Which Home Theater Magazine?

[funked up]

Should I subscribe to a Home Theater Magazine, and if so, which one?
I've been thinking about this recently, but really have no idea where to start looking for a good one.

 

[Seth=L]

audioholics

 

[Bryce_H]

you already do - audioholics!

 

[Joe Schmoe]

If a magazine contains a review of an exotic cable or a component rack, I cannot take anything else they say seriously, either. These days, that pretty much rules them all out.

 

[funked up]

audioholics

Well yes, I love this place, tons of good info. But, just wondering if there are any paper magazines worth getting delivered to my house. There must be a bunch of people on this forum that get them.

 

[Halon451]

What more do you need to know that you can't find out here?

 

[Halon451]

Well yes, I love this place, tons of good info. But, just wondering if there are any paper magazines worth getting delivered to my house. There must be a bunch of people on this forum that get them.

I don't subscribe to any magazines other than Popular Mechanics. Once in a while if I'm at the newsstand and I see a HT magazine with an interesting article or review I'll go ahead and pick it up. Makes for good reading on the sh**ter.

 

[no. 5]

I find Home Theater Magazine to be a fun read. Stereophile is good for measurements (and nothing else! ).

 

[funked up]

What more do you need to know that you can't find out here?

Your right, there prob isn't anything I couldn't find out about home theater on this forum. Just thought getting a magazine might be neat, especially if there was one allot of people liked. The more I read the more I find that there prob isn't. So I'll just screw that idea and subscribe to Hustler.

 

[Biggiesized]

So I'll just screw that idea and subscribe to Hustler.

I think that covers the range of emotions I felt after reading this post.

 

[Halon451]

Your right, there prob isn't anything I couldn't find out about home theater on this forum. Just thought getting a magazine might be neat, especially if there was one allot of people liked. The more I read the more I find that there prob isn't. So I'll just screw that idea and subscribe to Hustler.

There ya go, now you're using your noggin.

 

[MUDSHARK]

Should I subscribe to a Home Theater Magazine, and if so, which one?
I've been thinking about this recently, but really have no idea where to start looking for a good one.

I subscribe to Home Theatre magazine for my son. For those that have lives or actually work at their office and cannot hang around AH all day it is very layman friendly. Not sure what exotic cables have to do with home theatre magazines but whatever.

 

[Exit]

Maybe you should change the question to what websites are the most usefull in learning about products besides Audioholics. I will start with the three below:

AVS Forum
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/

Sterophile
http://www.stereophile.com/

DBS Talk (Satelite Systems)
http://www.dbstalk.com/index.php?

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Not sure what exotic cables have to do with home theatre magazines but whatever.

Simple. To review exotic cables is to imply that they make a difference. This completely undermines the magazine's credibility.

 

[funked up]

Maybe you should change the question to what websites are the most usefull in learning about products besides Audioholics. I will start with the three below:

AVS Forum
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/

Sterophile
http://www.stereophile.com/

DBS Talk (Satelite Systems)
http://www.dbstalk.com/index.php?

Those are good sites, I have used a couple of them to reseach things in the past. I was asking for magazines though, because I do not have internet at home, only at work, and while I do have some free time to use AH, I try not to spend to much time on here as I do like my job. So it would be nice to get my home theater fix once in a while at home(besides the actually use of my home theater that is)

 

[davidtwotrees]

Simple. To review exotic cables is to imply that they make a difference. This completely undermines the magazine's credibility.

I look at it like junk mail from the post office. I think the post office does a great job delivering the mail. It costs less than 40 cents to mail a letter anywhere in the US. But the freaking junk mail sucks. Does the fact that the postal service prostitutes itself to junk mailers make me refuse to use their service? Nope. Without junk mail, it would cost triple what it does to mail my letter out.

To review exotic cables is to imply that the magazine makes a profit off the cable companies.Print media are having a hard enough time of it.......I like stereophile magazine, cables or no....

 

[Warpdrv]

I think that would lend itself to the thought of instead of spending the money on magazines, to just get yourself internet for your home..

You could educate yourself further and have a great deal more flexiblity in the information you choose to indulge in..

To me its the largest source of reading material available to the human race...
I can't measure how much education I have gained... hehhe or lost with the Internet...

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I look at it like junk mail from the post office. I think the post office does a great job delivering the mail. It costs less than 40 cents to mail a letter anywhere in the US. But the freaking junk mail sucks. Does the fact that the postal service prostitutes itself to junk mailers make me refuse to use their service? Nope. Without junk mail, it would cost triple what it does to mail my letter out.

To review exotic cables is to imply that the magazine makes a profit off the cable companies.Print media are having a hard enough time of it.......I like stereophile magazine, cables or no....

Bad analogy. The post office in no way endorses junk mail by delivering it. Magazines do endorse cables by giving them a positive review. In many cases it is the same reviewer who will provide an opinion about a speaker. Accepting their conclusions is like taking a movie suggestion from someone who liked a movie that I hate.

 

[3db]

I like HomeTheater magazine myself because they review such a large variety of components, interview people in the business, show whats up and coming.

I purchased March's edition and learned that the latest Panasonic BluRay DVD player will pass true HD_Dolby digital and its DTS equivalent out thru its HDMI port. Thats the kind of information I find useful.

The subjective part, I don't pay much attention too.

 

[davidtwotrees]

.... Accepting their conclusions is like taking a movie suggestion from someone who liked a movie that I hate.

That's just black and white thinking. If Ebert reccomened a movie and I didn't like it, your logic suggests I would never watch another movie he reccomended.

I don't obsess over the speaker cable thing. It seems like a deal breaker for a lot of folks here. I've moved past it. There is a lot more to this hobby than denouncing people for something as silly as speaker wire.