totally different from what the 'schill' said. Never mentioned modest listening. Audio is a marriage of parts...especially between speakers and amps. Something Randy leaves out because he is selling any product they send him pretty much
"dB" is not the sensitivity of a speaker. "dB/2,83 V" and "dB/W" (at 1 m both) aren't the same unit and can be different (when "nominal impedance [real one] is not 8 Ω at low frequencies). The first one describes volume vs voltage gain, not power or current needed. Once conversion to "dB/W" done, we can estimate the power we need only after measuring the distance, measuring the volume we want, the dynamic range we want, checking real power of amplifier (graph power vs distortion) and doing some maths. Power needed can be all over the map (different music, people, rooms, distances, speakers, headroom, etc).
What I see in the reviewer space are people who may have gotten into reviewing because of their love of the hobby, but they eventually become compromised by the opportunities presented to grow their channel or they become smug and condescending as they become stoned on their own importance. I mean, one of the only people who really seems to be doing this with sincere joy is Steve Guttenberg, but unfortunately he never met a product he didn't adore.
A large proportion of RUclipsrs are shills according tomrhese criteria I'm more struck by the name CheapAudioMan when he's pushing £1000 amps or DACs, hardly cheap.
I would suggest relying on any RUclips reviewer for a 100% honest and objective analysis is risky, whether his name is Randy, Andrew, or whomever. I think Randy brings something to the table, if only an opportunity to learn about the specs, etc, of an item. The key as a consumer is learning what to expect from each reviewer, taking what you need, and moving on.
You acknowledge that he’s entitled to make a living on RUclips, but big audio companies (i.e., advertisers) sell power. Do you need him to identify all of a company’s misleading advertising before saying something good about that company’s products? He discloses his conflicts. He regularly acknowledges he’s an amateur and a fanboy of Wiim, Schiit and Emotiva. His whole model is telling you to try cheap(ish) products and return them if you don’t like them, so we’re all free to test his theories. If he needs to be pristine he cannot be a paid promoter.
The problem with society today, honesty and integrity don't matter as long as you are trying to make a living and everyone else is doing it. It's a slippery slope.
Hello, great video as always Do you plan on reviewing OrchardAudio's amplifiers? They seem to offer a lot more for the money (according to other reviewers), I would love your take on that
I've seen him promoting very expensive equipment that is far out of the general budget category. If he pushes cheap junk, at least it's cheap and still in the wheelhouse of topic but pushing $6k speaker pairs seems offputting. As for power requirements, what it takes to work and what it takes to work well are often 2 different things. He obviously doesn't clarify always whether he's using a tube, class AB or class D amp. As for opinions, it's simple. His ears aren't mine or yours. What he likes we may hate or vice versa. Auditioning helps.
Not only that but also there is the question of longevity to all this chi-fi that is flooding the marketplace and putting the big players on their heels or out of business. For example, what is the longevity and durability of the wiim ultra? I have Denon, Sony, Yamaha products from 30 years ago that still sound like the day I bought them. And as you follow these products in the comments over time there's often the comment: Quit working after 2 months. Well there went another $300 that could have gone to buying something quality with a flagship name with longevity attached.
If I’m being fair, Randy reignited my audiophile obsession, but probably not because he’s a not a shill. He has the subscribers and as such, his videos are the first to pop in my feed. That said, it’s up to me to decipher the nonsense from the wisdom and ultimately, it’s SA whose review sold me on my Mofi S8 purchase. In the end, Randy is fine for most people, but for everyone else, we can sense the salesman right from the jump. SA, thanks for what you do and we’ll let Randy do what he does best. After all, we’re all grimy nuts looking for a bag of squirrels.
Great vid man... as usual. But on this occasion, Randy does have a point though, you don't need a shed full of power, to power speakers to sufficient levels to suit your needs. The number on the box is just a suggestion/recommendation by the company to drive them to sufficiently loud levels. But yes, in general Randy is full of BS. I remember the days in RUclips when people would go out and buy the gear and give you their honest, subjective take on it. Unfortunately today, reviewers rely on companies sending them products either on loan (longterm) or free and this promotes shill and biasness, of course it does, what company would risk sending a reviewer anything if they say it's a lousy product. No products mean no content that mean no review and no likes or subscribers. My advice, never, ever trust a successful reviewer who does not say anything bad about anything who is obviously on the take... Certainly don't be fooled into thinking they have your best interest at heart. I certainly would not subscribe to their patreon and pay to get suckered, stick to RUclips and get it done free.
I mocked a lot of cables as "Meh", snake oil. HDMI cable for example. I thought it's a digital signal, it either works or it doesn't. Its pretty obvious. That's correct, but there are caveats. No. 1 Cheap HDMI cables are not sheilded to outside interference. So every time the cleaner was next door and used the vacumm cleaner my monitor reset. Protecting itself from the spike on the data pins caused by the motor arching. No. 2. Cheap HDMI cables do not contain their own interference. If you know what HDMI sounds like on your audio lines, then you know. You know. However, I have learnt over the years, as things became more and more digital with more and more "bursty" 5V USB cables and switchmode power supplies, that any and all signal cables need to be protected. Your mains routing needs to be thought out. Even your post digital gain structure needs thought. (Amplify on the cleanest supply you can get, in nothing with a USB port!). As my primary job and hobbies involve a lot of "tech" and a lot of USB gadgets.... I ... I gave up and run my headphone amp on batteries. I simply cannot get clean enough signal lines below 0db. Even +10db lines have noise as all the amps and DACs have "USB ground Fur". Optical links is the other avenue under development. Replacing ALL my digital cables, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet, USB and DC power jacks with expensive "sheilded" cables honestly... might made a difference. In fact, so may some "Beads" on said power cables. By "Beads" I mean coaxial ferrite rings which dampen (resist) high frequency electric fields... aka... they damp out noise in cables. This is not targetted at the audio range, but the noise with will impact upon the audio range from other "digital" or "switch mode" sources.
