Founder of Stereophile, J. Gordon Holt, published this book in 1990.

Stereophile maintain JGH's excerpted version online as a reference - www.stereophile.com/reference/50/index.html

A few items nay be dated, but still worth swotting up on, I probably need to do so

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a unified language to describe what we are hearing was one of the first things harry pearson did when starting the absolute sound.

his "how to read the absolute sound" should also be on reading lists.

Steve Giuttenberg The Audiophiliac, attempts to demystify some of the most common, possibly over-used, audiophile terms....

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Confused by words such as - audiophile, accuracy, analytical, boxy, clean, dark, definition, depth, detail, dry, dynamics, fast, fat, forward, imaging, palpable, transparency.... ?

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