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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.

More specifically, JGH realized that in the late 1950s. It
seems that the radical subjectivists would like us to
believe that nothing changed related to measurements in the
past 50 years.

However, my quote shows that the most important motivator
for JGH in those days was not the then-retarded state of
measurements, but the way that advertisers changed editorial
policy in their favor.

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.

JGH saw that DBTs could shed a lot of light on audio
controversies. JA seems to have realized that resolving
those controversies would have serious negative impact on
enough SP advertisers to hurt the magazine financially.

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

It seems like JA had too much formal education in hard
science to beg off on the grounds of ignorance. However, the
means that he used to resolve the apparent contradiction
between DBTs and his own listening perceptions looks pretty
much like an abandoment of science.

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.

Agreed. It appears that eventually the JA-induced stink got
too much for JGH, so he ended up abandoning his offspring
because it had become too unruly and painful.