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The Outcast
29-06-2013, 08:05
Has anyone read Noel Keywood's article in the latest edition of Hi-fi world magazine yet? I have just read it and found my self a little shocked by it. Despite being the editor of this great institution he really seems to have lost interest in what the magazine is all about, Hi-fi. Unless i have read it incorrectly he now fafours none hi-fi modes of music consumption. All a bit weird if you ask me. If we follow his lead there will be some great hi-fi gear on the bay of E before very long.:scratch:
I never read Hi-Fi World - can't see that situation changing.
Wakefield Turntables
29-06-2013, 08:15
I stopped buying hifi world about three months ago aft I noticed a shift to the digital side of things. I now only buy hifi world when something interests me. The money I save goes on new vinyl :D
Audioman
02-07-2013, 20:03
I bought it this month to read the Quad mono amp review. The NK piece doesn't sound to me like they are changing to digital only. I think Noel is talking about a digital player that he sees as a useful portable high quality music source for review purposes. They are still running the dedicated vinyl section. I'm sure they have to cater for the growing number of people who use music files as their main source as well as vinyl enthusiasts if they want to maintain circulation.
hifi_dave
03-07-2013, 09:32
I read it that Noel is no longer interested in any source which spins, as the latest solid music stores are soooo much better, in every way.
Hopefully, the mag will continue with others doing the CD, vinyl and tape jobbies. I'd also like to see them drop the 'home cinema' reviews, as this can't have many readers.
It's a shame though because they still don't get it. It may be a minority but there remains a niche for vinyl for no other reason than many people have vast vinyl collections and are less interested in what is ultimately "better" in terns of hi-rez and more interested in the music and the means to maximise their vinyl experience to exploit their collections. That is the point...in fact it is the only point because there's no other strong argument for retaining vinyl systems other than 1) some still prefer the sound (and tactile experience) or 2) they have these large collections.
By eliminating vinyl from their mag, they have gone down the same road as many other mags and have cut off some prospective customers. Surely more sensible for a hifi mag to dump the AV stuff and retain the vinyl?
I never read Hi-Fi World...
I'm surprised by that, Mark, considering the magazine's heavy bias towards T/Ts and analogue music reproduction, in its heyday, which I though would've been right up your street! :scratch:
HFW used to be my favourite mag (I enjoyed their passion for using the best vintage equipment), but that was only when David Price and Adam Smith were there. As soon as those guys left, the heart was ripped out of the magazine. I've never found much of what NK writes as particularly illuminating, and his writing style has always been rather bland, lacking the colour and passion of people such as DP (or Ken Kessler in HFN).
The success of any magazine, much like that of an on-line forum, is directly reflected in the quality of leadership from the top, and how much fire he/she or they have in their bellies to make it succeed, which readers or members subsequently tune into. In terms of NK, I see nothing much more than a damp squib, who doesn't have a clue which direction to take the magazine in, and as such, sadly, the days of HFW are distinctly numbered.
Marco.
When I did look at it I found its coverage too superficial for my taste.
Which magazine then would you consider as being less "superficial"? Don't tell me you're a Hi-Fi+ fan (sorry Alan)! :eek: ;)
Marco.
Wakefield Turntables
03-07-2013, 10:12
Had a look in this months hifi world, oh dear, :doh: Nothing of interest whatsoever.
Back in the days when HFW supported some great construction projects, it had carved its niche as the more DIY oriented of the mags and did well. Since those days, it went increasingly into Home Theatre and other avenues that bored me rigid. I haven't read a copy in months.
Gordon Steadman
03-07-2013, 11:10
I've been out here in France for seven years now so no longer read the HiFi rags. It hasn't made one iota of difference to the way I listen to music or think about the equipment. I wonder why I bothered to read them at all when I was in the UK. Just to pass the time I guess. HiFi World and HiFi News were the two I read back then. News for the record reviews mostly.
I have read one magazine in seven years!! I went to the UK recently and bought HiFi+ to pass the time whilst I waited for an appointment. Very few real world things to read about and strictly aimed at those that think you must spend a fortune to even think about getting quality. Mind you, I suppose the sort of hi-fi I use would cost a bit these days if bought new. Nothing there to make me consider a regular read though.
Just like most magazines really, chasing the dosh through ads and filling it up with as few words as can be got away with. Gotta get a penny or two:)
(I enjoyed their passion for using the best vintage equipment)
Ah, well you see I wasn't bothered/interested particularly by the pro vintage equipment stance
I've never found much of what NK writes as particularly illuminating, and his writing style has always been rather bland, lacking the colour and passion of people such as DP (or Ken Kessler in HFN).
