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Agreed with you about CR and frequency of repair and some other securely quantifiable measures.  I also have few reservations about the measurements they have classically used on loudspeakers their empirical validity.  I think their measurement expertise is way up there.  My reservations have always been about the weight they give to their measurements in their rankings.  Even way back when I would look at their ratings and rankings and think to myself  - wow, I've listened to speaker X that is given a score of 93 and also speaker Y that has an 87 and Y sounds a heck of a lot better to me.  And yes, later on, Hirsch-Houck Laboratories did begin got include subjective evaluations in their reports on equipment other than speakers.  I pretty much agreed with them only a little more than I agreed with CR.  These days, unfortunately, the opportunity to visit multiple audio stores to listen to a variety of gear is pretty much gone.

Ah yes, Stereo Review — motto:  “There’s nothing about our advertiser’s product we don’t like!”

"Audionics of Oregon outsold the other stuff 10:1... IF the customer..listened...." said Tomic1617.  Audionics made some of the best sounding gear produced at the time.  To this day my BT-2 preamp is in my second system and second as a phono stage only to the ARC SP-6.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Charles Rodrigues cartoons.

ecscott, Thanks for posting the link to all those past SR and High Fidelity stereo magazines! How did you get them all? I saw a few and downloaded. Great. Memories, wow!