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Philips superiority is clear, from this graph showing deviation from ideal linearity (dB) vs. recorded level (dB).

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The CD960 compact disc player incorporates only Broadcast standard "Radialinear" transport. Philips the most uncompromising components because it has commitment to exacting specifications is also evident been designed by the world's most uncompromising in the CD960's mechanical construction. It features a audiophiles: Philips engineers. The same engineering high-grade cast alloy chassis. A linear -design motorwas experts who invented compact disc technology. chosen to drive the radial pivoting arm for fast track Superior digital -to -analogue conversion. It comes access and exceptional resistance to external vibrations. as no surprise that the heart of the CD960 is the Philips Multiple power supplies. To eliminate cross talk, dual 16 -bit D/A converter chip. The TD -1541 select the CD960 incorporates no less than four separatepower version. A chip so refined it substantially improves supply sections. And the 100 -watt main transformer is low-level linearity, flawlessly reproducing even the partitioned to further shield against magnetic and power quietest passages with a clarity never before achieved. line interference. This exceptional D/A converter is mated to a From the company that created the compact disc, Philips 4X oversampling digital filter for superior per- Philips proudly offers the CD960 for those who won't toler- formance. Philips pioneered 4X oversampling and our ate anything less than perfection. To audition the CD960, call experience with digital filtering is unequalled. 1-800-223-7772 for your nearest Philips audio specialist.

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oday, there is no reason to compromise your More Sound-Less Money 1 favorite music by listening to a common Many of Adcom's components have been receiver. Because the Adcom GTP-400 tuner/ favorably compared to other components costing preamplifier with GFA-535 (60 watts per channel)* two and three times more. The GTP-400 with amplifier gives you all the benefits of Adcom's GFA-535 is a combination that promises to keep legendary clear, dynamic sound for a price close faith with this tradition of offering superb to that of an ordinary receiver. performance at a reasonable cost. The price of these Adcom separates is close to Why Separates? that of an ordinary receiver. But no receiver will deliver the wide dynamic range and musical The limited space in receivers prevents the use satisfaction of an Adcom system. of heavy duty, high -current, high -voltage power Ask your Adcom dealer for a demonstration of supplies found in the best separate components. these affordable separates. You'll never listen to a Consequently, the performance of receivers is common receiver again. compromised for their questionable advantage of all -in -one convenience. *Power output, watts/channel, continuous both channels driven into 8 ohms, 20 Hz - 20 kHz

LETTERS 10 SYSTEMS 56 NEW PRODUCTS 12 POPULAR MUSIC 73 RODRIGUES CONTEST 18 CLASSICAL MUSIC 88 TECHNICAL TALK 20 THE HIGH END 104

EQUIPMENT HIRSCH-HOUCK LABS EQUIPMENT TEST REPORTS 23 Technics SL -P1300 Compact Disc Player, page 23 Jamo Concert II Speaker System, page 28 Audio-Technica AT-ML170 Phono Cartridge, page 29 Mitsubishi M -AV 1 Audio/Video Receiver, page 32 Paradigm Export Monitor Speaker System, page 38 EASTERN STANDARDS 42 World -class audio equipment from across the Pacific increases choices for U.S. consumers by Michael Smolen MADE IN JAPAN 49 Sophisticated engineering and methodical construction go into a Yamaha receiver by Bryan Harrell CD CHANGERS 58 Let the music play, and play.. . by Ian G. Masters

MUSIC ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER 63 "You have to develop your musical personality, even if it means playing music you don't understand immediately" by Herbert Kupferberg BEST RECORDINGS OF THE MONTH 67 Madonna, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Marcus Roberts, and Debussy's Preludes, Book II

Cover: The Technics SL-PC20 carousel compact disc changer will be in U.S. stores this summer (see page 42). Design by Sue Llewellyn, photo by Roberto Brosan.

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VOL. 54 No. 7 STEREO REVIEW JULY19893 ES The Sony CDP-Rl. Itsveryexistencetells youwhyourother CD players haveanun_airadvantage.

nitration of Amt.,. a *Quoted with permission from Nereophile. Volume II. Number 12. December. 1988 n,.n, and The I read n. The unchallenged leadership ofour reference standard CD player bringsextraordinary technological advantagesto the entire ES line. Start with the world's most accomplished digital Digital Sync for jitter -free performance. audio engineers-the ones who invented the Compact In designing the CDP-R1, Sony ES engineers Disc format itself. Free them from the usual budget- recognized a critical obstacle to improving CD play- ary constraints. And challenge them to surpass their back quality: time -base errors known as "jitter." When best efforts in transport design, servo circuitry, digital jitter is present at the input to the D/A converter, these filtering, and system architecture. errors cause modulation in the analog signal,veiling The result is the Sony CDP-R1/DAS-R1Compact the music and deforming the soundstage. Disc Reference System.This remarkable component Our investigations led to the development of the compelled Stereophile's J.Gordon Holt to hail itas "...the Sony CXD-8003 Digital Sync IC. Incorporated into best CD player I have heard at the time of writing."' three new ES Series players, it maintains time -base

