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Stereophile "coverage"

Stereophile must enjoy all the negative reaction they get out of their choices of what to cover. Witness the latest cover story, the new Krell LAT-1 speaker. Here, from the biggest of the big advertisers, we get basically immediate cover-story coverage of their latest release, a $37,500 speaker. Stratospheric. The reviewer (who amazingly wasn't Jonathon Scull, with something of this price), is extremely positive while almost seeming to forget the price of this beast. It doesn't go much below 40Hz and it measures horribly. I guess you'll have to wait for their $75K model to get around those obstacles, though the option to pair the LAT-1's with some Krell Master subs is offered up to get down below 40Hz.

So, a super-expensive speaker coupled with other reviews of >$8K components ("you guys never review affordable stuff!"), immediate, feature coverage of a new Krell product ("You guys pander to your advertisers!"), and a very positive review of gear that nobody would argue measures respectably (at any price) ("You guys always give good reviews!"), on top of the usual reduced size of the magazine in the middle of the summer - the August issue should keep the negative feedback coming in full doses.

kthomas
bluenose
387 posts
 
If I owned quad 63s I wouldn't care about graphs either. A friend of mine has them running with audio inovations.....lovely.....cheers, Bluenose
trelja
3,223 posts
 
I didn't get my issue this month. Over the weekend, I checked it out in a local bookstore, and decided it was not worth buying. Maybe I shouldn't feel so bad about it...
vader007
121 posts
 
Actually Stereophile HT reviewed the sunfire signature and gave it thier highest recommendations! If your gonna bash something at least get your facts straight. I like the mag, I'm sorry if you guys cant afford what they review, start reading something else. You guys sound like the critics that dump on stern...if you dont dig it, dont read it! .... But please stop bitching.
kthomas OP
911 posts
 
My original intent wasn't to bitch and certainly wasn't to suggest any sort of conspiracy. I like the magazine, I read about 90% of the content of most issues, and think that for $1 an issue it's an excellent entertainment value. I was interested in the new Krell speakers and enjoyed reading about them.

My point is that the letters section of the magazine and forums such as this over the past year have raised a number of issues multiple times each over the recent past, the three I highlight amongst them. While all of them probably apply to one degree or another to every issue, it just struck me that Stereophile managed to put really overt examples of each into this one issue. As such, I'd expect that we'll get another round of discussion on them. -Kirk

evo845
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Stereophile has just reiterated what my letter entitled same old shame in the may issue, KRELL and LEVINSON.In every issue since then there has been the same old.Entertaining
for the $1.
steve
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