[net.audio] New magazine for CD's

kinmonth@null.DEC (09/05/84)

I just heard an ad on the radio (WCRB Boston) this morning for a new
magazine dealing specifically with CD's and CD players. I believe it
was called "Digital Audio". It is apparently a new startup with the
premiere issue about to come out. The number given for subscriptions
is 1-800-227-1560 (except NH which has some other number). I think
the price was $19.97. Presumably this is for a 1 year subscription to
a monthly publication, although the ad did not say what the frequency
of publication was. It will contain CD reviews, CD player reviews,
(by whom though?), etc. The first issue is supposed to contain a complete
list of every CD player currently available. (The blurb claimed that
there were around 1400 such players, which sounds way too high to me.
Now that I think about it, I must have misheard it and they must have
meant that they were publishing a complete list of CD titles available.
I could believe 1400 there...)
    There is, of course, the usual about being able to get the full
$19.97 back if you don't like the first issue. If it's decent, it could
be valuable for someone looking to buy their first CD player (like me),
or for those who want more CD reviews. But, until the first issue is
out and available for public criticism, those of you with $19.97 can
take your chances.

	Bruce Kinmonth		...decvax!decwrl!rhea!null!kinmonth

reid@Cascade.ARPA (09/06/84)

> I just heard an ad on the radio (WCRB Boston) this morning for a new
> magazine dealing specifically with CD's and CD players. I believe it
> was called "Digital Audio". It is apparently a new startup with the
> premiere issue about to come out.

I bought a copy of what must be the first issue of Digital Audio at the
local Seven-eleven last week. I think I've already thrown it away. Yes it does
contain a list of all of the CD's ever recorded. It also contains a bunch of
horribly saccharin prose about digital audio. It reviews a bunch of machines,
all favorably. It has articles about analog vs. digital (yawn). It also has
a bunch of record reviews in the back; they seem to be reasonable (i.e. the
taste of the reviewer is similar to mine in many cases). The record reviews
comment on sound quality and give information about how each record was
mastered. I guess that information is valuable, but it is certainly not
worth, to me, the price of a subscription.
	Brian Reid
	Stanford