Well no, nor have I. Although his CD v LP demo at one of the shows (can't remember which one now) was an entertaining fiasco!
Lol... Yes, I remember that well!
So what's your example of a less "superficial" mag, or aren't there any? :)
Marco.
In the past I liked Stereophile and I still buy HiFiCritic (though don't always read it and never read all of it).
hifi_dave
03-07-2013, 15:44
Haven't read a Hi-Fi Critic for a while but all the other mags are going down the 'spend telephone numbers or it's no good' route. Read Hi-Fi News and you'd be forgiven for thinking that budget Hi-Fi starts at 10 grand !!!
In the past I liked Stereophile and I still buy HiFiCritic (though don't always read it and never read all of it).
I find HiFi Critic too Naim-centric 'Flat-earth old brigade' for me, but I realise why you'd like it ;)
Marco.
I find HiFi Critic too Naim-centric 'Flat-earth old brigade' for me
Agreed, that's why I stopped subscribing to it although there were some very well researched articles.
World seems to have lost it IMO. They started a section at the back for cables. It started off with Black Rhodium and they were told, like I was when I sent my cables in for review a price bracket for each "wire", if I remember it was no more than £300-£400 tops, reviews were done all is good. Fast forward to the last 2 issues, the text that introduces this section still states "reasonably priced" as the premise for the cables, it has said that from the beginning, then why review a Nordost mains lead for £1300 and speaker cables for £2670.00 and last month Atlas speaker cables for £1700, affordable indeed! This months edition had about 10 pages of customers letters in, somethings amiss there. Final gripe, they have been reviewing the audiolab mdac for the last 4 months, never appears, come on peeps its nearly 2 years old now that dac!
World seems to have lost it IMO. They started a section at the back for cables. It started off with Black Rhodium and they were told, like I was when I sent my cables in for review a price bracket for each "wire", if I remember it was no more than £300-£400 tops, reviews were done all is good. Fast forward to the last 2 issues, the text that introduces this section still states "reasonably priced" as the premise for the cables, it has said that from the beginning, then why review a Nordost mains lead for £1300 and speaker cables for £2670.00 and last month Atlas speaker cables for £1700, affordable indeed! This months edition had about 10 pages of customers letters in, somethings amiss there. Final gripe, they have been reviewing the audiolab mdac for the last 4 months, never appears, come on peeps its nearly 2 years old now that dac!
Short of new material? No, surely not.
I don't see it as an issue at all as the review sections in most mags these days either deal with the unaffordable (to many) or the reviews act as a way of presenting new gear. Speaking to many of my clients, there are few journalists whose opinions are really trusted partly as the reviews are not in context with any system/room other than that of the person(s) doing the review. If you really want to know what people think of kit these days, the interweb seems to be the obvious place to look (forums) and it doesn't take long to learn than in many cases, common consensus is not a given (for the same reasons as the reviewer review). Magazines are a good way of presenting your company/products to the masses and despite the down-turn in readership across the board, they still reach thousands of enthusiasts. The better heeled seem to be the main market though and things like vinyl replay are ever more banished as niche sectors or omitted entirely. Its a numbers game and one of demographics. Most spend seems to be in the 30 something to 50 something well heeled bracket, so the systems and reviews seem mostly targeted to that bracket.
Ammonite Audio
03-07-2013, 19:44
I find HiFi Critic too Naim-centric 'Flat-earth old brigade' for me, but I realise why you'd like it ;)
Marco.
That's a bit unfair - I have the latest 'Critic in front of me, and Naim feature only once in a pot-pourri piece comparing various mains cables, including one from MCRU. I genuinely believe that 'Critic is worth the money because there are quite probably more words to read in each issue than the other mags; and I continue to subscribe.
I find HiFi Critic too Naim-centric 'Flat-earth old brigade' for me, but I realise why you'd like it ;)
Marco.
:) quite
Hi Hugo,
I haven't read a copy for ages, so I take your point, but that was the impression I got when I first read the content (and that of the forum). As for words, for me, quality is much more important than quantity. If you can have both, then that's great, but I'd settle for few paragraphs of Ken Kessler's insightful and entertaining subjective prose, over reams of dreary, droning technical analysis, any day! :exactly:
Marco.
