Back in 1958-ish when stereo was introduced to the masses I wandered into one of the new "stereo salons" to see what was up. Before that it was about radio-phonographs and the old Magnavox. So I went in there and I was alone in the store with the proprietor. I was 14. He proceeded to take me to his demo area and blow me away with my first exposure to stereo sound on some AR2's (I think). But he was really a big JBL fan...and this was back when JBL was a stand-alone company and Lansing was still involved and alive. After I was "sold" on the wonderfulness of stereo he started teaching me about how to build a system. He said...buy the best speakers you can, first, then upgrade the source and the amp as you can...the very same conclusion that Steve says he has lately come to. That advice has worked for me for the intervening 64 years.
I think Steve G. has been interviewed previously & he just doesn't remember. Ken Micallef, interviewed him for his channel in April, 2019. I think there were other interviews as well he doesn't remember.
Steve is my favorite channel. He’s in my age bracket and has my kind of ear. Also he gets right to the point and they aren’t to long . Fits my attention span
@@schizogony For some reason it is very difficult for some people to differentiate between something being bad, and them not liking something. I think it is why audio is in the state it is now, people just can not understand that their preference is not the BEST for EVERYONE, so people with differing opinions must be lying or whatever.
This is the longest video I ever watch with people just speaking and I didn’t forward a bit. I really enjoyed and keep looking forward to him speaking more. I have been following Steve for half a year and after watching this interview I truly admire and idolize him like a fan admire a superstar. Love you Steve. From Malaysia an 40 plus year old guy.
Very good interview. I used to watch Steve on the 404 show and could listen to him for hours and hours. His passion and enthusiam are contagious. Thx a lot Jay and keep up the good work.
Hi Jay this was a really nice interview with Steve And I love all his stories and I think you are or a great interviewer I really enjoyed this and I hope you do more of the this kind thank you very much
Well done Jay, great interview with “the man” in this Hifi TH-cam space. He literally has done it all, been there got the T-shirt, actually many T-shirts 😂 And you! As he says, are the future of this format. Great to listen in to you both chat. Many thanks, Tarun
Thank you Tarun. Quite frankly you are one of the very few that I watch on youtube and that says a lot since I don't even watch mine once its done. I can easily see you surpassing my following in the near future. cheers
It's such a great interview exchange between different generations.......what a great "communication delivery system" for so many of us. Blessings to the both of you......
Great interview, Steve has been involved in audio for a long time. It was his review of Infinity IL10 that made me take the time to go listen and I bought them and soon after bought the matching center and IL 50s for my mains. I have always offered advice especially to younger people on listening to good quality sound. It made me smile when they would come back to me and say I didn't know music could sound like that.
Great Interview Jay, Steve is what an Audiophile TH-cam personality should be, a guy who wants to get others into the hobby and to make those already into the hobby happier in the hobby.
After following one of my TH-cam mentors for about 1 year (The Audiophiliac), it's thrilling to hear Mr. Guttenbergs journey, to were he's at today. Thx for this interview, and it makes me stumble upon this page, and now i'm a subscriber. Cheers from Denmark
Great long form interview with Steve. Really interesting about his transition from CNET to his own channel on TH-cam. Also fascinating about Steve’s desire to recreate a kind of radio/early television relationship with the audience. He has most definitely achieved that. Kudos.
Really great interview Jay and Steve - I almost fell off my chair laughing when he told that story of the couple who had come into the store for a demo ...brilliant stuff guys
What a great listen. Thanks Jay! Steve is such a sweet guy with a lot of experience and is very coherent and considered in the things he says. Really enjoyed listening to you both 🌷
loved this interview.I asked steve to do sort of a autobiography on his own channel but he never came across. I would like it if you took this a step further and interview him again go into his childhood to see what was the defining moment of his love for music that made him the audiophiliac.I remember what mine was.
Great interview. I really enjoy Steve's ability to engage the full spectrum of audio enthusiasts, from engineers to idiots, and do it in an entertaining, upbeat way.Thanks for the interview with someone my age, and the respect you showed him. . good job!
I like how Jay’s studio is filled with acoustic shaping material on the walls and the odd bit of sound absorbing linen laying about. It’s as though it could be used as a laundry space when he’s not making videos.