And in Japan and Europe, the RI has likewise accuracy within millionths of a second, correcting driven the leading audiophile critics to unstinting errors long before they can affect the music. admiration. But at a suggested retail price of $8,000, Low -Noise Servo Stabilizer Circuit it has been an experience reserved for the uncompromising few. Until now. For the CDP-R1, Sony ES engineers even exam- Now the Sony ES engineers have applied the ined the conventional assumptions about the most invaluable lessons learned in the CDP-R1 to our other basic of CD functions: disc tracking.The result is ES Series Compact Disc players.Which means now Sony's Servo Stabilizer Circuit, a trailblazing design you can enjoy many of the benefits of an $8,000 mas- we've carried over to our other models.This stabilizer terpiece without spending $8,000. not only improves tracking on badly scratched discs, Noise Shaping with 45 -bit Processing. but reduces radiated servo noise by as muchas 10 dB. The accumulation of fractional errors in conven- A performance sustained. tional digital filters can result in less than full 16 -bit With a technical heritage such as this, it'sno decoding accuracy.That's why the Sony CXD-1144 wonder the new ES Series CD players and CD chang- digital filter IC of the CDP-R1 calculates to anunprec- ers perform so much better than so many others. But edented precision of 45 bits,while operating at an 8X then, it's a superiority we really shouldn't flaunt. oversampling rate. And it's this advanced technology After all,we did start with an unfair advantage. that has been incorporated in our new CDP-508ESD, The excellence of Sony's ES Series is also 608ESD, and X7ESD players. reflected in the three-year limited parts and labor To convey this superlative accuracy to the digital- warranty (see your authorized Sony ES dealer for to -analog converter, these players also incorporate details). For more information on where you can Sony Noise Shaping technology. Noise Shaping audition the full line of Sony ES components, call reduces requantization noise and allows the 18 -bit 201-930-7156 (Monday -Friday, 9:OOam-5:OOpm EST). linear converters to extract more musical detail than ever before. In particular, bass fundamentals are reproduced with a strength and clarity that leaves ESSONY conventional CD players far behind. THE LEADER iN DIGITAL AUDIO CIRCLE NO. 106 ON READER SERVICE CARD Stereo Review TOUCH-TONE ACCESS. LOUISE BOUNDAS Editor in Chief MICHAEL SMOLEN Executive Editor The direct connection SUE LLEWELLYN Art Director WILLIAM WOLFE to the equipment Technical Editor CHRISTIE BARTER you want to buy. Music Editor DAVID STEIN Managing Editor REBECCA DAY, WILLIAM GOLDMAN ROBERT ANKOSKO Senior Editors LOREN FALLS Associate Art Director CATHERINE. FLEMING Assistant Art Director BARBARA AIKF.N, ROCCO MATFERA MARYANN SALTSER Editorial Assistants 1 - 800 - 888 - 8237 WILLIAM LIVINGS -TONE. Editor at Large Contributing Editors: Robert Ackart, Chris Albertson, Richard Freed, Phyl Garland, David Hall, Ron Givens, Bryan Harrell (Tokyo), Roy Hemming, Julian Hirsch, Ralph Hodges, Stoddard Lincoln, Ian Masters, Louis Meredith, Stereo Review is proud to offer the Touch Tone Access Alanna Nash, Mark Peel, Henry service for a select group of advertisers showcasing their Pleasants (London), Ken Pohlmann, Parke Puterbaugh, Charles Rodrigues, products in the July 1989 issue. Eric Salzman, Steve Simels, Craig Stark, David Patrick Stearns Production Director: Karen L. Rosen Touch Tone Accesslets youinstantlyact upon your Production Manager: Michele Lee equipment interests. All you do is call the Touch Tone toll WINSTON A. JOHNSON free number, then enter the appropriate advertisers' code. Vice President and Publisher You'll be told facts about the equipment, the name and ADVERTISING address of the dealer nearest you by entering your zip code, Advertising Director: Nick Matarazzo National Manager: Charles L. P. Watson how to get additional information, and more. (212) 719-6038 Consultant: Richard J. Halpern (212) 719-6940 Account Manager: Sharon Dube You can recognize our Touch Tone Access advertisers (212) 719-6037 Corporate Account Manager: Tom McMahon by checking for the symbol above which appears in the ads. (212) 719-6025 Assistant to the Publisher: Nadine L. Goody Classified Advertising: (800) 445-6066 Midwestern Managers: Arnold S. Hoffman, Jeffrey M. Plaster, (312) 679-1100 Western Managers: Robert Meth. Paula Borgida Mayeri, (213) 739-5130 Tokyo Office: lwai Trading Co.. Ltd. 603 Ginza Sky Heights Building, 18-13, Ginn 7-Chome, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 104 Japan Representative: J. S. Yagi, (03)545-3908

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"They provide smooth, fast and incredibly well detailed sound" "Polk's RTA Tower Loudspeakers Combine Legendary Polk Performance with Contemporary Style." Big speaker performance with an efficient use of space.

