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Stereophile was founded in 1962 [2] by J. Gordon Holt. With the August 1987 issue, it started monthly publication. In 1998, Stereophile was acquired by the Petersen Publishing Company. [3] At this point, it was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [2] During this period, it was published eight times a year. [2]
J. Gordon Holt in 2005. Justin Gordon Holt (19 April 1930 – 20 July 2009) was an audio engineer and the founder of Stereophile magazine, and is widely considered to be the founder of the high-end audio movement, which promoted the philosophy of judging sound quality by subjective tests, generally with "cost no object" sound components, including loudspeakers, turntables, amplifiers, vacuum ...
A review of the 901 by Stereophile magazine in 1979 concluded: [29] If we were to judge the 901 in terms of the best sound available, then, we would say that it produces a more realistic semblance of natural ambience than any other speaker system, but we would characterize it as unexceptional in all other respects.
[2] [4] Stereophile magazine called the NAD 3020 "ridiculously inexpensive". [5] It was the first integrated amplifier built with convincing ability to drive difficult loudspeaker loads, and a sound quality that far exceeded other integrated amplifiers at its price point for the time. [2]
In 2004, Stereophile said it was "a classic, a revolutionary, an iconoclast, a survivor." [5] In 2011, ranking the LP12 the second "Most Significant Turntables of All Time" for The Absolute Sound, Robert Harley said: "It’s impossible to imagine the high-end industry without the LP12". [3]
In 1985, Stereophile magazine challenged Bob to copy a Conrad-Johnson Premier Four (the make and model was not named then, but revealed later) amplifier at their offices in New Mexico within 48 hours. The Conrad Johnson amplifiers were one of the most highly regarded amplifiers of the day, costing in excess of $6,000 a pair.
Michael Alan Fremer (born 1947) [2] is an American music journalist, YouTuber, and voice actor from New York City, known for writing about audiophile equipment and vinyl. [3] ...
TARA Labs was established in 1984. As in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, TARA Labs had experimented with solid core conductors of different diameters.