Remember when Hendrix just plugged into a Marshall amp ... ?

[ShawnC]

I spend about half my time on the web viewing audiophile stuff and the other half guitar related stuff.  A guitarist chasing his tone is as bad as an audiophile searching for theirs.  YouTube is indispensable for this addiction.

 

I do find it funny how audiophiles scuff at the notion of hearing a YouTube video of a music system at a trade show, a dealers show room or a home system.  Where as guitarists just know (without having to retell everyone watching the video) that the video their watching is compressed.  Your getting the idea of the sound which is close, not an exact replica. Good guitar reviewers will do multiple mic settings like DI out, live room mic and speaker mic to give you a sense of what the product sounds like.  Obviously nothing is absolute.