This is the first intro I've written for the mag. This issue of Tape Op coincides with the AES show in New York City where Larry, Andy, Laura and I will be hanging out with other audio geeks preaching the gospel of Tape Op. This marks a milestone of sorts. Six years ago I was at the AES show in San Francisco passing out copies of Tape Op #10, a black and white zine with almost no advertising in it to any one who would look at it. I thought it was the coolest audio mag I'd ever seen, but almost nobody at the show seemed interested. Nonetheless, I asked Larry if I could help him broaden Tape Op's distribution because I thought more people should see the mag than the 200 or so subscribers at the time.
Now, six years later, we're tied with our friends at EQ as the third largest (in circulation) recording magazine in the world! And, of the 40,000 copies of Tape Op that we print, over 35,000 of them go out to subscribers. This brings me to the reason why I'm writing this intro and not Larry.