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Anthony Cordesman (AHC) of multiple audio magazines obituary in Washington Post today.
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R.I.P. He will be missed.
" Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you"
Satchel Paige
Condolences to his family and friends.
I once bought a pair of speakers (PSB Stratus Golds) based on the strength of his review (and the idea that I was getting a great deal on them plus I owned the Stratus mini and thought it was great). I quickly learned to dislike the speaker and returned to the review to look for something I might have misread or missed in the review that would describe why I didn't like them. Nope I pretty much agreed with his description of the loudspeakers performance. A couple of hard lessons learned from that purchase.
I've seen him many times in his role as a wartime/military media correspondent (hopefully correctly labeling his role).
Sad news, rest in peace AHC. Also as sad is that there is no mention of this on the Absolute Sound website or Youtube channel.
He will be missed. Many audio reviewers today could learn from his reviewing approach.
along with another great, Bascom King (from whom I learned to read the implications of square waves). i respected that he referenced his children's music played on his equipment (or that which he was reviewing at the moment).
it wasn't much after that that tas emerged. AHC started with them much later. and much later after that, he showed up in Stereophile. i appreciated him in all those publications but only saw him a few times on TV as a war analyst.
he will be missed as is Bascom, and hp.
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So sad to hear this news. Whether it was explaining audio in articulate and understandable terms or analyzing international affairs, he had both depth and character.
He was my all-time favorite audio reviewer for decades because I eventually realized we both liked the same gear. Thus, his reviews were far more useful to me than the test reports from other magazine writers.
After Iraq and Afghanistan, who wouldn't be?
Hope he got much pleasure from that.
I see new audiophiles on very fertile ground nowadays, too.
some of us do :)
all the best,
mrh
Maybe my all-time favorite audio reviewer..... May he RIP......
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Agreed. He was one of my favorite reviewers also. I will miss him.
Yes, a great loss - if only for his reviewing chops!
Though the NYT did mention his time at TAS!
May he RIP
Happy Listening
;-(
I am sorry to read this. He was one of the original Absolute Sound reviewers along with HP, PHD, and others. I subscribed when the magazine first started. RIP
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I enjoyed his insightful and evenhanded reviews.
I was surprised then to learn of his "full time job" and see him interviewed on national news.
Another true loss.
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho
But his work as part of The Deep State definitely compromised him IMHO.
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. . . other Atlanticist MSM news sources consumed by "the educated class"? ;-)
He used His intellect to advance theories of peace...don't understand why anybody would think that is an asterisk in his life. Strategic thinking and strategic planning are two different things...the strategic planners take facts and intended outcomes and execute actions based upon the task at hand. Strategic plannners lay it out so you can play it out...and Cordesman was masterful in that art. His many books highlight that aspect as well.
I interpreted his audio reviews as also being highly intellectual. I got the sense that he was at a different level compared to other reviewers. I understood him. Maybe some people did not. Yeah, that's it. Great guy with a lasting legacy.
To ask some questions is to answer them.
Lizzie Borden said that.
Not.
john
PS: I know a lot about Strategic Studies (I applied to Air Force Academy, but was rejected on health/eyesight grounds), and I had a couple of phone chats with Tony that would curl everyone's hair. Or, as the case might be, straighten it. Tony, Neil Gader, and Scot Markwell were the ones I missed most when I voluntarily left TAS.
Alas, an asterisk will indeed always accompany his name. I can only hope it's a lesson for others.
You don't agree with his politics. Fair enough.Why the asterisk? What is the "lesson for others"? Did his life's work as a 'think tank' and DOD analyst influence/bias his avocational writing about audio equipment?
Perhaps my irony was not sufficiently apparent. I agree with you, not the poster to whom I responded, whose reference to the "deep state" in a RIP thread I found, um, both inappropriate and self-parodic.
thnx. for clarification.
Very sad news. He was always a fun read. His original review of the Martin Logan CLS lead me to audition them and that audition lead to a very quick purchase.
Life is way too short
Perhaps the most sober-minded reviewer of his day.
RIP. I will really miss him.
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.
Oh man, another great reviewer gone.
A powerful intellect.
Yes. And it showed clearly without the baggage of arrogance. I put more stock in his reviews than most others.
LowIQ
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