Listening Compare - Marshall Willen VS Klipsch Austin side by side Hear With Me!!

[@Guyatwo-m]

Thank you very much for the information for both speakers 🔊🔊

[@AudioInsideScoop]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@jamethogany]

This is the second hear with me that the main sections are much quieter than the intro and outro. The earlier "hear with me" videos were more consistent. Obviously you want to hear the volume differences but I had to up my volume quite a bit to hear anything when the speakers were set to 50% or 70%. Then the outro was extremely loud by comparison. The viewer shouldn't have to adjust the volume to comfortably watch a video, so maybe there is a level adjustment you can make when putting the recordings with the intro and outro.

[@AudioInsideScoop]

Thanks for watching and for your comment! I totally get that there is a huge variance in volume between my ins and outs and the track listenings. While it can be a harsh transition--- This is because I master the audio on the Ins and Outs but, for the listening, I do not. If I were to do so, It would alter what you guys are hearing and I want to avoid that as much as possible. I want it to stay as true as possible and as close as possible to what we hear in room. I do boost gain identically across the board on all listening portions but am limited to where the loudest tracks peak at the 100% volume segments. One thing I have considered is to drop ins and outs significantly to match roughly the mid tier volumes of the listenings. That way as a viewer you wouldn't have to tinker with the volume knob as much but we can still remain true to the volume of the tracks-- What are your thoughts on that? We've got another listening coming shortly with the Emberton VS Nashville. May give it a go there.

[@jamethogany]

@@AudioInsideScoop It won't change what the differences are if they are all given the same level adjustment. If you multiply an equation by the same number on both sides of the equals sign the equation remains the same. You aren't removing the authenticity of the sound, you are only making the volume of the video more consistent. The volume differences in the track should remain exactly the same if every track is lifted by the same amount. If someone comes from another channel or video and then one video is very hard to hear they will instantly click off the video, you know? so lowering the intro doesn't make sense. But the 100% volume parts are quieter than the outro music. That doesn't make sense either. I'm saying that someone viewing the video should not have to physically change the volume of their system to hear the comparison. You want the whole video to be hearable. If you lower the intro, people will not understand why they can't hear it. They will assume something is wrong and just click off. I guess if there is a happy middle ground that you can find so that if someone were to need to change volume a little and only do it once that would be better. I guess I don't know what you mean by the authenticity of the sound in your point. Do you mean between videos and different speakers all being the exact distance from the same microphone? and how they are heard by that microphone? There are different microphones that gather sound from wider or narrower fields. Is that microphone optimal for that distance or environment? (this is mostly rhetorical) I don't really think that it matters to people in general that every speaker be kept exactly the same distance, but rather to hear the differences between the speakers on the current comparison. (obviously considering your disclaimer) I don't mean to be critical, and I hope you don't think I'm being ridiculous. I'm just trying to give feedback on things that make me stop and take notice. If I didn't care I would just click away and not worry about it..

[@AudioInsideScoop]

Thanks for the clarification. I really do appreciate the feedback. I want to make this as helpful as possible, as well as as enjoyable as possible. I don't think you're being hyper critical at all! I did boost all tracks on this video but, probably could have pushed em a bit further. Maybe another 2-4 throughout. The thought on the ins and outs is more of a balance thing. If you can adjust according to the intro and have some items come in a bit hotter and some a bit less, it may balance a bit better and, hopefully avoid the click off rate you were mentioning. Will give it a try and we will see! As for the comparing video to video---this was something I was toying with originally -- thinking I could give viewers the option to click back and forth between videos if i hadn't put the specific speaker they were interested in side by side yet. I genuinely believe nobody is doing this though so, I am kinda getting away from this and, as you mentioned, solely focusing on the two in the current compare. I will just try and release more remixes to accommodate the other as people request them, though. Lastly, I think we are saying the same thing here. I'll use a real example referencing an upcoming video as -- the Emberton VS Nashville will release in a few days and I'm working on its edit as we speak. --- I said I am limited to where the loudest speaker on the loudest track at 100% volume segment peaks - In this video I boosted all by 8. With this. we will have the Nashville coming in about -2 at its loudest point. When Nashville is at about -2, we have Emberton hanging around -6 to -8ish. Now we transition to our 50% portions and, though we've boosted by about 8 on all tracks, we are still sitting around -18 on the Emberton and -12 on the Nashville. It's going to feel super quiet but, If I boost the 50-70% portions any further without touching the 100%, it would give an unrealistic compare of the level differences when you hit 100%. If I boost all tracks further including the 100%, itll peak the loudest speaker and give a rough representation there. Basically what I am doing with the edit on this next one is pushing as far as possible on the tracks to just before peaking and dropping my intro and outro to about 70%ish of what the loudest point of the loudest speaker so itll hopefully avoid knob turning. When this one drops, please shoot me a comment and let me know your thoughts as, the feedback is much appreciated!

[@BrettK-e3k]

The Marshall sounds a bit fuller to me

[@AudioInsideScoop]

Thanks for watching! This was an interesting one for sure!