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With word that the magazine's circulation is declining...

This "word" is a lie, Mr. Morein, circulated by a corrupt, deceitful
loser.
Please see the thread "Magazine Statistics" (with the latter word spelled
in a rather more fanciful manner) for the hard data.

John, I didn't mean to tweak your nose by repeating a lie.

Not a problem. Yes, Stereophile's circ has declined slightly. With
the state of the economy over the past 3 years, the massive competition
for 2-channel audio from other leisure interests, the sucking sound as
flat-panel TVs use up people's disposable income in the past 9 months,
the lack of good new music, and even the fact that Americans work
longer hours now than they have for generations, are all factors that
a magazine like Stereophile has to cope with. It would be surprising
if Stereophile had not been affected.

But it does not mean that the magazine is about to go under, as Arny
Krueger has implied. BTW, I forgot to mention competition from the Web.
What is interesting in that respect is that www.stereophile.com now
has 200,000 unique visitors per month, many times that of the print
magazine. The demographics of those readers are also interesting, in
that they are younger than print readers.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile