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In Reply to: RE: Television infomercials must drive you completely bonkers then. posted by Bruce Kendall on November 05, 2009 at 09:59:49
I actually don't watch that much TV, plus I'm French and living in the UK. In both of these countries, advertising on TV is not nearly as present and intrusive as it is in the US.
I actually decided to stop reading TAS a couple of months ago. I was just fed up opening the magazine and reading rave reviews every month. I don't know how many "best ever" CD players they're reviewed over the past year but I remember being a bit puzzled... I remember one issue where a rather cheap DAC was qualified one of the best digital replay out there, as was the über-expensive CDP featured in a an another article a few pages later. Didn't make any sense at all.
I also got a general feeling that reviewers were overall less "qualified", or maybe experienced is a better word, than Stereophile's. I have read reviews in TAS of equipment I've owned which were way too generic, superficial, almost amateurish. I.e, I think I would've done a much better done reviewing the equipment in question. I don't have this feeling when I read Stereophile, whose editorial staff is much more solid for me and has earned my respect (not that I agree with everything they write).
Anyway, just to say I haven't looked at the latest TAS!
Jean-Baptiste
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