Anyone ever read the listener magazine

excellent rag!

Not a bad sheet, all in all. But their fetish for all things tubed gets to me. Probably will not renew the subscription. If you want a look into a real strange mind, it's worth getting just to read Harvey "Gizmo" Rosenberg's column. I'm still trying to figure out what star system he hails from.

Level of writing is generally very good..... if you can accept their fixation on vinyl and tubes. I don't doubt their honesty; just don't share their world view.

It's good. Nice balance to overly slick 'phile and overly pompous TAS. I read them all anyway. Don't you listen to more than one radio station?

I agree (mostly) with the above comments. Harvey is great. I wont be renewing either. I think its better than Stereophile, though, and I am a big fan of TAS. It might come off as pompous, but the writing is superb and, for me, it probes the limits of the cutting edge. Way out there? Yeah, but what fun. And no, I can't afford that gear either, but I use the reviews to assist me in my own appreciation of musical reproduction.

I usually enjoy Listener, but I don't think I will renew my subscription because, frankly, I think these guys are just plain lazy. I expect a mag. that only comes out every 2 months to be chock full of goodies. I don't know what they are doing all that time, but this thing could be prepared in a week. The equip. reviews are no doubt honest, but they seem short and lacking in depth. I really want to like Gizmo,but, his stuff really is not that funny to me. I am definitely in the tube/analog camp, so I applaud their approach, but find the content lacking. Everyone liked the LP cleaning article, but it smelled like filler to me. Ditto the reviewers favorite cables article.