I can't really hate on Randy, his older reviews of cheaper stuff was pretty reliable. Even he said in one of his videos a year or so ago that his life has changed. He got so popular that the audio companies approached, and he did like most people, took the loot. Can you really blame him? I take his high end reviews with a grain of salt but I still watch him, I don't have to buy though. I'm in charge of my own purchases. He gave a couple of reviews a couple years ago about some speakers, (cheap) that I ended up buying on EBAY (cheap) and I think they're great, so thanks Randy for saving me from spinning my wheels and saving me money.
I’m not really seeing the supposed hypocrisy. Thing is, ALL of these audiophile related channels are for ENTERTAINMENT. If you’re using any of them, including this one, to make critical purchasing decisions something’s probably wrong.
How is it possible for you to put out thougt provoking vids in your constant state of inebriation? I suspect you and Randy hang out or talk regularly. Cool runnings.
He's now pushing the wiim ultra and smsl dac super hard. I bit for the smsl dac but it is only a degree or 2 better than my 20 yo Denon cd player dac and there's the dac in the Sony ES avr also I can use. I can see the smsl dac application for a phone or computer, but if you feed it into the avr via hdmi, the avr dac will do the conversion anyway, so not needed there either. But this type of info is rarely explained to people.
My biggest problem with CAM is depicted right there in the click-bait title of the CAM video in question $1k speakers destroying $10K speakers He smells of desperation for money and in my opinion shills harder than any other reviewer The “this $1k (whatever) destroys (whatever) costing 10x or $10k more” …brutal I live in a world of SE tube amplifiers ranging from 2 to 3watts to 8 watts I have to be very judicious about the speakers I use Most speakers, even with decent sensitivity do better with a lot of power compared to what I like with the tube distortion I enjoy I enjoy your reviewer reviews but this one was truncated and lacked a bit of your usual humorous sarcasm and snark
What's funny about titles like "this $1k destroys ... costing 10x more" is that he also put out a video stating you shouldn't listen to anyone who says something "sounds like a $3k whatever", because you can't say that.
. How do you figure "the average speaker uses about 10 watts"? What is an "average speaker"? Or did you mean to say, "the speaker average use is about 10 watts"? Acid Jazz, Funk & Brass🔈🔉🔊
. Also, is this 10 watt figure applicable equally to 2,4,8 & 16 ohm drivers? There's quite a difference between 10 watts into 2 ohms versus 10 watts into 16 ohms. Acid Jazz, Funk & Brass🔈🔉🔊
@@TriAmpHiFi let's take the SVS prime tower for eg, sensitivity: 87dB at 1w, at 2w is then 90dB, 4w is 93dB, 8w is 96dB, at 1 meter. at 2m is then 93dB, sitting 4 meters away at 8w is then around 90dB which is a pretty good volume to listen to
he was the first channel i got recommended by youtube when i started learning about audio, luckily i found sharurs channel and then yours, im still a noob but im doing my best to learn slowly lol
Com on! When do You use all the power in an amp? " I need 100 Watt". You miss Randys point totally and are barking up the wrong tree. The NEED of certain amount of power is not the same as USING all of it. Very scientific. There is a trend that say hundreds of watts is needed but You doesnt. Thats what Randy rants about. Simple.
His video "Audiophiles Are Full Of Sh*t" got hundreds of thousands of views. He routinely gets over 50k views, and in time, they become 6 figures. A lot more people are watching him, than yourself. He even had another channel where he reviewed higher end watches. Is there something wrong with my Timex? That channel got about a view a second. So what we can all conclude from this, is that lot of people love to watch Randy. Better to figure out why and apply some of his characteristics to ones own channel. On another channel someone says that they are still waiting 19 months to receive a tube amp they paid for, that long ago. As they hand build another one, you move closer to the top of the list. He said he suspects it will be one more year of waiting before he receives it. They must have told him where he is on the list. The tube amp only has 3 watts; that's a watt per each year you have to wait. Quite a wait for watts. He'll someday receive it if the world is still here, and some Porch Pirate doesn't steal it from his porch. Or maybe someone else who is further down the list than he is. That's one of the advantges of living in a desolate area like the North Pole, where I live. The only thing that can grab a package from your porch is a polar bear or maybe a couple of juvenile delinquent penguins. And even then, only if it isn't frozen solid to your porch step. I once took14 years to play a game of chess through the mail with some guy from France; before the internet. Every few days I get an email from someone asking who won? It is nearing 2 million views by now. Is a Shill the same thing as a Hack?
Ii suppose YOU could do a comedy bit in a sentence or two? Your name is the only thing that might need shortened. Wouldn't it be so nice to have a 2 word name, rather than a 3 word name like you have? Life is too short.
Cheap reviews is what you get from Randy but everything gets a thumbs up on that channel, even the garbage. A nice Sugden Class A Amp with 23 watts per channel would suit me just fine.
I get blocked on loads of channels, unless you're brown nosing these reviewers they block you. Those Serbian? guys IIWI reviews always reviewing chifi gear week in week out saying it's better than the weeks before, sick to death of them and their flowery BS. Cheapaudioman🤣😂 I thought it was satire, all the hifi reviewers on you tube just look at the comments, the brown nosing is hilarious.
