Live with MIKEY tonight 9PM EST ! Talk with a SPEAKER DESIGNER and why I made my last videoo

[@SastusBulbas1]

Just to add with the regard to studio monitors and recording anything within the studio, at time stamp around 1:18 or so, the majority of recorded music on this planet is not what the mastering engineer or any engineer working on the project decided, the outcome is through many sessions and retakes to more often than not please some band manager or label or artist with what they like the sound of. The majority musicians, artists, managers, labels, do not want as clean an unadulterated version of what they recorded within a booth, played on an album, they want something that sells and sounds better. Even some of the best picks by audiophiles are albums which were adulterated to sound more impressive. You then also have the added issue of taking 12 individual tracks from different locations and even times, and then trying to level those out so your not deafened by a 130db drum kit while the lead guitar sounds like a geriatric having a coughing fit two corridors down. So much is added, removed, EQ'd, level adjusted, equalized, skewed and touched by plug ins you couldn't even begin to start listing. And that includes small acoustic sets. The monitors used to translate are often a mute point, they are tools chosen to do what hifi doesn't more often than not, and simply what the studio could afford or a specific engineer found worked for him one may love working with ATC, one may love working with Focal, engineers need to translate that mix and will ofdten use what works for THEM, not what works in your hifi, so you may see PMC BB5 as the main monitor, but three different monitors for mid such as an EVE 307 and nearfield Presonus Eris or even as mentioned some horrendous NS10, many items no one would listen to music with, alongside half a dozen different headphones at times. And it should not matter as your not hearing EAR or PMC in a Pink Floyd recording, nor Focal or Bryston nor TAD or able to tell the mics capped off at 20Khz and Van Damme starquad running 40ft into a patch bay then another 60ft to another patch bay before hitting another patch bay with 25ft hit the desk. Some great recordings are out there and great mastering engineers, some great music badly recorded while there is also some really bad music superbly mastered. If an engineer is running a nice pair of mid monitors or far fields that translate their work, and whoever is in charge of deciding what mix is released on an album, loves a specific version out of the various takes of the master, thats it thats the masstered version going on the album, and more often down mixed from 24/192 to 16/44. And lets remember, this is produced with hundreds of feet of $2 starquad and frequency limited mics in the mix going through patch bays so audiophiles can claim $6000 cables matter. Just enjoy the music and get a system that continually has you playing albums and as an extra, make sure its a system that still occasionally makes you go wow.

[@CarlVanDoren61]

Mark Linkous was known as Static King 🤴 R.I.P 🎉

[@Pok-001]

Yeah, final mix will be mixed to sound good on lesser sound system. Way more people listening on Bluetooth speakers or in their cars. Heard some studios will listen to the recording in their cars before for final mix.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

For those who read the long response above. THIS is what a guy who knows what the F is up sounds like, OK ? Just for your reference. This person CLEARLY has production experience as he understands PRECISELY how full of shit people who think they are Audiophile "Gods", are... Bravo, and thanks for taking the time to support my point in an extremely comprehensive and well thought out manner. Please share the link for your brain supplements, they are working !! All the best !!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@Pok-001 that's what the Aura Tone on the console is for ... ;-) (a shit ass little car speaker)

[@Pok-001]

@@OCDHIFiGuy you just took me back. Way back helped build studios. Had a pioneer full range speaker with the wheezer tweeter in small box. Used it to play test tones. lol Always wanted to try to j put it in a labyrinth or TL. Think definitely compression is added to smooth music out over crappy systems. And bass is tweaked to make it stand out.

[@maurice4407]

I agree with you and Tony. First of all, my WP sounds amazing from my sitting position - about 7i away, whether I’m on an excess or off access. The WP3/2 really are above and beyond, Cantons, JBL, Charrwell , and even Harbeth. The Wilson really engage me emotionally ❤❤❤

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

There you go.. you mean the "diffraction" didn't ruin it for you ?? 😂

[@TheDarthvader123]

Huff is the biggest lie in hifi reviews

[@BobHodas]

Do you know he has another channel that's all about building contraptions to speak with the deceased? He uploads videos of himself holding glowing light bulbs and weird devices made of coat hangers and tinfoil and he pretends to converse with dead people. Its impossible to watch that and then take the guys hifi reviews seriously.

[@TheDarthvader123]

@@BobHodasi have seen that. He was talking to Elvis, about the film?! I was flabbergasted… About his hifi reviews… his listening room has more glass than most skyscrapers. How can someone review speakers like that?

[@BobHodas]

@TheDarthvader123 I'm convinced he's some kind of trust fund kid who graduated away from a past of following Phish or something like that and he just kind of fell into the hifi review thing. He's got an odd look about him too to be honest. Like if you went to a dinner party at his house, you'd wake up in the basement hog tied with him lurking over you with a distant, menacing look in his eyes. I'm not a fan.

[@TheDarthvader123]

@@BobHodas😂

[@BobHodas]

@TheDarthvader123 haha! Cheers man. Have a good day.

