Stereophile

The Art of being

THIS ISSUE: A copy can be more meaningful than the copied thing, but some things—and some people—can never be copied.

I met Art twice, and in both instances, he was exceedingly humble and gracious with his time. The first time, I thanked him for hosting the Virtues of Vintage panel at DC’s Capital Audiofest, just moments after he was verbally accosted by an unwell man seated in front of me—something about audiojournalism lingo and abstract phrases like “midrange bloom.”

Art wrote about this experience several times, in a show report and also, anecdotally, in Listening. Recently, actually.

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