Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined?

Not to denigrate the writers I don't list here, but I enjoy the heck out of reading Robert Harley, Michael Fremer, Tony Cordesman, Julie Mullins, and Robert Deutsch. John Atkinson can be a little too methodical & cautious for me, but I appreciate his scholarship & knowledge. In any case, I have no problem with the current crop of Hi End commentators.

Then again, I guess we'll never replace Hairy Person's gushy, "Ooohh! Dusty's voice this!" "Dusty's voice that!"

@sfgak 

You're hired!

And oh yeah -- I enjoy the rags' record reviews. If a review goes on and on about how excellent a recording sounds or how brilliant the music/music-making is, I'll go straight to Qobuz or Idagio and cue 'em up.

As ghdprentice sez...  In any event, I might have already said this but I have  so many stereo mags scattered around my listening room they could almost be considered acoustic treatments. I'll pick one up at random and read an article I've probably already read a dozen times. What can I say? The rags have targeted me with laser precision.

Currently listening to a CD quality stream of an obscure chamber music piece from obscure 19th Century female American composer Amy Beach on Idagio. Enjoying the heck out of it. Romantic, wistful, and full of melody. No complaints. Mellow out dudes!

@alpha 100 --

Amy Beach, Piano Quartet in F# Minor.

Ambache Chamber Ensemble.

On Chandos Records. Idagio website.

In defense of all the ho-hummers on this thread concerning the similarities between the audiophile rags, the covers of a couple TAS and Stereophiles I got  recently could well have been Mike 'n Ike. Hilariously similar. A three-quarter view of a tall, skinny speaker topped with a strange eye-like tweeter assembly. To the left of the speaker -- rectangular, silver-colored separates (okay, there was just one separate on the TAS cover) sporting a rectangular black glass cut-out on the face.