Editor | Robert Harley |
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Categories | High-end audio |
Frequency | 10/year |
Founder | Harry Pearson |
Founded | 1973 |
Company | Absolute Multimedia, Inc. |
Country | United States |
Based in | Austin, Texas |
Language | English |
Website |
theabsolutesound |
ISSN | 0097-1138 |
The Absolute Sound (TAS) is an American audiophile magazine which reviews high-end audio equipment, along with recordings and comments on various music-related subjects.
The Absolute Sound was founded in 1973 by Harry Pearson, who was its editor-in-chief and publisher. In the early years, TAS was a quarterly, digest-sized magazine and accepted no advertisements. [1] During the 1970s and 1980s, TAS (along with Stereophile) was influential in the audiophile industry. [2] Pearson is credited as being the most important figure in the rise of High-End audio. [3]
Until the mid- to late 1990s, Pearson owned and directed all rights to TAS. The magazine was published by Pearson Publishing Inc., which also published a sister high-end video review magazine published quarterly called The Perfect Vision. Pearson remained the chairman of its editorial advisory board until 2006 and regularly contributed a feature entitled HP's Workshop until his departure in 2012. [2] The magazine is now published by Absolute Multimedia, Inc., of Austin, Texas.