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In Reply to: Take this simple test... posted by mkuller on February 24, 2007 at 17:15:00:
I was a charter subscriber to TAS and for the first few years I read and enjoyed it as an addition to Stereophile.However, your "test" looses on at least 3 out of 4 counts. I happen to have a duplicate copy of Stereophile, #2-71, identified as Late Summer 1971, with my handwritten note I received it in July '71 (unfortunately I sold my first several years' issues some time ago). The Recommended Components list in that issue includes:
Audio Research SP-2c preamp
Infinity preamp
Audio Research Dual-50D amp
Infinity SS-I speakers
Infinity 2000A speakersIn addition, "Quickies" reviews include the Infinity 2000A, and Audio Research SP-2C and Dual-50D with full reviews promised for the next issue. Under "Miscellany", there is discussion of a new Audio Research speaker, a magnetic system that behaves like an electrostatic and uses large-area ultra-light-weight Mylar sheets as radiators. Many of us elder audiophiles know the original Magnaplanar speakers were distributed by ARC and sold under their name. So, here is J. Gordon reviewing or introducing three products out of four from your evidence list two years prior to Volume 1, Issue 1 of TAS. I'm not certain but I don't believe C-J existed at that point in time.
While I will acknowledge that HP initiated many factors of high end product reviewing, I will not concede that he created high end audio - except perhaps in his own mind.
Follow Ups:
...Infinity 2000A speaker in Stereo Review in about 1972.Julian Hirsch gave it an A-.
That doesn't mean he had anything to do with the creation of High End audio.
Perhaps 'raising audiphile's awarenes of High End audio' is more descriptive of what HP and TAS did.
I knew about Audio Research long before the Absolute Sound started publishing. I owned one of William Johnson's modified Dynaco PAS-3xs (wish I still had it) when he was still operating as Electronics Industries (I think I am remembering that correctly). And I heard the Maggie T-1Us at my local dealer, Douglas Dynamics, before the Absolute Sound mentioned Magneplanar. As has been noted J Gordon Holt did cover much of this stuff first.
HP may want to believe that he invented high-end but it just isn't so.
I can't claim to have heard them all at the time of their original release but to me high-end started with the Quad ESL-57, Marantz 7/8B/9/10B series, the KLH 9s, HK Citation 1 & 2, etc. The dance had already started long before The Absolute Sound started publishing.
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