Stereophile
{{Short description|High-end home audio magazine}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Stereophile
| logo = Stereophile logo.svg
| image_file = Stereophile December 2024 cover.webp
| image_caption = Cover for the December 2024 issue
| editor = Jim Austin
| editor2 = John Atkinson
| editor_title2 = Technical Editor
| frequency = Monthly
| total_circulation= 72,159{{cite web|url=http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp|title=eCirc for Consumer Magazines|work=Audit Bureau of Circulations|access-date=January 21, 2014|archive-date=July 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724165959/http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp|url-status=dead}}{{Update inline|date=June 2020}}
| circulation_year = June 2013
| category = High-end audio
| company = AVTech Media
| founder = J. Gordon Holt
| firstdate = September 1962
| country = United States
| based = New York City
| language = English
| website = {{URL|http://www.stereophile.com}}
| issn = 0585-2544
}}
Stereophile is a monthly American audiophile magazine which reviews high-end audio equipment, such as loudspeakers and amplifiers, and audio-related news.
History
Stereophile was founded in 1962{{cite book|author=Frank Hoffmann|title=Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FOSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2023|access-date=November 30, 2016|date=November 12, 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94950-1|page=2023}} by J. Gordon Holt. With the August 1987 issue, it started monthly publication.
In 1998, Stereophile was acquired by the Petersen Publishing Company.{{Cite web| title = Petersen Publishing Agrees to Acquire Stereophile, Inc.| work = Stereophile.com| access-date = 2019-11-11| date = 1998-05-17| url = https://www.stereophile.com/news/10170/index.html}} At this point, it was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During this period, it was published eight times a year. Petersen, which was acquired by Emap, was then sold to Primedia Inc. in 2001.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.stereophile.com/content/40-years-istereophilei-what-happened-when-page-6|title=40 Years of Stereophile: What Happened When Page 6|work=Stereophile|access-date=July 20, 2023|first=John|last=Atkinson |date= Nov 17, 2002}} Primedia sold its Enthusiast Network, a New York–based publisher of special interest magazines, to Source Interlink Media, in 2007.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/business/media/15mag.html | title=Magazine Publisher Is Selling Special-Interest Unit for $1.15 Billion | agency=Reuters | work=The New York Times | date=May 15, 2007}}
In March 2018, Stereophile was purchased, along with related magazines and websites, by AVTech Media Ltd. from The Enthusiast Network.{{Cite web| title = AVTech Media Ltd (UK) Acquires Home Tech Network From Ten Publishing Media| work = Stereophile.com| access-date = 2018-07-08| date = 2018-03-22| url = https://www.stereophile.com/content/avtech-media-ltd-uk-acquires-home-tech-network-ten-publishing-media}}
On March 1, 2019, John Atkinson, who had joined the magazine in May 1986, announced that he was stepping down from his position of editor of Stereophile, that he would continue his association with the magazine as Technical Editor, and that Jim Austin, formerly an editor at Science and a freelance contributor to Stereophile, would be taking over as Editor.{{Cite web| title = Stereophile: the Next Generation| work = Stereophile.com| access-date = 2019-07-25| date = 2019-03-01| url = https://www.stereophile.com/content/stereophile-next-generation}}
Features
Features include its annual "Records to Live For" section, where each editor and writer reviews two outstanding albums of their choice; and the bi-annual "Recommended Components" issue in which audio equipment which has been reviewed in the recent past is classified as "A, B, C or D" level components, with "A" being the most highly recommended.
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://stereophile.com}}
- [http://www.stereophile.com/features/708/ 40 Years of Stereophile: What Happened When] (as of 2002)
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