Rate the Audiophile Publications

My two Fav's are Bound For Sound and Listener is ok.I hate British MAG's.They tend to play up made in England gear to much.Rgds Peter

I would read all of them on a particular product. To me it was a good/better sign that a product might really be worth investigating/purchasing if publications of opposing viewpoints liked it, like Stereophile and The Audio Critic, or if the product was liked under different cultural lenses, like the European magazines and the American ones. I don't read them anymore, but I did like the Audio Critic, I know I'm the odd-man out on that one.

Thanks everyone. I just posted a new thread listing out the current and all the past thread "winners" and a few more with their site locations. I thought it might save some folks some time in the future (this stuff needs to be updated constantly though). It's listed as Audiophile Magazine Web Locations -- FYI.

One more to Add UHF magazine from Canada.

Streophile: Sucks, TAS: Sucks Worse, What Hi-fi: Partial to Brit gear, The worst: Audio Critic (all wires and amps sound the same?, yea right!). Sorry to be so negative, but when you have a close friend that is a reviewer at one of these mags, you get the inside skinny on each of the reviewers biases, and learn that most are far from impartial. Based on the aforementioned information, it is virtually impossible for the average layman to know which reviewer is giving great advice, based on reading a review. I've now visited 7 reviewers homes, and you would not believe how little care is sometimes taken, as they "review" a product. Additonaly, I know of two entry level high end manufacturers that could NOT get their gear reviewed, until they had signed on advertisments, in these so called "unbiased" rags!. Again, sorry to be so negative, but the magazines are only a good start at best. Those people that assemble a system based only on reccomended equipment choices, are really missing out on many other fine, and many times, better sounding speakers, components and wires.