Audionote discussion

[GMichael]

Dark chocolate - yuck.

jc

Just have a big glass of milk near by. It's all good.

[RGA]

Yeah but then you have to agree on the milk - chocolat milk, 2%, whole, Lactose free, skim, or that pink milk that passes itself off as strawberry.

[GMichael]

Yeah but then you have to agree on the milk - chocolat milk, 2%, whole, Lactose free, skim, or that pink milk that passes itself off as strawberry.

Oh my G.d! Life is so complicated. I should end it all. But what way? Jump off a bridge? Throw myself in front of a bus? Oh, I know, listen to music until I die of old age!

[Bernd]

Hi,
I agree with RGA on his last post. I too was a magazine subsriber for many years and that did influence me in the past. I did change when a good dealer friend of mine meet me at a HiFi show and pointed out how some manufacturer handed over a suspicious looking envelope to a well known reviewer. Subscription cancelled.
I am now only getting HiFi+ which to my mind is the best read around. No silly tests or tables, just info and great in depth reviews.
My present system has been bought solely on listening. And you are right some dealers will sell anything to make a sale. It is veery difficult to find a true honest dealer who put's the music first. I am lucky to have found one of those.
Chocolate ahhh. My son eats that horrible milky stuff that passes itself of for chocolate. My vice is "Valrhona" anything by them.
But then each to their own. I never even tried to convert him. I learned the hard way people like what they like.

Enjoy the music

Bernd

[theaudiohobby]

Hi,
I agree with RGA on his last post. I too was a magazine subsriber for many years and that did influence me in the past. I did change when a good dealer friend of mine meet me at a HiFi show and pointed out how some manufacturer handed over a suspicious looking envelope to a well known reviewer. Subscription cancelled.
I am now only getting HiFi+ which to my mind is the best read around. No silly tests or tables, just info and great in depth reviews.

HiFi+, good prose, poetry and pictures but as a magazine for accurately capturing the sound of equipment, if fails completely. It is also very inconsistent, a trait it share with Hi-Fi Choice which is none too surprising since they share a number of writers. Personally, I think that Stereophile runs rings round both magazines when it comes to the business at hand, that is, describing the sound of a component. I hate ambiguity and there have been times that I almost feel like screaming in anger whilst reading HiFi+, it can be damn annoying when writers resort to self-contradictory poetry, of which Roy Gregory is a big culprit.

Ethics, I do not know enough and as a rule I do not subscribe to the grapevine, much too unreliable for me.

[Bernd]

That's exactly what I was talking about. Here are two of us and both have different opnions. I tried Stereophile and it is not for me. I also read for years HiFi News. I have stopped, as in my opnion, it has gone completley "Tabloid".
I like Hifi+ but it is used here purley as reading matter not in any shape or form will it influence my buying decisions.
I don't believe in Gossip either, and I need to see or experience anything before I act.

Enjoy the music

Bernd