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This push-pull planar driver reproduces the music is an obsession, for whom price is no object in critical frequencies from 70 to 700Hz-that vital area attaining the absolute perfect re-creation of sound. containing most of the musical fundamentals (an area The speaker system we've named the Infinity ill -served by virtually all speaker designs, with attend- Reference Standard Beta was really built to prove ant loss of the natural warmth of instrumental voices). to ourselves, after building the legendary $45,000 Two L-EMIMs optimally cross over to an improved Infinity Reference Standard V, that lightning could EMIM with new high -gauss neodymium magnets and strike twice in the same place. lighter diaphragm, for impeccable midrange transient We designed the IRS Beta as a true point source, response and detail. capable of generating an incredible 15Hz to 45kHz And an EMIT and SEMIT (Super EMIT) produce response with effortless (and seamless) musicality. the upper octaves and overtones to 45kHz with Four 12 -inch injection -molded polypropylene/ a transparency and openness that is airy and "live graphite woofers are servo -controlled for state-of-the- In total-a speaker of unprecedented overall musical art bass reproduction. accuracy. The IRS Beta. A speaker whose performance extremists, and the obsessed. can leave you breathless. Its cost is under $11,000. We also offer the equally incomparable IRS Gamma and IRS Delta, at about $7,000 and $5,500 respec- tively. Both are two -speaker versions of the Beta, although the Delta does not include a servo -control unit, which can be added later to upgrade the Delta into a Gamma. We encourage you to audition the remarkable IRS Beta (as well as the Gamma and Delta) at any one of a select group of Infinity dealers catering exclusively Infinity to the audiophile. We get you back to what it's all about. Music. To the dedicated-even obsessed-lover of music, All of our advances in speaker technology are compiled into a brief lipit is the stuff dreams are made of. presentation booklet called "The Creative Technology of Infinity Speakers, Vol. fr. Ask your Infinity dealer for your copy © 1988 Infinity Systems, Inc, 9409 Owensmouth Avenue. Chatsworth. 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Tape control 1 Stereo Review BULLETIN 5 TECHNICAL TALK 39 LETTERS 10 POPULAR MUSIC 100 NEW PRODUCTS 17 CLASSICAL MUSIC 111 VIDEO BASICS 24 RECORD MAKERS 126 AUDIO Q&A 26 THE HIGH END 128 EQUIPMENT CAR STEREO 30 The Concord CX70 in the lab and on the road by Julian Hirsch and John Roark HIRSCH-HOUCK LABS EQUIPMENT TEST REPORTS 43 Pt;F 81 Philips CD960 Compact Disc Player, page 43 Allison Acoustics IC20 Speaker System, page 45 Onkyo TX-SV7M Audio/Video Receiver, page 50 Shure VST III Phono Cartridge, page 55 MB Quart 390 Speaker System, page 58 HEAD OF THE CLASS 65 High -end car stereo head units by Michael Smolen SENSATIONAL DRIVERS 70 Selecting the right speakers for your car by Ian G. Masters CAR STEREO MANUFACTURERS 76 A directory to the makers of autosound equipment CASSETTE DECK BUYING GUIDE 81 Features, specifications, and prices by Mark Lazarus and John Weinberg PAGE 12: MUSIC SIMON RATTLE 78 A conductor on the way up by Herbert Kupferberg BEST RECORDINGS OF THE MONTH 95 The Pogues, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Wild Seeds, Liszt piano music Cover: Rockford Fosgate's SAT 44 car speakers (see page 73) and Concord's CX70 cassette receiver (page 30); wheel courtesy of BBS. Design by Sue Llewellyn, photo by Hing/Norton. STEREO REVIEW BUYER POLL, SEE PAGE 105 Please fill in if you bought equipment in the past thirty days. READER SERVICE INFORMATION CARD, FACING PAGE 105 Circle the items you want to know about. COPYRIGHT 1988 BY DIAMANDIS COMMUNICATIONS INC. All rights reserved. Stereo Review. May 1988, Volume 53, Number 5 Stereo Review (ISSN 0039-1220) is published monthly by Diamandis Communications Inc. at 1515 Broadway. 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