That's sad. I remember both from the early days and while both had their ups and downs, the last few issues of TAS that I bought at the newstand really seemed to be lackluster. And though I found HP's prose to be a bit much sometimes, I always enjoyed reading him. I really like HiFi+, which got merged into the TAS empire a few years ago. I liked reading Roy Gregory quite a bit. Stereophile, on the other hand, seems more vibrant these days, and I look forward to reading Fremer, perhaps because of the analog focus.
What other print hi-fi magazines are still viable? I read Hi Fi News and Record Review when I can, but the rest are all online these days: DaGoGo, Tone, Positive Feedback and a few others. I don't bother much with the 'foreign language' ones, since I can't read Japanese or German, and my French is barely better than menu french.
I still have all of my old Absolute Sounds up to a point. It would be interesting to go back and re-read some of them.
FWIW, and this may simply be a reflection of the state of the print business generally (combined with the value of Manhattan real estate), there used to be extremely good 'magazine stores' in various parts of the city- tons of publications, some of them quite expensive, from all over the world. Those stores seem to have vanished in the last few years.