Measure everything
I’ve been a subscriber long enough (30+ years) to notice from the letters submitted that I’m now observing the comments from a younger generation of readers, despite the comments therein often being repeats of old themes. The price of seniority, I suppose.
I’ve also been around this hobby long enough to recall some of the many hi-fi magazines that are no longer with us: Audio, Stereo Review, High Fidelity, Listener—and to have a notion as to why some of these failed. Some I sorely miss; others not.
Now that we’re largely down to the “big two,” I think it’s time for to focus on the