A most enjoyable video. I am a big fan of Steve, I love his style and his philosophy of reviewing products at low price ranges as well as the higher priced stuff. I agree that it helps to bring in new people to become audiophiles as many people love music but can't afford the pricey stuff. I personally have been a lifetime DIYer starting out as a 13 year old kid building kits not only because they were all I could afford but also to learn about electronics and sound. I have taken the technical route and and have worked in such places as NYC recording studios, the CBS Technology Center, a submarine, and places in the Nevada desert that I can't talk about what I did. But I have been interested in audio engineering my whole life and am especially interested in acoustics and psychoacoustics (how we perceive sound). One thing I have learned about that is that we humans have a very short audio memory, and because of that when we are comparing sounds of anything, the comparison should be done immediately and repeatedly, which increases the sensitivity or acuity if you prefer to any differences, allowing a better comprehension of the differences and increasing the confidence in the judgement of the change. To listen for a lengthy time and then changing the setup to something different and then listening again can only give a general sense of any differences or possibly influence the judgement based on knowledge of what equipment is being heard. Therefore I do not put as much faith as I would like to in the descriptions and opinions of what reviewers say about their experiences. It is unfortunate because it is not that difficult to do a proper A/B test even double blind by comparing the left and right channels of a stereo system with a mono source while the devices being compared are in opposite channels. I would like to see someone take this on and see how much more information can be conveyed and even video the testing.
Wow!!! This was really awesome. Steve is a legend. Thank you for doing this interview. Informative and very entertaining. Cables...Yes!!! My dealer one day handled me these cables and told me: “Here take them home and try then out.” I was like really? (They were $1,200 cables). Well, the dealer knew cause those cables never came back to the dealer and my bank account was short $1,200. Steve - You need to write a book with all your great stories while educating us. Again, thank you for interviewing the legendary Audiophiliac!!!!! Job well done.
This was truly a very engaging and most informative session. I've watched some of Steve's stuff before and I like his style. But, something about this interview and your drawing out such really interesting views and stories from him, was exceptionally substantive and honestly fascinating. At first, I didn't think I would get that into it, but I really enjoyed your interaction with him and I genuinely found this very thought provoking and instructive, thank you!
Great interview indeed. Many thanks to you and Steve for all your hard work in enlightening my personal audiophile journey. Kudos to Steve for contributing to my self-determination as an audiophile which I am since my youth. I had the blessing of father who pampered early my ears with Bang & Olufsen turntable, amplifier and speakers. Now I understand even more why I am chasing great sound and recordings to better enjoy the music I love. My point here is that thanks to Steve, I realised who important is the quality of the recording for an audiophile. I am earring about Dolby Atmos music recording for an improve multidimensional sound not only for the movies but also for the music. This is for me the futur and we should emphasize on getting to the multidimensional level of both recording but also the restitution of the music. More new audio sources are being built with binaural/aural capacity. In my audiophile journey, I am currently amazed by oni-directional speakers such as Bang & Olufsen speakers (even if they are active speakers) and Ohm speakers (which are passive speakers if I am not mistaken). This type of speakers provide, I am told, the most precise stereo imaging over the widest sweet-sweep from any other speakers. Your advice will be fondly appreciated. Many thanks again.
I’m a huge radio guy also. Still listen to analog fm tuner on Cincinnati 90.9 WGUC classical, talk radio on various channels, Cleveland sports (during non-COVID times).
24:14 this is an excellent point because I was considering listening to a pair of Klipschorns, and/or Audio Notes and/or Magnepans and then I changed my mind and realized that I would only go home disappointed with my own gear so I saved my time and am thrilled with the sound of my speakers
I had one in the 70's. The new preamps are way beyond that now, but at the time it was considered one of the better one's. It was certainly the Most innovative preamp by far for its day. Bob is still a top innovator.
Awesome! You guys are always fun to watch. Never a dull moment. I recently notice Steve did an episode of Audiophiliac of the day featuring a female audiophile. I just want to sort of re-iterate that to balance things out there should be more interviews featuring female audiophiles. I am certain there are many, just they just don’t talk about it as much as we men do.
Some of those stories remind me of myself when I was 16. The first thing I did when I got my driver's license was driving from audio store to audio store listening to speakers. That's how I got my JBL L3s
2 experts in one place!! Steve: you and Andrew are the ones who inspired me to finally make a move on some JBL L100 Classics, which is the most expensive set of speakers I own, and Jay, you are the one that has me eyeing up and saving for some Cornwall IV. Keep it up, both of you.
