I recently emailed John Atkinson of Stereophile

Where can we subscribe to these Polish Audio magazines?

Macrojack writes "I went to a gas station recently that didn't sell "regular" gas. The choices were:Premium, Extra Premium and Ultra Premium. Grade inflation"

Reminds me of a story a while back where the Russian Military ordered a bulk supply of condoms from a well known American Manufacturer in EXTRA Large only. maybe wishful inflation?

Triumph, really you must forget about the rating system in Stereophile and think more on the lines of what is is you want to hear in your audio system and match your components accordingly. Stereophile should only be used for 2 purposes, entertainment and sound characteristics of components. The problem with the later is there are few writers that can articulate the differences where one can get a sense of what that might be. It wasn't always like that...once upon a time..

For opinions on the current audio magazine industry, try :

http://www.high-endaudio.com/index.html

or

http://www.audioperfectionist.com/

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I have pretty good experience with the Stereophile reviews except that I find them to be somewhat quality inflated, as some of you suggest. Still, the comments in the reviews are useful and also the rankings are useful, IMO. Sometimes they are flat out wrong, as in the case of Thiel 1.6. They rated it C, whereas other magazines find, as I personally have found, that they are awesome.

Thsalmon it would be difficult to subscribe unless you are eager to pay S&H from Poland and of course know Polish
you can try : http://www.hi-fi.com.pl/ :)