Most reviewers are getting paid to encourage you to buy the product they are reviewing unless you go to a small channel.
Many haven’t heard enough headphones or auditioned them long enough to give you an honest review.
This might be obvious, but any youtube video title that ends as a question is clickbait and probably going to give you misleading information.
For e.g. “Is this the best headphones for 200!?”
Why avoid these.
Reason 1: The best is purely subjective
Reason 2: unless they have heard everything for 200, how would they know
Reason 3: They are really so great, then just say, " x headphone is great value for $200 bucks"
I’ve been in this hobby for about 10 years or so now. And have spent (wasted) a lot of money chasing the best sound. The only way to know is to demo yourself and see if you like it if you are unable to, then i suggest you compare multiple reviews to get a broader opinion as well as learn how to read frequency response curves and find the curve for a pair of headphones you like, this will act as a base for comparison.
For E.g, your headphone measures with a lot of bass, and you enjoy it. If another headphone measures almost no bass, you probably won’t. It’s an oversimplification, but you get the idea. However, fr curves aren’t everything they are a rough idea of how it will sound not if you will like it.
Most reviewers are getting paid to encourage you to buy the product they are reviewing unless you go to a small channel.
Many haven’t heard enough headphones or auditioned them long enough to give you an honest review.
This might be obvious, but any youtube video title that ends as a question is clickbait and probably going to give you misleading information. For e.g. “Is this the best headphones for 200!?” Why avoid these.
Reason 1: The best is purely subjective Reason 2: unless they have heard everything for 200, how would they know Reason 3: They are really so great, then just say, " x headphone is great value for $200 bucks"
I’ve been in this hobby for about 10 years or so now. And have spent (wasted) a lot of money chasing the best sound. The only way to know is to demo yourself and see if you like it if you are unable to, then i suggest you compare multiple reviews to get a broader opinion as well as learn how to read frequency response curves and find the curve for a pair of headphones you like, this will act as a base for comparison.
For E.g, your headphone measures with a lot of bass, and you enjoy it. If another headphone measures almost no bass, you probably won’t. It’s an oversimplification, but you get the idea. However, fr curves aren’t everything they are a rough idea of how it will sound not if you will like it.
Best of luck.