Audionote discussion

[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