I spend alot of time travelling around the country on business by train and often I buy various hifi mags to read. I in the last few months have read all of the following, at least two issues. HiFi + HiFi news Hifi World Hifi choice Stereophile and What hifi (For the adverts my brother wanted a cheap surround set) Several things have been apparent to me. Magazines spout more crap than sense and make contradictory statements, even in the same issue of the same mag. The people involved live in a la la land where a 2k amp is "budget" and a 300 pound needle is "entry level" I mean I'm not skint but bearing in mind the avarage schmo spends 500 quid on the lot where do they get these numbers for fucks sake. They have dreadful musical taste on the whole, seeming to focus on "test" music or the flavour of the month. Finally how can they hold up this years amp/tuner/cd/TT ec as "loads, miles, tons, heaps" etc beter than last years when really there might be a 2% difference which often is not necessarly better. What is the sense of a review that focuses on very subjective measurements and impressions of a component that costs more than a house and will never be bought by more than 30 odd people who I imagine don't read magazines to compile their short list? And finally and the most incredible thing is the number of ads vs editorial it takes the piss if you ask me. The only mag that seems OK ish is Stereophile and that's only cos it takes more than 40 minutes to read but then again they really go on and on........ Who here buys mags and if so, why? Jools By the way and I'll say it again check out these boys [URL="http://www.audes.ee"]www.audes.ee[/URL]