AS WE SEE IT
A Reviewing Life It’s been 30 years since I began work on my very first equipment report, of the Goldbug Brier moving-coil phono cartridge, for Hi-Fi News & Record Review. That review appeared in the British magazine’s May 1983 issue; I have lost track of how many equipment reviews I’ve written since then, but my review of the Vandersteen Treo loudspeaker in this issue is at least my 500th. I touched on the subject of reviews in my Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture, “Where Did the Negative Frequencies Go?,” which I was invited to give on October 21, 2011, at the 131st Audio Engineering Society Convention, in New York City (see http://tinyurl.com/cx9j4j4). I had mentioned in that lecture that my education in electronics and audio was based exclusively on tubes. Even the…