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In Reply to: RE: Lamer. posted by Dale Clark on November 9, 2017 at 04:46:06:
I agree that targeting young people who listen to music via phones is a good idea. But what minorities are listening to over their phones ain't Witches Brew, Dianna Krall, Take Five, Kind Of Blue or Bach cello suites, or the music someone like Peter Brueninger uses to demo systems in his videos on youtube.
As things are now, would you really expect, say, a black or Latin to have applying for a gig writing for S'phile or another hifi mag as a high priority in their job search? Mags that virtually never mention rap unless its a negative comment and likely know nothing about who's who among rappers, virtually never use a salsa tune to evaluate phones? In short, mags that are damn near completely outta touch with what minorities or even young whites listen to via their phones.
Ya know, Dale, I'm a 70 year old white guy. I'm also a jazz musician, and kinda on the young side for my age if ya know what I mean. I subscribed to both TAS and S'phile for a long time. First I cancelled TAS and still got S'phile. But I found that every time I received the mag and started reading I ended up shaking my head. Aside from so many reviews of ridiculously priced audio equivalents of Ferrari's most reviews employed music I'd never listen to as an evaluation tool, and most of the music I do listen was VERY rarely mentioned by reviewers - and I listen to a WIDE variety of music, including jazz, classical, r&b, salsa, Brazilian, African etc.
Imagine the reaction of a 25 year old Latin guy who's into salsa reading a headphone review wherein the reviewer is rapping about how great Anne Bisson's recording sounds via $500 phones. Or an older African-American who's into listening to r&b artists like Eryka Badu, Mary J. Blige, Luther Vandross, Manhattans etc. This is of course not to mention rap music and the hundreds of millions who listen to it worldwide.
Well, the responses to my post have mostly ranged from accusing me of reverse racism to seeking to integrate hifi mags as some kind of civil rights or equal employment opportunity campaign, plus one guy amazed that a Bored member would post such racist tripe.
Hmm, so much for this subject :-)
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Follow Ups
- Yeah, I see the same thing re: headphones. - Rick W 11/9/1710:20:21 11/9/17 (2)
- RE: Yeah, I see the same thing re: headphones. - Dale Clark 12:41:34 11/9/17 (1)
- RE: "I think the market dictates what audience the publications target." - Krav Maga 16:00:39 11/9/17 (0)
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