The Absolute Sound Or Stereophile? Which is your favorite?

[cjf]

I subscribe to Stereophile only these days. One reason is the frequent use of measurements to validate why something may sound good/bad. Another reason is that generally if something sucks they will say so or in some other pretty obvious way express the same.

 

I used to subscribe to TAS years ago but got bored reading about how each month some new shiny product was the best thing the reviewer ever heard, blowing away the previous months best shiny product in the same category. Rinse and repeat every month.

 

Then there was the constant waxing poetic of every product, no matter what. Even if it was a total piece of shit they would refuse to ever say so. Plus there are no measurements  of anything which I find odd because I believe Harley is pretty familiar with how to conduct such tests properly and accurately.