Jana Dagdagan

When we released the "Thoughts on CES 2017" video, we received an overwhelming amount of feedback from readers who were pleased to finally be able to associate faces to the writers they had long read and revered on paper.

This video attempts to capture the essence of Stereophile writer and audio industry veteran Herb Reichert—at least as much as is possible in a 10-minute, streamed video. The lighting, background music, and close-up frames, were all stylistic choices chosen to offer the most accurate representation of Herb's personality and philosophy possible.

In doing so, we hope to transform Herb the audio reviewer into Herb the person, Herb the artist, Herb the gardener, Herb whose home I've seen, and so on. By adding depth to the Herb you know on paper, we hope that this adds depth to your understanding of Herb's writings.

In this video, Herb takes us on a partial tour of his home, aka "the Bed-Stuy bunker," including walk-throughs of his speaker and headphone collection, his audio workshop, and his painting studio. This video was shot in Brooklyn, NY in February 2017.