Holt, J. Gordon

Holt, J. Gordon (19 Apr 1939–) One of the most influential journalists in audio, Holt was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, but moved early to Melbourne, Australia, where a music appreciation course in school and a then “state-of-the-art” record player introduced him to excellent sound. He started collecting records, played them on his family’s wind-up acoustical phonograph, and discovered that some phonographs sounded better than others. Holt returned to the U.S., and while earning a…