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I submit it's because people realized they had little to offer. They
never slammed products, they had few or no DIY projects and they always
repeated the new-is-best and the-authorities-are always-right lines.
Who wants to pay to read such tommyrot?

Well actually, they used to give some negative reviews. Or at least "damn
with faint praise", so you could figure it out. Having said that, it well
might be that just about all "high end" gear or even top end mass market
gear is just pretty darn good nowadays. Even Absolute Sound raves over some
Sony models.