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RE: Question about your moniker

Thanks for bringing my outdated profile to my attention. I had forgotten that I had ever entered one since I haven't regularly used this site till now.

Here are the facts. I worked at TAS for less than a year upon retirement; I spent 20% of my time at TAS, not as a Reviewer (the R refers to any affiliation with the Press, not just as reviewer). I worked on what you might call business development; my major contribution in that role was structuring and conducting the acquisition of Hi Fi Plus to save it from going under.

I currently am Vice President of the League of American Orchestras and CEO of MusikMatters. I am pursuing neither of these for money; I spent 23 years making money in a far more lucrative profession, and decided to devote whatever talent and energy I still had after retiring from my main career, to the two things that I care about a lot: Audio and Classical music. Both are facing enormous challenges in sustaining their industries.

I hope you are not suggesting that anyone that had anything to do with an audio magazine is permanently barred from making any other contributions to the world of audio. I continue to shake my head at the amount of backbiting that routinely goes on in an industry that focuses its attention on infighting rather than taking on the more difficult and important challenge of figuring out ways to fight the creeping invasion of Lo Fi into the lower price levels of audio and the mainstream press that reflexively attacks the high end as a bunch of crazies and ignores the phenomenal accomplishments of this tiny market niche we all live in.


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