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>>[Paul Messenger] and Martin Colloms "acknowledge Peter Azcel
>>influence, while also reflecting on the paucity of serious criticism
>>in today's media."
>
>The thing that you are forgetting is that there were essentially *two*
>different versions of "The Audio Critic".
>
>When Peter first founded it, it was probably the best magazine around
>because it combined critical listening with critical technical and
>design analysis.

This is my opinion also, and I have publicly acknowledged the
influence the late-1970s Aczel had both on my own career and on audio
journalism. But after the ethically questionable Fourier episode and
the late 1980s relaunch of his magazine (directly bankrolled in large
part, I was later told, by a manufacturer whose products Azcel
repeatedly covered), that influence had been dissipated.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile


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