RTA lit Both Polk RTA series loudspeakers achieve the extremely rare combination of good looks and state- The RTA Ili is the finest conventional (non-SDA) speaker of-the-art performance. The tall, elegantly slender, and deep "tower" design cabinets allow for that Polk Audio manufacturers. Its extremely high power handling 1250 sans) and high efficiency (90dB) prmide substantial internal volume for high efficiency and powerful bass, while requiring less than one remarkable dynamic range from both large and small square foot of floor space. The small baffle surface area around each driver minimizes diffraction amplifiers. The RTA Ilt utilizes the same technologically (sonic reflections), thereby insuring outstanding imaging and low coloration. advanced fluid -coupled subwoofer design found in Polkis flagship model. Dual II sub -bass radiators are coupled to Positioning the I" silver -coil dome tweeter between the two 6V" trilaminate polymer bass/midrange

two 6t2" mid bass drivers, resulting in a fast, powerful, drivers achieves what is called "coincident radiation." This means that both the mid- and high- deep, and ultra -accurate bass response, without the boomy, frequencies appear to radiate from the same place on the baffle resulting in perfect blending at the undetailed sound of large woofer systems. critical crossover point. (See illustration, below). Polk RTA speakers have an uncanny ability to perfectly reproduce the human voice, pianos, guitars, RTA 8t and every other instrument whose faithful reproduction demands superlative midrange and high- In a slightly smaller package. the RTA Mt offers the same frequency performance. Bass and percussion instruments are accurately reproduced with full driver complement as the larger. more expensive RTA lit, and thus shares its benefits of superior imaging, musi- visceral power and realism, without the heaviness, boominess, or lack of detail that plague cality. and detail. lesser designs. The discriminating listener who seeks state- of-the-art performance and design will find the quintessential combination of both in Polk's RTA series loudspeakers.

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The perceived source of sound The benefit of coincident waveform of two identical drivers is centered propagation resulting in precise in the area between them. imaging, uniform vertical dispersion and startling midrange accuracy. In the Polk RR loudspeaker. the tweeter is positioned at the acoustic center of the drivers.

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on pages 62-63. I think it is a Technics. Home Theater Sound but I don't know the model. FMXMg In his April article on Shure's Home HERIBERTO PEREZ If M.I.T.'s radio station still broad - Theater Sound system, "The Best Seat Passaic, NJ casts from Cambridge, Julian Hirsch's in the House," William Livingstone criticism of the FMX system (and that mentions that he asked Robert Schu- The record shelves, called the Omni Sys- of Dr. Bose and Dr. Short) in the April lein, the general manager of Shure's tem, were purchased from the Shelf Shop "Technical Talk" is a bit unfair. There HTS division, why the system was so at 1295 First Ave., New York, NY 10021; are few broadcast locations oriented so expensive. Mr. Schulein explained that (212) 988-7246. The turntable is a Tech- perfectly for creating transmission ha - when you consider there are six speak- nics SL -1500, now discontinued. voc as the amphitheater created by ers and three amplifiers, you are actual- Boston's skyscrapers combined with ly paying for the equivalent of three the reflecting pool that is the Charles stereo systems. Akai Serowe' River. It seems a little steep to me to pay I was surprised to find that products BILL LARSEN $9,600 for nine pieces of equipment. from Akai were not listed in the "Tape Hellertown, PA When you throw in the surround -sound Deck Buying Guide" in May. Is Akai decoder, that's still almost $1,000 per out of business? I purchased an Akai Julian Hirsch replies: First of all, I was piece. Now, I don't doubt the superior cassette deck recently. If it needs servic- merely reporting criticism by Dr. Amar quality of Shure's surround -sound sys- ing, what can I do? Bose and his colleague, since 1 have no tern, but at $9,600, in my opinion, it is DAVE VANDER ARB personal experience of FMX perform - not a bargain! Hanford, CA ance in the field. Although Boston prob- RAYMOND BUCHANAN ably has plenty of multipath problems. Phoenix, AZ As we reported in the March "Bulletin." the same can be said of almost every Akai products have been pulled off the urban area. As I understand it.Dr. William Livingstone's "The Best Seat U.S. market by Akai's parent company. Bose's analysis of FM showed that the in the House" in April was very inter- Mitsubishi. but Mitsubishi will neverthe- FMX system will exacerbate the effects esting but left me wanting to know less honor Akai warranties and supply of multipath reception, not create them. more about the nice record -storage sys- replacement parts for the next seven The field tests with the M.I.T. station tern and the turntable in the photograph years through its U.S. service centers. apparently confirmed this analysis. Th ..PlayMusic And Make It Sound Like Music...

Unobtrusively ..AtABargainPrice:'=sept88 Cambridge SoundWorks has created Ensemble a speaker system that can provide the sound once reserved for the best speakers under laboratory conditions. It illy dis- ap in your room. And because we market it C Ensemble costs hundreds less than it would in stores. bum put Ensemble's lowfirquency units auctb, where they shouldgo forsuperb bass. Ibu can't do this with conwntimal speakers becauseyou have to be concerned about the upper firquencies comirig,firm the same enclasums as the low ones.

