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the audio critic for you. i highly recommend you read the amplifier reviews. you can really learn a lot there.
...regards...tr
P.A.'s attacks and negativity were a huge turnoff, even if he was right about some of it.
And the issues never arrived "on time", if at all.
still, the online availability of the back issues is a nice thing...a much needed corrective to some of the ridiculous marketing copy in the glossy emags and monthlies now.
;^/
...regards...tr
Just got a subscription after say 5 years.It was a big disappointment.
It is clear they just care about selling magazins these days. If they do a comparison on a similar piece of gear (the breifness of the reviews don't allow this. Brief to offer more ads?), it is very "soft" if one is clearly better. I seem to remember the old Taz not pulling so many punches.
I especially thought the review (OK, 3rd party brochure) of the Mirage omd 28 to be funny at times. Like when the reviewer talks about how impressive it is that the 28's images take place BEHIND the speaker. I guess it is a maggie thing, but my god this is not at all impressive to a maggie owner (which I must imagine a good part of their readers are, or are at least familiar with this) DOes this reviewer ever get out?
I don't know, maybe this isn't fair, but it did seem to be a dumbed down version of what was a great magazine.
Maybe they could do a TAZ premium addition that didn't have ads in them, but had honest comparisons? I wouldn't mind paying say $50-$100 for a hard hitting mag that wasn't controlled by the need to have adds.
Aside from the fact that the design and paper quality are rather significantly superior to Stereophile's...we'll give TAS that - they certainly know how to use white space and plenty of it...
Here is TAS in its entirety. once you read this you will never have to read TAS again.
Here is a TAS review by Wayne Garcia:WOW, this preamp is tops in my book. Wilco sure sounded so much better, so much more real, so much more there with plenty of air. This time Wilco sounded the best, better than it did the previous 200 times I mentioned them as sounding the best ever. Let me give the entire company an award.
Here is a Fred Kaplan review:
Sorry, you'll have to go to Stereophile for this one.
Here is a Jonathan Valin review:WOW, this ridiculously high priced speaker XX, which I will now keep without paying for until the next even more expensive speaker from one of those expensive speaker companies sends one my way, sure sounds the best to me now. Definitely my newest new reference. Let me now write an 'essay' on it as well so HP can tell me what a brillant essay I wrote. Hey good friend Joe Blow, go ahead, you can borrow the Karmas now. Whoops - careful Joe Blow, if you go on ebay disguise your tracks! And I'll want a ride in the new car of course. Oh, and BTW, here are some quotes from a Michael Frmemer review. Is that guy dumb or what? He actually pays for the stuff out of his own pocket. What a rube!
And the Pompous One Himself:I have finally arrived at what is the best sound I've ever heard in Sound Room 10 here at Sea Cliff. It was as if there was no Sea Cliff, but merely God, my good friend God, singing down to me in his melodious voice from the heavens. Or rather, let me say that God cannot sing 'down' to me as I happen to exist equally at his level, so perhaps the right way to position this new standard is to say it is as next to God himself and myself as one can get - though of course you, dear reader, are as likely to attain this level as a fish is likely to escape the fishing net - so I am really simply wasting my time providing this information to you. Perhaps next time I may go int more detail, but as you are not truly worthy of the insights, I may not. I cannot as yet reveal the name of this new wonder of the age - so few of us are so priviledged to hear it and we like the suspense it generates in the lower classes. In fact I may never reveal it. My 13 assistants, each of whom now specializes in one particular type of connection and equipment type here at Sea Cliff, have all been sworn to secrecy as well. But, should you desire to come to Sea Cliff and you have the requisite 2 cases of Chateau Lafite 61 in hand, perhaps, but only perhaps, I will, dear and trusted peon (copy editor note: change 'peon' to 'reader' for publication)allow a brief glimpse (but only a reflection from a mirror - I can never allow you to see the actual product itself as you are not God enough for that) and perhaps a brief listen to its glorious sound from this vestibule you are standing in, for 2 seconds (1 second per case of Chateau Lafite 61 is a true and fair period of time). Anon dear reader, anon, be gone peon, be gone (note to copy desk: change all instances of 'peon' to 'dear reader' for publication).
And last, the esteemed editor's Note from Robert Harley:
Hey, I admit I listen to an iPOD when I'm at the airport. Duh, don't you? Hey, and how about those Blue Ray and HD DVD wars? What's up with that? And while I'm at it, let me tell you something else about the Wilson Watt Puppy - but hold on, no need for me to write something new, let me just provide another couple of pages to reprint from my book in the accompanying sidebar. Cool, eh? Another entire issue put to bed, and heck, I never even had to get up from bed to do so.
The publisher and owner is truly lost...truly lost.
10 points!
...what issue were they in?LOL!
Nice job of capturing their essence.
HP is going to continue to publish music reviews as protest until he gets some satisfaction?LOL
That one review about the piece where he used toothpicks to keep his eyelids open was priceless!... let's hope he didn't have to shell out for that CD (oops, SACD).
ROTFL
You got the inside scoop Man, now get busy and keep us entertained!
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
is hysterical. Thanks for a much needed laugh.
Let my subscription lapse about two or three years ago. Of course, the subsequent barrage of renewal offers began to pour directly thereafter along with (suprise) the odd unexpected "bonus issue" showing up in the box every now and then. The price began to spiral downward on successive offers 'til it went from something like $42./six issues to $20./10 mags coupled with the "...try one free with no obligation and cancel if not satisfied..." gig. These guys were almost as persistent as the Tempur-pedic nazis and finally, I took the bait. Well, naturally the subscription bill preceded the trial issue by two weeks but it ultimately showed.It took all of 15 minutes to remind me why I'd bailed the first time. The endless superlative ravings of a certain notorious used cable salesman who must invoke every musical term in the glossary in every review to feel he's done his job, the general 200 page lovefest with all DUTs by the staff in general and the familiar, bloated style of prose of his audio eminence himself, intact and on serve. Why go on? So I happily posted the subscription offer back to the roost without payment and a note indicating that there would be no need for further correspondence.
I'm sure they'll miss me too.
total crap.
Like I said, you know nothing more about a component after enduring the whole review.
Is he the wine writer also or was that someone else? Actually it might have been Gindi.
is that when I'm finished reading a TAS equipment review, I do not know any more about the component than before.
"Essence of lilac with a hint of oak"
Yeah okay.
"Essence of lilac with a hint of oak, fruity but not queer"
:)
or maybe you're not fruity enough!
(nt)
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