I couldn't agree more! He professes all of the low to moderate priced audio. "Cheap", then I see him get in his Porsche Turbo! If new easily 200k. I have been an audiophile for over 40 years and while I really enjoy watching RUclips I find most of the reviewers pretty lame. BTW, you are not one of those IMO. Your sense of humpour is awesome even though I hate cats! Ok, not really
As opposed to you, Randy is fun to listen to. Also, his face is mostly in focus. Maybe, if you concentrated on making great videos instead of mocking others, you could become popular too.
I feel that this is a case of the pot, calling the kettle black. All of you RUclipsrs are expressing your opinions. I like your channel, and I like Randy's. Yourself, and say, Erins Audio Channel and Audioholics, ect., for the more technical aspects of reviews or measurments. You are taking this way too seriously, in some regards you are all full of crap in one aspect or another. Like alimentary canels, everybody has an opinion, to which they are entitled. Variety is the spice of life, get over it.
Dude..I like your reviews, but trying to make money off your opinion about someone else isn't going to cut it ..Randy is getting paid for pushing good equipment and garbage..Get a better green screen and lighting setup...Plus get your teeth fixed.
Most of us watch these reviewers for entertainment. Randy's fun, your boring af. I don't even know why your boring channel pops up in my feed. Audiophiles are an old, boring group for the most part. People like Randy and Zeos are not boring
A review should be a review, I dont get your point, if I want entertainment why would I watch a comprehensive review ? When I watch a review I want good informations thats all
Randy is a salesman for the equipment he reviews. Gave up on Randy a while ago.
His channel started with promise when it was just about cool audio under $100. Then he started getting paid and getting free stuff and it became about shilling for anything possible and blowing guys like Jason Stoddard. It became clear from his reviews that his hearing was poor as he favored bright speakers over and over when they clearly didn't sound that good.
The guy is a salesman. Period.
Everything Randy touches is "the best". I can't watch his videos.
I think he is a corrupt idiot
Randy is just a guy with an opinion who is attempting to make a living off of his RUclips channel. The basic problem with many RUclips "experts" is that they don't really know anything more than anyone else.
Randy has said this in his videos, various times, in multiple videos.
paraphrasing: "you dont have to listen to me. Im not an expert, Im just a guy making a video about something I like..Im a big dumb guy on YT"
I think you're over thinking this. When Cheap Audio man said you need 2 - 10 watts max he's talking about the average not transients which can peak well above the average. So depending on the efficiency of you're speakers you might well need more than ten watts to have sufficient power to cover those transients without amp clipping. He should have explained this more thoroughly, but to call him a hypocrite is a little strong. He does promote things, but as he's mentioned himself he does his channel for a living and he's certainly not alone in that, and most people can decern when he's truly excited by a product as opposed to just advertising it. If there are other reviewers pure as the wind driven snow then watch them, but for my self I watch Randy primarily for entertainment because he's a character and quite funny.
Fun fact;
"I think you're over thinking this" = pedantic.
@@adrieltzu3565 I totally agree. I think a lot of people here just want him to continue reviewing sub $100 stuff. When he reviews things they can’t afford, they get pissed.
It’s true that there is way better cheap equipment now than in the past, but if you spend more, you can get better sound, but you still need to look for value.
Personally, I find CAM to be great entertainment, and a valuable source of information, just not the only one.
I will say this, the equipment I bought because of his review I’m ecstatic about. The stuff I bought on Andrew Robinson’s account, not so much.
My problem with this ad is not Randy's previous statements about watts. The problem is he's doing an ad for emotiva. This is not a sponsored video of his. So he's getting paid to say what he has to say here. That makes him a completely unreliable reviewer. About anything. From my point of view, it's not the hypocrisy. It's the fact that he's for sale.
The guy is a salesman. Period.
He is completely open about being a fan boy for Emotiva and Geshelli Labs. That doesn’t mean he’s getting paid.
@jeffreylehman1159 He's literally doing an ad for emotiva. This is not a clip from one of his videos. You don't think he's getting paid for doing that? I think even allowing a clip from one's review to appear on a manufacturer's website is questionable. It's all a matter of scratching each other's back. But once you perform in an advertisement, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
@@lsaideOK link?
@@jeffreylehman1159 wherever you find emotiva ads. I see it on Facebook and Instagram. It's something that pops up every now and then.
The thing that will get me to unsubscribe from a RUclipsr is calling another RUclipsr out. Do your thing and dont worry about anyone else. A lot of these RUclipsrs with low subscribers try to build their channel faster by attacking other bigger RUclipsrs. I don’t think I’ve seen Randy ever do that. You take what RUclipsrs say with a grain of salt that includes yourself. It’s very distasteful on your part.
That would remove 35% of his content,lol😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing
Well I don't think you need to call another content creator out as such, most of us come to your channel for a bit of humor with your opinions .I'm sure most of us viewers of your channel can see through the hype, funny thing is Randy kinda got me into this hobby which lead onto finding your channel. Now that being said is Emotiva a product that provides good value for the buck.
@@Prometheus1979 when he started, Randy was just a guy reviewing gear. He was just another person with an opinion. As his subscriber count has increased, he's still just a guy with an opinion. However, he's now got relationships with manufacturers. Nothing wrong with that, and he's supporting his family. Doesn't change the fact, that he's not the most technically sophisticated reviewer and sometimes speaks about things he doesn't fully understand. In my opinion, he is now more of a PR person for certain products. Also, his live streams seem more of a chance to raise $ with "super chats" than to provide unbiased audio information.. 🤔
Yes, emotiva makes very good products at decent price point. I’ve personally owned several of their products for home theater. It’s one of the better value companies out there.
