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I used to enjoy LTT as an entertainment channel but I never watched it to gain any insight on the parts they covered. This is a great breakdown of why they cannot be trusted, and it’s really sad to see Linus continue to die on the hill.
LTT, and the LMG empire, are very much in a similar category to MKBHD in terms of what they are “capable” of. Mostly qualitative reviews with light benchmarking but done in a way that highlights the common use cases for products. And with the occasional fun zany bit.
The difference is that Marques doesn’t pretend he is running a giant warehouse full of testing equipment. He’ll run a few benchmarks, get a few numbers out of an app, etc. His interest is not the “objective” quality of the samsung phone but instead its performance in cases that his viewers would care about.
And that was LTT until a year or two back. Most of their videos were either fun builds (which also highlight the parts that “just fit” everything) or quick reviews with some benchmarks from a few games. And there is nothing wrong with that. They go a bit overboard (because it is funny), but GN’s prebuilt PC review series is almost exactly that (by design).
But ever since LMG tried to push themselves with “Lab”, there have been pretty much constant errors because all these test processes they are developing in house are… bad. Like, I was curious when they did the ear model test so during gaming night I asked a buddy to ask his wife (she actually works for one of the bigger headphone companies as a designer) about that. Not sure how much PII I have leaked so I won’t do a verbatim, but her general response was “Nobody cares about that when they are listening to spotify” and “The people who think they do are the same ones who give a shit about psychoacoustics”.
And same here. A lot of this shit is incredibly basic. But it is the kind of problem that comes from going from 0 to 30 without ever trying to coast through a parking lot.
I used to enjoy LTT as an entertainment channel but I never watched it to gain any insight on the parts they covered. This is a great breakdown of why they cannot be trusted, and it’s really sad to see Linus continue to die on the hill.
LTT, and the LMG empire, are very much in a similar category to MKBHD in terms of what they are “capable” of. Mostly qualitative reviews with light benchmarking but done in a way that highlights the common use cases for products. And with the occasional fun zany bit.
The difference is that Marques doesn’t pretend he is running a giant warehouse full of testing equipment. He’ll run a few benchmarks, get a few numbers out of an app, etc. His interest is not the “objective” quality of the samsung phone but instead its performance in cases that his viewers would care about.
And that was LTT until a year or two back. Most of their videos were either fun builds (which also highlight the parts that “just fit” everything) or quick reviews with some benchmarks from a few games. And there is nothing wrong with that. They go a bit overboard (because it is funny), but GN’s prebuilt PC review series is almost exactly that (by design).
But ever since LMG tried to push themselves with “Lab”, there have been pretty much constant errors because all these test processes they are developing in house are… bad. Like, I was curious when they did the ear model test so during gaming night I asked a buddy to ask his wife (she actually works for one of the bigger headphone companies as a designer) about that. Not sure how much PII I have leaked so I won’t do a verbatim, but her general response was “Nobody cares about that when they are listening to spotify” and “The people who think they do are the same ones who give a shit about psychoacoustics”.
And same here. A lot of this shit is incredibly basic. But it is the kind of problem that comes from going from 0 to 30 without ever trying to coast through a parking lot.