On Jul 27, 3:27*pm, Steven Sullivan wrote:
Scott wrote:
On Jul 21, 4:45?pm, Sonnova wrote:
I have the sad duty to report, that J. Gordon Holt, the "father of the
High-End", passed away yesterday at the age of 79. Gordon, who believed in
the worth of double-blind evaluations and eschewed the cultist trappings of
high-end audio such as cables having a sound, and elevators for speaker
cables making the cables sound better, was the originator of the "underground
audio press" and the founder of Stereophile. He had been suffering from
emphysema for some time, a result of being a life-long chain smoker.
I am proud to to have known Gordon and having been a close friend. I shall
miss him. ?
I'm not so sure JGH was always such an advocate of DBTs.
http://stereophile.com/j_gordon_holt/index1.html
"The blind leading the deaf"
I don't know about cables but you can find a plethora of reviews by
JGH in which he reports dramatic differences between the sound of
various electronics such as amps and preamps.
I am surprised how some folks from the objectivist camp have now taken
him in as some kind of hero for their cause. He was after all, the
father of subjective reviewing in audio.
Are you unfamiliar with the phenomenon of a true believer
coming to realize the flaws in his previous belief system?
It can be rather heroic.
First of all I was merely correcting what seemed to be a
mischaracterization of JGH's beliefs. I did not place any value
judgement on it. But I must have missed this alleged act of heroism.
When did JGH discuss the realization of *his* alleged "previous"
belief system? Being heroic was there any great danger and were lives
saved?