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The man did create an industry ...

which tended to revolve around him.

Who can fault someone for looking after their personal interests and no one looked after themselves better than HP. I am confident HP never wrote a Julian Hirsch type review but I could take exception to the loan arrangements of gear that HP liked. Many would find the practice a little suspect.

So much upper end stuff is very subtly shaded in their differences. One could wonder if the nod would go to the manufacturer that would allow what was ostensibly a permanent loan.

All of his grandstanding about no advertising at the start; this practice, I thought, was far more corrosive than advertising.

HP wrote many important articles in the early days. He had a great ear for other writers. No one should forget the contributions of John Cooledge and a little later Anthony Cordesman along with a few others whose names have escaped me.

I discovered the magazine at age eighteen. A copy of the first issue had been left in an Atlanta store; Dr. Cooledge was friendly with the owners. One of those fateful days when everything you thought you knew was put into question. I blame HP for my subsequent obsession!

I think HP will not be forgiven for his component of the month club. At least STEREOPHILE was published even more sporadically so one could hold onto the latest and greatest thing for a little longer.

I will never forget HP thinking a DENON direct drive table was much better than a LINN Sondek in the early days of the realization that turntables matter. There were a few more of these landmark faux pas but they have long left my memory. He would eventually see the light.

His greatest moment, in my unhunble opinion, was when it was discovered that there was broken glass underneath the stage at CARNEGIE. He had complained of the horrible sound after the re-model and said it sounded like there was glass under the stage. One could not have a more credibility affirming event than that.

Lost interest in all of those magazines in the late eighties. It all became a little insane (only to become even more insane now) and I discovered DIY audio which allows true happiness since one never has to worry about what someone you know little about thinks of the component.

The best part of HP was his love of music and music of all kinds. I learned much more about music, and that has remained a part of me, from HP than I did about components and I suspect that is how he would want the rest of us to remember him.

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