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The Inquisition Continues

>my original note in this section discussed five or six areas
>in which I suggested possible improvements in SF. - You seem
>to be interested only in the blind testing issue, for some
>reason. What about the other suggestions?

I did note them. Some we already do, as Kal Rubinson
pointed out. Some are possibilities, some are impractical.
Any magazine continually evolves in response to market changes
and to reader's changing needs, so maybe you might see some
movement in the directions you describe. Or not.

>Because your readers have been exposed to SF
>anti-blind-test propaganda over the years, I doubt that
>these discussions/letters/surveys are very significant.

There are times when I just need to laugh out loud.
Your arrogamce astonishes me, Jim. So _your_ opinion
carries weight but those of other Stereophile readers
doesn't? I respectfully suggest you think again about
what you have just said, sir.

>Sales figures (reflecting newstand purchases by
>non-subscribers unfamiliar with the issue) don't seem
>very significant.

And again, I continue to be amazed by how much more
those without any publishing experience or hard information
know about my business than I do. :-)

>>shouldn't you be the one answering these questions?
>>For example, when you stated that you "think that most
>>readers would like to see at least some reports of blind
>>testing...,"
>
>John, get a grip on yourself. - This happens to be an
>online discussion group, and, in fact, it's the "Critics
>Corner" secion of AA in which various opinions,
>questions, and viewpoints are supposedly welcomed. From
>the comments about my initial note, there does seem to
>be quite a lot of interest in these issues. Regarding
>blind testing, there obvioiusly are differences of
>opinion. But I'm certainly not the only one with such
>views.

No you are not, but my experience has been that those
vociferously asking for a blind test regime in Stereophile
are a minority of readers and, to a large extent, aren't
even readers at all. I am curious, therefore, why you
feel that "most readers" of Stereophile share your
viewpoint? Why do you think that? Please stop avoiding the
question.

>John, you have done a good job of keeping up the
>circulation of the mag over the years. ( Along with the
>editors of the Enquirer, Star, Sun, Playboy, etc.)

Ah, time to reach for my can of "Troll-B-Gone," I see. :-)

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile


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