Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is.

Blind testing would be great but will NEVER happen, the powers that be have many well crafted arguements against the blind test to save their jobs and the hobby as a whole.
If people bought with their ears and not their eyes the house of cards would crumble so it remains a case of if you want to THINK it sounds better it will, and in the end I suppose there are no real victims but it is a bit pathetic that so many smart people can be so taken.

All you youngins'... talkin' 'bout my ge-generation... can eat scat.And Mr.Holt can as well.On a tangent here I know,but the truth,unvarnished,is that in America each successive generation has, and continues to, become the 'most spoiled' generation ever.And save your flamethrowers as I don't give a rat's arse about you comments to the contrary.I feel much better now.

I'm glad JGH is retired. We did change the world for the better. We gave the little guy a chance against the powerful. The conservatives have taken power back with a vengeance.
We will soon learn the damge they have done. War, pollution, corruption, have expanded exponentially. We are on the edge of depression. The first thing to go-discretionary income. Goodbye high end.

I would love to see the double-blind test happen- with our stuff in the test to boot.

I understand JGH's comments, but I fully don't agree- there are plenty of manufacturers out there other than myself who still hold to the ideal of an exact reproduction of the original musical event. There are plenty of others who have gone for 'lush' as a byword- even when the music itself is not. I disagree in that I don't see that the entire industry has sold out. Just some, the way it is in any industry...

He did have Sound Labs at one point in the early 90s when I paid him a visit. His home was a mess, cigarette butts and ashtrays everywhere, equipment laying literally everywhere and piles of magazines and newspapers. The sort of thing where you didn't want to sit down anywhere and you kept your hands in your pockets so you don't getanyonyou. Steven Stone was attempting the Sisyphean task of cleaning the place up...

Chadnliz - right on.