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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 weeks
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 10
Label: Absolute Multimedia, Inc.
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Absolute Multimedia, Inc.
Number Of Issues: 10
Publisher: Absolute Multimedia, Inc.
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Sales Rank: 553
Studio: Absolute Multimedia, Inc.
Subscription Length: 365 days

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Product Description:
Covering high-end audio equipment and music reviews. The Absolute Sound is about music and the reproduction of music in the home. Editorial mission: seek out superior audio equipment, accurately describe the sound of components, provide reference quality music recommendations, and guide readers to maximize their listening experience.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A look at the high end
This magazine is fun to read, kind of like admiring expensive watches. And I would love to be able to afford some of the equipment they cover. But when a reviewer gets all excited about a $2100 power cord ("has an effortless musicality and imparts the body and soul of complex acoustic environments with almost erie palpability"), it's hard to take them seriously. "Sound and Vision" is better for mere mortals. "The Absolute Sound" lets you see how the other half lives and occasionally chuckle at them.

Rating:

- An Excellent Magazine
The Absolute Sound is an outstanding magazine for the serious audio enthusiast. There are two main reasons why I would recommend this magazine.
The first and (to me most important) reason is that this magazine looks at the US market. Components available here are reviewed and rated according to their US price levels. Most of the high fi magazines out there today are from the UK and carry reviews and ratings based on that market. Since relative prices for the same components can be different across the pond, the ratings (which always take the price point of the component into account - eg no $500 amplifier can sound anything but bad next to something 20 times its price) in the UK magazines aren't always a good reference for US readers. Another point of difference is that that certain brands aren't available in both markets - Klipsch, Polk and Theil speakers being examples of items common in the US but not in ... Read More

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- Very High End Audio Information
This review is not intended to be worthy of its subject, but I'm surprised no one else has proferred, so here is some brief comment, until a more educated audio reader comes along (hopefully soon).

I first picked up this magazine at Tower Records last year. It only comes out once every couple of months, it is expensive, and it is thick. You will not be done getting everything out of it in just one or two brief readings. If you are "into" audio, or if you have really caught the bug, this is a magazine that will help you define the unatainable heights.... the super-expensive Ferrari-level equipment that few of us will ever own but is fun to read about. I also have found in reading just two or three issues that there are sometimes highly educational pieces that really delve into important current topics in-depth.

Absolute Sound is a sort of no-compromises, not-going-to-cave-in to the latest ... Read More

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- Absolute Sound: Taking Audio/Music Reviewing to a New Level
Two things will impress a first time reader of The Absolute Sound: 1) The distinctive "tell-i-like-it-really-is" equipment reviews, and 2) the sheer depth and breadth of music review coverage (each issue contains separate music review sections for popular, classical and jazz). Rather than bombarding you with graphs and technobabble, equipment reviews in The Absolute Sound give you a very clear idea of how components sound in the real world (and without mincing words; when components have sonic flaws, reviewers say so in plain English). Music reviews are astute and insightful, and do a lot to point you toward new music you might not otherwise discover. Finally, the editorial staff is a virtual "Who's Who" of high-end audio; the team includes editor-in-chief Robert Harley (author of well-loved Guides to High End Audio and to Home Theatre), Harry Pearson (a legend in high-end audio reviewing, and the founder of The ... Read More

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