Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!!

Lucky for you George!
You can continue to let test equipment judge how audio gear sounds for you.

Yes, that in conjunction with listening, repeated and measured over and over if necessary is the only way to get the best.

"snake oil" voodoo should be kept out of it, as most of it is only praying on the technically challenged, hoping they’re gullible enough to spend the big bucks on cheap fancy lable’d rubbish that does nothing.

Cheers George

All is good JA's still kicking, we've still got the bench tests and measurements.

Sorry voodoo'ist for getting your hopes up, you'll just have to stick another pin in the doll.

Re: Missing MeasurementsSubmitted by John Atkinson on May 3, 2018 - 9:27pm

It wasn't possible for Larry Greenhill, who now lives in California, to ship this amplifier to New York in time for me to measure it.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

Cheers George

This place I use does even more measurements than Stereophile does, but doesn't talk about them as much, and you need to get a password to get into it. and there's not as many either.
http://www.milleraudioresearch.com/avtech/index.html

Cheers George

You get so many (well meaning) here, recommending x amp for someone with x speakers. Without knowing if that amp can drive the impedance/-phase of that speaker.
This is where it’s very good to be able to see and understand the measurements and the graphs of all equipment before any (crossed finger’d) recommendations are made to anyone. Because if you do your just ******* against the wind.
http://chakranutmusings.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/8/7/11875364/pissing-in-the-wind-image_orig.jpg

Cheers George

I always preferred Stereophile over TAS because of JA's measurements! I will miss this part of the magazine!

Yeah TAS was for audiophiles who like airy fairy poetic licence to describe the sound and nothing else. I like reviewers that have a pair.

Cheers George