I love the pics. Albert Porter does a great job. You can't find any visuals so concentrated or easy-to-skim in the mags.
I would be happy to have a few more details on the gear in the pics but I realize this might require a disproportionate effort. (Still, audiophiles are used to disproportionate efforts... ;o)
I don't care to read a lot in the way of reports and reviews of show sound. Don't get me wrong, I like members' posts on their show experience--thanks, Slappy. They can be like reading a letter from a pal. I discovered Listener late and I enjoyed the few show reports I got to read in it, perhaps because they were unabashedly subjective, frank and still modest.
More formal pieces are rarely much fun for me. I have perused a few OK show reports online and a fair number I thought were useless. I find it a considerable effort to plow through Stereophile's.
I think show reports/reviews are very hard to do well, for two reasons. First, show circumstances can be the worst way to judge the performance of a piece of gear or a setup. I hate reading about how a show system turned out to be disappointing. Second, even when someone who is knowledgeable and can write well is doing the reporting (and this is too rare), the circumstances make depth, nuance and perspective very hard to achieve.
I would be happy to have a few more details on the gear in the pics but I realize this might require a disproportionate effort. (Still, audiophiles are used to disproportionate efforts... ;o)
I don't care to read a lot in the way of reports and reviews of show sound. Don't get me wrong, I like members' posts on their show experience--thanks, Slappy. They can be like reading a letter from a pal. I discovered Listener late and I enjoyed the few show reports I got to read in it, perhaps because they were unabashedly subjective, frank and still modest.
More formal pieces are rarely much fun for me. I have perused a few OK show reports online and a fair number I thought were useless. I find it a considerable effort to plow through Stereophile's.
I think show reports/reviews are very hard to do well, for two reasons. First, show circumstances can be the worst way to judge the performance of a piece of gear or a setup. I hate reading about how a show system turned out to be disappointing. Second, even when someone who is knowledgeable and can write well is doing the reporting (and this is too rare), the circumstances make depth, nuance and perspective very hard to achieve.