Stereo Review, Remember it??
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Thorens TD125MKII, SME3009,Shure V15/ Teac V-8000S, Denon DN-790R cass, Teac 3340 RtR decks, Onix CD2...Sumo Electra Plus pre>SAE A1001 amp>Martin Logan Summit's
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OK found it,thats a solid looking project.I remember reading that article when I was on my quest to build a balanced power conditioner for my source components.Kenneth Swauger wrote: »It appeared in 1998 second quarterly..
Fun indeed,I was as giddy as a school girl when the issue's arrived in the mail box,and even more so when Dickason included one as a footnote in his Loudspeaker cookbook.Lots of fun, heck I think I would have paid him to print it. It was really a cool experience.
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You got the words out of my mouth (oups, I mean out of my keyboard).Yes he did a true gentleman
Have you or can you post (in another thread perhaps) your findings on the above project? I was thinking about such lately...OK found it,thats a solid looking project.I remember reading that article when I was on my quest to build a balanced power conditioner for my source components.DARE TO SOAR:
Your attitude, almost always determine your altitude in life
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Nice thread, I was a subscriber as well. The latest music reviews, Rodriquez cartoons and Julian's reviews, all good stuff. I believe a colleague of mine from Polk referred to Julian as "I never met an amp I didn't like" Hirsch. Been toying with the idea of a Stereophile subscription as a tribute to the good ole' days. Does anyone else subscribe ? :cool:
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You guys who published in Glass Audio, Speaker Builder, audioExpress, etc., are all cooler than I - I am impressed!
Re: Stereophile... I subscribe periodically (no pun intended)... wait long enough after one's subscription expires, and they'll send a "special offer" to subscribe for $10 or less per year. It's worth $10 per year... and I actually like a couple of the columnists (i.e., Art Dudley and Sam Tellig). -
Nice thread, I was a subscriber as well. The latest music reviews, Rodriquez cartoons and Julian's reviews, all good stuff. I believe a colleague of mine from Polk referred to Julian as "I never met an amp I didn't like" Hirsch. Been toying with the idea of a Stereophile subscription as a tribute to the good ole' days. Does anyone else subscribe ? :cool:
Maybe 3-4 years ago, I subscribed to both stereophile and the absolute sound. At first, I thought of not renewing the subscriptions since they seemed stuck in the past with an obsession for both tubes and turntables. Only the articles on speakers appeared to have any relevance to the present.
They offer in-depth reviews of equipment from all areas, and stereophile augments the reviewer's subjective comments with detailed measurements. And, despite my initial thought of them being stuck in the past, the reality is they like anything that makes good music.
Thanks to the absolute sound, I became aware of the Wadia 170 iTransport, and after purchasing it, along with an iPod Classic, I have absolutely fallen in love with it. Without a doubt, this has been the best musical purchase I have ever made.
Now I love both magazines. I even enjoy the tube and turntable reviews, even though those technologies will never get my money. In this month's the absolute sound they list the 10 most significant turntables of all time, and it was nice to see my old AR-XA as number 1.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
Sony XA-5400ES SACD; Pass XP-22 pre; X600.5 amps
Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes
Shunyata Triton v3/Typhon QR on source, Denali 2000 (2) on amps
Shunyata Sigma XLR analog ICs, Sigma speaker cables
Shunyata Sigma HC (2), Sigma Analog, Sigma Digital, Z Anaconda (3) power cables
Mapleshade Samson V.3 four shelf solid maple rack, Micropoint brass footers
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I suscribed for many years to Stereo Review and for three years before that I read all the current and back issues at the library on Rhein Main AFB in the early seventies. I enjoyed Julian's reviews and it was his reviews of AR speakers that led to my listening to every model available on the base. The music reviews helped me expand my musical experience. I bought a couple of records reviewed by Simels and decided that his taste and mine were very far apart. There were two reviewers that I could usually depend on.......Noel Coppage and a woman......first name Anna. I never really liked Audio or Stereophile. High Fidelity was an enjoyable read. I especially remember the section "Too Hot To Handle"TO ERR IS HUMAN. TO FORGIVE IS CANINE.
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Stereo Review introduced me to the big SDAS. Once I saw them on the cover, I had to hear them. In college in the late '80s early '90s one of my many jobs was working in the library and I spent many many hours pouring over Stereo Review and Audio Magazine. But it was Stereophile that changed things for me. They had the first reviewers who would say they didn't like a product. That made me trust them a little more than others.2-channelBelles 22A Pre, Emotiva XPA-2 Gen 2, Marantz SA8005, Pro-Ject RPM-10 Turntable, Pro-Ject Phono Box DS3B, Polk Audio Legend L800's, AudioQuest Cable throughout.
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Back in the late 80s, when I was in college (at Cal State University, Hayward....now Cal State, East bay), I would spend all my time at the university library....not studying, but reading the binded stacks of Stereo Review. I'd start from the beginning, before the magazine was even called "Stereo Review". Looking at those ads, lusting after all those gear that I could never afford.
Anyone filled out and miled those cards requesting for more information for a certain product?
I can still remember those 2 page ads of Polk Audio speakers with Matt Polk standing there in his lab coat.
How about the "System" articles displaying a reader's system? I have a peculiar piece of component, a Sony CDP-K1 karaoke CD player (yes, it was made for the US market) that somehow had appeared twice in those "System" articles. -
Heh, I did that myself... at Matt Polk's alma mater, a decade and a half earlier than you, and with our library's bound copies of Audio :-)Back in the late 80s, when I was in college (at Cal State University, Hayward....now Cal State, East bay), I would spend all my time at the university library....not studying, but reading the binded stacks of Stereo Review. I'd start from the beginning, before the magazine was even called "Stereo Review". Looking at those ads, lusting after all those gear that I could never afford.Anyone filled out and miled those cards requesting for more information for a certain product?
I can still remember those 2 page ads of Polk Audio speakers with Matt Polk standing there in his lab coat.
Where do you think all my old ads come from...? :-)
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Heh, I did that myself... at Matt Polk's alma mater, a decade and a half earlier than you, and with our library's bound copies of Audio :-)
Great minds think alike :biggrin:
This thread reminded me of a similar thread years ago over at hometheaterforum.com. Here's the thread. Go halfway down the page as I called out a guy who had his system displayed in Stereo Review's "Systems" articles. :biggrin: -
But it was Stereophile that changed things for me. They had the first reviewers who would say they didn't like a product. That made me trust them a little more than others.
I used to subscribe to Stereophile, too. I read everything the Corey Greenberg wrote. It was amazing to find someone my own age with tastes like mine. I was getting tired of the same stuffed shirts and their 'polite' piano/flute/harp music and attitude. I stopped subscribing after they moved from the digest size to the larger magazine.How about the "System" articles displaying a reader's system? I have a peculiar piece of component, a Sony CDP-K1 karaoke CD player (yes, it was made for the US market) that somehow had appeared twice in those "System" articles.
This is one thing I looked forward to in Stereo Review. It was great to see how other people set up their systems. The was something similar when I was in the army stationed in Germany. Overseas magazine had a system of the month were a soldier would send in a photo and write up of their system. A buddy of mine actually got his system published. It was also laughable at some of the 'all in one rack' systems they published. -
I don't remember who wrote it, but my all-time favorite music review was about an Izzy Stradlin album: "Good songs, great band, shame about the voice."mhardy6647 wrote: »Yup. Best for me in Stereo Review in the 1970s and 80s were Steve Simels pop/rock music reviews. Said Mr. Simels of Warren Zevon's live Stand in the Fire, "It'll kill your house plants." He meant that in a good way, of course.
Simels also held that Tonio K's album Life in the Food Chain (that title, I always presumed, to be a play on the Eagles' Life in the Fast Lane) was the greatest musical achievement of Western Civilization. I've never heard it (not even a single track)... so I've always sort of wondered about that. :-P
The best massmarket hifi magazine in the olden days, though, to my standards and tastes, was Audio. Rather more technical than Stereo Review or High Fidelity.
The latter two magazines' equipment reviews were next to worthless. Towards the end of his long and illustrious career, reviewer Julian Hirsch (Hirsch-Houck Labs) was widely lampooned for the circumspection of his hardware reviews. The old quip has it that a typical reviewer's comment from Mr. Hirsch on an amplifier would sum up his feelings like this:
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Someone (maybe Absolute Sound?) is still publishing Rodriquez cartoons. I remember one in which a CEO is telling a group of executives: "A miracle has occurred in one of our plants. A million gallons of record cleaner has turned into cassette cleaner!"
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It' s to bad none of the Stereo Review Magazines were converted to pdf files. I would love to browse through them againPOLK SDA 2.3 TLS BOUGHT NEW IN 1990, Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-198
POLK CSI-A6 POLK MONITOR 70'S ONKYO TX NR-808 SONY CDP-333ES
PIONEER PL-510A SONY BDP S5100
POLK SDA 1C BOUGHT USED 2011,Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-194
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I remember flipping through the ads in the back of Stereo Review, from the likes of J&R, wishing that I could buy some the gear advertised. This was before the internet, so mail order involved sending a check and waiting....and waiting.
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True but they also did something called COD :biggrin: which I used instead.
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I still have a bunch of Stereo Review and Audio, maybe even a few Hi-Fidelity, all in zipped plastic bags by year, mostly from the 70's.
George, you would not happen to know which issue of Stereo Review that tested the Onkyo A-10 amp? This might be a great Club Polk project to list all the equipment reviews by month and year done by Stereo Review through the years. -
MRH,
I missed this thread when it first appeared and I'm glad it was resurrected because that Warehouse Sound ad, you posted, brings back a few memories for me. I actually bought that Thorens TD-165 turntable from there back in 1976. I might still have the ad and reciepts at my Mother's house. I also purchased a Marantz 1060 amp, a pair of Pioneer HPM-60 speakers and a Pickering cartridge. When I received it the cartridge was back ordered so all I could do was look at it if for a couple of weeks. I believe the turntable and amp are still working and in use today.Decware CSP3 Preamp, RCA 6DJ8, 2 X Rocket 6N1P-EV's, Cary SLA70B Signature V2 Amplifier: 2 X Mullard GZ32's, 2 X RCA/GE 5691's, 4 X Tung-Sol 6550's
Cambridge Audio 640C V2 CD Player & Dacmagic DAC
Rega Planar 3: Deep Groove Subplatter, P3 Motor
upgrade, Dynavector 10x5, JA Michell counterwieght, Cardas tonearm wiring and Mapleshade stand
Parks Audio Budgie Hybrid Phonostage with BEL 6922 tubes, Polk Audio LS70's
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That was a great price for a TD-165... and it still would be a great price for one in good condition!
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It' s to bad none of the Stereo Review Magazines were converted to pdf files. I would love to browse through them again
I would like to have that too. So far I have not found anything like that.
I am however, scanning in things that I did save from Stereo Review and Audio. These date from the mid 1980's until the mid 1990's. I will include articles, advertisements, systems and even Rodrigues comics.
Here is the link to my semi-public Picasa area. Feel free to copy and save anything you want from there. If you would like to contribute anything let me know via private message. I have scanned everything in at 300dpi. Max size is 1000 pixels vertical. -
BTW this will be an ongoing project so bookmark the link and check back from time to time. I think I am going to place advertisements in a new area since I have discovered some manufacturers catalogs also. Here is that link.
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unfortunately S&V was the end of that great mag. Now Stereophile and the Absolute Sound is all that is left......
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I mean, the guy from the Howard Stern show is a featured product reviewer...........come on.
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S&V was not too good.
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Always wondered what became of that publcation!
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Now called sound and vision, I remember when it was stereo review, they reviewed everything audio, specialy the entry level stuff, Always had those glossy cool covers,, remember it??
I used to subscribe to Stereo Review in the early '70s. Who could forget Julian Hirsch. -
I've got some more up on my Picasa.
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This one always cracked me up !
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