I wish Stereophile would do more to attract a new demographic. The last time I checked they had about 80,000 subscribers. That is not enough audiophiles to support healthy audiophile hardware and software industries.
I find it sad that there is so much great audio gear made by people who put their hearts and souls into producing it and so few people who are even aware that it exists.
I don't want to start an argument with people who prefer vinyl, I hope that you always have plenty of analog gear and LPs to choose from, but the future of audiophile audio is not vinyl.
Stereophile should be devoting a lot more coverage to server systems and high res downloads. These topics are hardly mentioned in Stereophile and TAS.
You should know exactly what you need to set up any one of a number of server systems and exactly how to do it from reading Stereophile or TAS. Not the case though.
They should also be working with the major record labels to get them to make high res downloads available at reasonable cost. I don't think anyone at Stereophile even knows anyone from the major lablels or what their plans for a high res format are.
So the result is that audio manufacturers and sellers continue to struggle to survive and we keep waiting for a simple server solution and those high res downloads of music we actually listen to that have been right around the corner for years but never get here.
If the audiophile press doesn't wake up the high end has a tough future ahead.
I find it sad that there is so much great audio gear made by people who put their hearts and souls into producing it and so few people who are even aware that it exists.
I don't want to start an argument with people who prefer vinyl, I hope that you always have plenty of analog gear and LPs to choose from, but the future of audiophile audio is not vinyl.
Stereophile should be devoting a lot more coverage to server systems and high res downloads. These topics are hardly mentioned in Stereophile and TAS.
You should know exactly what you need to set up any one of a number of server systems and exactly how to do it from reading Stereophile or TAS. Not the case though.
They should also be working with the major record labels to get them to make high res downloads available at reasonable cost. I don't think anyone at Stereophile even knows anyone from the major lablels or what their plans for a high res format are.
So the result is that audio manufacturers and sellers continue to struggle to survive and we keep waiting for a simple server solution and those high res downloads of music we actually listen to that have been right around the corner for years but never get here.
If the audiophile press doesn't wake up the high end has a tough future ahead.