Originally Posted by: dlwalke Unfortuneately, and I don't know if this is my old ears or the fact that I am listening through small headphones or what, but on these and other videos that compare this and that, I often can't hear any difference even though I do see other's comments expressing strong opinions about pickup A, for example, being much brighter or whatever than pickup B.

Same here. For me I have a minor hearing impairment (which doesn't seem to get better as I grow deeper into middle age) so I usually can't tell much of a difference in video reviews. Even in the cases where I can hear the difference I usually could not say one is better than another after watching someone play the different guitars/amps/fx pedals/etc for a few minutes on youTube . Maybe if I had a lot of experience with listening for certain things it would be a little different but I don't know enough to know what sounds good really. Plus, the dudes (almost always) doing the demos are usually good enough to make just about anything sound good!