"Rusty Boudreaux" wrote in message

"Powell" wrote in message
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Given the rather conspicuous reliable evidence
that I've got considerable empirical experience
with these and many other amps, one is tempted to ask
what the heck are you ranting about, Powell?

Rubbish. Talking about amps is not experience.
We all know you've not subscribed to any audio
magazines in the last 20 years... so you're not
even well read on the subject.

Thanks for the best laugh I've had all day for suggesting that
magazines will keep you "well read".

I like the juxtapositioning of a true statement:

"Talking about amps is not experience."

With his apparent claim that reading about amps would somehow mitigate this
problem.

Reading between the lines Powell is very proud that he reads about
amplifiers, LOTS!

What Powell is missing is the obvious connection between the data on my web
sites and intimate and continuing contact with the amplifiers that it is
attributed to. Amps tend to have technical and in some sense audible
signatures. It can be possible to falsify a claim that detailed technical
data came from a certain amplifier. I wouldn't risk that.

Although I subscribe to several print magazines they are really
worthless.

Case in point TAS, which I was a charter subscriber to in my more gullible
days.

By the time a review is published the product is
usually darn near obsolete. I can't remember how many years it's
been since I read something first in an audio mag.

Ever since you started surfing the web?

Q&A is
instead usually Q & wrongA. Feature articles usually miss the
mark even if they aren't scientifically flawed. I've kept all my
mag subscriptions through the years except Stereophile which I
failed to renew a few months ago.

That's how it happened with me.

My colleagues and I took great
enjoyment from the gut busting laughs Stereophile offers every
month.

Indeed.

For awhile, we made Top Ten lists for each issue and put
them in the humor email list. In the end it just got boring
laughing at the same stuff issue after issue no matter how
outrageous.

Agreed.

I'd like to see a poll of how many true audio professionals get
trade rags. Even including free subscriptions I bet the numbers
are quite low.

I think that there is plenty of evidence that Stereophile's magazine sales
are shrinking at a rate that should and probably does greatly concern
Atkinson. I've heard that Atkinson admits it privately. He might even admit
it publicly. Ironically, I don't think his inadequacies as an editor and
reviewer are the sole cause. Demographics are against him.

The best market information I have suggests that 2-channel audio is dying
pretty rapidly, HT is still rising strongly and probably will continue to
rise as it is closely tied to the switchover to HDTV, that aftermarket car
audio is stagnant but strong, that audio without available video will
languish and eventually die out; and that extreme portable audio is back as
the hottest new thing after languishing for years due to the commoditization
of the Walkman.