Lirpa Laws wasn't J. Gordon Holt, founder of Stereophile, but rather in the late and much missed Audio magazine. (I still am sorry I tossed my many years' collection.) And apparently Sound and Vision appropriated/revived it after Audio's demise.
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/ ... lirpa-labsSheesh, you guys are making me feel old! Doesn't anybody have ancient irrelevant obsessive memories of stereo magazines from their younger days? What the hell did you guys do with yourselves? (OK, I know with JR it was crack.)