Herb Reichert

Fifty years ago, all audiophiles were older than me. Forty years ago, all audiophiles were the same age as me. So were all the audio manufacturers, dealers, and engineers. Thirty years ago, they were still my age. Likewise twenty years ago. But now, finally, I am a little older than the big-speakerbox two-channel guys, and considerably older than the average headphone aficionado. Praise be to progress – even if it is (as always) slow in coming.

I have been listening critically to audio systems, especially to amps driving loudspeakers, since the late 1960s; since my friend Bill Brier forced me to compare a tubed Dynaco Stereo 70 amplifier to a solid-state Dynaco Stereo 120 and listened for, what Brier called, “A proper ten octaves.”