The real story here is how does Cheap audio guy get that sweet ten watts of power to handle his massive tower speakers he’s crammed into his bedroom? By using high quality expensive cables no ordinary man can afford of course.
Thank you so much for calling this clown out. He does immeasurable damage with his often completely contradictory utter nonsense that seldom has any basis in fact.
Sounds like you're just mad jelly. What Randy has that you do not is a personality.
I stopped listening to Cheapaudioman a while back . I found his opinions "unreliable". That's how you say "He's FOS" nicely.
Interesting, those are the first three letters of one of his favorite brands.
oh is Randy his name? I thought he was telling me his state of mind...lord Shill of Shiilington Grange
This is just sad. He's not saying you only need 10w, he's saying you likely only use around 10w. He doesn't say anything about headroom, or sonic impact with higher wattage, etc. You sound bitter and envious.
Misleading salesman 😮
Ya your right, dude is jealous of his success
. There are no mind readers. It's a guess what Randy meant to say. We can only go by what Randy actually said.
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When he initially appeared on RUclips, I found his stuff to be somewhat informative. Sadly, he's now just a talking head rep for whomever sends him gear. When he went on the junket to Italy and then suddenly began promoting gear from the company who paid for the trip, well that was the end for me. I'm all for a person making a living, but there should be a line of separation between reviewer and promoter...😴
I’m torn. Randy is 100% a shill. And him advertising for a company isn’t just blurring the lines. It’s crossing the lines as a “reviewer”.
The ironic thing is Randy started his channel making fun of other YT reviewers and their sponsors by the whole “sponsored by Sith Audio” bit. And now he’s not just sponsored by brands but he’s making advertisements for them. There’s your hypocrisy.
Randy is nothing more than an affiliate marketer. He’s good at it. But he’s the furthest thing I’d call from a legitimate reviewer. He started the “cheap” man channels (this and his watch channel) because he knew he could get people to come off a few hundred dollars pretty easily vs expensive stuff and make a lot of money through the combination of affiliate sales. That’s actually pretty genius. Of course plenty of millennial TikTokers do the same thing so maybe calling them geniuses it’s a bit high praise.
Despite all this, this particular video is a stretch. I agree with Randy that a few watts is typically sufficient. Emotiva and other brands recommend their own power ratings. That’s not Randy’s fault.
Bottom line: he’s the worst kind of reviewer. You could’ve picked any of those reasons. You squandered a good opportunity. Next time call out his old “sponsored by Sith Audio” videos. Better download them now before he sees this and makes them disappear!
As always I appreciate you calling these goobers out. Randy is the guy who inspired me to upgrade my setup, however I've followed none of his advice. I was set on getting a WiimAmp-- until I saw your video on the crosstalk issues. So I got a Yamaha as501 instead (w/ wiim mini via optical) and love it. Being an Audio Scientologist has really paid off!
That's a great system. What speakers?
@@AquaTeenPod “Scientologist “ kind of says it all.
I was running out of puke buckets so I stopped watching him... they Hypocrisy is on another level. Never mind if you state facts on his channel - he becomes quite snarky.
Thumbs down for taking a quote out of context, selectively applying it to a single specific product and then making personal attacks against that other, more successful RUclips channel host. A single general statement that does not apply universally is not “a lie,“ nor does it make anyone an idiot or a fraud.
As soon as you called Randy an idiot at the beginning of your video, I had a suspicion that you weren’t going to back up your ad hominem attacks against him. I was correct.
The Cheapaudioman does indeed shill for a number of brands and products, to some extent. There are indeed some inconsistencies in his praise for certain products. For instance, he claimed that the Denefrips Ares DAC opened up music and made it seem live like no other hi-fi component he had ever heard. Yet soon thereafter he stopped mentioning that product at all, but started recommending other DAC units, principally Geshelli Labs, instead. I personally bought a.Geshelli DAC and am very happy with it as it provides notably better sound compared to several other DACs that I’ve used.
Like any reviewer that post links to Amazon or other retailers, and receives a commission off of any referral purchases, one needs to take that RUclips channel host with a grain of salt. But that does not make someone a fool and a fraud. I personally value the product links so that I can look at the information, as well as see the product price, without having to listen to a lengthy video if that information is more apparent from a retailers product listing.
Yes,I was stunned to see his commercial…but we all gotta pay our bills …but yup ..a little disconcerting
I quit watching so much after he made a comment on Legacy Audio sounded like shit and some others also.I thought what an asshole to ditch a company on your RUclips channel without reviewing them in his own house. I owned Legacy back in the day and absolutely loved them. They weren’t the best but they were the best to me with all types of music. I would take Legacy speakers over almost any brand. Nothing to this day has moved me more then a pair of Legacy Focus speakers.
Whoa, the gauntlet has been thrown. Let the drama begin.
Randy loses more subscribers in 1 hour then you picked up in all your years of promoting your trash
Scientific Audiophile: Randy is a shill. Meanwhile, join my members and maybe win something in 39-40 days.
One thing for sure though, is that his videos aren't filmed in 480p. While you're entitled to an opinion, so am I and everyone else in these comments. It just seems all you do is complain IMO.