The best sound comes in four the low bass, it may hinder the upper ranges, or small packages. vice -versa. Ensemble consists of four speaker units. 1Wo Ensemble, on the other hand, takes advan- compact low -frequency speakers reproduce the we of your room's acoustics. The ear can't tell deep bass, while two small sateffite units repro- where bass comes from, which is why Ensemble's duce the rest of the music, making it possible to reproduce just the right amount of energy in What Henry Kloss tells his friends: each part of the musical rang without aiming Every time I came out with a new speaker at AR. your listening room into a stereo showroom. or Advent, my friends would ask me. "Henry, is it voth the extra money for me to trade up?" And every time Your listening room works with I would answer. "No, what you've already got is still good enough:. Heruy Moss. creator of the dominant speaker models Ensemble, not against it. But today with the introduction of Ensemble, I te0 of the'50s (Acousti c Reseamh), '605(7CW, and '70s No matter how well a speaker performs, at them. "Perhaps now is the time to give your old speakers (Advent), britigsyou Ensemble, a genuine new kind of Teakrrystemfor the '90s, avai onlyfactory difect home the listening room takes over. If you put a to the children:. fromC Soundilbrks. conventional speaker where the room can help

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million people own record players; 11 and LP's. From the moment I heard the Bruckner's Wagner Tubas million ownCDplayers. Though people first notes from my very firstCD,the In his April review of Giuseppe Sino- are buyingCD'Sat a phenomenal rate, difference in sound quality between it poli's Deutsche Grammophon record- LP'sare still selling well. I don't want to and my vinyl records was discernible, ing of Bruckner'sRomanticSymphony be forced to buy a technology that is and Ihave been hooked on digital (No. 4), David Hall states that the con- arguing over format size (5 or 3 inches, sound ever since. Investing in aCD ductor "exploits the resplendent Dres- or perhaps they'll be 1I/2inches soon), player for its analog sound just doesn't den horns and Wagner tubas to produce and really isn't perfect. We'll all have to make sense. asure-firescherzo."Infact,only go out and spend hundreds of dollars on LINDA ANDREWS Bruckner's last three symphonies, Nos. new systems when LP's are totally ade- Canterbury, CT 7-9, call for Wagner tubas as well as the quate for all but the perfectionist. usual horns. ANNM. M.PLICQUE ROBERT BERGER New Orleans, LA Cdar ChoiCeS Levittown, NY I would like to challenge the audio I am writing in response to what I equipment manufacturers to offer silver You're right. Bruckner did add abass thought was a rather curious letter from or some other light color for the front tubato the brass section for his Sympho- Mr. Thomas 0. Eliason in the May panels and the backs of their compo- ny No.4(and that is what Mr. Hall was issue in response to theCDlistening nents. Light-colored panels are much referring to), but he did not call for the tests in December. Among other things, more legible than black ones, especially Wagner tuba, a special kind of tuba he stated that "... the new [McIntosh] in dim light, and they look better too. created by Wagner for use in theRing Model 7007 is the most analog -sound- G.LOBDELL cycle, until he came to write No. 7. And ing player" he'd ever heard. Apparently Waterloo, IA then he called for four of them, retaining this was a rave review from him. them in Nos. 8 and 9 as well. Analogsound? I've always been under the impression that the reason one Correction bought aCDplayer and compact discs Infinity has informed us that the price AID Conversion' was digital sound. If you want analog for the Infinity IRS Beta speaker sys- Is the impending phase -out of LP's sound, you could easily, and more inex- tem, shown on page 70 in the June really necessary? The simple fact is, 80 pensively, stick to your trusty turntable issue, is now $11,950. CD

bass units can be tucked out of the way-on the maximum power handling, individual crossovers and 100' of speaker cable-Ensemble is the flax atop bookshelves, or under furniture. The that allow several wiring options and cabinets value on today's speaker market. sateffites can be hung directly on the well, or niggedly constructed for proper acoustical per- placed on windowsills or shelves. No bulky formance. ink even gold-plate all connectors to Call 1-800-AKA-H1F1* speakers dominate your living space, yet prevent corrosion. An even bigger difference is (1-800-252-4434) Ensemble reproduces the deep bass that no how we sell it... Our number w1fi connect you to a mini speakers can. Cambridge SoundMics audio expert. He or she Thousands agree: the best will answer all your questions, take your order and Not all the differences are as obvious showroom is your living room. arrange surface shipment via UPS. Your Cambridge as our two subwoofers. Mk make it possible to audition aisemble the SoundWrks audio expert will continue as your Unhlce seemingly similar three-piece systems,rot way-in your own home. In fact, Ensemble personal contact with us. Mt' think you'll tile this Ensemble uses premium quality components for is sold only by Cambridge Soundinbrics directly new way of doing business. from the factory. Listen for hours without a sales- *In Canada, call 1-800-525-4434. Audio experts Unlike seernaigt 'similar satellite systems man howling nearby. If after 30 days you're not which use a single large sulmofer Dnsembk are on duty Mon. -Sat., 9AM-10PM, Sun., 9AM- uses two separate, compact bass units. They ham return Ensemble for a full refund. 6PM Eastern Time. Fax #: 617-332-9229. fit more gracefully Mtoyour envi- At only $4 )9-complete with all hardware ronment, and 1141 matanize the effects of thelistenirtgmomsstanding waves. r CAMBRIDGE SOUNDWORKS 1 Suite 102UL. 154 California StNewton. MA 02158 0 Send more information and test reports. 0 Send Ensemble risk -free for 30 days, for $499' 0 Send an Ensemble Gift Certificate for $499' I'm paying by Check LI MC 0 Visa 0 AmEx