I like Steve’s channel because he’s not always reviewing yet another product to spend money on, but has discussions that you want to listen to when you’re not particularly looking for something new. If I’m not interested in changing headphones for example, I’m not going to watch yet another headphone review.
Thank you Jay! You seem to be on a roll with interviews lately! I say keep them coming! So used to seeing steve on his channel but not many interviews of him. I was surprised you were one of the first. Hopefully more to come! Steve has so many stories that I think her should do a whole interview or episode on nothing but stories related to selling hifi, working at chesky records. I think steve would be able to capture a audience even if it wasn't hifi related lol. Keep reaching out to new and exciting folks to interview! You mentioned you grew up around working in a recording studio. I think this could lead to some excellent interviews. Perhaps with Steve's connections, could hook you up to interview folks doing studio work. Thanks Jay!
Jay....there are no faults with yours or anybody else's system. They are just different. And even though I enjoyed this video with both of you talking and the harmony in the chat, just remember you're the interviewer, so ask the questions. Refreshing either way. Thanks boys. 🎶🎶🎶 *** Oh and as per Steve with a very large collection here, discovering new music is key. And I often find as per Steve finding new things in albums I've not heard in ages. I suspect much has to do with mood, what one has been listening to in recent times and more.
Btw, so glad to hear a younger guy in this hobby, and perhaps the best said: It can be thrilling to hear a budget system. Even though your use too crazy expensive systems, you have to consider the price gap, and therefor be able to give that budget system it's place in the range of affordable systems. That said, i understand the challenge of comparing such systems. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
I can attest that cables do make a difference. Including thicker speaker cable. Nearing the end of the interview as I write this, I'm hoping he can discuss cd's and the hoopla around them. I still have my cd collection (as Steve does too). I wonder if he condones them? Or, does he hold on to them for other reasons?. I like the point he made about getting into streaming for the international exposure to musicians. That never crossed my mind. I have yet to cross that line into serious streaming, but his perspective about "discovery" really convinces me to open up to the idea.
Yes...all of my favorite recordings are well recorded but the band is not perfect. I love it. Like the album cheap thrills. I've read reviews that say Janis is unrefined compared to her later stuff but that's exactly what I love about it.
hi both, thanks for this interview. Steve, if I may, I guess you're even more a musicphiliac as a stricktly audio one, hearing you talking about how your friend was recording with miques 6 feet high.. And this is what makes it interesting listening to your experience with the gears.... I must confess, expecting the last day's judgement on a specific one from your side , isn't the thing to do... But hearing your feel for the one and the other....especially speakers, gives some intersting orientations. So, I would have a question , to both you Steve , and Jay who I heard is fund of drums : for cumbia from the area of Fuente's reccordings, which speakers ? What leads me to a next question : Steve, what about an interview around the world of shirts design ? Or maybe, let's say shirts cloth print design ? I guess you have a pretty handfull of musical matches there.. Thanks for being around Guys !!!!
🤯🤯🤯💞❤️💞❤️💞 First of all both of you look extremely handsome love the new haircut J I don't know anybody who's in audiophile that does not love.. Steve Guttenberg is a audio component God reviewer I really believe you have the power to make or break sales on audio equipment he's been doing this back in the day before TH-cam I am just as young as he is LOL so I know what's out there he says it's good it's good if Steve says it's bad it's bad well anyways I am very happy that you both done this video a big fan of both of you Steve Costello... 👍💪👌🙏🙏🙏😍😍
There's no reason to argue about whether cables or speaker wire matter. This can be *objectively* tested. But don't "listen and decide for yourself" w/o adding controls otherwise placebo can trick you.
I hate the term "!entry level". My love of music and audio led me to study electronics at degree level. The snobbery around the the term means I will never call myself an "audiophile"; for me, loving music means more than merely consuming commercial products.
