A/V magazines

[murl]

Which ones do you guys like to read? Which has the best reviews?

 

[bandphan]

Audioholics and CE Pro

 

[GlocksRock]

Sound and vision is pretty good.

 

[dgshtav]

Another vote for Sound and Visions.

Home Entertainment and Home Theater are the other mags I read.

 

[Nemo128]

I'll read pretty much any of them, including the corporate whoring ones, since any viewpoint and information on a product could be meaningful or useful.

 

[jamie2112]

EQ, Mix and Live sound...

 

[3db]

Stereophile provides the most complete measurements on loudspeakers I've seen from any other magazine.

I read Home Theater, Sound&Vision and a few others that I can't remember off hand.

 

[majorloser]

Home Theater
CE Pro
Ultimate AV
Home Theater Design

 

[john72953]

Dare I say The Absolute Sound? (LOL). I also read Stereophile and a few others, including the occasional British magazine.

My fave read though is UHF Magazine.

John

 

[OttoMatic]

Stereophile provides the most complete measurements on loudspeakers I've seen from any other magazine.

That's right, and it's always interesting to see people bash Stereophile for its reviewers' subjective comments without giving credit to those measurements and the insight and comments from John Atkinson regarding those measurements. While I don't really care to defend some of the nonsensical blatherings of some of those reviewers, there are many salient discussions within that magazine, and to completely dismiss it is cliched, I believe, as throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[davidtwotrees]

I subscribe to Stereophile and HT magazines. Otto hit my feelings spot on. Sure, there is subjectivism in the reviews. Does that mean that I long, yearn, and pine for some Nordost Valhalla interconnects, or some mapleshade myrtlewood tuning blocks? Of course not. Stereophile exposes me to gear that I WOULD NEVER SEE OR HEAR OF. And as to the total dismissal of subjectivsm.........I like some romance left in the hobby. It's not all about ohms and measurements and watts. I just want my music to sound good, and my video to look sharp.

 

[MidnightSensi]

Stereophile. I like reading the measurements, but also enjoy seeing the designs of some of the stuff they get in that magazine from a aestetics point of view.

I also read DJ Times, Mixmag and occassionally Computer Musician.

I will sometimes read the Audioholics reviews, but, honestly I think they could be a lot better. It needs measurements and also some of the products they raved about I went out of my way to demo and they turned out to be underwhelming.

 

[majorloser]

Stereophile is worthy of thumbing through at the newsstand. I just don't bother spending my cash for the mag.

I prefer the sister magazine Home Theater. Though I wish they would have kept their rating system.

 

[Scarriere]

Sound & Vision and Home Theater. I liked UHTM, but some of their staff went to HT so it's all good.

 

[Geno]

I've read Stereophile and Absolute Sound for many years. They both offer in-depth reviews of recordings and equipment you won't see anywhere else, especially the higher-end stuff. I always marvel at the way otherwise intelligent, well-educated writers fall off the wagon when they start describing the "sound" of insanely priced power cables, interconnects, and speaker wire, as well as other gadgets too absured to be taken seriously. ("Shakti Stones", "Brilliant Pebbles") To me, it casts doubt on their rationality, but I still find plenty of useful information. You just have to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Of course, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong

 

[Phil Taylor]

I haven't bought a magazine in years - I get my info online nowadays.

 

[Alex2507]

You just have to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Of course, that's just my opinion...I could be wrong

I don't think you're wrong but why can't they just be right?
Here's a link to an old thread I started a while ago:

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42305

 

[3db]

I don't think you're wrong but why can't they just be right?
Here's a link to an old thread I started a while ago:

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42305

They can't be right becuase it doesn't pay as well???

 

[davidtwotrees]

Didn't want to start a new thread............
In letters to the editor in this month's issue of Stereophile there is a really good letter from a 30 year old guy that really lays out our objectivist beliefs and just trashes stereophile for the subjective mehthods as well as their perpetration of the whole analog/tube myth, as well as the snake oil game with cabling.........pretty refreshing to see that in print there..................of course, this letter was followed up immediately by a 25 year old that was just gushing about how great analog was..........

 

[skizzerflake]

Didn't want to start a new thread............
In letters to the editor in this month's issue of Stereophile there is a really good letter from a 30 year old guy that really lays out our objectivist beliefs and just trashes stereophile for the subjective mehthods as well as their perpetration of the whole analog/tube myth, as well as the snake oil game with cabling.........pretty refreshing to see that in print there..................of course, this letter was followed up immediately by a 25 year old that was just gushing about how great analog was..........

I have read these mags on and off over the years and I never cease to get a chuckle over their cognitive dissonance. These are people who get get rhapsodic about a gadget that heals their electricity or a cable that accentuates emotional expression, while they state that doing a double blind test of any of this stuff doesn't allow them to fairly evaluate these devices. Now and again, some publication does a double blind. I recall one where they tested speaker wire and compared Romex cable (the stuff that runs electricity inside your walls) to several brands of $100/foot wire that had been washed in baby tears (or something like that). The Romex won. The audiophile press was up in arms that the test wasn't fair. I guess the reaction sold some more magazines, but it was a metaphor for the extreme audiophile mentality.