Spectral Morn
03-07-2013, 20:33
, but I'd settle for few paragraphs of Ken Kessler's insightful and entertaining subjective prose, over reams of dreary, droning technical analysis, any day! :exactly:
Marco.
Sadly though compared to his writing in News years ago it is now edited within an inch of its life, thus in my view not getting the space to develop fully as it once did.
Regards Neil
Hi Neil,
Yes, I do agree :)
Someone else I've always rated was Jason Kennedy.
Marco.
Spectral Morn
03-07-2013, 20:48
Hi Neil,
Yes, I do agree :)
Someone else I've always rated was Jason Kennedy.
Marco.
Agreed I like his writing too
Regards Neil
Colin Wonfor
04-07-2013, 06:12
I like to see a mag do some Analog DIY all I see now days in Wireless World and others is digital lies, a nice mag with reviews on kit with a DIY section with project ranging from Plug wiring to full Audio kits, like amps, pre-amps, speakers and TT.
anthonyTD
04-07-2013, 08:01
hi All,
I haven't read any of the Mags for a while now, but used to find Hi FI world and HI FI choice to be two of the more pleasurable and interesting ones to read.
I also agree on some of the comments on reviewers, Jason Kennedy' i have always found to be consistent and fair with his writings, i also got on pretty well with Roy Gregory when he was editor of HI FI Plus...
A...
Beobloke
04-07-2013, 09:30
This months edition had about 10 pages of customers letters in, somethings amiss there.
To be fair, this has always been one of Hi-Fi World's strengths, in my opinion. When I worked full-time at the magazine, I used to organise the letters pages and some months I could have filled an entire magazine with the musings of readers There was both complementary and critical, but generally, what they had to say was well worth reading.
I felt over the past few months that the letters pages seemed to be shrinking a little so, personally, I'm glad to see that the postbag is bulging once again.
Rare Bird
05-07-2013, 21:30
Anyone got the latest issue of 'Popular HiFi'?
Mr Kipling
05-07-2013, 21:30
Never picked any of mine, Adam. Bugger!
When I read the item I just saw it as Noel finding his ideal file-based system which does away with boxes and spending on mains leads and interconnects. And also gives him instant accessability together with sound quality.
Can't see him ditching his turntable.
Been reading 'World since the second issue, but have to say find little in it for me these days.
hifi_dave
06-07-2013, 08:40
I've got some 30 year old Popular Hi-Fi. Wasn't aware it was published now ?
I've got some 30 year old Popular Hi-Fi. Wasn't aware it was published now ?
It's been re-named 'Niche Market HiFi'.
hifi_dave
06-07-2013, 16:37
Is that from the same publisher as 'If you have to ask, you can't afford it News' ?
I always felt the letters pages were largely an editorial construct or just an excuse to pad out a few pages.
Mr Kipling
06-07-2013, 18:59
Why?
hifi_dave
07-07-2013, 09:11
They also pad out quite a few pages with their listings of old equipment with out of date prices.
Yes, I agree.
I got thoroughly fed up with Stereophile's 'recommended components' editions which were, for me, entirely worthless and just an excuse to not have to write any reviews or articles.
Yes, those are the worst issues of Stereophile. I also get annoyed when components they have recommended don't appear in their ratings listings. Otherwise, it's generally up there with Hi-Fi News as one of the two best mags to read.
BTH K10A
08-07-2013, 06:42
I've long since given up reading any hifi mags after having discussions with various editors, staff and contributors at hifi shows etc, only to find out just how limited their experience and knowledge was.
That's a bit unfair - I have the latest 'Critic in front of me, and Naim feature only once in a pot-pourri piece comparing various mains cables, including one from MCRU. I genuinely believe that 'Critic is worth the money because there are quite probably more words to read in each issue than the other mags; and I continue to subscribe.
If you look through all the copies of HiFi Critic from the start, there is a high Naim content. I would suggest it is disproportionately high but that is just IMO.
Why so high? Probably because a friendly shop gladly supplies new Naim gear to Critic. And probably because Colloms, Messenger and Bryant are all Naim users to differing degrees.
Naim are, admittedly, a high end brand with relatively high sales volume. But if you look at other established UK founded manufacturers, you will see that a good number of those don't get much coverage, though this might be outwith HiFi Critic's influence.
