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RE: Herb Reichert: Our Man At Stereophile

I really don't see any rigorous social science methodology making any inroads over at TAS. Herb and Art's presence at Stereophile seems to be making progress though. The late 60's and early 70's were a time when alternate ways of thinking about things proliferated, for better or worse. Stereophile and TAS were a different way of thinking about audio to counter balance what was going on at Stereo Review (which absorbed High Fidelity) where how stuff sounded was'nt mentioned much. Marshall McLuhan (remember him?) referenced a physics book from the 50's which was prefaced with a chinese parable where a man was trying to give some practical advice to a peasant on an easier way for drawing water from his well with a lever system. The peasant replied that he was not unaware of such devices, but that he would be ashamed to use them because people who use machines to do their work become machine like in their thinking. McLuhan was interested in why a physicist would be interested in a parable like this. Moving to the present time, physicist Lawrence Krauss participated in a debate on the english Institute for Art and Ideas site where he presented his conclusion that science had no need for philosophy and could proceed without it. He was roasted pretty good by the brit philosophers who countered that it was certainly important how one thinks about problems. If one is attracted to absolute concepts, it's easy to see how an absolute sound would develop from this.

Holt's 1994 "Space..." article saw the looming threat of home theater where obsessing about the soundstage would become irrelevant with multi channel sound. Also that Holt seemed shocked that hedonism was going on in his establishment. The whole thing was largely ignored in '94, but the sharper speaker manufacturers have seemed to notice what it takes to get a rave review in Stereophile.

Paul

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