Stereophile - Thank You !

Mikado463

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Got my latest issue of Stereophile last week, nice to see them return to a larger format :congrats:
 
After your post I compared the Jan 2022 issue to the Dec 2021 issue, and the latest issue is a bit larger. However, it appears the font is the same size, but the ad pictures are bigger.
 
I still have a handful of the original which was half sheet size and very infrequent in publication schedule. If I remember right Gordon was located in PA back then.
 
Mikado463 said:
Thanks Mike, I've been part of that journey for the past 42 years. While I subscribe to both Stereophile and The Absolute Sound, overall all I believe TAS to be (at times) overly subjective. I guess I like JA's 'measuring narrative' !
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me since 94'. so 28 years....both mags since then, and agree with your take. JA's and Gordon's perspective different than Harry's.
 
I really like both of the mags but stopped subscribing some years ago. I liked reading them for entertainment and to see what components have either sound flaws or operational flaws. Many, many moons ago I assembled a system of Class A and Class B rated components. It was one of the worst systems I have ever had. Then I figured out how to match components. For example, bright speakers are bad. Dark sounding amplifiers are bad. However, they could be awesome if you put them in the same system. That's why I giggle when I read reviews about how this or that component is neutral and sounds great. My take on the whole thing? Nothing is neutral and everything matters in a system. Cheers all.
 
I have subscribed to Stereophile continuously since 1975 (with some issues bought at news stands - remember those? since 1970) and TAS intermittently over that same period. I subscribe to both now only because I want to support the concept of high-end audio and those 2 periodicals continue to have the highest profile in this country. Too many of those to which I previously subscribed have vanished into the halls of history (e.g., Ultimate Audio, Fi, Listener, The Audio Critic, International Audio Review, and a few others) and some non-US mags (UHF, HiFi+, HiFi News, to each of which I have subscribed in the past) seem too representative of their principals' POV's.

In the end, the value of "reviews" of high-end audio for me depends entirely on the reviewer and what I know or have learned of his/her audio "tastes"; the ones I can relate to are few and spread across the emags currently populating the Internet. I suspect it is the same for many of us here.
 
I still have a box full of the digest size stereophile rags from the 80's and 90's. I wouldn't bother to even try to read the print anymore. I subscribe still even though I get the same content free a few days later it's still a fun ritual to sit in the listening chair and spin up the songs they select for reviews as I read.
 
Daverich4 said:
Jim Austin said that they were having problems sourcing the size paper they were using and the wider paper they switched to was easier to get.
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Interesting, Stereophile is now approx 1/4" wider than TAS but a 1/4 " shorter .........
 
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