If you’ve got money to burn, you can probably afford not to read the

Audio Perfectionist Journal.

You can choose audio components by trial and error from a baffling number of manufacturers. You can assume that more expensive products always perform better. You can assemble audio systems with no specific goal and no comprehensive plan to achieve this goal.

You can get amateur advice from people who may have no more knowledge or experience than you. The information you receive may be right or completely wrong and you’ll never know until after you’ve spent big money.

You can get “professional” advice from people who are biased by a self-serving agenda. They may be selling products or they may be selling advertising to the people who sell products. In either case, your interests are, at best, a secondary matter of concern. Their advice is likely to provide a satisfying boost in income for them but it may not result in long-term musical satisfaction for you.

When considering a substantial investment in home entertainment systems or components, wise consumers won’t rely entirely on the rhetorical comments of inexperienced amateurs, or the advertising claims of manufacturers, or the product reviews in magazines which sell advertising space to these manufacturers. Wise consumers won’t be manipulated by retail salespeople.

If you are about to spend big money on a home entertainment system or upgrade, you need unbiased professional advice from experts with decades of experience in real homes like yours—experts who aren’t economically or politically motivated to promote the wares of any particular manufacturer.

How much did your last audio mistake cost?

Did you buy a megabuck surround sound processor and expect high-end audio performance for music? Did you buy a single-ended triode amplifier and expect to get extended treble response and tight bass? Did you purchase loudspeakers with steep-slope filters and expect accurate waveform replication? Did you invest as much as the cost of a luxury car on room acoustic treatment and end up with an anechoic room that’s an uncomfortable place in which to sit and talk? These costly mistakes can be easily avoided with a little additional knowledge and very little work on your part.

Now you can receive useful advice about your home entertainment system from real audio experts who aren’t selling anything but information.

There is a new resource for accurate technical information and professional advice from real audio experts who work for you, the consumer, not for advertisers or manufacturers. This resource is organized into specific categories and published every few months. Each issue of this unique publication costs less than a high quality record.

Introducing the Audio Perfectionist Journal, a unique publication for those who want to learn how to improve their home listening experience.

The Journal is an instructional publication that will increase your knowledge and provide you with the tools you need to make informed purchasing decisions. The Journal is reader supported and accepts no advertising. We work for you, not for advertisers. We publish facts that demystify the subject of high-end audio. Our opinions about audio components are substantiated by these facts and are completely candid and free from economic bias.

The Journal is based on Richard Hardesty’s high-fidelity approach to home music reproduction and home theater. The Journal provides a comprehensive, step by step plan for achieving high fidelity audio reproduction in the home, regardless of the source material. Content is organized into subject categories and presented as a complete reference for that specific subject. Product reviews are grouped by category and direct comparisons between competing products are presented. We don’t pull punches.

This new source of candid, unbiased information about home audio reproduction is now available.

The Journal is not a magazine. In fact we help to keep the magazines honest by critiquing their content. Read the Watch Dog articles on the Audio Perfectionist web site for examples. We don’t publish every month eliminating the necessity to charge for advertising to pay the monthly bills. We collect and verify information and present it in an organized, logical fashion.

Not a magazine substitute.

The Journal is not intended to be a substitute for magazines, which often contain topical information, entertaining columns from colorful writers and lots of interesting ads. The Journal is an additional resource for information that you won’t find anywhere else.

Each Journal provides a collection of reference materials that you will return to again and again as you develop your own listening skills and knowledge. Technical articles explain, in the simplest terms possible, how things work. Technical information is applied in the product reviews that follow to help you separate products based on objective evaluation. This objective technical information, along with our candid subjective opinions, will help you choose the best components for your home audio system. You won’t be intimidated in the showroom after you’ve read the Journal.

The Journal is not just another collection of ambiguous product reviews that present the paraphrased claims of advertisers and the opinions of inexperienced writers. We at the Journal have the technical knowledge required to challenge or refute the claims of manufacturers and we don’t simply pass on exaggerated performance claims or repeat the manufacturer’s sales pitch about “snake oil” engineering and “performance breakthroughs.” We are not afraid to criticize products that perform poorly or cost too much because we work for readers not advertisers.

Expensive doesn’t always mean better.

We don’t accept advertising. We aren’t biased towards expensive components and big advertisers. We don’t simply accept that products costing more perform better. In fact, we frequently find that the opposite is true. We produce content for the benefit of readers not advertisers. Our opinions are completely candid. We purchase our reference components and don’t owe allegiance to anything or anybody except our readers.

The Audio Perfectionist Journal delivers candid opinions free from bias, and expert advice based on real-world experience, that you simply can’t get anywhere else.

Products you can afford often perform better than those designed for the “carriage trade.” We won’t buy over-priced components that don’t provide better performance and we won’t recommend that you buy them either. We want exactly what you want: the best sound for our money. We know how to get better audio performance while spending less hard-earned cash, due to our decades of real-world experience. We’ll tell you how to get the highest audio performance that your investment can deliver. That optimized level of performance, from the components you may already own, may be all you need.

We cover topics that will increase your satisfaction from home music reproduction, whatever your musical tastes may be.

We are audiophiles who love music. The Journal conforms to Richard Hardesty’s high fidelity approach to home music reproduction. This comprehensive method of choosing and adjusting an audio system has proven, over nearly four decades of actual audio experience in homes like yours, to provide the highest level of long-term musical satisfaction. We use our personal audio equipment for movie sound too. You can enjoy excellent home theater performance without spoiling your musical satisfaction. We’ll show you how.

Order today and learn how to maximize your musical enjoyment at home!

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