Here's the thing about headphone and speaker live listening demos: they are not inherently representative of the real-life sound of the items being shown. This is due to the fact that you've got several layers of fidelity loss and coloration between the headphones and the viewer. You've got whatever coloration your microphones have, you've got whatever the audio processing does to it when you encode the video, you've got what Youtube does to audio when you upload the video, and more importantly you've got the fact that it will be colored and defined by what the viewer is listening to it on. Important things to remember, right? But here's the thing: if you are able to provide a common point of reference and you are comparing multiple sets then you can offer people the sense of involvement in the video, enhancing their parasocial experience, by providing sound demos that allow them to hear how certain sets compare to others. While this may not be seen as a positive in the audiophile community, for the general public it makes for a far more enjoyable video with significantly improved engagement.

If you go with Linus systems design your logo could be a tablet and your slogan could be our builds are trippy

PCI 7?

Yeah, I’m gonna go play games on my PCI4 and you can just go away for 20 more years 😂

That Segway lol

Regarding the controversy over Labs potentially posting audio samples demonstrating relative headphones results:

I'm a professional audio mix engineer and I've been a professional musician for about 20 years. For example, I knew the instant you guys started posting audio performance graphs that your engineers were using REW long before I saw it on one of their workstations in a subsequent video.

Anyway, all that is to say the professionals are right, Linus. Do not post audio comparison samples, relative or not.

You're right in recognizing that simple, very-obvious differences in headphones voicings should translate and would be of some value. A good example of this that you guys already do is playing Crab Rave on various laptops to compare speaker performance on the Short Circuit channel. Despite the fact that it's being picked up by a mono boom mic, you can kinda tell things like "Oh, that one sounds a bit more full-bodied," or "Oh, that one sounds a little bit deeper," etc.

However, I can tell you as an audio professional that your average consumer is not going to have trained their ears or their perceptual awareness to know what relative differences they should pay attention to and what they need to ignore. Most of the detail in human hearing comes from the midrange frequencies, yet most people are only concerned with "Treble" and "Bass" – and even the former is kinda rare. It's just not feasible to expect average people to be able to use such a tool to do anything but misinform themselves.

Imagine a scenario in which you're making a video comparing the color accuracy of two monitors by showing footage of a series of colored purple chips displayed on both. Then you say, "Wow. Look at how off Mauve is on the one on the left! Terrible performance! ***Disclaimer: our camera shifts +3 red, and your viewing environment is completely unknown."

What is your viewer supposed to do with that information? If they like the way the one on the left looks and they buy it based on that, what are the chances they're going to get those results in the end? What are the odds this tool actually ended up being counterproductive in the end?

If you're going to try such a thing, you need to really hold people's hands throughout the process. Perhaps by isolating the relevant frequencies when comparing them and notching out ranges you don't want them focusing on (although hello, phase coherence issues). It all seems like more trouble than it's worth all for something of marginal utility to non-experts.

Also, nobody will pay attention to a disclaimer. They'll just think, "Oh, they just don't want to get sued somehow, " before proceeding to do exactly the thing you've just told them not to do.

hanks lot Sir.. You helping us..

man its too bad that technologies like ⚡️are proprietary with licensing fees and have made it difficult to make sweet pluggable docks that can ridiculously accelerate "simulaneous" creative and AI training workflows…

…i mean options today require desktops and/or bulky hardware hacks only to use gpus with a completely Nerfed "# of simultaneous encode streams" that the hardware is perfectly capable of handling…

39:40 Luke nooo, now anyone can use your voice!

Let's talk about naming. FloatPlane ???

Lol, Linus, modest much? High profile influencer?

Thank you for making geek, sheik.

Not only have you provided content worthy of your generation and prove that under 35’s can do amazing things and extremely ethically. Make-up, yoga pant video shorts, MGTOW, and PUA was ruining YouTube’s ability to turn legacy media on its head with such trite and garbage content. You and your group has proven repeatedly that intelligent and well edited content is desired.

I don’t know a thing about you or your history but from what I can gather you lifted many people from post studies poverty to making a living or at least lifestyle in content creation. You and your core group deserve any and all success that comes your way.

Classmate with Luke at BCIT from 2011 to 2013. I remember him biking to school and wiping out. Shows up to classes and exams with a cast on his dominant hand. The whole class felt so bad and everyone offered to help type, write, code, (mouse) click for him. I am very happy to see you do so well and become very successful. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. All the best and prosperity to Luke and co., and everyone at LMG.

If it is intriguing to you, you won't be forgetting it easily

haha, count me in if you want a local team for whaleLAN East (somewhere in the GTA / southern ontario)

it was the first galaxy fold that taking off the screen protector broke it they fixed it in the fixed 1st version
i took off screen protector on the z fold 2 and z fold 3 there are no issues

Im not liking how much power arc uses and performs worse than my 1050ti (power to performance)

Speaking of headphones, I feel like sharing my risky buds purchase. I've had ugreen buds, samsung magic beans and liberty airs. Was on a lookout for new buds and almost bought edifier ones since I love their speakers, but ended up buying barely anyone has ever heard of – Between pro. They look awesome, sound best out off all and won a lottery for perfect fit. This is so weird that bud maker I've never heard of managed to make something that sounds better than competition who have been in the audio game for decades, just mind bending for me