I also remember reading his product tests in Stereo Review.
I bought a pair of Pinnacle bookshelf speakers because of his ravings about them (and have them to this day since they still sound great).
Of course his "raving" would be anybody else's objective observations, since he was so rigidly matter-of-fact about all of his testing.
All of his product reviews I remember reading seemed so trustworthy to me because his integrity shone through his column. Unlike some of reviews I read nowadays, I never got the impression he had an agenda, other than giving his expert opinion about audio equipment.