I'd settle for few paragraphs of Ken Kessler's insightful and entertaining subjective prose,
Oddly, I absolutely cannot stand Ken Kessler's writing (it's not really reviewing). It so painfully formulaic I wouldn't be surprised if his articles weren't written from a database of cliche terms! Start of with a rambling preamble, throw in a few Yiddish slang terms, mention vintage watches, use a bunch of convoluted similes, print the manufacturers description (mention watches again), give it two thumbs up and the job is done!
walpurgis
27-07-2013, 23:48
I quite like old KKK.
Oh sorry, that should be KK. :)
Just a joke, I think Ken's OK.
Ho ho - spot on!
I like Ken's enthusiasm (or should that read 'purple prose'), but yes - his Yiddish slang, horological and automobile anecdotes, do get to you. I assume not everyone understands his Yiddish colloquialisms, or yet his commercial 'lingo'. :scratch:
Kessler is full of prose (verbal diarrhoea in other words), and that's about it really. In my opinion, the HiFi equivalent of the now deceased motoring journalist LJK Setright, who used to write pages of entertaining 'nothing' for 'Car' magazine... KK writes for many different publications, audio being just one string to the bow. it would appear that most of not all the Absolute Sounds portfolio is given to him to review and he seems to love playing to the worldwide uber-rich who buy this stuff. HFN is a VERY tiny mag now anyway with miniscule circulation, so of little value to music and sensible gear lovers.
Anyone know why Adam and David left HFW?
walpurgis
28-07-2013, 10:29
Setright was a Hi-Fi 'journalist' too! I think it may have been HFP he wrote for.
The Grand Wazoo
28-07-2013, 10:50
He used to have a page in 'Audiophile' and had a rare talent of often managing self depracation yet somehow still coming across as having a rather high opinion of himself!
prestonchipfryer
28-07-2013, 11:00
HFN is a VERY tiny mag now anyway with miniscule circulation, so of little value to music and sensible gear lovers.
Sensible gear lovers will hate some of the ''gear'' reviewed in HFN, often with huge price tags and beyond the realms of sense (imo). :rolleyes:
Ammonite Audio
28-07-2013, 11:02
Leonard Setright was a proper musician, so at least he knew about music, as well as knowing how to write an entertaining piece. How many audio 'experts' , either professional or amateur, can claim the same thing? We are very lucky here on AoS to have professional musicians like Gromit to bring us down to earth when it comes to describing the audiophile stuff.
I rather enjoy reading pieces by Rafael Todes for this reason (he does write for HiFi Critic as well as HFW).
[QUOTE=DSJR;465824]Kessler is full of prose (verbal diarrhoea in other words), and that's about it really. In my opinion, the HiFi equivalent of the now deceased motoring journalist LJK Setright, who used to write pages of entertaining 'nothing' for 'Car' magazine... KK writes for many different publications, audio being just one string to the bow. it would appear that most of not all the Absolute Sounds portfolio is given to him to review and he seems to love playing to the worldwide uber-rich who buy this stuff. HFN is a VERY tiny mag now anyway with miniscule circulation, so of little value to music and sensible gear lovers./QUOTE]
Yeah, one persons enthusiastic is another's sycophantic and I'm afraid I'm with the latter camp. Setright did some writing (purple prose) for the hi-fi mags and I didn't have any time for that either as he clearly new nothing about the subject. I suspect KK sees himself as much the same kind of pundit.
KK has been one of Absolute Sounds' unofficial marketing team for some time now;
"My bestest friend Ricardo brought some new bit of kit round today - without even listening to it I knew it would redefine my expectations and is a sonic bargain" - so goes the review of every bit of the Absolute Sounds portfolio KK has ever 'reviewed'
[QUOTE=DSJR;465824]Kessler is full of prose (verbal diarrhoea in other words), and that's about it really. In my opinion, the HiFi equivalent of the now deceased motoring journalist LJK Setright, who used to write pages of entertaining 'nothing' for 'Car' magazine... KK writes for many different publications, audio being just one string to the bow. it would appear that most of not all the Absolute Sounds portfolio is given to him to review and he seems to love playing to the worldwide uber-rich who buy this stuff. HFN is a VERY tiny mag now anyway with miniscule circulation, so of little value to music and sensible gear lovers./QUOTE]
Yeah, one persons enthusiastic is another's sycophantic and I'm afraid I'm with the latter camp. Setright did some writing (purple prose) for the hi-fi mags and I didn't have any time for that either as he clearly new nothing about the subject. I suspect KK sees himself as much the same kind of pundit.
