Stereophile: A Personal Odyssey

Thus my first glimpse of Larry Archibald, who three years before had bought Stereophile from J. Gordon Holt, who’d founded the magazine in 1962 and moved to Santa Fe from Pennsylvania in 1978. The magazine occupied—perhaps a better verb phrase is lurked in—what I think was a former garage or small warehouse (above) on Early Street, in a pocket semi-industrial wasteland a block from the former site of the New Mexico State Penitentiary, and next to an ancient, abandoned graveyard full of the names of the Spanish families who had settled Santa Fe in the late 16th century: Vigil, Sena, Ortega, Jaramillo, Larragoite, Trujillo, Cabeza de Vaca/Baca. This was John Atkinson, who only days before had quit his job as editor of Hi-Fi News & Record Review, and moved from London to New Mexico to become Stereophile’s new editor-in-chief, a job he held from that day until March 31 of this year.

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