The Team Behind STEREO GUIDE
On STEREO GUIDE, the HiFi magazine for guides, reviews, and technology, you will find competent and independent reviews for Bluetooth speakers, headphones, and car HiFi from experienced, critical journalists. Authors who write for well-known international special interest magazines like AUDIO, stereoplay, or LowBeats.
Stefan Schickedanz
The editor-in-chief of STEREO GUIDE has been testing as a HiFi expert for print and online magazines such as AUDIO, stereoplay, LowBeats, FAZ Kaufkompass, and HIFI-IFAs for over three decades. Besides cultivated music reproduction, he enjoys fast cars – preferably classic cars – with rich sound. He also reports regularly on this topic, not least on this platform.
Andreas Günther
Our author has combined two dream professions. He is a trained journalist and also completed a degree in opera directing. This also means: The man can hear – and always compare the live impression from opera and concert halls with recorded sound offerings. Audiophile show is nice, but musical truth is far more important.
Dr. Ian Kuah
Dr. Ian Kuah began his professional life as an architect with a business diploma. However, his passion for cars led him to change his career path in 1983 when he began an international career in the automotive industry as a test driver, author, and photographer. As a Porsche 911 driver and enthusiast, he was one of the first authors for the independent publications 911 & Porsche World and Total 911 in the UK, as well as Flat 6 in France. Since 1996, he has been the European editor for the independent US Porsche magazine Excellence and, since 2001, for the British magazine Mercedes Enthusiast.
Andrew Weber
Andrew Weber belongs to Generation X and has a resume that occasionally makes even LinkedIn capitulate. After training as an electronics technician, his path led him through an internship at Hamburg’s taz to music and youth magazines, and later to TVdirekt. At some point, all that became too glamorous for him, so he worked as a freelance journalist for, among others, the Münchner Merkur. Today, he primarily writes company profiles, background stories, and anything that doesn’t fit into a fixed category for LowBeats. He also often finds typos where others see none.
Karl von Gagern
The youngest author on the STEREO GUIDE editorial team lives and breathes video games, making him our go-to person for gaming headsets. The son of a sought-after electronics and software author, he created his first YouTube channel in elementary school and edited his first videos. The passionate gamer loves to teach himself skills using the internet, from video editing in Premiere Pro to chess and complex numbers. He recently launched his own YouTube channel in cooperation with STEREO GUIDE, featuring video reviews that we will also integrate into his test reports in the future.