KK has been one Absolute Sounds unofficial marketing team for some time now;
"My bestest friend Ricardo brought some new bit of kit round today - without even listening to it I knew it would redefine my expectations and is a sonic bargain" - so goes the review of every bit of the Absolute Sounds portfolio KK has ever 'reviewed'
100% correct and spot on dude.
Whats 'sensible gear'?...'sensible gear lovers...' .....
:eek::hmm::hmm:
Whats 'sensible gear'?...'sensible gear lovers...' .....
:eek::hmm::hmm:
:lol:
Whats 'sensible gear'?...'sensible gear lovers...' .....
:eek::hmm::hmm:
Nothing you've got guv'nor :rofl:
hifi_dave
30-07-2013, 11:18
'Sensible gear' is anything you can afford, even if you have to save a while to buy it.
Readers of Hi-Fi Snooze and Hi-Fi Choice will consider anything with less than 4 noughts (before the decimal point) in the price, to be 'budget' and not worth considering.
amsterdam
31-07-2013, 10:55
[QUOTE=YNWaN;465861]
100% correct and spot on dude.
I quite agree, and here are some early examples, though I'm not sure that they should be attributed to KK ;)
"The Audio Research range is a recent importation of Absolute Sounds, who appear to deal with everything that's worth hearing in up-market gear like Oracle, Koetsu, Threshold, Sumiko, etc. In fact they have almost single-handedly brought me near to bankruptcy with their irresistible goodies!"
"I can't recommend the Audio Research SP-8 highly enough, it's given me so much pleasure already and a degree of reality previously unheard of (by me anyway) that I wonder how I could have tolerated less."
"Recently, however, more and more of these super quality products are being introduced from around the world by Absolute Sounds of Wimbledon. For me it started around three years back with the Koetsu Rosewood cartridge, which even now blows all other cartridges out the window - all that is except Sugano's latest masterpieces. Then there came the Oracle turntable, Threshold amplifiers, the Sumiko tone arm and most recently Audio research valve pre and power-amps. These legendary products have been raved about/drooled over by enthusiasts Worldwide for years but despite being available over here for only 12 months, they have had considerable impact on our audiophile market."
"The SP-10 is truly a landmark in the evolution of audio amplification - many will try to emulate it, most will never even get close."
Nausea inducing isn't it? No watch references or Yiddish quotes though, so who could have penned such gushing purple prose a good few months before KK arrived on the scene to collect the baton? Thank God, Glenn and Tim De P arrived on the scene to save the day!!!
Jonathan.
The Outcast
18-08-2013, 09:48
Just to add fuel to the fire of my last comment about HFW. How come NK can spread such apocolyptic views of the hi fi cult and then allow his diciples on staff to keep setting rediculous trends with regard to vintage turntables. In the latest edition we see the atributes of a long lost forgotten (apparantly gem of a...) turntable in the Kenwood KD600 DD. Yet again another example of Trigger's broom! ( As he once said in only fools and horses that he had only ever had one broom though he had repleced both the head and the shaft on numerous occasions).
I am just as guilty as anyone for doing this having a rebuilt Lenco et al, however, I must admit to being both victim and instigator of such practice. What i find frustrating is that once such publications make such claims with numerous mods and tamperings to such seventies type machines the value shoots through the ceiling that they cease to be the bargain they make out. You can be sure that people will be scanning sh-bay for Kenwood Kd600 tt's as we speak and there will also be the vultures who have them thrown in the back of their shed, attic, garage etc that will be seeing the pound signs in front of their eyes.:mental:
I think what i find frustrating is that many people who love such things end up getting ripped off as i dare think that if they happened by these devices themselves and made better of them they would indeed be the bargains they ort to be. I know of a few turntables that are amazing music machines that can be bought for peanuts but for now i am praying that HFW don't publish articles about them till iv'e bought the b......s, otherwise they will be tripple the price.
Having said all that, they are still the best of the rags and i do like some of the contributors.
Readers of Hi-Fi Snooze and Hi-Fi Choice will consider anything with less than 4 noughts (before the decimal point) in the price, to be 'budget' and not worth considering.
Oh, come off it. Ok - fine for a joke, but I sense too much sarcasm in there. Do you really think, apart from a very tiny minority of bijou brand purchasers with the big system and collection of 20 records, that most readers really think like that?
