But after a few crinkles, the ink comes off on your hands. Let's face it, guys, Stereophile really can be put to no good purpose unless you're trying to sell $10,000 CD demagnetizers or shakti stones.

[This message has been edited by boblinds (edited July 18, 2003).]

My concern was the ink rubbing off on another, less accessible area

Speaking of crap, Tell that you did not enjoy Steroephile and AS 25 years ago when they would listen to a piece of junk and tell you it sounded like crap despite the Advertising $$$ they might lose. I first noticed a change when they nailed a paticular Bob Carver product and he pulled all his adveritising and started a campaign for others to do the same. He may have even sued them but I am not sure. But they compromised and the road to Hades began. BTW I am not knocking Carver's products I have had a few of them in the past and thought they were pretty good for that era of equipment (Phase Linear for one). He also made a very sensitive tuner. Not as good as the older Macs but nice.

I used to read Stereophile 25 years ago, and yes, they were much better then. Audio magazine was also good back in the olden days before it started loosing it's identity, and finally dying off altogether.

I miss Audio magazine very much.

I agree that Stereophile was much better than it is now. I noted a rapid descent towards commercialism and mediocrity when they were bought by a big magazine chain.

I remember the Carver (bad review) fiasco. If any advertiser stops advertising in a magazine because of a bad review, it shows that the company was expecting a good review BECAUSE of the advertisements placed in (and revenue going to) that magazine.

A strong influence as to why I continue to subscribe to Stereophile is the low cost for a two or three year subscription. Plus the pretty graphs and stuff. Also, reading about a $1000 or more interconnect (per meter) or power cord just cracks me up!

If P.T. Barnum were alive today, he'd have a job selling or making "audiophile grade" accessories. A very successful job.

Paul

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I was formerly editor in chief of two national computer magazines for Ziff-Davis. I won't go into a rant here, but ...

Editors do get pressure from their publishers to kiss advertiser ass in print. A good editor fights the publisher sometimes at risk of his job.

But it's a stupid advertiser who pulls their ads because of a negative but honest (important concept: honest) review because:

A.) If the magazine has a large and viable readership, no ads means no visibility among their target customer base, and

B.) If the editors are disreputable enough to let YOU buy them with ads, they're also going to write good things about the crappy products your competition manufactures.

Even so, stupidity rules; hence, the current state of consumer electronics magazines.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 73Bruin:
[B]Does anyone have or did have any of the tone arms that tracked the record horizontally?

I have an old technics linear drive turntable if that is what you mean by horizontal. The arm is attached to a linear drive rail which is built into the cover. When this cover is raised, the arm is lifted from the disc. It has operated flawlessly for many years - (until my 950 arrived without a phone preamp - now it lives under my bed !)
I'd love to hook her back up though, so what are you guys all using for phono preamps?