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

Not to denigrate the writers I don't list here, but I enjoy the heck out of reading Robert Harley, Michael Fremer, Tony Cordesman, Julie Mullins, and Robert Deutsch. John Atkinson can be a little too methodical & cautious for me, but I appreciate his scholarship & knowledge. In any case, I have no problem with the current crop of Hi End commentators.

Then again, I guess we'll never replace Hairy Person's gushy, "Ooohh! Dusty's voice this!" "Dusty's voice that!"

I have subscriptions to TAS & Stereophile, but I am not going to renew them when they expire. I find that when the copy of either one comes in the mail , I sit down breeze threw it for an hour or so and then dump it in the recycle bin. The reviews are all predictable; and while I’m not a vinyl guy, once both rolled over with soft pedaled interviews of the Mofi album issue , and essentially alibied for them I had enough. I occasionally will google search for a review on something I am interested in , but only for some general information and ignore the normal over the top evaluation

Who's going to be brave enough and ask chatGPT to review a pair of expensive speakers?!

I have had subscriptions to Absolute sound and Stereophile for several decades now. There seems to be too much of the same manufacture’s equipment reviewed. There are some really creative innovative companies that would love the exposure.

I also cannot relate to the music they use in their reviews. Frank Sanatra, Count Basie? Classical etc. Come on, use some old-style rock music to describe bass, dynamics etc. at least in some of the review.

ozzy

Bad writing is universal these days, and not only relegated to the hifi press.  Very few publications stand out with good writing anymore.