fathom wrote:
I find myself spending less and less time on each issue. Down
to about 5 minutes now. Maybe I've just outgrown it, but I used
to read every word. There's just something perverse about a
bunch of paunchy old white guys spewing endlessly about $38,000
turntables.

That sort of stuff is irrelevant to me also. Even if I thought the
high-end gear was good enough to justify the prices, I'd never spend
that sort of money on it. I've got other priorities.

I've subscribed intermittently. I found the music reviews could be
pretty useful and I found some good music via those reviews.

I'm realizing as I write this that I haven't even flipped through SP at
a newsstand lately, so I guess that may me a measure of my disinterest.

Maybe twice a year they write about something I'm
actually interested in.

The thing is, I'm probably the ideal subscriber - I can afford
to buy a $38k turntable if I want one. I don't want one.

I got rid of my LPs many years ago. I suppose I could come up with $38k
if I had to, but I can't imagine buying any gadget at a price like
that.

Given that SP subscriptions are cheap, I may subscribe again
eventually. The only audio mag I subscribe to now is Sound & Vision,
which covers a broad range of audio and video topics these days. My
subscription to that ends this year and I haven't decided whether to
sign up again.

I occasionally buy What HiFi?, a UK magazine that covers a huge amount
of audio and video hardware and is available on larger US newsstands,
but my purchases of that have tapered off.