Re: Julian Hirsch, RIP

> Julian Hirsch, an electrical engineer and writer who was among the first
> to help a growing audience of audiophiles sort through the good, the bad
> and the indifferent in electronic sound equipment, died on Nov. 24 in
> the Bronx. He was 81 and lived in New Rochelle, N.Y.

He did nothing of the sort. Reviews of bad products were suppressed or never
written in the first place. Reviews of indifferent products were written to
avoid saying anything obviously embarrassing.

Like most reviewers -- including a big percentage of "underground" reviewers -- 
Julian Hirsch did little or nothing to advance either audio criticism or the
audio art itself.