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In Reply to: RE: A fair perspective? posted by M3 lover on November 08, 2014 at 11:45:05
...the tributes credit him with creating "high end audio" since he used the term to describe equipment which was designed to reproduce real, live music and he copyrighted it.
I haven't read anything that takes away J Gordon being the first observational/subjective audio equipment reviewer.
HP started TAS in an effort to get JGH, who he revered, to publish more frequently.
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I'm not sure that Holt deserves that credit. Julian Hirsch was reviewing audio equipment for the Audio League Report while Gordon Holt was still in college. Take a look at the 1956 issue linked below. While the reviews are mostly measurements, there are subjective evaluations of the AR-1 speaker and the Janszen electrostatic tweeter. In the latter review Hirsch even wrote about image size.
OK, I'm old. But not old enough to have been reading hi-fi mags in 1956 (and I couldn't get your sub-link to open). But I did read them starting in the late '60s. However I gave up on the "slick" monthlies once I subscribed to Stereophile in 1971 and TAS when it began publication. Even that long ago many considered "reviews" by Hirsch to be a joke -"I found component X to be representative of other products in its class".
We had a "hi-end" audio store in San Diego in the mid-'70s that some Inmates were familiar with - Audio Directions. Co-owner Ike was known for offering the occasional bits of good advice. One being, "You will only find two examples of worthwhile information in the monthly audio magazine reviews. One is the dimensions of the component which will tell you if you have enough shelf space. The other is the weight which should suggest if your shelf is strong enough to support it." ;^)
Sorry Rob but if Hirsch was doing such wonderful coverage with subjective evaluations then why did JGH feel compelled to quit his job at a glossy mag and step out to begin the first independent subjective audio review magazine? And what prompted HP to feel that was important enough to then also enter the field with an expanded and more timely version?
"You can’t know what the “best” is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn’t any such thing." HP
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