All reviewers are just giving their opinions! Only guy i believe is Danny Ritchie! He's forgotten more than all you reviewers put together. Props to Jay's Audio that dude buys everything he reviews! 😊
Even Danny is unrealistic in his approach in my opinion. Should you throw $400 worth of high-end parts at a significantly flawed 30 year old speaker? No, it's silly to pretend that old cheap drivers and cabinets can reveal the 0.05% difference between standard and high-end crossover parts. If that were the case, I could pick out $20 worth of drivers from Parts Express and make a killer speaker every time. Also, the idea that every speaker company is dumb and can't make their speakers work right is incorrect. Back in the day it was a lot of guesswork and voodoo, but today these guys have massive facilities for testing and have designed speakers that either satisfy their own tastes or that they feel will attract more people in a showroom setting. Some of them are indeed pretty awful to me, but maybe they sound great in a certain kind of space or maybe I'm not the target customer. Some other speakers are completely thrilling while not measuring nearly well enough to be considered by today's testing over listening crowd. I mean, at the end of the day this is a hobby. Do what makes you happy.
@@BillDouglass-m9d Danny is even worse, no one ever made a good speaker that he wasn’t involved with.
He is selling crossover upgrades that may cost 50% of the cost of the speakers.
Or he is selling speaker kits. He is most clearly a salesman.
That being said, I would consider one of his kits if I was going DIY route.
The guitar Community is full of this snake oil bovine excrement as well, also the commercial that played proceeding this video was the cheap audioman hyping up some speakers.
The Emotivas have a 89 dB efficiency rating for 1 watt input. 8 watts would give you 95 dB. That is LOUD plus a stereo pair would add another 3dB so 98dB. If you listen like most people would at an average of 89dB or less, then 10 to 12 watts would suffice. The recommended 60 watt spec is just that, recommended in case you really want to crank things to lease breaking levels. I don't see the problem here. They also say 200 watts continuous and 300 watts peak power handling. Have you ever measured how many watts you send to your speakers? I doubt it.
In other words these speakers require much power to balance their efficiency. I have PP tube amplifier 15W/ch and another SE 3W /ch and I find no reason for using even 15W instead 3W. When I listen power is not exceeding 1 W/ch but in 95% it does not exceede 0,2 Watt.
He is full of crap. I can’t stand his videos. I have even seen him make some pretty hateful replies to comments saying he no longer reviews affordable gear.
Bs! "Hateful" comments....??? Liar your the troll U POS
@ oh look, an internet troll.
Look up some of his videos where he is reviewing higher end end gear that’s thousands of dollars. People call him out and he his replies are far from kind.
@@user-cm3wd5hk1p he reviews gear at different price points. Not all of us are into fosi audio and the cheapest hifi around. Think your the troll guy
@@user-cm3wd5hk1p your the troll, not everyone is into fosi audio and the cheapest chifi around
@@user-cm3wd5hk1p SMC nice and slow L’er
I get what you are trying to say with the schill stuff, but man did you pick the wrong way to go about it. He's absolutely right about the amount of power a speaker is actually using. Most people will not listen to music or video over 70db, unless they're jammin or watching movies...but even then, 70db at the ear is pretty loud. This will require less than 10w/ch. Not including headroom. The mfg puts 60 watts because thats what they determined will result in the least warranty claims and least lawsuits....thats it. As a broke kid, I'd cut the headphone wires on my walkman and feed into cheap floorstanding speakers. I can't imagine that walkman was putting out even a single watt via its 4 AA batteries. It would play quite loud through speakers that required 50+ watts. Anyway, I like his channel and will continue to watch. Its not gospel. I like it cuz he's old like me, he listens to metal like me, and he is NOT scientific. He likes what sounds good to his ear....like me. He likes the mids scooped....like 98% of the planet. I guess you got your clicks...schill.
In the last video I ever watched from him he dissed an SMSL DAC, The SUX I believe and said it had a bad remote and hard to see display from several feet away and compared it with others that had neither. He also said SMSL should stay in their lane and keep to cheep audio products and not attempt the higher end segment. In that moment I quit and never watched another of his videos. Companies should always strive to better themselves as companies and by the products they put out. Also, how can someone compare negatively features and accessories of the reviewed equipment with others that have none. I did not feel his reviews were being sincere at all. Your video just reinforced my opinion. Thanks and all the best.
I agree. Those reviews behave like used car salesmen. How on earth can we trust their reviews. It's good to see reviewers just like this one to expose how they really operate and a total disregard to our money or circumstances with their shill bs. They probably don't like half the products they review and use inconsequential narratives to validate their opinion on a product to give it the upper hand.
This is a low point. Keep creating interesting stuff, and be nice to your peers. This video isn’t helpful.
Oops my mistake should've known by the center exhaust and if I remember now an S as it was a split. I should've known I had a 2006 Cayman S. He's still a shill though
Love the cayman S
@ I've owned quite a few sports cars and hands down it was the best overall
Thank you Mr. S|A the elder for the giveaway and for paying for the Internet so your son can post these videos!
Was amused by his earlier antics, but for me it seems Randy has evolved into the Joe Rogan of online audio “reviewers”.
Look. The issue is, does Randy, praise the high power handling of the speakers in his endorsement? If not, then your accusation is groundless. Just because he once said that we don't need more than ten watts doesn't mean speakers that can handle more than that are not good. It's really pretty simple. And by the way I'm no fan of Cheapaudioman. I find him irritating (which is entirely my problem)
Him and Andrew Robinson
I have no opinion one way or the other about Randy but did he say this about all speaker systems or that you could get a good sound from some systems with low power?
Pretty crappy takedown when I'm sure there is better material available.
CheapAudioMan is likely correct that he is actually only using less than 10 watts to power his speakers.
Emotiva is suggesting to use an amp that has 60 watts or greater, there aren't saying you actually need to send all 60 to the speakers!
More powerful amps maintain better control of the power going to the speakers even when your aren't using all of it. Most of us know this, no controversy here.
