Absolute Sound's "Reviews"

I stopped reading them years ago, and never looked at the site.  What are they doing in the print magazine?

I have continuously subscribed to TAS for forty years. They recently moved to using ZINIO for their digital deliver system. They have had a lot of difficulty moving to the digital world.

Over the last couple years I have spoke to the editor about this, since I did lots of technology platform migrations during my career and could tell the were struggling. I offered my help, but they had just hired a new consultant. so, I was really happy to see them move to a standard delivery system last year.

I am very sympathetic as the editors and audio reviewers don’t tend to be IT savvy, and then easily get led down a hazardous path (particularly when they have small budgets). TAS is a labor of love more than a real money making business. I still value their reviews greatly and always compare with Stereophile and HiFi+ and auditioning when possible to feel I understand the sonic characteristics of speakers or components.

Their paper version always has several extensive subjective reviews and one very lengthy review of a very expensive component.  They do have 2 or 3 issues a year where they do their recommended components and awards, which sounds like what you're describing.  They also often have an article or two about music or musicians along with several column length album reviews.

most of the two paragraph reviews are excerpts from the longer review in the actual magazine...