What Hifi Sound and Vision is!

Being on holiday (a laugh in itself, given the weather so far and the
*amount* of digging I've done today....) I relented and asked Swimbo for
a 'maggie' when she went shopping just now. (I have/had given them up as
****-boring and pompous 'agenda peddlers' who are obviously too damn
scared of their advertisers to call a spade a spade...)

Anyway, she bought me WHFS&V and I thought 'Oh, Gawd!' when I saw it.
(Hifi for Chavs, I've always thought!!)

How wrong I was/am - summat for everybody (and I mean *everybody*),
almost zero turgid technohorse****, no meandering, meaningless ********
while the writer tries to show how eclectic and obscure his record
collection is (while his spell-checker lets his ignorance of the English
language shine through on every page), as well as covering all sorts of
products all the way up to a 33K (yes - that £33,000!) CDP and, wait for
it, giving a 1,000 quid Onkyo M/C Receiver 5 stars over a 1,200 quid
Arcam equivalent's paltry 3 stars!!!

(It's not that I have anything against Arcam particularly, but I do
bloody hate the way it gets automatic reverence as 'trad Brit' kit
here - when all we ever see is posts about it breaking down and having
myself seen the knobs easily pulled off one by a John Lewis salesman!)

Best bit (apart from the HDDVD/Bluray shoot-out I haven't yet read) - no
****ing *valves or vinyl* from what I've seen so far!!!

Yes, I know I tend to prefer and use both myself, but I have gotten
(?? - OK in the US, but does it work here? Maybe not, make that
'become') sick to the back teeth of seeing them routinely pounded to
death in the maggies simply because they have both now become *trendy*
and are obviously proving to be advertising money-spinners! (Also, I
don't hate sexy SS kit, contrary to what a few here might think!!)

The much-reviled 5 star system? - No harder to ignore than certain
writers who claim 'We don't review ****e, because there's no point!' or
the 'globes' or whatever in the other comix...

Discuss/don't discuss - it's your call...