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PANASONIC The tuner/tape section of Panasonic's Theauto -blendcircuitrygradually CQ-G27 cassette receiver is removable switches between stereo and mono to deter theft, leaving only the amplifier without any audible click. There are mounted in the dashboard. A front -pan- eighteenFMandsix AMpresets. The el jack allows connection of a portable autoreverse tape section plays all tape CDplayer. Maximum output power is types and has Dolby B noise reduction. rated as 25 watts into four channels. Price: $400. Panasonic, Dept. SR, One The HypertunerFMtuning system is Panasonic Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094. SME said to reduce noise and interference. Circle 120 on reader service card SME's Model 309 tonearm has a pressure die-cast magnesium headshell that can be detached and replaced without Panasonic HYPER %Nen disturbing the cartridge or wiring. The - AUTO REVERSE EffLiiL underslung counterweight housing is said to correct the center of gravity and provide nonreflective tonearm termina- win FIA0133 P SET TPS D JUNE U tion. The swiveling, damped output socket is intended to reduce vibration transmission to the subchassis. Price: $995. Distributed by Sumiko, Dept. SR, P.O. Box 5046, Berkeley, CA 94705. Circle 121 on reader service card

PIONEER Pioneer's flagshipCDplayer is the ating features include twenty -four -track Elite PD -7l, which uses a "multifloat- programming and random play. Like ing" suspension system to isolate the other Elite Series components, the PD - pickup mechanism and all electronics 71 is finished in black lacquer with rose- from the chassis in order to eliminate wood side panels and comes with a Pio- vibrations that can degrade sound qual- neer SR remote control. Price: $850. ity. It uses dual "true" 18 -bit converters Pioneer Electronics, Dept. SR, 2265 E. with eight -times oversampling and di- 220th St., P.O. Box 1720, Long Beach, rect wire connections that are said to CA 90801-1720. JENSEN reduce the chance of interference. Oper- Circle 122 on reader service card The Jensen JSM401isa surface - mount car speaker system with two 4 - inch woofers, a 2 -inch midrange, and a 1 -inch piezoelectric tweeter.Its peak power -handling capacity is rated as 120 watts. Frequency response is rated as 80 to 20,000 Hz, sensitivity as 90 dB with a 1 -watt input. Nominal impedance is 4 ohms.Price:$179.95.International Jensen, Dept. SR, 4136 N. United Pkwy., Schiller Park, IL 60176. Circle 123 on reader service card

CONRAD-JOHNSON The Conrad -Johnson PV 10 preamplifier, the least expensive in the company's line, features zero -feedback circuits in both the line and phono stages plus passive RIAA equalization in the phono stage. The PV 10 has five vacu- um tubes and a low -impedance, dis- crete, regulated power supply using only polypropylene and polystyrene capacitors. Inputs and outputs are gold-plated. A phono input and five line -level inputs, including one tape loop, are standard. Price: $995. Conrad -Johnson De- sign, Inc., Dept. SR, 2800R Dorr Ave., Fairfax, VA 22031. Circle 124 on reader service card

12 STEREO REVIEW JULY1989 New. Moreamazmgthanever Introducing the new Silver Edition Amazing Loudspeaker with Sonic Holography® Generator and Electronic Control System.

By looks alone you know this is no ordinary that psychoacoustically "zooms" you back from the speakers. Called the Gundry speaker. The Silver Edition trades a bulky, boxy Perspective, this effect creates the illusicn of concert hall depth ahead of you cabinet for unfettered musical freedom. Its full- without disturbing overall frequency balance. Combine it with Sonic Hologra- range ribbon transducer is open to the room, pro- phy? Sub Bass generation and the Silver Edition's own innate ability to create a jecting seamless 25 Hz to 40,000 Hz sound both vast, open listening space, and you have a truly amazing aural phenomenon. forward and back, creating near -photographic More than just a reproducer of music, the Amazing Loudspeaker Silver imaging and realistic spatial ambience. Its three Edition becomes a restorer of sonic reality. In its most minute, organic detail. enclosureless, twelve -inch subwoofers deliver bass Finally, there is one more very realistic thing about this new Amazing Loudspeaker that's tactilely tight and deep. model. Its price. Far less than you might pay for conventional loudspeaker designs And each fifty -four -inch, piano -lacquered panel looks as good as it sounds. which can't begin to match the Silver Edition's warmth, vitality and spaciousness. While occupying less than two square feet of floor space. Reawaken your sense of amazement with an audition at Up to this point we've described a brilliant, unconventional and yet prcven your neares- Carver dealer s)on. dipole speaker design. One which offers openness, detail and sonic impact Ear in excess of its modest price. And which solves inherent problems plaguing far more expensive ribbon transducer designs. But in order to fully earn the title "Amazing Loudspeaker," Bob Carver has endowed the new Silver Edition with even more technology. At its heart is an Electronic Control System. Not an "equalizer" to compensate for shortcomings, but three dramatic sound enhancement circuits, plus bass "Q" and high frequency trim adjustments in a single compact component. Select Sonic Holography' for the spectacular, 3 -dimensional imaging High Fidelity described as seem- ing to "open a curtain and reveal ... musical forces extending behind, between and beyond the speakers: With any CD, record, tape or video sound source. Add ultra -low fundamentals below 20 Hz with a Sub Bass generator that detects and enhances existing low level information. On bass -shy recordings, it takes advantage of the Silver Edition's long -throw free - air subwoofer system to restore bone- shaking musical reality. There's even a unique circuit