Back in 1958-ish when stereo was introduced to the masses I wandered into one of the new "stereo salons" to see what was up. Before that it was about radio-phonographs and the old Magnavox. So I went in there and I was alone in the store with the proprietor. I was 14. He proceeded to take me to his demo area and blow me away with my first exposure to stereo sound on some AR2's (I think). But he was really a big JBL fan...and this was back when JBL was a stand-alone company and Lansing was still involved and alive. After I was "sold" on the wonderfulness of stereo he started teaching me about how to build a system. He said...buy the best speakers you can, first, then upgrade the source and the amp as you can...the very same conclusion that Steve says he has lately come to. That advice has worked for me for the intervening 64 years.
I could listen to Steve tell stories all day long.
Yeah rihgt,how he speaks, the words he uses,his voice; the tranquility in it,but with conviction. Very smart man, with a lot of knowledge,of course.
Just the other day I was thinking that no one has ever interviewed Steve before. I'm glad to see this...
Steve is one of the greats.
I think Steve G. has been interviewed previously & he just doesn't remember. Ken Micallef, interviewed him for his channel in April, 2019. I think there were other interviews as well he doesn't remember.
Find the 404 episodes on YT. Great stuff.
Awesome Jay! One of your best. Steve is one of a kind.
Steve is my favorite channel. He’s in my age bracket and has my kind of ear. Also he gets right to the point and they aren’t to long . Fits my attention span
@@moktaabdul6310 Well, then why do we all like him so much?
@@schizogony For some reason it is very difficult for some people to differentiate between something being bad, and them not liking something. I think it is why audio is in the state it is now, people just can not understand that their preference is not the BEST for EVERYONE, so people with differing opinions must be lying or whatever.
Steve G should start a clothing line for his amazing Kramer-esque vintage shirts!!
This is the longest video I ever watch with people just speaking and I didn’t forward a bit. I really enjoyed and keep looking forward to him speaking more.
I have been following Steve for half a year and after watching this interview I truly admire and idolize him like a fan admire a superstar.
Love you Steve.
From Malaysia an 40 plus year old guy.
Very good interview. I used to watch Steve on the 404 show and could listen to him for hours and hours. His passion and enthusiam are contagious. Thx a lot Jay and keep up the good work.
I thoroughly enjoyed this . a big thanks to both of these guys for putting in the overtime!!
one of the coolest reviewer here on youtube
Loved this vid, Jay! It’s about time that someone actually interviewed Steve for a change.
Thank you, Jay and Steve!
Great video, love the watch about his story as i admire Mr. Guttenberg and his collaboration to the music audiophiles and music lovers in general.
Hi Jay this was a really nice interview with Steve And I love all his stories and I think you are or a great interviewer I really enjoyed this and I hope you do more of the this kind thank you very much
Well done Jay, great interview with “the man” in this Hifi TH-cam space. He literally has done it all, been there got the T-shirt, actually many T-shirts 😂
And you! As he says, are the future of this format. Great to listen in to you both chat. Many thanks, Tarun
Thank you Qorax
Thank you Tarun. Quite frankly you are one of the very few that I watch on youtube and that says a lot since I don't even watch mine once its done. I can easily see you surpassing my following in the near future. cheers
Hello to everybody from Italy. Great to listen to you over the internet about our common HiFi passion. You are both the best.
@@Jayiyagi Thank you Jay. Sorry, I only just noticed this on my messages. Keep up the great work 😊👍
@@pierangelobolis440 thank you Pierangelo. It is a great hobby 😊
Played the video for 5 seconds and hit the like button! 👍🏻💯👌🏻
Thanks guys. Love both your channels and Patreons!
It's such a great interview exchange between different generations.......what a great "communication delivery system" for so many of us. Blessings to the both of you......
Great interview, Steve has been involved in audio for a long time. It was his review of Infinity IL10 that made me take the time to go listen and I bought them and soon after bought the matching center and IL 50s for my mains. I have always offered advice especially to younger people on listening to good quality sound. It made me smile when they would come back to me and say I didn't know music could sound like that.
Great Interview Jay, Steve is what an Audiophile TH-cam personality should be, a guy who wants to get others into the hobby and to make those already into the hobby happier in the hobby.
After following one of my TH-cam mentors for about 1 year (The Audiophiliac), it's thrilling to hear Mr. Guttenbergs journey, to were he's at today. Thx for this interview, and it makes me stumble upon this page, and now i'm a subscriber. Cheers from Denmark
A fellow movie theater projectionist/manager here 77-85 in Illinois for Kerasotes. Another fine show, Jay.
