The Editor’s Exit
The clock has struck midnight. And thus ends my tenure as Editor of Sound & Vision. It was a tremendous experience, I learned a lot including how to put together a magazine.
Sound & Vision’s origins date all the way back to 1958, when HiFi & Music Review first published. It became Stereo Review in 1968, that is the title I first encountered as a kid with an interest in hi-fi. In 1999 the magazine changed its title once again, ultimately landing on Sound & Vision. Basically, it’s older than I am.
Leaving a good job that you enjoy is not easy! But the reality is that while high-end audio remains a niche served by niche publications, the world of AV is covered by large and well-equipped media organizations like Wirecutter and CNET and Consumer Reports and Rtings, as well as specialist sites like Projector Central and Projector Reviews.
So what’s next? For one, OKhuman. That’s an app that proves a human wrote what they said they wrote. We may wish it was not so, but thanks to AI, the “Photoshop Effect” is hitting text. People don’t know if what they read is real or an AI hallucination. And the solution to that is not some mix of typos and bad grammar and AI detectors. It restores trust in the veracity of the source of what you read, so that the discussion can be about what is said and not how it was written.
This post is “stamped” click on the URL at the end of this post to see OKhuman do its thing. If you are in PR or marketing, let’s schedule a meeting and talk about the value of provably human writing in an AI saturated world.
I’ll also be more active in my Facebook group, Audiophiles on a Budget. It is sheer coincidence yet a great example of Kismet timing that Facebook changed its policy on large groups changing from private to public. But it did happen last month. So, after a decade of growth to 65K members, AOAB is now a public group so please join if you don’t belong already. Link in comments. And I have agreed to do some reviews for Stereophile.
The big deal is that I am free to be creative. Looking forward to 2026.
