J Gordon Holt has died

[bigburner]

J Gordon Holt - the founder of Stereophile magazine - has died:

http://www.stereophile.com/news/j_gordon_holt/

There's a good 1997 interview with him here:

http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/66/

Nigel.

[Johnloudb]

Very sad news. That is a good interview, I hadn't seen that before. I also liked Ed Dell's article written about JGH for Stereophile's 25th anniversary.

http://www.stereophile.com/historical/712/

We've bought a good number of components he's reviewed over the years and have NEVER been disappointed. I met him once at the Stereophile show in San Francisco '93, I think. I just told him hello and said I enjoyed his equipment reviews, and enjoyed the equipment he recommended ... he was cordial, and shook my hand. He was a real nice guy.

R.I.P. J. Gordon Holt

[Chris D]

Huh... while I don't know him, and not familiar with his work directly, I do remember that Stereophile was the first magazine I subscribed to as a teenager/early adult. Helped me into the A/V world, and I very much appreciate that.

[krips]

I just purchased my first copy of stereophile the other day. I really enjoyed it so far. It's better than sound and vision and home theater magazine I would say, as far as having interesting products, but the prices of the products in that magazine were way up there. Sad that someone so influential has passed.