Great long form interview with Steve. Really interesting about his transition from CNET to his own channel on TH-cam. Also fascinating about Steve’s desire to recreate a kind of radio/early television relationship with the audience. He has most definitely achieved that. Kudos.
Really great interview Jay and Steve - I almost fell off my chair laughing when he told that story of the couple who had come into the store for a demo ...brilliant stuff guys
What a great listen. Thanks Jay! Steve is such a sweet guy with a lot of experience and is very coherent and considered in the things he says. Really enjoyed listening to you both 🌷
Wonderful stories. Thank you so much for doing this interview with Steve!
loved this interview.I asked steve to do sort of a autobiography on his own channel but he never came across. I would like it if you took this a step further and interview him again go into his childhood to see what was the defining moment of his love for music that made him the audiophiliac.I remember what mine was.
Great interview. I really enjoy Steve's ability to engage the full spectrum of audio enthusiasts, from engineers to idiots, and do it in an entertaining, upbeat way.Thanks for the interview with someone my age, and the respect you showed him. . good job!
Great interview and always enjoy seeing the other side of a reviewer that has a long history in the audio world and Steve still gets excited 😜
I like how Jay’s studio is filled with acoustic shaping material on the walls and the odd bit of sound absorbing linen laying about. It’s as though it could be used as a laundry space when he’s not making videos.
Camouflage, The art of hiding in plain sight.
A most enjoyable video. I am a big fan of Steve, I love his style and his philosophy of reviewing products at low price ranges as well as the higher priced stuff. I agree that it helps to bring in new people to become audiophiles as many people love music but can't afford the pricey stuff. I personally have been a lifetime DIYer starting out as a 13 year old kid building kits not only because they were all I could afford but also to learn about electronics and sound. I have taken the technical route and and have worked in such places as NYC recording studios, the CBS Technology Center, a submarine, and places in the Nevada desert that I can't talk about what I did. But I have been interested in audio engineering my whole life and am especially interested in acoustics and psychoacoustics (how we perceive sound). One thing I have learned about that is that we humans have a very short audio memory, and because of that when we are comparing sounds of anything, the comparison should be done immediately and repeatedly, which increases the sensitivity or acuity if you prefer to any differences, allowing a better comprehension of the differences and increasing the confidence in the judgement of the change. To listen for a lengthy time and then changing the setup to something different and then listening again can only give a general sense of any differences or possibly influence the judgement based on knowledge of what equipment is being heard. Therefore I do not put as much faith as I would like to in the descriptions and opinions of what reviewers say about their experiences. It is unfortunate because it is not that difficult to do a proper A/B test even double blind by comparing the left and right channels of a stereo system with a mono source while the devices being compared are in opposite channels. I would like to see someone take this on and see how much more information can be conveyed and even video the testing.
& I thought Steve was an alien from outer-space.. great video idea-- the community is so proud of Jay. Jay is an old audio soul.
Wow!!! This was really awesome. Steve is a legend. Thank you for doing this interview. Informative and very entertaining. Cables...Yes!!! My dealer one day handled me these cables and told me: “Here take them home and try then out.” I was like really? (They were $1,200 cables). Well, the dealer knew cause those cables never came back to the dealer and my bank account was short $1,200. Steve - You need to write a book with all your great stories while educating us. Again, thank you for interviewing the legendary Audiophiliac!!!!! Job well done.
This was truly a very engaging and most informative session. I've watched some of Steve's stuff before and I like his style. But, something about this interview and your drawing out such really interesting views and stories from him, was exceptionally substantive and honestly fascinating.
At first, I didn't think I would get that into it, but I really enjoyed your interaction with him and I genuinely found this very thought provoking and instructive, thank you!
Steve’s video on not upgrading your speakers changed my perspective on my audio journey.
Great interview indeed. Many thanks to you and Steve for all your hard work in enlightening my personal audiophile journey. Kudos to Steve for contributing to my self-determination as an audiophile which I am since my youth. I had the blessing of father who pampered early my ears with Bang & Olufsen turntable, amplifier and speakers. Now I understand even more why I am chasing great sound and recordings to better enjoy the music I love. My point here is that thanks to Steve, I realised who important is the quality of the recording for an audiophile. I am earring about Dolby Atmos music recording for an improve multidimensional sound not only for the movies but also for the music. This is for me the futur and we should emphasize on getting to the multidimensional level of both recording but also the restitution of the music. More new audio sources are being built with binaural/aural capacity. In my audiophile journey, I am currently amazed by oni-directional speakers such as Bang & Olufsen speakers (even if they are active speakers) and Ohm speakers (which are passive speakers if I am not mistaken). This type of speakers provide, I am told, the most precise stereo imaging over the widest sweet-sweep from any other speakers. Your advice will be fondly appreciated. Many thanks again.
