Skylabs Audio Did it AGAIN! They Used MY Photo in one of Their Videos!

February 26, 2026

#537

Gentle reader,

Back on August 19, 2025, I was watching the latest episode of Skylabs Audio, one of my favorite YouTube channels, when I saw an image I took in MY listening room. It had been altered, but it was my speakers in my room. That was article number 519. Here is a link to that article: The Robb Collections: Skylabs Audio Featured MY Image in Their Video about 9 Speakers! And, if you are Skylabs Curious, here is a link to their YouTube channel: Skylabs Audio - YouTube And, for the record, here is the image they used, unaltered: 

More on this picture and others from that same day, down below. 

Well, he did it again! Within THIS video: 10 Expensive Stereo Mistakes I'll Never Do Again - YouTube I watching and agreeing with what he was saying when all of a sudden, there was MY system! At least what it looked like back in September, 2018. Here is a photo of HIS video, on my TV, paused at 10:42

You can see the black frame of our LG 55" HDTV and the wall behind it in this image. And here, is the actual photo. It is from the same date, and in fact, the same The Robb Collections article:

I left a comment on HIS YouTube page, but, I doubt he read it. All I asked was that he CREDIT The Robb Collections as the source of the images he uses which belong to me. I do not want money, I don't made any money from these articles. I do this for fun and you like to read them which is all that I ask from my readers.

This image, the one he used and altered to use in a video about the Advent Baby Advent speakers. This is the far wall of what was once the "master" bedroom of our modest home. We essentially, all we did after all the kids STOPPED moving back in, was paint the room brown, add some moldings and designated it as our Den. We moved our TV in from the living room, the Stereo remained in the living room. I wrote about it here: The Robb Collections: The Transformation from Den to Audio Man Cave. In many crazy steps! 

I had started with the system on the left wall and the speakers on the far wall. I had decided to add a SECOND system, this for SACD 6-channel playback. So, I found a nice old Teak cabinet which I used to hold the stereo power amplifier and the SONY components to play music in surround sound. This was in 2012.

Those were still the halcyon days in which almost every visit to a thrift store yielded all kinds of speakers and audio equipment. Of the ten speakers in this image, only the BOSE 301s still remain. Why? The sound surprisingly good and Nancy bought them for me. In fact, none of the electronics remain either.

Back to the image used by Skylabs Audio, above, I like to take images of the rear after I have made component changes and roll the heavy table out into the room. I was running 1990's (Panor-ear) Dynaco equipment at the time.

I had a very lucky find in Goodwill, one Wednesday many years ago, when I saw this enormous two-piece shelf which was made in Denmark and for holding LP records. It was only $99! It is quite deep and it was to my right (when in my chair) and I felt crowded. So, I decided to move it front and center and move the system to my right.

Longtime readers have followed my adventures in music listening and have seen this current image before.

I stopped using the Advent Baby Advent speakers and started using another $99 find (that time on eBay) a pair of Dynaco A25XL speakers! The other speakers are the first Klipsch speakers I have found in the wild. They are KG4 models. They were $10! Also, the speaker stands are in fact bamboo STOOLS. They both match their speakers perfectly.

 Ah, the system was much simpler back then.

A closer look for you.

Oh, just in case you might be wondering what the Skylabs Audio's altered image version of my (then) system looked like for that video. 

Do you remember those books for kids which had two pictures side-by-side, where you had to find what was different in one of them. See how many things YOU can find that Skylabs Audio did to change my setup to make their image. Leave your answer below in the Comments.

Thank you So much for taking the time to read my article! Your doing so is THE reason that I keep writing.

Scott Robb

#537