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DENON Denon's DT -400 is a two-piece ta- tape deck or CD player and a mini -jack bletop hi-fi system designed for second- for connecting a pocket CD or tape ary listening environments. An AM/FM player. The tuner has five AM and five stereo tuner, a preamplifier, a power FM station presets and a rated capture amplifier, and a two-way speaker are in ratio of 1.5 dB. The system includes a one module, a second two-way speaker digital alarm clock. Price: $399. Denon in the other. Total width is under 2 feet. America, Dept. SR, 222 New Rd., Par- The 25 -watt -per -channel system has sippany, NJ 07054. auxiliary stereo inputs for connecting a Circle 126 on reader service card INFINITY The Infinity RS 6001 is the top model in the company's new RS line of speakers,all of which feature proprietary injection -molded graphite woofer cones and composite graphite -and -polypropylene dome drivers. The three-way RS 6001 has two 8 -inch woofers mounted in separate, tuned enclosures. The midrange driver is a 2 -inch Polyspherite dome, and the EMIT k tweeter has a fast -acting protection circuit. Frequency response is rated as 42 to 45,000 Hz ± 3 dB, sensitivity as 89 dB. The speaker is available finished in natural or black oak -grain vinyl. Dimensions are 31 x 111/2 x 91/2 inches. Price: $529 each. InfinitySystems, Dept.SR, 9409 Owensmouth Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311. Circle 127 on reader service card

KMD LABS All the information in the "New KMD Pro -Wipes CD cleaners, made Products" section was provided by of a combination of paper and polyes- the manufacturers and does not ter, are lint -free and will not scratch represent the results of tests by discs, the company says. Designed to STEREO REVIEW. Prices given are remove fingerprints and other oily de- suggested retail ("list') prices as of posits, the round Pro -Wipes are sold in press time. For more information, packages of twelve. Price: $5. KMD ----P,E-0-itiiiiRrEm.I write the manufacturers or circle Labs, Dept. SR, 1212 N. San Fernando the corresponding numbers on the Blvd., Suite 226, Burbank, CA 91504. reader service card facing page 77. Circle 128 on reader service card 14 STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 sitaglia JUST ANOTHER SPEAKER LIKE LAMBORGHINI IS JUST ANOTHER CAR. If you listen to music on just any And you only feel more intense about speakers, all you'll hear is music. it as you crank up the volume. If you listen to music on Alpine speak- That's the way we build Alpine high ers, you'll hear kick drums that kick back, performance speakers, to perform to synths that could singe your eyebrows, and excess. The way we build everything horns so powerful they ought to be named Alpine. licensed. Of course, if you happen to own a You don't just hear music, you feel it. Lamborghini Countach, you already You react emotionally to it. know that.

Ara poster the 1989 Lamborghini. take this ad and $2.00 to your Alpine dealer. 01989 Alpine Electronics of America. Inc.. parent corporation of Alpine mobile electronics and Lannon home audio products1 -800 -ALPINE -1 ALPINE CAR AUDIO SYSTEMS CIRCLE NO 9 ON READER SERVICE CARD Tone-Loc-Loced After The Traveling Elvis Costello -:Dp*,, Dark (Delicious Viii v1) Wilburys- Sarver Brost 378190 379875 Volume One R.E.M.Greer). :r..)rner (Wilbur 9) 375089 Enya-Watermark Debbie Gibson-Electric Paula Abdul-Forever Your Girl (Virgin) 374637 Bross 375162 ion) 379925 Youth (Atlantic) 377275 TAKE YOUR PICK OF ANY8 Skid Row (Marls 37960? Lou Reed-New York (Sire) Gipsy Kings Al Jarreau-Heart's Journey-Greatest Hits Anita Baker-Giving You 378216 (Elektra/Mus(eran) 377812 Honzi i 376186 (Columba) 375279 The Best That I Got (Eleloral Dave Grusin Collection Vladimir Feltsman- 374058 (GRP) 378398 Andres Segovia-The The Smiths-Rank (Sire) Ramones-Ramones Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 1 Baroque Guitar Segovia 374397 Mania (Sire) 371450 The Clash-The Story Of Joe Sample-Spellbound 8 2 (CBS Masterworks) Collection. Vol 4 The Clash VolI (Epic) (Warner Bros) 378224 377390 Robbie Nevil-A Place Breathe-All That Jazz 368597-398594 (MCA Classics) 375998 Like This (EMI) 374348 (ABM( 371427 Dingo Boingo-Skeletons Tom Scott-Flashpoint Fishbone-Truth And Soul Michael Feinstein-Isn't It In The Closet (A8M) 378125 (GRP) 377044 Diane Schuur-Talion' Huey Lewis And The Romantic (Eiektra) 368399 (Columba) 375865 'Bout You (GRP) 374298 News-Small World Bob Dylan & Grateful Eighth Wonder-Fearless Was (Not Was)-What's (Chrysalis) 371419 Basia-Time And Tide Dead (Columba) 378117 (WTG) 376988 Eddie Money-Nothing To (Epic) 368043 Up Dog? (Chrysalis) 375857 Lose (Columbia) 374223 Toni Childs-Union (A8M) Jessye Norman Sings Boys Club (MCA) 376970 Kim Wilde-Close (MCA) 371351 Sade-Stronger Than Wagner-Tnston Und Ready For The World- Pride (Epic) 368027 Murray Perahia-Mozart: 375816 Ruff 'N' Ready (MCA) Bruce Cockburn-Waiting Isolde; Tannhauser; etc. Piano Concertos Nos. 9 8 Orchestral Manoeuvres (Angel) 378075 Fleetwood Mac's 374124 For A Miracle (Gold Castle) 21 (CBS Masterworks) Greatest Hits 371278In The Dark-Best Of The Pursuit Of 376822 Vixen (EMI) 374108 0 M D iA&M) 367755 (Warner Bros) 375782 Steve Winwood-Roll Happiness-Love Junk Michael Tilson Thomas- Johnny Clegg & Savuka REO Speedwagon- (Chrysalis) 377994 Chaka Khan-C.K. -Shadow Man (Capitol) With It CVagmi 371211 Revel: Bolero (Warner Bros ) 375774 Greatest Hits if ) 367672 Tesla-The Great Radio (CBS Masterworks) 376772 374025 The Bernstein Songbook Jane's Addiction- -selections from West Sinead O'Connor-The Controversy (Geffen)377986 When In Rome (Virgin) Kronos Quartet-Winter Lion and The Cobra Nothing's Shocking Was Hard (Nonesuch) Side Story. On The Town, The Fantasy Strings- 376749 (Warner Bros I 375741 etc Bernstein cond (CBS) (Chrysalis) 367086 The Greatest Love 01 All 373993 Neil Diamond-The Best Samantha Fox-lWanna 371088 Tina Turner-Live In Conducted By Ettore Stratta Years Of Our Lives London Classical Players Europe Have Some Fun (Jive/RCA) - Roger Norrington. 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Sonata In DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Beethoven: Chopin. etc Bulletboys (Warner Bros I (E MI Manhattan) 371856 (Chrysalis) 360107 A Brahms. Sonata No 2 In Prince-He's the D.J., I'm (CBS Masterworks) 378604 374702 Duran Duran-Big Thing A. Sonatensatz In C Minor Melissa Etheridge (Island) The Rapper (Jive/RCA) Jethro Tull-Crest Of A 369264 Knave (Chrysalis) 360040 (Capitol) 378521 (Angel) 376038 Winger (Atlantic) 374652 371468 Living Colour-Vivid 370833 Bobby Brown Don t Be Cruel 4 372045 The Movies Go To The Opera

