Stereo Review Magazine

[jek57]

Really enjoyed reading that magazine back in the day especially the articles by Julian Hirsh if anyone else read it what was the best thing that you enjoyed about the magazine?

 

[62caddy]

In a word, everything. Most of all I applauded their balanced and overall objective approach while helping to make the principles of hi fi understandable to the layman.

 

[Dave B.]

Back issues of Stereo Review, starting with 1958:

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/HiFI-Stereo-Review.htm

Dave

 

[zebra03]

It was a nice balance of equipment and music reviews . Also , taking the mystery out of our hobby .

 

[RichPA]

Great music articles and reviews, and a lot of educational stuff for relative beginners. Equipment reviews, not so much.

 

[egellings]

Julian Hirsch was a respected test & measurement guy not into subjective evaluations at all. I'd read him first to be sure I wasn't getting a lemon for an audio component in terms of reliability and good performance. Then I'd read the GESRs' reports. (Golden Eared Subjective Reviewer)

 

[goodolpg]

Someone once said "Julian Hirsch never met a component he didn't like".

I have to admit I really enjoyed reading Stereo Review back in the day.

 

[Grenadeslio]

Cut my teeth on the rag, also Stereophile, but I found Stereo Review a lot more of a fun read.

 

[bobsvinyl]

I subscribed for several years in the 70s and enjoyed the record reviews. I found a lot of new music that way.

 

[egellings]

If a component measured competently, Julian had no reason to dislike it except for maybe its aesthetics or industrial design aspects.

 

[turnitup]

I bought a few years of original issues from the mid/late 70’s (my coming of stereo age years) - a few years ago. Fun to go back and flip through them. Great for the man-cave coffee table (ok, beer table)...

 

[egellings]

turnitup: As required, as required.

 

[willie-aspen]

I've gone back and read through several reviews recently and found that while he never threw any shade, he was somewhat circumspect with his compliments. When you read through his measurements and don't see anything about how amazing the results are, you should take note of that. He used plenty of superlatives when things really measured well or better than his unnamed reference equipment.

 

[fill35u]

Of all the forum threads about Stereo Review and Julian Hirsch, this is certainly one of them.

 

[goodolpg]

Hifi-classic.net used to have Stereo Review articles, now it only has a Header and a picture, the actual articles/reviews have disappeared.
http://www.hifi-classic.net/review/mcs-3125-310.html

Has it moved somewhere is it just me that can no longer read the articles?

 

[antpaubarcar]

Hifi-classic.net used to have Stereo Review articles, now it only has a Header and a picture, the actual articles/reviews have disappeared.
http://www.hifi-classic.net/review/mcs-3125-310.html

Has it moved somewhere is it just me that can no longer read the articles?

O tried the link and I saw the review of the Mcs and could also find all the reviews on other
Mcs items

 

[goodolpg]

Thank YOU!

Made me think it must be something on my end.
So I thought either VPN or Adblock +.
It was Adblock + preventing me from seeing the article. Which is odd since there is no ad shown on the page.

 

[antpaubarcar]

I have a new cellphone and after 3 days I managed to get rid of +- 90 pct of pub pop ups
From Google and affiliated apps!
I am on www and searching through an app called Duckduck, so far no pub on AK or else...

 

[swh50]

Read an interview with Julian Hirsh many years ago in which he was asked about not having negative reviews. He said if a piece of equipment was bad, it didn’t get reviewed.

 

[Mamrak1]

My Dad subscribed to all the 60s and 70s audio rags such as Stereo Review, High Fidelity etc. I was able to cut my teeth on audio components back then.