Different sound tuning for different markets / continents for the same product?

[Nationalizer]

I just saw this old video and I just think it's wrong on so many levels.

If this is a marketing video, it's very bad. NO ESD grounding, opening it on the carpet and not the right soldering tip.

Also, what if I want the ORIGINAL sound? Not to mention all these will MEASURE differently. And I'm sure other brands are doing it.

 

[pozz]

What the hell prompted that decision...?

 

[JJB70]

It's BS marketing with some rather unpleasant implications IMO (we have better taste in sound and our ears work better than the inferior tastes and ears of lesser people).

 

[Nationalizer]

It's BS marketing with some rather unpleasant implications IMO (we have better taste in sound and our ears work better than the inferior tastes and ears of lesser people).

I would very much trust the original designers more than two guys not knowing how to use the solder gun.

 

[Fluffy]

"The sound concept is musicality, or to be more specific – the quality of low frequencies, the straightforwardness of response, and the authenticity of sound."

wat

 

[VintageFlanker]

I just saw this old video and I just think it's wrong on so many levels.

If this is a marketing video, it's very bad. NO ESD grounding, opening it on the carpet and not the right soldering tip.

Also, what if I want the ORIGINAL sound? Not to mention all these will MEASURE differently. And I'm sure other brands are doing it.

The comments beneath are even more hilarious than the video itself... Hopefully, few pointed the obvious BS. Love the answer of some:

 

[Juhazi]

OMG this is from the official Yamaha Music Europe channel! Makes me to stop buying "Natural Sound" gadgets from Yamaha! But who to trust anymore...

 

[LeftCoastTim]

This Is just the symptom of Yamaha understanding their target market.

100% of audiophiles I’ve met in person were placebophiles.

Manufacturers know that. Some try to fight it. Others join in.

 

[Soniclife]

They are going to look stupid when someone does research that shows that different regions actually like the same sound. Oh wait, news not just in.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...s-of-blind-testing-procedures.1254/post-46083

 

[pozz]

Kevin Voecks from Harman says no: