what's your opinion on the magazine 'stereo review'??

The best thing about Stereo Review was that it gave rise to Stereophile and the Absolute Sound in the '70's.

I gave up on Stereo Review many years ago when it became too obvious they never met or tried an advertiser's product they didn't like and/or recommend.  Stereophile magazine seems to have gradually moved out of any possible meaningful range for me as I'm much more likely to drop $60K on a new Mercedes as I am on a pair of amps, and a 4 box CD player at $130K is something I just can't relate too, especially after hearing one in a hyper expensive system with unacceptable imaging.

For the record, Stereo Review morphed into Sound and Vision. Like many of us, I began reading Stereo Review at a young age when I wasn't quite sure what this hobby was all about. It did, if not always 100% accurate, always provide material that fed my appetite for this hobby and, quite frankly, I don't remember any other magazines that focused on consumer electronic even being in existence. For whatever it's worth, I have a collection of probably 15 or 20 years of back issues I kept for the hell of it. I can still remember reading articles and going to local stereo type stores to check out the equipment and to learn more about this hobby. Jullian Hirsch was the man back in those times just as others are highly respected today. It was a part of the overall interest in this hobby and I am glad I was able to read and follow it at the time.

Stereo Review was a fraud. Back in the late 70's SR commissioned  Dr. Larry Greenhill and the Audiophile Society (of which I participated) of NY to test & compare A/B testing of speaker wire. There were 10 testers which most of us could determine which wire was being played. Some of us were 10 for 10 identifying what wire wad being played. The Stereo Review article said we as a group could not identify the difference in the wire, which we clearly did.