Jamz3k

Does anyone actually read this absolute work of fiction? How can this magazine actually take itself seriously? The reviews tell you nothing whilst using descriptive words that don't make sense in the sentence and they are as fanatical about Apple products as Jack Clark.

Load of tosh!

alcazar

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ALL mags and papers are dependent on advertising.

Slate a product, or even tell the truth about a poor, or average product, lose the revenue.

Simple.

mike1210

Yes as Alcazar above I'm sure they are very "influenced" by advertisers. IMO Hi Fi World is a far better mag. Art of sound forum is also great

http://theartofsound.net/forum/

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/

Rapid17

Hi-fi forums worth joining are here http://www.hifiwigwam.com/forum.php

and here http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/

Geoff.

Jamz3k

Advertisement plays a major part in What HiFi, this is certainly true. I'm sick of reading about their one million pound demo facility, what a waste of money as the reviews are just poetic license.

I don't think they even demo products, some bloke just sits down with a dictionary, a thesaurus and Google, then starts picking out obscure adverbs and adjectives. Worse still is hearing people repeat the nonsense spouted.

what would scooby do

It's just like car detailing, lots of bullshíte words describing something mundane..

ALi-B

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Glad it wasn't just me: The wine tasting of Hi-Fi.

'I'm getting a woody accoustics with a deep thrum of birch with mellow overtone of willow and then a high end buzz of bees pollenating lavender in a English meadow'


......All from a speaker made of MDF and plastic and a 50hz mains hum from dodgy cables.

corradoboy

Been like that since the first issue. I remember when I was into hi-fi many years back, and they were waxing lyrical about some Gale 4 speakers which, at £200 were bi-wired, mass-fillable, floor-standing, two-way and they gave them five stars. We blagged a pair from Richer Sounds, the owners of Gale, and What Hi-Fi's biggest advertiser, and took them to our local hi-fi specialist for a comparison test. They were shockingly awful ! For £200 they were blown into the weeds by a pair of £130 Mission bookshelf speakers on some £70 stands. Never bought a copy of that rag again after that.

tony de wonderful

C'mon Hi-Fi is so 1990's.

Trout

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No decent source anymore now we have lo-fi mp3s

f1_fan

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That the retards that seem to make up most of the population think is hi-fi

mart360

Tried to get a stylus for my old cartridge the other day..

Its a moving coil type, (never cheap at the best of times lol)

£70 - £110 now ouch!!!!

might just junk the player and get a whole new turntable..

No doubt about it, the bass line from some of my original 12" singles sounds positivly hollow when i listed to the associated MP3 rip


Mart

tony de wonderful

Yeah nothing like a wax cylinder?

Can you seriously tell the difference between an MP3 and a CD?

f1_fan

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A lot depends on the compression level of the MP3 encoding.

Most portable MP3 players use shocking compression levels 128K, 64K or even 32K in some cases (early players).

Put an MP3 player through any decent set up and with those compression levels the sound quality is night and day between them and CD/vinyl. They sound f**king horrible!!!!

what would scooby do

I only listen to 320k MP3 or FLAC, anything else sounds pants