Dammit. Would this year just end already?
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Very sad news, he was one of my favorite Stereophile writers.
He will be missed.
Sincères condoléances à sa famille.
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Very sad, indeed. I first read Art’s writing as a subscriber to Listener magazine and very much appreciated his obvious love of hifi and music. His column was always the first one I read in Stereophile. Just last week I watched an interview on youtube of him talking about his favorite jazz records. I am sure he will be missed by many.
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RIP Art Dudley. I always enjoyed your writing in Stereophile.
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Sad news on of my favorite writers
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Have read Art for a very long time. His too few YouTube videos are also marvelous. I’m sure Herb Reichert will have something profound to say about his dear friend, and I look forward to reading it. Puts fretting over this cable or that into perspective. RIP. Mille Grazie
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Mr. Dudley and Listener magazine were such a great joy in my audio journey…
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oh, man, I just got my issue and was reading his latest column 
I guess i didn’t even know he was ill.
!
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Art will be missed. I enjoyed his occasionally irreverent view of the whacky world of high end audio which takes itself too seriously sometimes. His was a truly unique voice in high end audio journalism.
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What shocking news!
I loved Art’s reviews and his down-to-earth writing. Most of all, I loved his hearing! I too lived in upstate New York and felt the connection to Art. RIP, Art, and to all his friends and family, may I say Art was everything a reviewer must be: honest, intelligent and forgiving.
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Very sad news. In every nook and cranny of the entertainment biz, we invite people we’ve never met into our lives and in some strange way count them as friends. Art was an easy friend.
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Art was my very favorite writer in both audio and stringed instrument publications, and one of my favorites regardless of field or genre. I started following his work during his short stint at TAS, and was a subscriber to “Listener,” where we corresponded sporadically, beginning when I wrote, in response to his “user instructions” not to “operate” the magazine in the vicinity of water, that that was going to make it hard to read on the toilet. I was heartbroken when the new owner of the magazine chose to shut it down, and thrilled when Art came on board at Stereophile.
In addition to being a similar age, we also shared any number of common sensibilities, whether in politics, humor, music (playing and listening - Art was a more than passable flatpicker) or writing. He penned one of my favorite articles in Fretboard Journal a few years back - a cover story on the iconic Martin D-28 of Clarence White/Tony Rice.
While I have many Facebook friends, he was one of the very small subset whom I’ve never met face to face. And now I never will. I feel like I’ve lost a brother. I’m beyond saddened at this news. It’s put me deep in a funk for two days now.
Received the Stereophile May issue this afternoon & just finished reading Art’s last review. It sucks. Not the review, the fact that it will be the last review of Art that any of us will ever read.
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I don’t know what reviews (if any) he had in the can, but I think Jim Austin said the June issue will contain his final “Listening” column. If true, we thankfully have one more coming.
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