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In Reply to: RE: HIFI+ is one beautiful magazine posted by standingstones on January 09, 2015 at 19:52:52
We don't run any reviews between the two titles now, and after about 2010, exceptions to that rule were generally because something massively catastrophic went wrong with the scheduled review on one or other side of the Atlantic. IIRC, the last one was one of Neil Gader's reviews that we ran in Hi-Fi+ because the UK reviewer was too busy doing something trivial like having emergency surgery when he should have been filing his copy. What a lightweight!
Sharing content was an experiment in cost-saving that didn't play well on many levels. Despite all our indicators suggesting the crossover in readership between TAS and HiFi+ was very small (less than two per cent of our total combined readership), and despite extensive rewrites to bring the reviews into house style, the shared content idea simply didn't work, and was dropped. In all honesty, the state of the world in 2009 (when we started experimenting with shared content) was very different to the marketplace of 2015, and some of the financial concerns that necessitated Hi-Fi+ having to borrow words from its big brother no longer exist.
However, we are using some reviewers across both titles, but they are not writing about the same products. They also need to be able to write to the very different styles imposed by the countries we both spring from; typically UK reviews are more concise and irreverent than US reviews, as befits a country that gave the world Top Gear.
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit
Follow Ups:
Not when it comes to Linn.
Cheers
Bill
Really?
I distinctly remember writing that Linn, "makes great sources, good amplifiers... and it also makes loudspeakers" a couple of years back.
I think that was pretty irreverent.
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit
Sorry, Alan. I missed the classic understatement. You are gutsy and of course a very good Editor and writer.
Regards
Bill
Happy New Year! Alan. I really enjoy your publication.
Thanks!
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit
Alan,
one more suggestion- even though DAC(s) are the flavor-of-the-month, keep reviewing CD/SACD players!
If you keep buying them, they'll keep building them, and we'll keep reviewing them. It's as simple as that.The problem is not enough people are buying them now. Which is why at CES last week, new CD/SACD players were very thin on the ground; the only one I saw was Le Player by Metronome Technologies, although I'm sure there were others. This makes reviewing new models a bit difficult.
One small chink of light though; the Philips CDPro12 and GF8 transport mechs are still available! I thought they had disappeared from the market altogether.
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit
Edits: 01/13/15 01/13/15
I have always wanted to demo the Metronome line of spinners.
Whom discovered the intel on Phillips transports/laser assemblies?
"I have always wanted to demo the Metronome line of spinners.
Whom discovered the intel on Phillips transports/laser assemblies?"
Sorry for the delay. The press week of doom (including the two-week long Christmas and New Year shut down in the UK followed by CES) got in the way.
As if by magic, the first line of your post is the answer to the second. The new Le Player looks interesting. It's in Metronome's lower cost line up. 'Lower cost' is a relative term, though.
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit
Are you saying Metronome has the "stash" of transports/drives?
I would have figured that Sony or Pioneer would have accumulated the last remains...
No, I'm saying stocks have not dried up. At least, not yet. There might even be a company building the Pro transport under license, although that's very unconfirmed, and subject to a lot of translation error.
I thought this last to be impossibly unlikely, as there's allegedly not enough people left in that division of Philips to know what to license, but perhaps persistence paid off. Or as I said... translation errors. Time will tell.
Pretty much every company that makes a player with a Philips-based transport mechanism has a lock-up full of them somewhere, now.
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, Lun-duhnn, Ingerland, innit
I sure hope so- Alan. I always thought it was a ploy for a company like Philips to not license anyone else (whom desired) to make these transports/laser assemblies. It is criminal is the stocks are truly gone...
OTOH, a company like Sanyo, whom makes the drives for Primare, could be positioned to do good here. There is always a market for "modding" to lend a helping hand.
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