Do you buy the mag?

[MrReaper182]

How many people reading this site buy the mag? Be honset.

 

[chebby]

I buy Hi-fi News & Record Review.

I only started buying it late last year.

 

[macdiddy]

haven't brought it for over a year and not likely to resume for now, to me at least most of the reviews of items like mobile phones, soundbars, headphones, streaming services etc have no appeal to me, I also prefer other mags like Hifi News even though most of the equipment reviewed would need a lottery win to purchase.

*music2*

 

[Deleted member 2457]

I was a subscriber for about 12 years on and off but haven't bought one or subscribed for about a year now. But it's nothing new for someone on here not to buy the mag. I would pay for the website though like £35 a year if it got better again.

 

[Gray]

I've bought all of the UK titles on and off for 5 decades, but have never had a subscription. (Hi-Fi Choice & Hi-Fi World have given me nice 'letter of the month' prizes so I'm biased into liking them)

WHF has always been the more populist title, in as much as you feel you could actually afford most of the stuff they review, you feel included.

Given the choice, I'd always prefer to read a hi-fi mag than view any website.

I've been on this site for less than 5 months but from what I've seen, I'd bet that 90% of the posters (certainly the regulars) are older than both the current readers and staff of WHF.

Strange then that WHF effectively hosts a site for all of its rivals readers.

I'll buy WHF again when they drop the kidstuff - so maybe never again?

 

[Q5]

Just cancelled my subscription, so this month will be my last.

 

[jjbomber]

How many people reading this site buy the mag? Be honset.

I cancelled my subscription a few months back. It's just smartphones, laptops and tablets now.

 

[MartinS21]

I used to buy every issue when it WAS a hifi magazine (startingI think in the 1970's) but it slowly got watered down with non hifi stuff & it got to the stage when I only bought odd issues now and then, in paricular to check the "buyers guide" when contemplating new equipment, but in the last issue I bought this was no longer included! So no, I no longer buy the magazine & there are more hifi dedicated magazines out there, so that is where my money will go.

 

[Gray]

I used to buy every issue when it WAS a hifi magazine (startingI think in the 1970's) but it slowly got watered down with non hifi stuff & it got to the stage when I only bought odd issues now and then, in paricular to check the "buyers guide" when contemplating new equipment, but in the last issue I bought this was no longer included! So no, I no longer buy the magazine & there are more hifi dedicated magazines out there, so that is where my money will go.

You're right MartinS21, in the 1970s WHF was truly a hi-fi mag.

I do feel for them though, they must read all these comments and be concerned by the amount of people stating that they have, or are going to, cancel subs.

 

[expat_mike]

I do feel for them though, they must read all these comments and be concerned by the amount of people stating that they have, or are going to, cancel subs.

I doubt that half a dozen people cancelling their subscriptions is considered worrying.

Maybe a year ago, on one of the forum threads that asked why Andrew Everard no longer wrote articles for the website, I think Andy Clough (or maybe Joe Cox) stated that Andrews pages got a few views per month, but the '10 best xxxxx' type pages received over a hundred thousand views per month. It is the '10 best xxxxx' type pages that bring in the advertising money - in contrast the lost profit on half a dozen magazine subscriptions, is small beer.

 

[The_Lhc]

I used to buy every issue when it WAS a hifi magazine (startingI think in the 1970's) but it slowly got watered down with non hifi stuff & it got to the stage when I only bought odd issues now and then, in paricular to check the "buyers guide" when contemplating new equipment, but in the last issue I bought this was no longer included!

You must have bought one of the special editions, the buyers guide is still in the normal magazine every month.

 

[The_Lhc]

How many people reading this site buy the mag? Be honset.  

I cancelled my subscription a few months back. It's just smartphones, laptops and tablets now. 

Laptops? I don't recall them ever reviewing laptops.

 

[Gray]

I do feel for them though, they must read all these comments and be concerned by the amount of people stating that they have, or are going to, cancel subs.

I doubt that half a dozen people cancelling their subscriptions is considered worrying.

Maybe a year ago, on one of the forum threads that asked why Andrew Everard no longer wrote articles for the website, I think Andy Clough (or maybe Joe Cox) stated that Andrews pages got a few views per month, but the '10 best xxxxx' type pages received over a hundred thousand views per month. It is the '10 best xxxxx' type pages that bring in the advertising money - in contrast the lost profit on half a dozen magazine subscriptions, is small beer.

Yeah I spose you're right. I can see how the rest of their website could be extremely popular. According to my ad block counter they're making a fortune.

 

[expat_mike]

How many people reading this site buy the mag? Be honset.

I cancelled my subscription a few months back. It's just smartphones, laptops and tablets now.

Laptops? I don't recall them ever reviewing laptops.

I think they get occasionally mentioned, in articles that describe music systems based around the computer as a music source - but not in what you would call a standard hifi review.

 

[chrisr1718]

the buyers guide is still in the normal magazine every month.

The buyers guide is not still in the magazine! It's been replaced with the Award winners/5 star guide, and then only the current ones.

The current pages they call "buyers guide" is a mere shadow of its former self!

 

[The_Lhc]

the buyers guide is still in the normal magazine every month.

The buyers guide is not still in the magazine! It's been replaced with the Award winners/5 star guide, and then only the current ones.

The current pages they call "buyers guide" is a mere shadow of its former self!

Well, it looks like a duck...

 

[Paul.]

I've not bought one since 2003.

 

[spiny norman]

Well, it looks like a duck...

But how do you get down from an elephant?

 

[The_Lhc]

Well, it looks like a duck...

But how do you get down from an elephant?

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

 

[spiny norman]

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

This?

 

[MrReaper182]

I finding puzzling why people who don't buy the mag come onto the website. If you don't like the mag then why are you hear?

 

[Deleted member 2457]

I finding puzzling why people who don't buy the mag come onto the website. If you don't like the mag then why are you hear?

Because it's amazing - why else? *biggrin*

 

[MrReaper182]

I finding puzzling why people who don't buy the mag come onto the website. If you don't like the mag then why are you hear?

Because it's amazing - why else? *biggrin*

But without the mag their would be no site so no matter how "amazing" site is people need to buy the mag to keep this site going if they like using it.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

I finding puzzling why people who don't buy the mag come onto the website. If you don't like the mag then why are you hear?

Because it's amazing - why else? *biggrin*

But without the mag their would be no site so no matter how "amazing" site is people need to buy the mag to keep this site going if they like using it.

I know people don't care that much.

 

[Paul.]

I joined the forum because I had questions about things I couldn't find answers to. Seems odd claiming I shouldn't be here if I don't read the mag when I wanted access to the magazines readers, not the mag itself.