Stereophile is great, entertaining I read it every month cover to cover. Some of the stuff is so absurd, I can't NOT read it. I've read subscribed to StereoPhile back when Gordon Holt was praising Dynaco PAT-4...then the updated PAT-5 biFET. Back then their was a lot of reality based stuff, he loved Audio Research stuff, at the same time also heard the genius of Dynaco and Hafler stuff, I think even checked out some AVA. AR TT's priced at $69 And they were musical and worked forever. I didn't get rid of my AR-XB for over 25 years.Current StereoPhile seems to ignore a lot of stuff that has a more realistic approach to great sound reproduction, priced for mortals, and delievering great sound. The extreme fringe of $100,000 TT's $45K CD only players are actually comical, and highly entertaining, how writers like MF just lay on the praise, make it seem like the sound is so much better than anything ever made before....when in reality, it's pure BS. I still say MF couldn't tell which CD/SACD player was playing between a good Philips EMMLABS, Onkyo, Marantz etc, priced in the few thousands,(or even a Philips for a few hundred!) versus his absurd Zander types, or whatever else in previous issues that had goofy shapes and extreme prices. Let alone knowing if his demagnetized LP was played on a sorta mortal priced VPI MKII or MKIV with a JMW arm or his RockPort or continum..and just a few years ago the TT they use in the Library of Congress was the ULTIMATE...man, he drops ultimates, at the drop of the next higher priced TT. Or some of teh absurd phono pre amp components going for tens of thousands of dollars, one ultimate replacing next months ultimate. Without JA doing reality based measurements and observations, MF and his type would be out of control!!!! Like they ain't now? Nothing like a battery powered phone stage for tens of thousands of dollars!!! How does the phone ckt know or care where it gets it DC supplies. Like power supplies haven't been perfected for low noise, etc...I'm sure someone will have audio grade BATTERIES too. around acolades each month like everything is the next breakthrough, it's ENTERTAINING....can't get enough of it