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In Reply to: RE: If that is the case, I wish him or them the best of luck. posted by John Marks on February 09, 2008 at 07:32:35
The conservative estimate (7,500) is probably more accurate. I suspect there is a growing subscriber population or both publications that don't even know who JGH or HP are and what they accomplished.
However, I would disagree that HP's potential readership is limited to a subset of subscribers to current high end publications. I would give anything HP or JGH published a try, even though I haven't, nor have many of my audiophile friends, subscribed to any to high end publication since Listener ceased publishing.
While I had subscribed to both TAS and Stereophile since the early 80's, I, and many of my friends, simply lost interest in both publications in the late 90's. While there were a lot of reasons for this, one reason was they both became less interesting than they were in the 80's when they had a more hobbyist feel, e.g., reviews on "modded" equipment, reviews on equipment from little known manufacturers, occasional DIY articles, etc. Listener filled that void for awhile.
A second reason was that the reviewers, with a few important exceptions, lacked JGH's and HP's rigorous approach. Based on the reviews that were published when I was still a subscriber (and the occasional review I read at Borders), most reviewers have less knowledge of the equipment (from an engineering standpoint) than myself, and based on their recommendations, worse hearing.
As a consequence, there was/is no reason for me to subscribe to these publications. However, if HP or JGH started a new publication that was more like the old TAS or Stereophile (which, by their nature, have a much smaller audience), I would at least give it a try. I'd even give TAS and Stereophile a try if they had at least one reviewer who actually knew who Lynn Olson and Kevin Carter are and discussed their designs.
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