Analogous to a wine connoisseur, Harry Pearson developed a whole new vocabulary to describe the performance of turntables, amplifiers, speakers and even ection cables and how they should be assembled to produce music comparable directly to the absolute sound-the sound of a real musical performance.
In the process of doing so, he created an international standard for the high end audio industry which to this day has progressed from a cottage industry to a big business.

VIVE.. What made you decide to become involved in Hi Fi in the first place?

PEARSON: I grew up in North Carolina where there was no live music and so the phonograph was very important, and almost every household had one - it was like a piano in those days. Whenever you bumped into someone who was interested in component high fidelity that person was always terrific. Just like today's high ender, you could always trust them to be very good people. It was a hobby that many of my friendships were based on in those days considering the constraints on my salary as a reporter- I was not born with any coated spoons in my mouth).