That was excellent!! You guys work well together!!
Steve is one of my audio hero's ,keep on keepin on Steve
This was interesting, entertaining, and great to know more about Mr. Guttenberg.
I've learned so much from both of you guys! Thanks so much---keep up the great work. You're both an inspiration.
I’m a huge radio guy also. Still listen to analog fm tuner on Cincinnati 90.9 WGUC classical, talk radio on various channels, Cleveland sports (during non-COVID times).
24:14 this is an excellent point because I was considering listening to a pair of Klipschorns, and/or Audio Notes and/or Magnepans and then I changed my mind and realized that I would only go home disappointed with my own gear so I saved my time and am thrilled with the sound of my speakers
Amazing video, really! Great to hear Steve telling stories, and also great “driving capability” from you Jay as an interviewer.
I had one in the 70's. The new preamps are way beyond that now, but at the time it was considered one of the better one's. It was certainly the Most innovative preamp by far for its day. Bob is still a top innovator.
Awesome! You guys are always fun to watch. Never a dull moment. I recently notice Steve did an episode of Audiophiliac of the day featuring a female audiophile. I just want to sort of re-iterate that to balance things out there should be more interviews featuring female audiophiles. I am certain there are many, just they just don’t talk about it as much as we men do.
This was great! Thanks for doing this interview! You guys both helped me significantly with getting my first ever hifi stuff.
Very enjoyable to see Steve interviewed, good job!
Some of those stories remind me of myself when I was 16. The first thing I did when I got my driver's license was driving from audio store to audio store listening to speakers. That's how I got my JBL L3s
Great interview. I have been drawn to Steve's channel. It is nice to confirm what a decent guy he is.
2 experts in one place!! Steve: you and Andrew are the ones who inspired me to finally make a move on some JBL L100 Classics, which is the most expensive set of speakers I own, and Jay, you are the one that has me eyeing up and saving for some Cornwall IV. Keep it up, both of you.
I like Steve’s channel because he’s not always reviewing yet another product to spend money on, but has discussions that you want to listen to when you’re not particularly looking for something new. If I’m not interested in changing headphones for example, I’m not going to watch yet another headphone review.
Thank you Jay! You seem to be on a roll with interviews lately! I say keep them coming! So used to seeing steve on his channel but not many interviews of him. I was surprised you were one of the first. Hopefully more to come! Steve has so many stories that I think her should do a whole interview or episode on nothing but stories related to selling hifi, working at chesky records. I think steve would be able to capture a audience even if it wasn't hifi related lol. Keep reaching out to new and exciting folks to interview! You mentioned you grew up around working in a recording studio. I think this could lead to some excellent interviews. Perhaps with Steve's connections, could hook you up to interview folks doing studio work. Thanks Jay!
They're loss is our gain! Steve is the man and have learned alot from him.
Good interview - Steve's stories are priceless!
Great stuff! Thanks for the very interesting discussion.
Trés bien / very well done! Thanks to both you and Mr. Guttenberg.
I really enjoy Steve's channel... but he's a better interviewee than interviewer... really enjoyed this, thanks
Wow, a wonderful interview. Very interesting.
Very nice interwiew👍 Steve is the man 👍 Thomas Mønsted
Jay....there are no faults with yours or anybody else's system. They are just different.
And even though I enjoyed this video with both of you talking and the harmony in the chat, just remember you're the interviewer, so ask the questions.
Refreshing either way. Thanks boys. 🎶🎶🎶
*** Oh and as per Steve with a very large collection here, discovering new music is key. And I often find as per Steve finding new things in albums I've not heard in ages. I suspect much has to do with mood, what one has been listening to in recent times and more.
