Hi-Fi Choice mag to vanish?

[worthingpagan]

Probably true, but I suspect I was not alone in buying all three when I made my pilgrimage into town to W H Smiths. So to agree with Martin's point - more people (including me) are turning to free online resources - I don't buy any of them any more - £150 a year is better spent elsewhere. I don't expect I'm the only one.

+1

[DSJR]

Is this thread turning into a free-for-all advertising section. Christ-on-a-bike, if Ashley James had gone on a quarter of the amount some have on here, he'd have been banned for life with no redress - oh, that's right, he is.............

[Marco]

Indeed....

Remember, folks, that blatant advertising of one's blog, with links provided, (<cough>, Howard, <cough> ) is only permitted in the trade area.

Ta!

Marco.

[hifi_dave]

Are some people jumping the gun a bit here ?

Hi-Fi Choice is up for sale and not necessarily closing down.

Meanwhile, I have heard that another of our Hi-Fi mags has a circulation of just under 1200 per issue. How long before that one goes ?

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Hi-Fi Answers
Hi-Fi Sound
Popular Hi-Fi
What Hi-Fi
And the relatively newly acquired Gramophone.

And that is just Haymarket publishing - how many of them are still published - just the last two. Magazines come and go, but we are surely seeing the death knell now of paper publishing. The Sunday tabloids are showing reality, none of them make a profit and all of them are just egotists toys. Perhaps that will happen to Hi-Fi Rags, if we can find a rich enough hi-fi owning egotist

Does Abramovich or Lebedev like hi-fi ? or really any rich Russian oligarch will do.

[DSJR]

Are some people jumping the gun a bit here ?

Hi-Fi Choice is up for sale and not necessarily closing down.

Meanwhile, I have heard that another of our Hi-Fi mags has a circulation of just under 1200 per issue. How long before that one goes ?

And in the mid 90's, HFN was being slated as "only" having 12,000 sold per month compared to Gramophone's 80,000 or so..... At that point in history, WTF was selling around 50,000 copies per month I think.

[Neil McCauley]

Indeed....

Remember, folks, that blatant advertising of one's blog, with links provided, (<cough>, Howard, <cough> ) is only permitted in the trade area.

Ta!

Marco.

Yes. BIG and SINCERE apology re this. Didn't think. Am I forgiven yet?

Howard

[Neil McCauley]

Is this thread turning into a free-for-all advertising section. Christ-on-a-bike, if Ashley James had gone on a quarter of the amount some have on here, he'd have been banned for life with no redress - oh, that's right, he is.............

It's a BLOG not a bloody business. You know - a FUN THING?

No ads

Not for profit!

Havent't I given enough stuff away on this site to warranty a tiny transgression? Take, take and take rather than give & take.

Okay. Always one isn't there? Of course there is.

Now VERY SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF!

[Marco]

Yes. BIG and SINCERE apology re this. Didn't think. Am I forgiven yet?

Mais bien sur, mon ami!

Any form of self-promotion, whether for financial gain or otherwise, is frowned upon in the wrong areas, dude.

Marco.

P.S Having just read your rant, which I've deleted, I think you need to calm down and stop over-reacting.

[colinB]

Sorry for the diplomacy if its misplaced but i have no intentions of buying a Benchmark DAC at the moment but im pleased Howard provided a link to the interview with its designer. I found it very interesting.