wrote:
Arny Krueger wrote:
MINe 109 wrote:

snip

Somehow JGH got the idea to do a subjective review
magazine.

Could you be more vague Stephen? Why not just admit that
you
didn't know what you were talking about?

There is a well-known story behind the creation of
Stereophile. You might do well to find out what it is.


Here 'tis:


http://tinyurl.com/8h4ha


A quote from JGH on his experience at High Fidelity, which
led him to
start Stereophile:

"I watched, first with incredulity and then with growing
disgust, how
the purchase of a year's advertising contract could
virtually insure a
manufacturer against publication of an unfavorable
report."

Perhaps this is why JGH left Stereophile: what he had
founded had
become that which disgusted him. :-(

I find the following (from your reference) to be quite
ironic:

"To my continuing regret, J. Gordon Holt left Stereophile in
1999 for what he perceived to be greener pastures. But it is
my pleasure to announce that Art Dudley, until recently
editor of the now-defunct Listener magazine, will be joining
our extended family as a reviewer and columnist with the
January 2003 issue."

Comparing JGH to someone who I find to be a certifiable
crazy like Dudley is quite a thing to behold.