"John Atkinson" wrote in message
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The subject of Stereophile's circulation arose on r.a.o. and r.a.t.
today, the context being how a mainly 2-channel audio magazine can
survive in today's complicated media market.

BTW, one has to act whether this recisitation of the circulation controversy
is just another lame attempt to distract attention from Atkinson's highly
questionable and technically deficient Linn LP-12 review.

http://www.stereophile.com/analogsourcereviews/1103linn

"The measured playback frequency was 998.5Hz, but as I don't know the
accuracy of the tone recorded on the test LP (HFS 81, produced by the late
John Wright for the long-defunct UK magazine Hi-Fi Sound), the 1.5Hz
difference can't be used to judge the LP12's speed accuracy."

Odd Atkinson can't find a test record with accurate tones.

An odd conjecture presented as fact:

"The tonearm resonance with the Arkiv lay at 10Hz; the "shoulders" at
exactly 10Hz on either side of the central peak are due to this resonance.
They lie at -41dB ref. 5cm/s, so it's hard to predict what their subjective
effect will be. Small spurs at ±20Hz, the second harmonic of the tonearm
resonance, can also be seen, but these are 60dB down in level. "

Basically, we're seeing what could easily be horrendous FM distortion being
attributed to a seemingly-benign source.

I'm surprised that our resident worshippers of vinylism such as sockpuppet
wheel have no comment on the horrendous amounts of audible distortion that
this review shows. Given that he lists no other music player in his main
system, one has to wonder exactly how profound the ear damage he must have,
actually is.

"Look over there, cake!".