Harry Pearson started a few months back his own site and posted a few days back a curios post:

http://www.hpsoundings.com/2013/04/why-i-quit-the-absolute-sound/

With all universal appreciation and understanding the health situation we was involved and respecting his perspective about audio after the events, I have to admit that the position he is taken is very mach what he has been doing for last 20 years – to pimp audio industry for new “equipment”. Harry Pearson drummed up many companies and many products, it was done “professionally” with necessary graze of   showy “spirituality” and reasoning but under the bottom of any Mr. Pearson thinking always was how to make new equipment more sealable. So, all his today complain about TAS and what is has become is just a very logical outcome of what Harry Pearson has been doing for years. I do not know what TAS has become – I do not read audio periodics for 6 years but I very much can predict what agenda they have and what the new Pearsons are doodling in there.

Harry Pearson with his “new” site and his “new” objective is not really anything new. It is just an old guy who was fucking up the industry for year and run it to the ground and now is bitching about the sad state of the industry and   looking for a fake cathartic perspective. Sorry, I have no sympathy, besides the sympathy on human level.  New generation of audio maker is growing up, new dozens of people soldering their audio for sale in basements need somebody to tell to their perspective customers that they exist. Harry Pearson is still available and this was exactly what his was doing all his life – creating a fake customers frustrations around the futures that new audio products were offering.  I do feel that at the very beginning of his public audio career Mr. Pearson did express curiosity to audio subject as he turn full time “professional” his audio thinking become worthless and he turn himself into audio data provider.

Stitch wrote:

Everyone (Reviewer) has his own kind of way to stay in this business. Most buy their stuff at reviewers price from manufacturer, some start with their own gear and think about upgrades and how it can be done ( is a "recommendation " review better for my price than "it's bullshit, but I like it and buy it.."), some get loaners from manufacturers, some are corrupt, some want support for their private websites, some pay the ads with hardware....anyway.... even when HP writes about loosing the soul of music, when you see his systems you will ask yourself automatically: Did he buy that stuff??? I don't think so. HP's music taste is good, no doubt, but also his flavor for super expensive components. When I strip all that down, we come to the Emperor with his new clothes.... there is no real independence. So, at the end of the day: forget it.