Steve Guttenberg Q&A session with the San Francisco Audiophile Society
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2020
- Steve Guttenberg is the prolific creator of the Audiophiliac TH-cam channel, which currently has over 150,000 subscribers. Previously, Steve wrote the Audiophiliac blog for CNET.com. He has written for The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, and many other audio publications.
Steve also worked for Chesky Records as an Associate Producer.
This session was entirely devoted to Q&As from SFAS members and Steve graciously continued fielding questions after his intended time slot had ended.
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Steve hit it on the nose, 10/10 when he said, "The review is only valuable when the viewer develops his relationship with the reviewer over time," so beutifully and simply said!!! That is, after listening to Steve's, Sean, Thabarma, Ron, John, Andrew, Thomas' Review, and you go out and buy those reviewed products and then gauge it for yourself. And if their descriptions matches what you've experienced, then the product review is valuable. And over time THAT REVIEWER is trusted and valued. That's absolutely true for me, and I believe also for many audiophiles.
I don't know if I call myself an audiophile but I couldn't stop watching this video well past my bedtime.
Thanks for this, extremely interesting. Steve is a true legend, I love his sense of humor and his intelligence, he has a great take on things. He’s a cornerstone of the audio world.
Thank you SFAS. Very interesting interview,and thank you Steve for doing it.
I really enjoyed this segment. I somewhat agree with Steve's point about George Harrison did not hear what he recorded.Back in the day when I was a young man I was in a local stereo shop.Wall to wall equipment. I Don't recall what the speakers were behind me but al of a sudden Lou Rawls was there singing right behind
A dreamer of pictures............Great Q&A.
The closest I got to an ultimate truth was visiting a friend after he retired from Armstrong Studio (largest in Australia). He had their Tannoy Arderns that they replaced and we listened to some tapes he’d engineered starting with a reworking of Up, Up and Away he made for the TAA airline and some tracks that ended up on one of Leo Kottke’s records. These were tapes dubbed direct from the master tapes, so pretty damn good. Even now I still have to control myself I’m so tempted to purchase the newly re-engineered Arderns. I don’t really need them; what I have are really good. I will almost certainly have a pair of Voigt pipes made to run a pair of full-range Tang Band drivers to satisfy my curiosity and they will cost me about 10% of what the Arderns would. Back in the 1970s and 80s I almost always had home-made speakers.
I am a Chicago Audiophile but San Fran dreaming. Spending hours listening to SFAS Q&A sessions with EveAnna, Herb and many other characters and geniuses. Enjoyable and insightful into Steve's Audiophile and musical world. Steve's knowledge, passion and enthusiasm is infectious and is the reason of his success. Good Entertainment! Thankyou SFAS.
Your best yet.highly entertaining . thx
Today i learnt that i can listen to Steve talk for hours....
For the first time the penny dropped regarding my enjoyment of your reviews Steve. You’re focussed on what’s
Steve was spot on ! If you listen to music in a dedicated manner ie not multitask , = Audiophile
An interest in Classical music is a great gift for an Audiophile.
I used to do the same experiments with radio static when I was a kid, what an amazing memory and coincidence that Steve did this too.
Thank you Steve and the gent from SFAS that recommended the floor decoupling device for speakers on a slab floor. I have a ground floor listening room 20x25 with 20" concrete floor that rests on 50 foot piles to granite. My house is on the side of a cliff by a river with loose soil so it has to sit on piles. I thought there would be no vibration in the massive concrete structure. Today, I put some dense foam packing material about 3/4 inch thick under the castors of the speakers. The speakers are large and easily 200 pounds. The floor has wall to wall carpeting, so I put the decoupling material between the castors and the carpet.
Always informative, thanks!!
Terrific conversation, smart fellows, things that need to be considered, thank you!
I love the honesty here
Really interesting point about the attraction to high end audio is the personal connection with the passion of the founders. Many of us value knowing Nelson Pass or Shawn at Dru or even Dave Slagle who winds transformers. It is similar in the super/hyper car world. In the early days, Ferrari and Lamborghini were characters. Now, Horacio Pagani shows up at car meets in California. Christian von Koenigsegg is an icon who comes and spends time with enthusiasts and talks about his passion for innovation. And similar to high end audio, the influencers are less magazines like road and track and much more focused on young TH-camrs like Tim Burton at Shmee150.