Anyone ever read the listener magazine


Hi, has anyone read or subscibed to this magazine. They seem to talk about British products and turntables mostly.
twilo
It's good. Nice balance to overly slick 'phile and overly pompous TAS. I read them all anyway. Don't you listen to more than one radio station?
I agree (mostly) with the above comments. Harvey is great. I wont be renewing either. I think its better than Stereophile, though, and I am a big fan of TAS. It might come off as pompous, but the writing is superb and, for me, it probes the limits of the cutting edge. Way out there? Yeah, but what fun. And no, I can't afford that gear either, but I use the reviews to assist me in my own appreciation of musical reproduction.
I usually enjoy Listener, but I don't think I will renew my subscription because, frankly, I think these guys are just plain lazy. I expect a mag. that only comes out every 2 months to be chock full of goodies. I don't know what they are doing all that time, but this thing could be prepared in a week. The equip. reviews are no doubt honest, but they seem short and lacking in depth. I really want to like Gizmo,but, his stuff really is not that funny to me. I am definitely in the tube/analog camp, so I applaud their approach, but find the content lacking. Everyone liked the LP cleaning article, but it smelled like filler to me. Ditto the reviewers favorite cables article.
Ditto. Ditto. Ditto......

Good for a reasonable browsing, but not exactly my cup of tea. I do think that they have a pretty high "honesty level" compared to most other zines. It takes GUTS for a "high end" audio reviewer to say "I use the cables that come with the components" !!!

As to "goofball" ( oops, i mean "Gizmo" ), they would be better off without him or by drastically editing his content. Besides that, he has "screwed" more than a few people over on bad business deals. Not someone that i feel that i can trust nor do i appreciate his "zaniness". Sean
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I thoroughly enjoy "Listener". I read almost all the audio mags I can get ahold of and Listener especially seems to want to express and share the joy and pleasure of audio rather than be obsessive about technology or the sharpest cutting edge. I have learned about quite a few pieces of equipment there that I had not heard of anywhere else.