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In Reply to: RE: Stephen Mejias bids farewell to Stereophile posted by Sprezza Tura on March 28, 2014 at 20:54:01
He was the only young reviewer among the ancient, and I mean ancient, current writers!
Who wants to only read 65 to 70+ year old's opinions?
What about opinions on, or reference music in reviews, recorded after 1990 or 2000?
All the other, old writers, do not listen to current music.
There is some good, recent music out there, but you will not find much at all for the under 50 crowd, yet anyone much younger, in Stereophile!
How do these readers relate to the reviews?
Stereophile is an "old man's" magazine!
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"Who wants to only read 65 to 70+ year old's opinions?"
Duh? it's not their age per se, which impacts on their opinions but one reaches an age at which their hearing acuity simply doesn't allow for 'golden ear' type distinctions and reporting. IMO if JA had an ounce of credibility he'd send them out to pasture.
I pretty much agree with you on this.
Yeah, these guys are old, but they're not suffering dementia. What you've shown is prejudice, not criticism. The trend towards portable audio is driven as much by economics as it is by culture or technology. Yes, there is some good NEW music out there, but I'm not sure that ANYONE (including Mejias) is talking about it.
FWIW, Mejias gave very interesting, if sometimes superficial, reviews of products while promoting his own tastes (and band), and documenting his personal (and romantic) life. It was a nice twist on things, and we will miss him. And at least he didn't go to work for Bose.
Question: Will Miss Little follow him out to the West Coast? All you old farts stay tuned to watch As the World Turns...
The new good music out there (90's and 2000+) is discussed on most music forums.The analog era and before, ended in the early 80's, which is were Fremer, Dudley, and others all reside.
I am talking people in their 30's and 40's, not teens or college age.
People that grew up in the 80's and 90's.
People with jobs that own home audio systems.
They are left out, and not marketed to by Stereophile.
Stereophile is aimed squarely at the senior citizen over 50 crowd!
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I'm under 50 and love S'Phile.
Well said actually..maybe he won't be moving to La La land..and be a "man about town" for AQ. These days sales positions are not reliant on location.
If he does move, it will be brilliant, screw these winters.
More likely he'll be moving to China. That's where they make most of that crap.
Yes but generally old men are the ones who can spend $100k on stereo systems - the 25 year olds with money are sleeping at Apple and microsoft and working on video games to care about which tonearm to put on a Thorens.
It's primarily a stereo equipment magazine not a music review magazine. Indeed, the stereo magazines are about the only places to read about "geezer" music.
Your comment is nonsensical.Sphile has reported the tthe average reader owns a $15,000 system. Far, far below
your arbitrary 100k number.And does not one need music to evaluate stereo gear?,Or perish the thought, test tones are better.
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One guy has a $200,000 system, two others have a $10,000 system. Average of those system would cost over $70,000. Meaningless bs, if not purposely deceptive.
I totally agree it is meaningless. The 100K number was something RGA pulled out his rear. I just thought IF one was going to throw some "average" number out it should be the one Stereophile actually claims is correct (15K), unless I am mistaken with that figure. Although that is what I remember.
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Here is what I wrote "Yes but generally old men are the ones who can spend $100k on stereo systems."If you look at overall wealth of the U.S in age groups you will likely see that boomers possess the most money as a group. I never said that the "average Stereophile subscriber spent $100K." That is something you invented - that is called a straw man.
Old Rich, mostly white, men talking about equipment and geezer music FOR other old rich, mostly white, men.
The music at most audio rooms are painfully boring - Diana Krall playing in at least 5 rooms on each floor all the time - Hotel California (Holy 1970s Batman) continuously being played. Krall is at least current but really probably because she shows some leg and she's attractive enough but not too attractive that the old geezers think they'd have a shot with her if they met her. And because it's well recorded that trumps music "quality" any day. I have a bunch of her albums too - she's good but hardly worthy of that kind of play to virtually the exclusion of everyone else who ever sang a song. There will be more Krall than Ella played at an audio show - ??
And Don Henley and the Eagles did actually record other songs but you'd never know that at an Audio Show. I'll take anything else in a "New York Minute" over hearing bloody Hotel California for the 9 millionth time!
And reading about yet another re-release of a re-release gold edition double pack download of the Beatles or Fleetwood Mac or Mahler is frankly cringe-worthy.
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Based on the two Diana Krall albums that I have, I wouldn't say that they were particularly well recorded. More like, over processed and compressed. I'd rather hear Amanda McBroom. It was recorded better.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Same applies with $15k. Don't know too many 20 year old's putting $15k in their home stereo. Nor is it likely their first choice of music is any sort of classical music.
Bingo.....
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