But that's not Randy's point. He's saying he's only using at most 10 W so you don't need an amp with 60 or 100 W
@lsaideOK Yes he is saying that so itf you want to buy the speakers and don't have the amp to push the power consistently that it sounds great with 10 watts.
@@justinbowen2365 which is likely very poor advice considering the variety of speakers that are on the market and the various and sundry situations that people find themselves in in terms of their listening rooms and listening styles. At its most basic, you generally want headroom above the output needed for the general listening level. Add in listening to Beethoven's 5th in a large space with 85 DB peaks using 4 ohm, 85 DB sensitivity speakers and yeah, 10 W is going to be pretty limited. 200 wpc may not be enough. Randy's advice is nonsense.
Why are you trying so hard to discredit Randy? Think someone is jealous of his sub numbers maybe...
He does talk crap though.
Why so bitter?
And it is true, at modest levels you are rarely even drawing 10 watts. You DO need more for bass heavy passages, and to preserve dynamics.
Also, I don’t think he ever said that ALL you need is ten watts, you just don’t always need huge power ratings in all situations.
You know, Steve Gutenberg raves about tube amps putting out less than three watts.
How about just putting out original material, and stop trying to get clicks by putting popular creators down. Maybe then you’ll crack 2thousand subs.
But I won’t be one.
Spot on 👍🏻 I’ll unsubscribe if this bitter click baiting continues.
@jeffreylehman1159 Totally agree with you. Whether Randy is a salesman or not, he is doing his job. The viewing public must be able to decide for themselves if it is worth following him or not. There is no need for another youtuber to warn us about the Cheapaudioman, John Darko or whoever. There are plenty of alternative opinions and information out there to allow someone with average intelligence and curiosity to double-check any reviewer's statement. Those who are not genuine reviewers, will eventually perish. We just do not want nannies.
So you didn't actually watch this video. Your 10 watts will NOT drive those Emotiva speakers.
@@JACKnJESUS so you didn’t actually read my post?
@@jeffreylehman1159 Totally different from what the 'schill' said. Never mentioned modest listening. Audio is a marriage of parts...especially between speakers and amps. Something Randy leaves out because he is selling any product they send him pretty much
"dB" is not the sensitivity of a speaker. "dB/2,83 V" and "dB/W" (at 1 m both) aren't the same unit and can be different (when "nominal impedance [real one] is not 8 Ω at low frequencies). The first one describes volume vs voltage gain, not power or current needed. Once conversion to "dB/W" done, we can estimate the power we need only after measuring the distance, measuring the volume we want, the dynamic range we want, checking real power of amplifier (graph power vs distortion) and doing some maths. Power needed can be all over the map (different music, people, rooms, distances, speakers, headroom, etc).
What I see in the reviewer space are people who may have gotten into reviewing because of their love of the hobby, but they eventually become compromised by the opportunities presented to grow their channel or they become smug and condescending as they become stoned on their own importance. I mean, one of the only people who really seems to be doing this with sincere joy is Steve Guttenberg, but unfortunately he never met a product he didn't adore.
Haters hate. They can't stop themselves. They even post it on social media & make it obvious to everyone.
A large proportion of RUclipsrs are shills according tomrhese criteria
I'm more struck by the name CheapAudioMan when he's pushing £1000 amps or DACs, hardly cheap.
I would suggest relying on any RUclips reviewer for a 100% honest and objective analysis is risky, whether his name is Randy, Andrew, or whomever. I think Randy brings something to the table, if only an opportunity to learn about the specs, etc, of an item. The key as a consumer is learning what to expect from each reviewer, taking what you need, and moving on.
You acknowledge that he’s entitled to make a living on RUclips, but big audio companies (i.e., advertisers) sell power. Do you need him to identify all of a company’s misleading advertising before saying something good about that company’s products? He discloses his conflicts. He regularly acknowledges he’s an amateur and a fanboy of Wiim, Schiit and Emotiva. His whole model is telling you to try cheap(ish) products and return them if you don’t like them, so we’re all free to test his theories. If he needs to be pristine he cannot be a paid promoter.
The problem with society today, honesty and integrity don't matter as long as you are trying to make a living and everyone else is doing it. It's a slippery slope.
This is dumb.
You called Randy out!
You have 12 thousand subscribers. I think he will survive.
If you believe in nonsense, enjoy.
Hello, great video as always
Do you plan on reviewing OrchardAudio's amplifiers? They seem to offer a lot more for the money (according to other reviewers), I would love your take on that
Not yet. I'll reach out to them.
Auditioned Orchard mono
ultra 500w@4ohms $2.5k
Against Benchmark AHB2 monoblocks bridged $3.5k
Orchard Sonic is much better 😊
"Scientific"... why cant You adjust focus......?
his name is scientific AUDIOPHILE :v
@@garavonhoiwkenzoiber Why cant scientific AUDIOPHILE adjust focus?
I've seen him promoting very expensive equipment that is far out of the general budget category. If he pushes cheap junk, at least it's cheap and still in the wheelhouse of topic but pushing $6k speaker pairs seems offputting. As for power requirements, what it takes to work and what it takes to work well are often 2 different things. He obviously doesn't clarify always whether he's using a tube, class AB or class D amp. As for opinions, it's simple. His ears aren't mine or yours. What he likes we may hate or vice versa. Auditioning helps.
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Not only that but also there is the question of longevity to all this chi-fi that is flooding the marketplace and putting the big players on their heels or out of business. For example, what is the longevity and durability of the wiim ultra? I have Denon, Sony, Yamaha products from 30 years ago that still sound like the day I bought them. And as you follow these products in the comments over time there's often the comment: Quit working after 2 months. Well there went another $300 that could have gone to buying something quality with a flagship name with longevity attached.
