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In Reply to: RE: The Sensible Sound mag - what happened? posted by jim nj on June 24, 2009 at 18:02:34
I was an initial subscriber to The Sensible Sound, same for The Audio Critic. However I soon gave up on both as I found I learned very little from either one. But I guess someone had to carry on the traditions of Stereo Review and Julian Hirsch. As one wag put it, Hirsch offered two useful bits of information - the component dimensions let you know if you had enough shelf space and the weight indicated if the shelf was strong enough . . .
At least TSS was not guilty of promoting their own products without disclosure like TAC did.
Growing old is hell related former youth.
The equipments found tops in their reviews in the first few issues are still considered great.Quad,Rogers,Vandy,DCM,Dahlquist,Bryston,AR et al.A great pity what happened later to TAC.
...subjectively reviewing 23 different preamps in a single issue. Even though he annointed one king that no one had heard of over the SOTA Levinson.
Then he became ethically challenged with his Fourier louidspeaker and gave it a rave review without mentioning his ownership.
I suspect he used subscribers money to partly bankroll the speaker company. How sleazy is that?
When Fourier went bankrupt and he began publishing TAC again after 7 years, he was an angry, bitter old man with a vendetta against the audio industry.
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