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Harry Pearson Estate Contents Go On the Auction Block

Michael Fremer  |  Dec 19, 2015

Personal effects belonging to the late Harry Pearson, founder of The Absolute Sound—and it can be argued the modern high performance audio industry, are currently being auctioned on Audiogon and Ebay.

A good deal of Pearson's audio gear was stolen from his home by high end ghouls who twice invaded the premises, but much apparently remains, including books, CDs, records and personal effects.

I tried following the instructions in the graphic but found nothing on Audiogon and only and single lot of old The Absolute Sounds on Ebay.

However, I feel duty bound to report the existence of these auctions. Hopefully more will show soon up on these sites. RIP Harry Pearson.

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mraudioguru's picture
Submitted by mraudioguru on Sat, 2015-12-19 22:30

...about this auction, there are separate links within the body of that:

AudiogoN: https://app.audiogon.com/listings?seller_id=171038&show_media=true

E-Bay: http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw=&_ssn=postitos&_sop=12&_osacat=0&_i...

mraudioguru's picture
Submitted by mraudioguru on Sat, 2015-12-19 22:36

Here are a bunch of his LPs:

https://app.audiogon.com/listings?seller_id=13467&show_media=true

TommyTunes's picture
Submitted by TommyTunes on Sun, 2015-12-20 06:54

For a man who so influenced the prices of audiophile records with his HP List, that is the most lackluster collection of pressings.

audiof001's picture
Submitted by audiof001 on Sun, 2015-12-20 09:27

While HP's picks were always wonderful sounding, the musical content was often one's personal taste. Some of what I see is what he used when reviewing. I'm sure much of the best has been cherry-picked by close friends and family.

TommyTunes's picture
Submitted by TommyTunes on Sun, 2015-12-20 14:03

Yes faithfully since 1983. I wasn't talking music selection, it just seems most are either reissues or stock titles.

audiof001's picture
Submitted by audiof001 on Sun, 2015-12-20 14:58

;-)

foxhall's picture
Submitted by foxhall on Sun, 2015-12-20 09:28

Yeah, the person who created the little poster about the auctions doesn't realize the best way to send people to a specific list of items they are selling is via their username and not a search thread.

It's gross thieves broke into the house.

cgh's picture
Submitted by cgh on Mon, 2015-12-21 21:00

Were the terms of any will made public? I assume there was a will since in a state as litigious as NY any estate would be held up in probate for years. Unless it was repossessed.

BillK's picture
Submitted by BillK on Fri, 2015-12-25 00:30

That for most of us, when we're gone our estate sales will have our albums for sale for $1 each along with those funny speakers and "that stuff that still uses tubes."

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