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CONGRATULATIONS to Marc chael Binyon, of San Luis Obispo, Wagner. As usual, the most fre- C. Welenteychik, of Rich- California, Bruce Barstow, of Phila- quently mentioned classical compo- mond, Virginia, the winner delphia, Pennsylvania, and Mat- sitionwasTchaikovsky's1812 of the fifth annual Rodri- thew Mirapaul, of Chicago,Illi- Overture, with Pachelbel's Canon gues Cartoon Caption Contest! His nois-who served on the panel of close behind. winning entry is now printed under judges. Unlike the previous winners of the cartoon. A very large number of this year's this contest, Mr. Welenteychik is As we did in previous years, in entries were about the interaction of not professionally involved with our issue of January 1989 we pub- pigeons with statues. Other favorite computers. Since graduating from lished a drawing by our cartoonist subjects were long -throw woofers Virginia Tech in 1985, he has been Charles Rodrigues and invited read- and the Father of Audio. Julian employed in sales of heating, venti- ers to submit proposed captions for Hirsch was the person who figured lating, and air-conditioning equip- it. The prize for the one the judges most prominently in the captions, ment. His tastes in music are suffi- considered to be the funniestis and the list of famous people in- ciently comprehensive to include $100 and the original Rodrigues cludes Amar Bose, Bob Carver, rock, jazz, and opera. drawing. Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, The runners-up are printed be- The editors of STEREO REVIEW Avery Fisher, Horace Greeley, Pat- low, in no particular order. If you thank the thousands of contestants rick Henry, and Crazy Eddie. are a typical reader, you will find for their entries, which came from Popular musiciansreferredto one of them funnier than the win- all over North America and from ranged from Helen Reddy to Boy ner. You now have six months to such faraway places as Pietermaritz- George, from Barry Manilow to the hone your sense of humor before burg, South Africa. We also thank Sex Pistols. Classical music was rep- entering next year's contest, which thepreviouswinners-Thomas resented by references to such com- we expect to announce in January. Briggle, of Wadsworth, Ohio, Mi- posers as Beethoven, Mozart, and William Livingstone

RUNNERS-UP "After that, kidney stones were a thing of the past. "-Craig M. Miller, Las Vegas, NV "Thanks to that man we have the oldest boom -box laws in the tri-state area. "- Tom Roch, Philadelphia, PA "Someday statues like this will point the way to fine audio supplierseverv- where. "-David Tymn, San Jose, CA "Him? Well, he discovered the last audible distortion: Transient Mammalian Epidural Follicular Deterioration Dis-

tortion .. . catfuronthespeaker cone. "-Lynn Gahagan, San Jose, CA "Let this be a lesson to you, young man-always keep your equipment's original shipping cartons. "-Jay Kenik, Bellevue, NE "It's getting near noon. I suggest we move before it goes off "-Bob Drake, Annandale, NY "This is only the right channel. On the other side of the park, there's a mermaid with a CD player and a subwoofer. "- Joseph F. Stafford, Manchester, NH "Found him just like that at Hirsch - Houck Labs replacing a fuse with a penny."-Richard J. Greene, New York, NY "Of course, others later miniaturized the "It depicts an early stage in the development of high-fidelity hearing aid he invented."-Layman J. portable stereos. The amplifier shoe was especially cumbersome." Potter, Jr., Kettering, OH

