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 ...!hplabs!hpda!mt