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In Reply to: RE: An Open Letter To Robert Harley posted by soundchekk on July 5, 2009 at 01:20:42:
Thanks Soundchekk for your reply. You have raised some very good points.I have been a subscriber to TAS since it first began. I must have been 20 years old at that time. In those days, there were 3 "commercial" audio magazines; Stereo Review, High Fidelity, and Audio. The "underground" magazines were Stereophile and the Absolute Sound. Stereo Review and High Fidelity were pretty much worthless in their audio reviews. If I remember correctly, Stereo Review had over 500,000 subscribers in those days.
TAS was the source for real audio information and great music reviews. HP was the first to turn us on to RCA and Mercury recordings. TAS pointed out how bad early CDs were (Gordon Holt screwed up and liked the first Sony CD player). There was no internet, so we had to depend on great publications like TAS for honest information.
How things have changed! Today, TAS is a pretty picture book with no consistent editorial direction. Its relevancy has become greatly diminished in the internet age. If one wants to know what is going on in cutting edge computer audio, AA is a better source. The old TAS used to have the reviewers of the magazine comment on the reviews written by each other. We certainly get that here.
But as a subscriber, I can't accept total bullshit for my subscription dollars. I can get that for free on the internet.
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