Suggestion for Amir: Interviews on ASR's Youtube channel

[Keith_W]

Rather than making videos on Youtube all the time, why not throw something a bit different into the mix? Why not interview some well-known industry members? Off the top of my head, I can think of a few (and some of them hang out on ASR!): JJ, Jack Oclee-Brown (from KEF), Sean Olive, Floyd Toole, Uli Bruggemann (Acourate), Bernt Ronningsbakk (Audiolense), John Mulcahy ... just to name a few.

Other forums/channels are already doing this, e.g. AVNirvana has a nice series where they interview various industry professionals. I learn a lot from those videos.

The format would go something like this:

- approach someone and ask if they are happy to be interviewed
- start a thread on ASR soliciting questions
- Amir picks the questions and submits them to the interviewee for advanced consideration
- set up a Zoom call between Amir and the interviewee.
- Post on Youtube

 

[Kremmen]

Nice idea. I'd certainly be up for watching this kinda thing.

Although not a hi-fi channel, I'm a huge fan of Rick Beato and his YouTube channel, which REALLY took off when he started interviewing musicians and producers etc.

I could see the same thing happening with Amir, except on a smaller scale.

 

[respice finem]

Great idea - if Amir can cope with it all - the testing, the forum, the YT stuff...
My "amateur prophecy": maybe later.

 

[just1n]

If Amir were to do that I’d be most interested in the research/academic side. Less so for manufacturer and brand awareness.

 

[Keith_W]

If Amir were to do that I’d be most interested in the research/academic side. Less so for manufacturer and brand awareness.

Same. If Amir managed to score an interview with Jack Oclee-Brown, I would be suggesting questions about coaxial drivers, metamaterials, that tangerine waveguide, and so on. We could really be exploring engineering questions that no other channel, and no other resources even touches on.

 

[ZolaIII]

Guests yes in very wide meaning of it and on topic but no interviews. The member base might surprise everyone and if anyone can do it he can if he wants to do it of course.

 

[DMill]

My only problem with guests is many industry leaders are affiliated with a certain brand. So is the next Amir reco’d review of the MoFi speaker because it measures great or because Andrew Jones was interviewed two weeks earlier? That said, I’ve yet to see Amir have bias in his reviews regardless of whether he liked or dislikes the designer/manufacterer.

 

[PristineSound]

Now that Amir is a distributor of Ascilab, I would like to see an interview of CEO and chief acoustic engineer.

 

[EERecordist]

I think it is a great idea, is a lot, lot, lot of work, and has pitfalls.

I am not famous, but I would expect famous people crave anonymity, particularly in today's world of AI clones of face and voice, as well as stalkers.

The question is, where does ASR want to go, and what does every change/addition to ASR contribute to that direction?

There might be something to be done with posthumously-released interviews of audio luminaries. Usually for this you would hire a local production crew with lighting and professional video and sound.

Interviews today and posthumously-released require a lot of legal paperwork on rights. The AES has some great oral history videos, but ASR is not AES. Maybe this is a better project for AES?

Mix with the Masters does a lot of work with interviews of living mix engineers to promote their wares, assuming with all kinds of legal releases.

In my opinion, today's ASR is fine as a small experts forum providing expert advice among one another and to individuals new to the field. If it grows, it requires more moderation, and the experts exit over noise.

Another direction it could go is to set up an adjacent business, rent the equipment to it, rent some space, hire employees who like lifting speakers, and provide commercial testing services for a fee, booked 24x7, alongside what it does today. Then you get into calibration and traceability. I would like to see a professional microphone testing service, including distortion harmonics with SPL, at a reasonable fee.

 

[amirm]

I have not done a formal study but it seems interviews don't do as well as say, product reviews on youtube.

As is, it is a struggle for me to do videos. Doing interviews takes a lot more logistics so I am currently not motivated to do that, even though I have thought about it.

 

[amirm]

Another direction it could go is to set up an adjacent business, rent the equipment to it, rent some space, hire employees who like lifting speakers, and provide commercial testing services for a fee, booked 24x7, alongside what it does today. Then you get into calibration and traceability. I would like to see a professional microphone testing service, including distortion harmonics with SPL, at a reasonable fee.

I have thought about this but right now, I am worried about stepping on the toes of Klippel US distributor who performs similar service. And has been extremely good to work with. That said, there is a massive opportunity here to both help the entire industry advance its designs and at the same time, help pay for the instrument .

 

[PristineSound]

I have not done a formal study but it seems interviews don't do as well as say, product reviews on youtube.

As is, it is a struggle for me to do videos. Doing interviews takes a lot more logistics so I am currently not motivated to do that, even though I have thought about it.

I don't know. . . Soundstage does a lot of video interviews, I enjoy watching them because it's a lifestyle and a hobby of luxury. As such, it's not just about hardware, it's about the music, it's about the brands, it's about their story, the people who makes the products, how the products came to your living room.

Maybe that's just my interest and it's not reflective of the general population.

But anyway, yeah, it's a lot of time commitment.

 

[DVDdoug]

As is, it is a struggle for me to do videos.

You do a good job of hiding that!

 

[amirm]

don't know. . . Soundstage does a lot of video interviews, I enjoy watching them because it's a lifestyle and a hobby of luxury.

The ones I have seen are paid informationals.

 

[kemmler3D]

I think it's a good idea but not necessarily one that needs to be executed by Amir himself. If the questions are going to be sourced from the membership, anyone with decent audio knowledge, a little background in interviewing, and a good on-camera presence could do the interview. It would maybe be meatier if Amir did it, but it could be done under the ASR banner by others, in theory.