Ye Gads! They were young in that picture. I never formally met HP, and spoke to J Gordon once years ago by phone- he seemed grumpy. I forgot how much I missed their writing. I do like a few of the current reviewers, but HP's comment in the one blog post about reviewers identifying personal bias is a fair point. Unfortunately, I'm not sure some know that they have a bias, or if so, believe that it is really the pursuit of musical truth or accuracy. I still think it is very hard to isolate the sound of a component in a system without taking into account what other elements of the system (and room and set-up) are contributing. At least HP is unashamed of his 'subjective' stance in the sense that he relies on his ears, and his ability to discern sometimes subtle shadings in what the equipment is doing. I'm glad he is resurfacing in a new setting, because I've found the Absolute Sound to be very lackluster in the last few years, and his contributions there few and far between. And his writing remains vivid, if not a little a little overblown.