[@Beaunarr]

I know alot of music artist love to chase the old microphones is it like a music artist looking for a certain guitar so they can replacte that sound the most accurate or can that certain old sound be replicated by today's newer technology then if they were side by side in a blind test could we tell the diffrence.

[@dragocelander6671]

I watched this one on replay both last night and this morning. Outstanding guests tonight! A lot of trolls..

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@@dragocelander6671 thanks Dan..

[@LADMAN1018]

Mickey. You need a OCD Mickey theme song 🎶 like the late night guys! My brothers in the Valley have one for ya if you’d like to hear it? It’s very appropriate for your channel. Thanks Buddy keep it coming.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@LADMAN1018 sure man, call me ! ,-)

[@tallpaull9367]

Oh boy, imagine if someone sent Danny a couple of Fischer&Fischer . Then the best ever would be a blind ABX test with a group between stock and Gr version.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@@tallpaull9367 for what ?? Why ?? To help Danny sell kits to 50% of the people ? What's better is Danny puts up his best of the best, THEN we compare GR to Fischer&Fischer... now we are cooking with fire.

[@tallpaull9367]

@@OCDHIFiGuy That would be entertaining as well

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@@tallpaull9367 wouldn't it ? 😁

[@ajay55556]

The speaker designer just revealed my BIG SECRET. I BURN MY MUSIC ON MY Blank GOLD CDS and they blow away any 14.4 format and much better than high res version.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@@ajay55556 whatever makes you happy, brother... ;-)

[@crossoverchef]

the wilson speaker was ruined.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@crossoverchef after the mod? Wasn't it like 20 years old, anyways ? Old caps ??

[@BobHodas]

I was happy to hear you call out Danny the way you did. He's got a cult following of people who think hes only on youtube to share "wisdom" out of the kindnesses of his heart. They are completely blind to the idea that he uses youtube as a form of advertisement in and of itself. I would love to see his sales figures since he started his youtube channel. Im sure its gone up exponentially. Its cringe worthy to see hordes of grown men tune into abother mans advertisements and then send him t shirts and other gifts in the mail as a form of gratitude for his disguised commercials. Its sad. Also, for what irs worth, his little cohort Ron from NRD just seems like one of those weasely fake nice guys whos got a spine made of wet linguini. I remember when Ron had to move out of his condo years ago and he set up a de facto Go Fund Me through his youtube channel for his subscribers to help him pay for a new house. The suckers went forth and donated. Now he has a huge "sound shed" in his backyard filled with treatments and equipment that probably 2% of those same sunscribers could even afford. These men are creeps. Thats the best word to describe them. Creeps.

[@jfritzy4358]

@BobHodas Well Bob, what KZbinr is not in it for self promotion in one form or another? So is the *ick measuring juvenile self appointed savior of the audio industry leader of a cult Tribe your kind of guy?

[@BobHodas]

@jfritzy4358 haha! They all are. Danny puts on an act that it's all out of the kindness of his heart. He's a fake ass. Mikey is annoying and poops on anything that doesn't cost as much as an SUV, but at least he's not fake. Either way, I'm a grown man and wouldn't send either of them t shirts and other gifts in the mail for the pleasure of witnessing their online - interactive commercials. I dint know if you were reaching for a "gotha" moment with that comment, but you missed the mark. Mikey and Danny can both go eat a d**k for all I care. Theyre just strangers on the internet. I tune for entertainment occasionally. Danny though... that guy is as fake as the day is long.

[@briankennedy2737]

How about a shootout with GR Research speakers? You could take the flagship model of whatever you're currently hawking and put it up against the top GR Research model. Especially if you could find a few impartial listeners to give their thoughts as well. This would be entertaining and get clicks for the both of you.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@briankennedy2737 Why ? There are buyers for both. Half will like GR, half will like Fischer&Fischer.. I get the Gay drama shit for clicks, however.

[@hifiGuy-id8rc]

This latest with GR and Wilson and now your take leaves me in no mans land. Buy what sounds right to you for whatever reason is important to you. If you want the true sound of an instrument/ voice it seems to me that adding tube, cabinet,op amp coloration has to take you further away. Sure sympathetic resonance of a cabinet should sound great on guitars, pianos, cello etc but it ain’t authentic. I think measurements are essential for accurate playback and yet everything engineered to the hilt sounds like shit me.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@@hifiGuy-id8rc measurements are essential to design a speaker. To get it to do what you want it to. "Accurate playback" is a complete lie.

[@njrumenos]

@@OCDHIFiGuyno he’s correct and you are filling your viewers full of shit

[@tallpaull9367]

Mikey, you look jumpy. too many "coffees"? Take care bro

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

By "coffees", do you mean narcotics ?? 😂 no, brother, I'm pissed at idiots.. It gets me fired up. I'm a scrapper. I dont lay down. I've spent 30 years listening to the sputum this industry hacks up, and I'm gonna disrupt it.