MINe 109 wrote:


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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?

He gradually realized that measurements-only reviews didn't tell him
enough about what components sounded like.


Let's not forget that JGH praised ABX as "the first significant
contribution to the audio field in years" some 20+ years *after* he
founded Stereophile. Clearly, JGH believed in listening both sighted
and blind. That's good for consumers, not so good for advertisers.


Sure, it was a long road, but so was JA's.


Unfortunately, JA's road has changed Stereophile into $tereopile. IOW,
the magazine is now just the kind of advertiser driven magazine that
led Holt to found the original Stereophile as an alternative in the
first place.