David Price leaving World?

[MCRU]

Yes according to Howard P. he is off to Hi Fi Choice. Good luck to him, decent chap and nice to talk to, hope he settles in OK and brings us some good stuff.

It's confirmed just texted David and he is off, may shake up the mags a bit! Thanks to Howard for breaking the news.

[Big Vern]

I'll echo your best wishes, David - I loaned David Price an L-07D many years back for an L-07D/Gyro bake off - and found him to be a very nice guy; great host with (no suprises here) a remarkably keen, astute ear.

I wish him well - as I do Hifi World in finding a replacement.........

[Audioman]

Looks like new owners have poached him to pep up the mag. I might be following him in my reading habit in that case. David was largely responsible for the style and approach of World even to some extent before becoming editor. After the early days (when Alan Sircom was there) and well into the Popemeisters reign I think the mag was loosing its way.

I fear things may go downhill now unless a good replacement can be found. They are up against a revived Hi-Fi news and the prospect of an improved Choice under David. Tuff competition in prospect with 2 imitators in effect, likely to steal their thunder under better resourced ownership.

[MCRU]

Looks like new owners have poached him to pep up the mag. I might be following him in my reading habit in that case. David was largely responsible for the style and approach of World even to some extent before becoming editor. After the early days (when Alan Sircom was there) and well into the Popemeisters reign I think the mag was loosing its way.

I fear things may go downhill now unless a good replacement can be found. They are up against a revived Hi-Fi news and the prospect of an improved Choice under David. Tuff competition in prospect with 2 imitators in effect, likely to steal their thunder under better resourced ownership.

I buy all 3 mags anyway, world , choice and news, even though they mostly have the same first 6-8 pages with new stuff in and then reviews of kit no one can afford and then a bit of vinyl stuff and plenty of ads!

[Dominic Harper]

I buy all 3 mags anyway, world , choice and news, even though they mostly have the same first 6-8 pages with new stuff in and then reviews of kit no one can afford and then a bit of vinyl stuff and plenty of ads!

Bet that includes me

[prestonchipfryer]

Will wish David Price well. It was he who first got my interest in the Technics 1200 mods, when he fitted a SME V with a Koetsu cart about three years ago and published iy in HFW. Thanks David.

John

[bigmoog]

i wish david all the best at the under new ownership choice. this means 3 hifi titles worth at least a flick through each month. thats 3 titles. we need to support them as the printed mag is fast becoming a dodo due to the lemmingmania of the download to kindlepad

[MartinT]

Good luck to David, I'm sure he'll pull up a somewhat drifting Choice to the level of News. It'll make me look at it again, for sure.

[Spectral Morn]

Looks like new owners have poached him to pep up the mag. I might be following him in my reading habit in that case. David was largely responsible for the style and approach of World even to some extent before becoming editor. After the early days (when Alan Sircom was there) and well into the Popemeisters reign I think the mag was loosing its way.

I fear things may go downhill now unless a good replacement can be found. They are up against a revived Hi-Fi news and the prospect of an improved Choice under David. Tuff competition in prospect with 2 imitators in effect, likely to steal their thunder under better resourced ownership.

Hard to see how Choice can be improved unless they abandon their format. When times got tight for me a few years back Choice was the first magazine I stopped buying and based on my occasional looks on the news agents shelf I am not missing anything as it has got worse.

I wasn't really going to comment on this thread but I am quite surprised by this move as David is moving from a magazine that is txt based i.e mostly long form articles to a more photograph based magazine with more short form articles. So unless Choice is going to move away from the comparison based review process (a flawed one in my opinion (1) to more individual long form reviews I can't see that aspect of Choice, that I don't personally like, changing any time soon.

I am curious to see what happens but like Ken Kessler's short lived move to Choice I suspect David will be back in HiFi World before too long unless he has burnt his bridges; which I hope he hasn't as World (while not a fave of mine it did survive the cull of magazines I stopped buying at the time I lost my job nearly 4 years ago, though I don't buy it every month) will be a much poorer title with David gone.


Regards D S D L

(1)

In my view one system being used to review 10 CD players or 10 pairs of speakers etc does not work as system synergy with those components is hardly possible with this reviewing approach. The products that do well only do so so as they just happen to match the test system and those that do badly fail as they don't. Does that make them flawed products no. It was possible to predict which products would do badly with Choices group reviews based on the system used and the panel doing the review, just as it is with What HiFi and their acoustically dead listening room.

[Macca]

World do tend to do at least one comparison review each issue - I think it was amps last month. I agree using the same review system for every item makes no sense.