ICD 1 high60 CENTS THE MAGAZINE FOR MUSIC LISTENERSCl NOVEMBER ® . its music . its orchestra . its landmarks www.americanradiohistory.com leading consumer products testing lab` for hi -fi industry reports on Glaser -Steers GS -77 .__ lift ique_.. .._ foolproof... "Another unique feature of the GS -77 ... the Speedminder is the fact that the turntable stops feature makes it rotating during the change cycle... virtually impossible to This eliminates the possibility of play a record at the damage to a record by scraping wrong speed with or against a rotating record ..." the wrong stylus. It is hard to imagine a more foolproof system of record playing." ...ingenious design... "All of this ingenious design I... flexible... would be to no avail if the changer failed to meet the "lt appears that Glaser - performance Steers has tried to make requirements of a high fidelity it does the GS -77 as nearly fool- stereo system. Happily, meet them with room to proof and flexible as spare." possible. 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FOR THOSE WHO CAN HEAR THE DIFFERENCE Model 371 A Mk II Stanton Stereo FLUXVALVE Pickup now $26.40 Model 371C Mk II Stanton Stereo FLUXVALVE Pickup now $24.00 Model 196 Mk II UNIPOISE Arm with integrated Stanton Stereo FLUXVALVE ickering Pickup now 149.50 VICKERING AUTOMATED CRAFTSMANSHIP PICKERING & CO., INC., PLAINVIEW, NEW YORK ILUEVALV4. "Y-CUARD. TPUARD: UNIeOISE.rAC e Hrcir FIDELITY MAGAZINE www.americanradiohistory.com high fideli NOVEMBER 1959 volume 9 number 1I including AUDIOCRAFT and HI -FI MUSIC AT HOME ARTICLES Roland Gelait Editor The Ancient and Honorable Philharmonic 54 John M. Conty Miriam D. Manning Managing Editor Long known to record ciel /cetors, the Vienna Joan Griffiths Philharmonic comer to American concert stages Victor Rangel-Ribeiro t/tlsjnl/. litre's a personal letter ofinirochretio,,. Associote Editors Roy Lindstrom An Director Wurst and Beethoven 58 H. C. Robbins Landon F A. Newbury Manager, Book Division In Vienna. the place; where the great composers /feed and worked still stand. An evocation in pictures, by Erich l.cssiug, and trie Editorial Board John M. Conly Flittermice and Merry Widows 64 Joseph Wechsberg Chairman Viennese operetta is an art critique rind- -it's E. Power Riggs to seem Nathan Broder bcginniig -immortal. R. D. Darrell Alfred Frankenstein Night Lights in the Konzerthaus 67 Hans Herzog Howard Hanson For some Years, Austria's capital has breit a Julian Hirsch paradise for recording companies. Robert Charles Marsh Francis Robinson Joseph Szigeti How To Buy a Stereo Tuner 70 Charles Fowler Charles Fowler Publisher Warren B. Syer Gen.:ral Manager REPORTS Claire N. geldings Advertising Soles Manager Notes from Abroad 30 Charles Reid Walter F. Grueninger Circulation Dirac tot Andrew J. Csida Books in Review 41 R. D. Darrell Marketing and Merchandising Manager Musk Makers 73 Roland Gelait Joseph W. Pace Circulation Fulfillment Records in Review 77 Manager Tape Deck 123 A D V E R T I S I N G Main Office Coke N. Eildings, The Publishing House Great Barrington, Mast. Telephone 1300 AUDIOCRAFT New York 1564 Broadway, New York 36 Telephoner Ploco 7.2800 From the High -Fidelity Newsfronts 137 Bari Covi!, Sy Resnick Chicago HF Equipment Reports 138 188 W. Randolph Sr., Chicago 1 Radio Shack Electrostat 3 Electrostatic Tweeter Telephone: Central 6.9818 Andy Spanberger Moronic Stereo Preomp and Amplifier Z -400 Speaker System with Woofer and JansZen Los Angeles Electrostatic Tweeters 1520 North Gower, Hollywood 28 Lafayette KT -315 Stereo Adapter Telephone: Hollywood 9-62:19 George Kelley Regency HET-1 Preamplifier The Gray HSK -33 Turntable 142 A Kit Report Audionews 145 AUTHORitatively Speaking 4 Letters 9 As the Editors See It 53 Trader's Marketplace 162 Professional Directory 169 Advertising Index 170 Published monthly by Audlocom, Inc.. Great Barrington, Mass. Copyright © 1959 by Audiocorn, Inc. The design and content: of High fidelity Mogorine are fully protected by copyrights and must not be reproduced in any Conner. Secondcloss postage paid at Great Bonington and al additional mailing offices. One -year subscrpdon in U. S., Possessions, and Cenado $6.00. Elsewhere $7.00. www.americanradiohistory.com AUTHORitatively Speaking a ágefe Superior Quality Hi -Fi Kits Last winter someone gave John M. Conly ( formerly Editor of this publication. now OUTSTANDING DESIGN - INCOMPARABLE PERFORMANCE Chairman of its Editorial Board) an espe- cially clashing Tyrolean hat. First thing the knew, he was off to Austria -but spend- KT -250 50 WATT INTE- ing more time in Vienna's Hofburg and environs than on the ski slopes. One re- GRATED STEREO AMPLIFIER sult: the article on the Vienna Philhar- monic which leads off this issue ( p. 541. A completely now stereo high fidelity empli tier Among other results: while still dutifully with a high quality of reproduction, versatility of operation, and distinctive styling.