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"Our handy guide to today's best audio products"?
It implies Stereophile is the oracle for the entire industry.
Pehaps it should say "The guide to our favorite audio products" or some such thing.
I don't know...what do others think?
Thanks, Steve
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Hi, Steve,
You construed WAY too much out of that cover line. Relax, listen to some music. :-)
Regards,
Tom
> "Our handy guide to today's best audio products"?Literally correct, notwithstanding your inference.
> It implies Stereophile is the oracle for the entire industry.
Every editor believes that what they do is worth the effort, otherwise why
would they get up each morning. You remind me of the old joke:
"The meek shall inherit the earth - if that's okay with everyone?"
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Edits: 03/29/14 03/29/14
May be you should say, Is it appropriate for the April cover of Stereophile to say...
You question really isn't about right and wrong. It's about appropriateness.
It is only a Guide. The best is what you choose. That way it is a guiding light and a good cover.
Cheers
Bill
One gets tired of criticism for the sake of criticism. It would be better if there were more positive suggestions than meaningless put downs. The magazines aren't perfect but they do a good job and are a valuable service. Would you rather they didn't exist? They're cheap enough to simply not buy if you don't like them.
pubic hairs here. it's not the most blatant thing found on magazine covers these days.
...regards...tr
...the hairs we are splitting are thinner than pubic hairs.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
"All the news that's fit to print" on its masthead? It's been there for 115 years.
..it's marketing 101.
It's certainly not wrong.
It is only their opinion - yours may differ.
Have you looked at magazine covers lately?
For newbie audiophiles, they tend to look upon Stereophile as the "Consumer Reports" of the Audiophile world.
(Their use of meausurements tends to reinforce this view by the newbies.)
You and I, and the rest of the veteran audiophiles, know that the Stereophile reviewers are just expressing their opinion, which is no better, or worse, than our own.
(And, they are paid to provide that opinion via the advertising in their magazine, and so are actually being paid by the manufacturers of the very equipment they are reviewing.)
Whether or not they should use the term "Guide to Today's Best Audio Products" is debatable, but it certainly makes for a dramatic cover!
;-)
...hyperbole on the cover sells magazines.
I think the professional reviewers opinions in the Stereophile and TAS (for the most part) are much better than the vast majority of audiophiles.
Reviewers learn to develop their critical listening skills, optimize their rooms, try different equipment with each product they are reviewing and hear much more equipment than a regular audiophile has an opportunity to.
Anyone can drive a Nascar, too.
Reviewers, in general, live with gear for a few months. Audiophiles, or more aptly, hobbyists, usually live with it much longer. Arguably, things are idenified in longer listening, both of a sonic, and of a reliablility nature in this longer relationship. Reviews occasionaly reference construction quality but reliability is out of their scope.
Additionally, reviewers have their opinions colored by industry relationships, both to the benefit and the detriment of the review.
And finally, a personal issue that may be controversial. I think that being exposed to a greater range of gear is a detriment as IMHO most gear does not play music very well, though it may reproduce sound nicely and this leads to the reviewer adjusting their inner paradigm of what music should sound like to the general sound of the available gear. The hobbyist has the benefit of having the inner paradigm of what music sounds like less colored by the extensive experience with reproduced sound. I know, this one sound wacky.
Personally, I know of several audiophiles whose opinion I value MUCH MORE than any of the paid reviewers.
(And some of the paid reviewers opinions are crap, IMHO.)
(However, I do see your point that a newbie might not know the difference between a seasoned veteran audiophile whose opinions are based upon their experience, versus a blow-hard audiophile who is just professing his love of his own equipment!)
As you can tell, I am pretty jaded by the state of the professional magazines. TAS, and especially Stereophile, are, IMHO, a mere shell of what they used to be. I have found that I can get as much, or more, information online, from fellow audiophiles, (as well as some of the online audio websites, although I do take their advice with a large grain of salt).
My two cents worth.
I think I don't care and don't understand why anyone would. They are just opinions.
-Wendell
"It implies Stereophile is the oracle for the entire industry."
Maybe they are. Why be in business unless you think you are the best.
Nothing wrong with the cover IMO
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