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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

MINe 109 wrote:
In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

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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.

And kept him from expressing his own opinions in his
writing for the
magazine.

That would be the superset problem. The problem with the
advertisers was just one detail related to that.

It's odd how you add 'corrections' that undercut your earlier positions.

That led him to leave his magazine job for the newsletter
job.

You've been doing some reserach, grasshopper.

http://stereophile.com/interviews/66/

1997 wasn't so long ago.

The Stereophile thing followed.

Yeah, and I was a charter subscriber. I must have signed up
in 1962 or 1963. I seem to recall still getting new issues
related to that "1 year" subscription when I was in
Germany - 1969 or so.

Leading to the creation of TAS, according to some, because people were
tired of waiting for their next issue.

Holt's concept of audio's high end is the one that I apply
to this day - higher quality products that probably cost
quite a bit more, but provide exceptional real-world audible
performance.

So much for the current Sterephile's spew of promotions for
snake oil and other overpriced products that seem to have no
audible advantages.

'Spew' implies most products in Stereophile meet that description. Since
I don't get to hear overkill products, it's fun to read about them.
Personally, the only ultra high end stuff I've heard (Quads aside) is
the Linn CD12 and Linn switching amps, unless you count the Bad Brains
cd that has a couple of tracks mastered from Fremer's vinyl rig.

'Over-priced' is a valid opinion, but not a universal one.

Stephen