Printed magazines are an issue of the past. I've never purchased or read an audio or "hi-fi" magazine in my life and yet, in the past four years I've put together various stero systems and one five channel system that satisfy me enormously. I've met people like Doc, Paul Joppa or Mike Lafevre and I've met in person Paul Stubblebine and Bruce Edgar just to cite a few. I've built, designed and tried for myself fullrange speakers in open baffles, backloaded horns, direct radiators in vented boxes, front loaded horns, gainclones, SET amps, gainclones, etc. I've started a nice collection of vinyl and tapes and I have the #29 serial number at the Tape Project which I intend to maintain as long as the Project lives.
I really don't need Stereophile and I would expecft that there's at least another 199 out there like me.