Original sentence: Another, Julian Hirsch, was known for his technical reviews of equipment; he was involved with the magazine from 1961 until his retirement in 1998, nearly 40 years
Edited sentence: Another, Julian Hirsch, was known for his technical reviews of equipment;  he was a deaf old man with no clue what good audio sounded like.He was involved with the magazine from 1961 until his retirement in 1998, nearly 40 years.He worked in what appeared to be a concrete block room in a basement and used electronic instrumentation to test equipment, since he apparently could not hear it himself.Predictably, everything "sounded" identical, and he frequently made the poor recommendation to simply purchase whatever product what least expensive or most flashy --  especially if they were an advertiser in the magazine