I feel sad. For 35 years I always looked forward to receiving audio amateur publications. Now I uncertain if I should renew considering they no longer offer a digital only edition and the doubling of the price. Anything truly innivotative is covered in Elektor anyway which I do subscribe to. As an example the D. Self preamp appeared first in Elektor And not Audioxpress. Is there a viable reason to continue to subscribe? Input regarding this topic is welcome and appreciated. Thanks, Yero
I got a reminder as my subscription was coming to an end but never got round to doing it. The mag got thinner and thinner and now with a price increase I am not so sure I'd subscribe . Let me think it over and watch what's happening to the newer issues.
Besides I've just gone back to my expensive experiments with OB designs.
Besides I've just gone back to my expensive experiments with OB designs.
Ashok: Please, would you be so kind to let me know what is happening in the newer issues. I will not have access to them. Thanks, Yero
Audioxpress is aiming at a wider audience. It is getting thicker again. The authors contract allows them to reprint the articles in any of their publications without additional compensation.
It is available for free on the web in a digital edition, but slowly becoming harder to access.
It is available for free on the web in a digital edition, but slowly becoming harder to access.
I faced the same issue, i have almost every aXp publication since 1972 (?). I choose not to renew at twice the price. I let them know this too. If enuff people write in when they cancel, maybe they will be more reasonable.
dave
dave
It is not. I had an electronic subscription and the price doubled from $25/yr to $50.
I also felt that the issues i did get under the new owners were not as good as what preceded them.
I would have subscribed if the increase had been more reasonable, say to $35.
dave
planet10 thanks for your input! I have emailed most everyone at Elektor MV. I explained to them how Mr. Dell encouraged readers to go digital as a cost saving measure.the editor Mr. Abate informed me that the price reflects the content and not the method of delivery. I also spoke to Ms. Shannon Barraclough the associate editor regarding the marketability of the publication increase. They don't get it!
The content has not improved, and they are duplicating a lot of voice coil stuff that really is not the theme of aXp.
dave
Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics (US) wanted to get a broader audience -- they both pooped out shortly thereafter.
planet10, Audioxpress also had a tube anp design in there March 2012 issue which was in a past issue of Elektor. Yero
gave up on audio x press years ago.
hy$tereophile in the early 90's.
hi fi news&record review, about 10 years ago.
hifi+, after one 'reviewer' was comparing the Vendetta pre,
with other things,
said he wanted to know what some of the
internal pin arrangements were for,
then wrote that 'he couldn't very well ask (the designer) now could he?'
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hy$tereophile in the early 90's.
hi fi news&record review, about 10 years ago.
hifi+, after one 'reviewer' was comparing the Vendetta pre,
with other things,
said he wanted to know what some of the
internal pin arrangements were for,
then wrote that 'he couldn't very well ask (the designer) now could he?'
so i buy these -
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i still buy the abso!ute sound.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/lounge/211343-stewie-sy-nerding-out-audioxpress.html
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Yes Tomtt, audio mags from Japan are the best. Lovely pictures and you can't read the text. Perfect. 🙂
AudioXpress may not survive, imo.
Ed Dell retired and sold the publication to Elektor. A charity to Mr. Dell I am led to believe.
Shannon is a nice person, but knows next to nothing about audio.
I have a negative opinion of Mr. Abate, and his boss in Europe. Neither seems to care much about audio or this publication - understandably, since economically it makes little sense. Abate is editor and publisher of Circuit Cellar.
The magazine is thicker, but has little useful content, imo.
It may change for the better, but at present it seems to be recycling past authors.
Compare to LinearX? No contest.
Compare to DiyAudio.com? No contest.
Ed Dell missed the digital/web boat by a wide margin. It will be nearly impossible to catch up. AudioXpress ought to have been essentially this website if it had been done properly, imo.
Things like that awful "cross word puzzle" are an affront when I see it, a total waste of an expensive printed page.
Then too, Ed Dell refused to move to a different paper/binding/printing method - this decades back, when the writing was already on the wall and ad dollars were dropping, content slipping. It's archival quality paper, heavy stock, but I have Popular Science mags and other mags from the 50s and 60s on far thinner, lighter stock that are still just fine... so is it still necessary now??
Personally, I hope I am wrong, and that they pull that plane out of the death spin dive it is in, and fly right. I think the USA needs a good DIY audio hard copy publication. But I don't hold out much hope - they are not receptive.
Just my opinions. They have no weight and count for nothing in the greater scheme of things.
_-_-bear
Ed Dell retired and sold the publication to Elektor. A charity to Mr. Dell I am led to believe.
Shannon is a nice person, but knows next to nothing about audio.
I have a negative opinion of Mr. Abate, and his boss in Europe. Neither seems to care much about audio or this publication - understandably, since economically it makes little sense. Abate is editor and publisher of Circuit Cellar.
The magazine is thicker, but has little useful content, imo.
It may change for the better, but at present it seems to be recycling past authors.
Compare to LinearX? No contest.
Compare to DiyAudio.com? No contest.
Ed Dell missed the digital/web boat by a wide margin. It will be nearly impossible to catch up. AudioXpress ought to have been essentially this website if it had been done properly, imo.
Things like that awful "cross word puzzle" are an affront when I see it, a total waste of an expensive printed page.
Then too, Ed Dell refused to move to a different paper/binding/printing method - this decades back, when the writing was already on the wall and ad dollars were dropping, content slipping. It's archival quality paper, heavy stock, but I have Popular Science mags and other mags from the 50s and 60s on far thinner, lighter stock that are still just fine... so is it still necessary now??
Personally, I hope I am wrong, and that they pull that plane out of the death spin dive it is in, and fly right. I think the USA needs a good DIY audio hard copy publication. But I don't hold out much hope - they are not receptive.
Just my opinions. They have no weight and count for nothing in the greater scheme of things.
_-_-bear
My friend the optician keeps ancient magazines in the waiting room of his office -- and my uncle used to do the same in his dental practice. It's nice to see the thumbed-through issues of Popular Mechanics from the 1960's.
Hi, I let it go last month. Too expensive, mostly boring stuff, almost no tubes and really boring advertisement for way high audio equipment. I kept it for 2 or 3 years and often wondered why I was subscribed to it. No big loss. rparsh
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