The Absolute Sound vs Stereophile

I miss HP and PhD of the Abo!ute Sound and J Gordon Holt of Stereophile. 

I get both. I get stereophile dirt cheap and if I didn’t, I wouldn’t get it. I like HIFI+ too. Too expensive in print version but <$20 in iPad version

stevecham,
I also miss those days in the 90's when Stereophile was thick as heck and the read lasted a long time!
Dem were da days.

I subscribe to both but don’t spend as much time with them as I used to. Just FYI, they are both about the same size now. That old, pocket-sized Absolute Sound format disappeared years ago.

I identify TAS with a lot of what’s wrong with our hobby these days. Harley and Valin are the faces of TAS, yet their articles reek of elitism, subjectivity, superficiality, and general lack of professionalism. A recent low point was their pronouncement of vinyl’s superiority over digital formats.