In Reply to: Thoughts on Stereophile posted by dan hirsh on February 24, 2015 at 10:05:35:
have been reading Stereophile since the late 1980's (maybe longer), and also read TAS. Both are pretty good rags, but of course never perfect. With the exception of a couple writers in Stereophile, I've always found their staff first rate. Yet I'll miss Sam, as he was always a warm spot with the average reader. JA, as good as he is, does get a little too technical for me. Yet JA has always responded to questions asked, and has been there to answer questions. So I wouldn't knock him, but be glad we got him.
Talking with a multitude of listeners, one hears a lot. One of the major gripes is simply the equipment reviews. How many folks run out and buy a $125K turntable or a $25K phono stage? Or a $50K monoblock amp? Myself, I wouldn't bother to read about how fantastic somebody's $100K speaker is, because I cannot associate with it. There's a place for this equipment for sure, but is also far remote from most everybody on this forum alone. Now one of the first things I look at in these two mags is the record reviews. TAS is by far the better, and it's not great. Yet I've watched Stereophile go into a seemingly terminal slide with regards to reviews of recordings. One guy there is on the automatic ignore list (yes he's that bad). Yet a couple others are top of the line.
gary
Gary
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- RE: Thoughts on Stereophile - ChesshireCat 13:41:26 02/24/15 (4)
- RE: Thoughts on Stereophile - middleground 05:41:55 02/25/15 (0)
- I think that Stereophile's coverage of affordable equipment is in good faith, and meaningful - John Marks 15:31:22 02/24/15 (2)
- I think this is true. - samtellig 09:59:44 02/27/15 (0)
- RE: I think that Stereophile's coverage of affordable equipment is in good faith, and meaningful - middleground 05:50:03 02/25/15 (0)