Stereophile, no more bench tests????!!!!

Specs and measurements are useful mainly as guidelines to determine what components are most likely to perform best together. Performance enables good sound but does not fully determine it. You still have to listen once you have decided what to listen to together.

Nowadays, integrated amplifiers with DAC and phonos already integrated even can largely solve that problem. Then it’s just speaker integration that specs can still help with.

At least that’s how I’ve managed to efficiently assemble multiple good sounding systems in recent years using specifications and measurements.  Measurements provided in Stereophile proved to be very helpful with my buying decisions.

+1teo_audio! The new religion is the same as the old religion - to paraphrase a song by The Who (thank you Pete Townsend!).

Like Absolute Sound much better however i do like Stereophile. I will have to get buy never really make my buying decisions based on these mags.

I support my hobby so I will support the mags.  I don’t care what others think.

Thst us a tragedy. John A was the best I know at listening,  measuring and separating the truth from the B.S.. times 
Are a changing.  I guess they too now need every ad they can get 
Online services are crippling everyone .  The consumer needs even
More so to be in step of what s going on .  R.I.P  Audio Gods of old .