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Requesting feedback for headphone reviews

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Just a quick poll for you guys, or at least those who read our headphone reviews :)

I was wondering what are your thoughts on the Spotify song samples in the audio performance section of my headphone reviews. I'm talking about this:

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sennheiser/HD_660_S/4.html

Would you prefer if I used YouTube videos of the songs I'm referring to, instead of Spotify preview clips? Or you don't care either way?

I use high quality FLAC files of the songs mentioned in my reviews but I figured it would be nice to include their samples, as not everyone will know all of them. I could really use your input in order to find out if you fine people prefer Spotify previews or full YouTube clips.

Thanks in advance!
 
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If you can get the same high quality recordings from YouTube that would be my preference. Not that I care for one service over the other but I would like to be able to use the same recordings to use for comparison with my own headphones and potential purchases.
 
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No changes please. The current way is perfectly fine.
 
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