From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!hplabs!hpda!hpdb!mt
Newsgroups: net.audio
Title: Audio Magazines
Article-I.D.: hpdb.111
Posted: Mon Mar  7 09:51:53 1983
Received: Thu Mar 10 05:20:13 1983
References: mhb5b.165

I find the following magazines useful:

Audio: Excellent classified section.  The rest of the magazine is
	very marginal.  I have never read a negative equipment
	review.  Recently purchased by CBS, and appears to be
	headed downhill.

The Absolute Sound:  (Quarterly).  Unabased subjective reviews.  Editor
	Harry Pearson farms out review assignments to a staff of 6-8
	reviewers, whose opinions are printed largely intact.
	Disagreements between reviewers occur occasionally.  While
	spending a lot of time on state-of-the-art equipment, this
	is a useful periodical for anyone serious about audio.
	Pearson's personnal reviews are definitely the most reliable --
	the man has good ears.

The Audio Amateur:  (5 times/yr.)  Extremely useful for equipment
	constructors.  Editor Edward Dell Jr. solicits articles from
	readers, including some respected people in the high-end
	equipment field.  In the last three years I have found
	numerous construction articles whose authors attempted to
	correlate electrical performance v. auditory performance --
	always a tough assignment.  A companion magazine exists for
	speaker constructors called "Speaker Builder" (I have not seen).


I am interested in people's experience with other non-commercial magazines.

                                  Mike Tucker
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