You might as well look at my system and make the same accusation and you'd be very wide of the mark. I have spent my hard earned cash where it counts in order to get the sound I want - nothing more. Ask yourself why I have a £200 Bushmaster DAC in such a system? Or a highly modded direct drive deck, for that matter? Surely the readers of which you speak would turn their noses up!
I don't believe such readers really exist, at least in any measurable quantity.
hifi_dave
18-08-2013, 16:46
That didn't come out as I meant it..:doh:
Should have been the 'writers', as the mags are full of gear at tens of thousands, not just a few thousand.
Ah ok, in that case maybe you're right. How much of it is them feeding readers' genuine requests and how much a simple desire to get their hands on endless high value items? A bit like car mags forever focussing on Porsches (yawn)?
Alan Sircom
18-08-2013, 23:02
Ah ok, in that case maybe you're right. How much of it is them feeding readers' genuine requests and how much a simple desire to get their hands on endless high value items? A bit like car mags forever focussing on Porsches (yawn)?
The desire to get your hands on endless high value items palls when you have to try to insure your home with a rolling contents cover that's worth more than the cost of the property. It palls pretty quickly after you have to spend more money on a state of the art burglar alarm than most people spend on their hi-fi system and it really goes away forever when you discover the delivery guy thinks dropping the two 100kg crates 1mm inside your front gate counts as a job well done, leaving you, a trolley rated at 50kg and Sir Isaac Newton to try and manhandle the things indoors before the rain sets in. Then when you discover that either they weren't supposed to be sent to you, one has been broken or - best of all - they'd like the review samples back by the day before yesterday, you start to realise why Noel went bat-crazy over something that makes a great sound and isn't the size of a fridge-freezer.
Car magazines write a lot about Porsches because that's what a lot of people who still read car magazines want to read about. Whether that means there are a lot of Porsche owners or a lot of wannabes in today's car magazine readerships is hard to tell. UK-based magazines all tend to use feedback from point-of-sale (alongside reader surveys, letters, emails, phone calls, website feedback, etc, etc) to help dictate content.
walpurgis
18-08-2013, 23:05
I enjoyed reading that.
Funny and true, I'm sure!
Car magazines write a lot about Porsches because that's what a lot of people who still read car magazines want to read about.
I guess Porsches are the car equivalent of Bose. Start off with a crap product (squashed Beetle with air-cooled engine slung behind the rear axle), then spend the next 30 years trying to make it perform properly.
Both are popular with readers :scratch:
I guess Porsches are the car equivalent of Bose. Start off with a crap product (squashed Beetle with air-cooled engine slung behind the rear axle), then spend the next 30 years trying to make it perform properly.
Both are popular with readers :scratch:
:D I know what you mean, maybe 25 years though by the time the 964 came out the handling was pretty well sorted...
The desire to get your hands on endless high value items palls when you have to try to insure your home with a rolling contents cover that's worth more than the cost of the property. It palls pretty quickly after you have to spend more money on a state of the art burglar alarm than most people spend on their hi-fi system and it really goes away forever when you discover the delivery guy thinks dropping the two 100kg crates 1mm inside your front gate counts as a job well done, leaving you, a trolley rated at 50kg and Sir Isaac Newton to try and manhandle the things indoors before the rain sets in. Then when you discover that either they weren't supposed to be sent to you, one has been broken or - best of all - they'd like the review samples back by the day before yesterday, you start to realise why Noel went bat-crazy over something that makes a great sound and isn't the size of a fridge-freezer.
Car magazines write a lot about Porsches because that's what a lot of people who still read car magazines want to read about. Whether that means there are a lot of Porsche owners or a lot of wannabes in today's car magazine readerships is hard to tell. UK-based magazines all tend to use feedback from point-of-sale (alongside reader surveys, letters, emails, phone calls, website feedback, etc, etc) to help dictate content.
I'd be intrigued to read what Noel might have written regarding the Vogon's tech in Hitchhiker's which turned every flat surface on Earth into the perfect transducer. How flowery do you think he'd become reviewing a microwave oven, or perhaps a garage door? ;)
or perhaps a garage door?
I have a recording I could play on that :lol:
Alan Sircom
19-08-2013, 12:47
I'd be intrigued to read what Noel might have written regarding the Vogon's tech in Hitchhiker's which turned every flat surface on Earth into the perfect transducer. How flowery do you think he'd become reviewing a microwave oven, or perhaps a garage door? ;)
Difference is Douglas Adams owned Magneplanars, and Noel's more of a Quad man.
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