New Stereophile format

Just got mine yesterday after returning from vacation and I was surprised to see it. I'm still undecided, I can understand the need for the occasional graphic refreshment in any sort of pring publication but it seems to be make the mag a bit harder to read. What I mean is that columns don't seem to all take up full pages now, some are split and it becomes very confusion. However that confusion could have just stemmed from extreme jetlag so I'll give it a bit more time and report back.

I don't like it either. Way to confusing, however I did kinda catch on by the time I'd finished it (didn't take long as it continues to get shorter every month). I prefer the smaller format from about 15 years ago.

Oh, BTW I know there are some Stereophile writers that visit these pages. So, for the record.....don't listen to the winnies writing in that want you to review the $29 Coby cd players at Walmart. Keep reviewing those $350,000 a pair amps. After all, who wants to see a 1988 Yugo reviewed in Car and Driver?

Jon

I like the larger font they have chosen for the technical sidebars. Much easier to read.

Regards,

Noted that indeed indeed the mag is shrinking.
Too many reviews and magazine covers of ONE BRAND of equipment is my guess as to why advertisers have disappeared.
Let that be a warning.
Suicide by review!!!
Who cares what the design of the printed mag is... It is just fading away. I remember the earliest issues... Will they returning to Stereophiles roots? 30 or 40 pages on plain paper?