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Stereophile Staff
On a Friday night in mid-October, during cocktail hour at the Toronto Audiofest, the organizers presented their Lifetime Achievement Award to longtime Stereophile contributor Robert Deutsch.
Audiofest organizer Michel Plante invited Jim Austin, Stereophile’s new editor, onto the stage to introduce Bob.
“Tonight I have an honor that I haven’t earned,” Jim said. “I’ve been Stereophile’s editor for just eight months, and I get to present a lifetime achievement award.”
Jim then told the audience that he had asked John Atkinson, a longtime colleague of Robert Deutsch, to prepare some remarks, which he—Jim—read at the event:
Robert Deutsch first appeared in the pages of Stereophile three decades ago as the author of a letter that complained about the English usages that had been introduced by the magazine’s then-new editor, the very English John Atkinson.
Husband to the ever-patient Beverley; a dog lover; a PhD; once a university professor, teaching experimental psychology; a student of singing; possessed of a fine tenor voice; a regular performer in amateur opera; a regular attendee at’s team of writers in 1988 as a music reviewer. His first two articles published in the magazine—”The Non-Tweaker’s Guide to Tweaks” and “How to Write Manufacturer’s Comments”—combined keen-eyed observations with a sharp-edged sense of humor. An article he wrote 20 years later, drawing on his experience in psychology—“Are You a Sharpener or a Leveler?”—is one of the most insightful explorations of what it is like to be a reviewer to be published in the magazine.