If I’m being fair, Randy reignited my audiophile obsession, but probably not because he’s a not a shill. He has the subscribers and as such, his videos are the first to pop in my feed. That said, it’s up to me to decipher the nonsense from the wisdom and ultimately, it’s SA whose review sold me on my Mofi S8 purchase. In the end, Randy is fine for most people, but for everyone else, we can sense the salesman right from the jump. SA, thanks for what you do and we’ll let Randy do what he does best. After all, we’re all grimy nuts looking for a bag of squirrels.
Great vid man... as usual. But on this occasion, Randy does have a point though, you don't need a shed full of power, to power speakers to sufficient levels to suit your needs. The number on the box is just a suggestion/recommendation by the company to drive them to sufficiently loud levels. But yes, in general Randy is full of BS. I remember the days in RUclips when people would go out and buy the gear and give you their honest, subjective take on it. Unfortunately today, reviewers rely on companies sending them products either on loan (longterm) or free and this promotes shill and biasness, of course it does, what company would risk sending a reviewer anything if they say it's a lousy product. No products mean no content that mean no review and no likes or subscribers. My advice, never, ever trust a successful reviewer who does not say anything bad about anything who is obviously on the take... Certainly don't be fooled into thinking they have your best interest at heart. I certainly would not subscribe to their patreon and pay to get suckered, stick to RUclips and get it done free.
Won't understand the need for power
if U never own demanding speakers
@@CarlVanDoren61 Maggies and valves work well, high demand with low power.
Oh man I hope I win those IEMs. They have a Bish faceplate on them right?
I mocked a lot of cables as "Meh", snake oil. HDMI cable for example. I thought it's a digital signal, it either works or it doesn't. Its pretty obvious. That's correct, but there are caveats.
No. 1 Cheap HDMI cables are not sheilded to outside interference. So every time the cleaner was next door and used the vacumm cleaner my monitor reset. Protecting itself from the spike on the data pins caused by the motor arching.
No. 2. Cheap HDMI cables do not contain their own interference. If you know what HDMI sounds like on your audio lines, then you know. You know.
However, I have learnt over the years, as things became more and more digital with more and more "bursty" 5V USB cables and switchmode power supplies, that any and all signal cables need to be protected. Your mains routing needs to be thought out. Even your post digital gain structure needs thought. (Amplify on the cleanest supply you can get, in nothing with a USB port!).
As my primary job and hobbies involve a lot of "tech" and a lot of USB gadgets.... I ... I gave up and run my headphone amp on batteries. I simply cannot get clean enough signal lines below 0db. Even +10db lines have noise as all the amps and DACs have "USB ground Fur".
Optical links is the other avenue under development.
Replacing ALL my digital cables, HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet, USB and DC power jacks with expensive "sheilded" cables honestly... might made a difference.
In fact, so may some "Beads" on said power cables. By "Beads" I mean coaxial ferrite rings which dampen (resist) high frequency electric fields... aka... they damp out noise in cables. This is not targetted at the audio range, but the noise with will impact upon the audio range from other "digital" or "switch mode" sources.
Speaker wires? Ha! If you can still bend the ends and they don't snap off, they are fine. If they do snap off, just strip it back some.
Oh my.
I can't really hate on Randy, his older reviews of cheaper stuff was pretty reliable. Even he said in one of his videos a year or so ago that his life has changed. He got so popular that the audio companies approached, and he did like most people, took the loot. Can you really blame him? I take his high end reviews with a grain of salt but I still watch him, I don't have to buy though. I'm in charge of my own purchases. He gave a couple of reviews a couple years ago about some speakers, (cheap) that I ended up buying on EBAY (cheap) and I think they're great, so thanks Randy for saving me from spinning my wheels and saving me money.
I look at a lot of reviews but i never buy blind based on them, i see them for what they are. And basicly only buy gear i can audition.
I could pay for 10, no 20 memberships and still not win. That's how it goes in my life. No reply is necessary. 😊
I’m not really seeing the supposed hypocrisy. Thing is, ALL of these audiophile related channels are for ENTERTAINMENT. If you’re using any of them, including this one, to make critical purchasing decisions something’s probably wrong.
How is it possible for you to put out thougt provoking vids in your constant state of inebriation? I suspect you and Randy hang out or talk regularly. Cool runnings.
He's now pushing the wiim ultra and smsl dac super hard. I bit for the smsl dac but it is only a degree or 2 better than my 20 yo Denon cd player dac and there's the dac in the Sony ES avr also I can use. I can see the smsl dac application for a phone or computer, but if you feed it into the avr via hdmi, the avr dac will do the conversion anyway, so not needed there either. But this type of info is rarely explained to people.
My biggest problem with CAM is depicted right there in the click-bait title of the CAM video in question
$1k speakers destroying $10K speakers
He smells of desperation for money and in my opinion shills harder than any other reviewer
The “this $1k (whatever) destroys (whatever) costing 10x or $10k more” …brutal
I live in a world of SE tube amplifiers ranging from 2 to 3watts to 8 watts
I have to be very judicious about the speakers I use
Most speakers, even with decent sensitivity do better with a lot of power compared to what I like with the tube distortion I enjoy
I enjoy your reviewer reviews but this one was truncated and lacked a bit of your usual humorous sarcasm and snark
What's funny about titles like "this $1k destroys ... costing 10x more" is that he also put out a video stating you shouldn't listen to anyone who says something "sounds like a $3k whatever", because you can't say that.
This is bad. What’s your objective?
