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

I remember Audio, Stereophile and TAS as an older teen getting me excited about music reproduction and technology. Getting out to listen to speakers and find gear I could afford to take me to music Nirvana.

I still like the gear, still like talking about it, comparing tech, sharing experiences and advice, but I can’t remember the last time I really thought "wow, that’s good writing!"

How about you?

Has too much press devolved to covering only the most expensive gear?  Do we lack better international gear coverage?  Does it all look like it could be easily written by an AI chat bot?

erik_squires

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fdroadrunner
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Thanks so much for the ChatGPT responses; those are actually entertaining.

The fact is that all print media is in its sunset (even if it only published as a PDF), and I would say that a lot of discussion about audio has moved to YouTube and online forums like this one, which allows the general public to be a larger part of the discussion.

With the rise of vinyl, people are caring about how they listen to music, and most of them are less than 30, which means there is a market for an online publication which reviews $500 turntables, not $5,000 cables.  On online publication which focuses on that market would seem to be a good idea, or maybe somebody is already doing it and I just don't know about it.

P.S. When I want to read someone who really knows how to put a sentence together, I turn to Raymond Chandler.

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