Btw, so glad to hear a younger guy in this hobby, and perhaps the best said: It can be thrilling to hear a budget system. Even though your use too crazy expensive systems, you have to consider the price gap, and therefor be able to give that budget system it's place in the range of affordable systems. That said, i understand the challenge of comparing such systems. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
Good Going Steve and Jay.
I'm on both of your buzzers.
I can attest that cables do make a difference. Including thicker speaker cable. Nearing the end of the interview as I write this, I'm hoping he can discuss cd's and the hoopla around them. I still have my cd collection (as Steve does too). I wonder if he condones them? Or, does he hold on to them for other reasons?. I like the point he made about getting into streaming for the international exposure to musicians. That never crossed my mind. I have yet to cross that line into serious streaming, but his perspective about "discovery" really convinces me to open up to the idea.
Steve is just the best. You too Jay, both of you are gold in terms of hifi.
Hi Jay from Australia really good video mate with Steve absolutely loved it.
Yes...all of my favorite recordings are well recorded but the band is not perfect. I love it. Like the album cheap thrills. I've read reviews that say Janis is unrefined compared to her later stuff but that's exactly what I love about it.
Steve G. was interviewed on Ken Micallef's youtube channel & I seem to remember others interviewing him as well. ???
Hey Steve, I guess my channel doesn't count? I was the first! Hi to both!
Sorry Pedro, my bad
hi both, thanks for this interview.
Steve, if I may, I guess you're even more a musicphiliac as a stricktly audio one, hearing you talking about how your friend was recording with miques 6 feet high..
And this is what makes it interesting listening to your experience with the gears....
I must confess, expecting the last day's judgement on a specific one from your side , isn't the thing to do...
But hearing your feel for the one and the other....especially speakers, gives some intersting orientations.
So, I would have a question , to both you Steve , and Jay who I heard is fund of drums : for cumbia from the area of Fuente's reccordings, which speakers ?
What leads me to a next question : Steve, what about an interview around the world of shirts design ?
Or maybe, let's say shirts cloth print design ?
I guess you have a pretty handfull of musical matches there..
Thanks for being around Guys !!!!
Great interview! Thx guys
Thank you for this interesting interview.
Loved this interview. Steve is the coolest.
Jay.....great channel by the way - keep up the good work.
Love this ❤️ I think you'll find I suggested it 😺😘🏴
Steve you’ve told all these stories before!! They are good ones.😎
Steve’s comps with products A vs B vs C is fantastic
I don't want to be just an audiophile anymore, I want to be an *Audiophiliac* too! 🤣🤣🤣 GO Steve Go👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Simon, if you want you can be not just an audiophile, you can be an Audiophiliac!
Wow - That was great! Thanks guys
Steve gets it!
Jay...this was GREAT!
Fantastic interview!!!!!!
What a pleasant chat !
Great interview. Steve just "gets it".
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First of all both of you look extremely handsome love the new haircut J I don't know anybody who's in audiophile that does not love..
Steve Guttenberg is a audio component God reviewer I really believe you have the power to make or break sales on audio equipment he's been doing this back in the day before TH-cam I am just as young as he is LOL so I know what's out there he says it's good it's good if Steve says it's bad it's bad well anyways I am very happy that you both done this video a big fan of both of you Steve Costello... 👍💪👌🙏🙏🙏😍😍
Great interview Jay!
since a little humor is comeing forth lets all hope steve never has to move sheww it would take all off us love ya guys
Great stuff Jay and Steve.BC
My sub sounded tighter and cleaner with an upgraded cable. My entire system stepped up to another level with a solid power conditioner.
This is great Jay.
Really nice interview.
There's no reason to argue about whether cables or speaker wire matter. This can be *objectively* tested. But don't "listen and decide for yourself" w/o adding controls otherwise placebo can trick you.
Way to go, Jay!
Steve is such a great guy!!
what are those white panels behind? absorbers?
About the same time White Van Man was born. It was '96 ish?
thank you, ....
I hate the term "!entry level". My love of music and audio led me to study electronics at degree level. The snobbery around the the term means I will never call myself an "audiophile"; for me, loving music means more than merely consuming commercial products.
Remember Tyll saying which piece he liked best in Stereophile....
Thought that Mrs.Audiophiliac might make an appearance - was that her floating around in the kitchen/background?
Fantastic!
Steve, may we know how old you are? One time, you showed your photo when you were in your twenties. You do look like those people in "Grease" movie!