Lol, you take all the fun out of audio
Then why the laughing out loud? More hypocrisy?
@TriAmpHiFi I'm laughing at this "Well actually" channel
just because the average speaker uses about 10 watts, doesn't mean EVERY speaker does. Not sure why there's confusion.
. How do you figure "the average speaker uses about 10 watts"? What is an "average speaker"? Or did you mean to say, "the speaker average use is about 10 watts"?
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. Also, is this 10 watt figure applicable equally to 2,4,8 & 16 ohm drivers? There's quite a difference between 10 watts into 2 ohms versus 10 watts into 16 ohms.
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@@TriAmpHiFi let's take the SVS prime tower for eg, sensitivity: 87dB at 1w, at 2w is then 90dB, 4w is 93dB, 8w is 96dB, at 1 meter. at 2m is then 93dB, sitting 4 meters away at 8w is then around 90dB which is a pretty good volume to listen to
he was the first channel i got recommended by youtube when i started learning about audio, luckily i found sharurs channel and then yours, im still a noob but im doing my best to learn slowly lol
Com on! When do You use all the power in an amp? " I need 100 Watt". You miss Randys point totally and are barking up the wrong tree. The NEED of certain amount of power is not the same as USING all of it. Very scientific. There is a trend that say hundreds of watts is needed but You doesnt. Thats what Randy rants about. Simple.
His video "Audiophiles Are Full Of Sh*t" got hundreds of thousands of views. He routinely gets over 50k views, and in time, they become 6 figures. A lot more people are watching him, than yourself. He even had another channel where he reviewed higher end watches. Is there something wrong with my Timex? That channel got about a view a second. So what we can all conclude from this, is that lot of people love to watch Randy. Better to figure out why and apply some of his characteristics to ones own channel.
On another channel someone says that they are still waiting 19 months to receive a tube amp they paid for, that long ago. As they hand build another one, you move closer to the top of the list. He said he suspects it will be one more year of waiting before he receives it. They must have told him where he is on the list. The tube amp only has 3 watts; that's a watt per each year you have to wait. Quite a wait for watts. He'll someday receive it if the world is still here, and some Porch Pirate doesn't steal it from his porch. Or maybe someone else who is further down the list than he is. That's one of the advantges of living in a desolate area like the North Pole, where I live. The only thing that can grab a package from your porch is a polar bear or maybe a couple of juvenile delinquent penguins. And even then, only if it isn't frozen solid to your porch step. I once took14 years to play a game of chess through the mail with some guy from France; before the internet. Every few days I get an email from someone asking who won? It is nearing 2 million views by now. Is a Shill the same thing as a Hack?
Help write War & Peace?
Ii suppose YOU could do a comedy bit in a sentence or two? Your name is the only thing that might need shortened. Wouldn't it be so nice to have a 2 word name, rather than a 3 word name like you have? Life is too short.
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Cheap reviews is what you get from Randy but everything gets a thumbs up on that channel, even the garbage. A nice Sugden Class A Amp with 23 watts per channel would suit me just fine.
I get blocked on loads of channels, unless you're brown nosing these reviewers they block you. Those Serbian? guys IIWI reviews always reviewing chifi gear week in week out saying it's better than the weeks before, sick to death of them and their flowery BS.
Cheapaudioman🤣😂 I thought it was satire, all the hifi reviewers on you tube just look at the comments, the brown nosing is hilarious.
Get a life friend...As loads of humans are full of bullshit
He is just incompetent. As a majority of RUclipsrs I guess. What a big deal?
"He said the worst part was the hypocrisy, and I disagree."
"You disagree with that?"
"Ya, I thought it was the lying."
If you had a woman, sorry Randy took her from you. She’s better off 😂
I couldn't agree more! He professes all of the low to moderate priced audio. "Cheap", then I see him get in his Porsche Turbo! If new easily 200k. I have been an audiophile for over 40 years and while I really enjoy watching RUclips I find most of the reviewers pretty lame. BTW, you are not one of those IMO. Your sense of humpour is awesome even though I hate cats! Ok, not really
It's a used Cayman. Probably $50k
pro tip: If you dont like what someone has to say...dont watch his videos. Duh³
As opposed to you, Randy is fun to listen to. Also, his face is mostly in focus.
Maybe, if you concentrated on making great videos instead of mocking others, you could become popular too.
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Audiophile taken down. Lol
Really like that you tell it as it is... Hope your channel keeps growing.. I really like all your reviews too.
The channel is his only job.
I feel that this is a case of the pot, calling the kettle black. All of you RUclipsrs are expressing your opinions. I like your channel, and I like Randy's. Yourself, and say, Erins Audio Channel and Audioholics, ect., for the more technical aspects of reviews or measurments. You are taking this way too seriously, in some regards you are all full of crap in one aspect or another. Like alimentary canels, everybody has an opinion, to which they are entitled. Variety is the spice of life, get over it.
Dude..I like your reviews, but trying to make money off your opinion about someone else isn't going to cut it ..Randy is getting paid for pushing good equipment and garbage..Get a better green screen and lighting setup...Plus get your teeth fixed.
Most of us watch these reviewers for entertainment. Randy's fun, your boring af. I don't even know why your boring channel pops up in my feed. Audiophiles are an old, boring group for the most part. People like Randy and Zeos are not boring
Their misleading 😮
A review should be a review, I dont get your point, if I want entertainment why would I watch a comprehensive review ? When I watch a review I want good informations thats all
@@BruceLimozaine-c4q zeos is impossible for me to watch. Too long, too scattered and I have a hard time given the utter slovenly mess he lives in
But i still love the guy. 2 reasons not enough for me to unsub