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untary on the part of theAMbroad- though channel assignments have byJulian Hirsch casters, and 20 to 25 percent ofAM generally provided a sufficient geo- stations have already adopted it. Es- graphical spacing between adjacent - sentially, NRSC-1 (now issued as channel stations to avoid serious EIA-549) calls forAMtransmitters daytime interferenceproblems, to use a 75 -microsecond high -fre- nighttime changes inAMpropaga- quency pre -emphasis characteristic, tion characteristics can seriously al- similar toFMbroadcast practice, ter the situation. FCC regulations but only effective up to 10,000 Hz have limited the amplitude ofAM (the effective upper limit forFM high -frequency sidebands to mini- audio response is 15,000 Hz). Ideal- mize adjacent -channel interference, ly,a"wide -band"AMreceiver and the other new FCC standard would have a complementary de - (NRSC-2), which becomes effective emphasis characteristic (including on June 30, 1990, further seeks to the effects of itsIFandRFselectivi- limit the transmittedRFbandwidth ty), resulting in an overall transmit/ to conform to the audio band- receive frequency response that is width-that is, to cut off signals essentially flat up to 10,000 Hz. more than 10 kHz from the carrier The development of compatible frequency-byRFfiltering of the wide -bandAMreceivers was recom- transmitter output. mended to manufacturers, but ap- The NRSC has also developed a parently none have reached the prototype table -model "Super Ra- marketyet.Fortunately,apre - dio" to illustrate the potential of the emphasizedAMtransmission is per- newAMbroadcast standards. It in- fectlysatisfactorywhenheard cludes such features as continuous through a conventional "narrow" AM/FM tuning with automatic band receiver. Receivers in general have switching and coverage of the pro- a very limitedAMhigh -frequency posed enlargedAMspectrum, from response, and there is little chance 530 to 1,710 kHz instead of the pre- Hi -Fl AM RADIO of the received audio sounding too vious 530 to 1,600 kHz. The radio "bright"throughanypresently has anAMnoise blanker, anAM available receiver. stereodecoder, and arotatable SINCE 1980, the National Ra- The bandwidth and modulation shielded -loopAMantenna system. dio Systems Committee characteristics of radio transmis- TheFMtuner section has a stereo (NRSC), a joint venture of sions must be restricted to prevent decoder and anFMXdecoder. the Electronic Industries As- interference between adjacent chan- While this radio merely shows sociation's Consumer Electronics nels. The minimal 10 -kHz spacing what is feasible, the pertinent tech- Group (EIA/CEG) and the National ofAMstations now used in North nical informationisavailable to Association of Broadcasters (NAB), America allows the possibility of manufacturers, and we can expect has been studying methods of im- interference from adjacent -channel future component hi-fi tuners and proving the technical quality ofAM modulation sidebands more than 5 receivers to include wide -bandAM. radio. The NRSC eventually en- kHz removed from the carrier fre- The NRSC is developing a certifica- dorsed two groups of technical im- quency, corresponding to audio fre- tion mark like the "HQ" mark used provements, which were proposed quencies of 5 kHz or higher. Al - to identify aVCRincorporating spe- to the FCC as standards. cifichi-fifeatures, and the EIA/ The first standard, NRSC-I, was CEG isrecommending thatits issued by the FCC in January 1987. members use this mark wherever Its aim was, for the first time, to Tested This Month applicable once it is developed. define the audio -modulationfre- I have not heard a demonstration quency response ofAMtransmitters Technics SL -P 1300 of improved -qualityAM,but I imag- and the probable audio response of Compact Disc Player ine that it will make a considerable AMreceivers. Frequency -response difference in the public enjoyment standards have been a feature ofFM Jamo Concert H ofAMbroadcasting. The new 10 - broadcasting and reception since its Speaker System kHz audio bandwidth, though not inception, butAMradio has experi- Azo-Technwa quite the equal of Fm's 15 -kHz band- enced only enough regulation to width, should come very close to minimize interference between sta- AT -ML 170 Cartridge matchingFMsound, especially in a tions. OverallAMsound quality, es- Mitsubishi M -AV 1 table radio or a car radio. Wide - pecially as affected by receiver per- bandAMis not likely to do as well in formance, was not a major issue. Audio / Video Receiver terms of noise level, but it should The FCC initially made com- Paradigm Export nevertheless help to narrow the pliance with the new standard vol- Monitor Speaker quality gap betweenAMandFM.Li

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whic:1 turns with a feather touch TECHNICS SL -P1300 and will spin for several revolutions after a flick of the finger. When the COMPACT DISC PLAYER SEARCHbutton on the panel is engaged, this knob shifts the position Julian Hirsch, Hirsch Hauck Laboratories of the laser pickup forward or back- ward across the disc, providing exceptionally easy and precise cueing. THE Technics SL -P1300, one 351/4 pounds. All of its operating A fast or slow search rate can be of the few top -loadingCD controls are on the slightly sloping selec:ed by a button on the panel. players manufactured today top panel, and the display panel at Slow search changes the cueing po- (except for portables), looks the rearistilted back a bit for sition in increments of 0.1 second almost identical to the SL -P I 200, its improved visibility. The front edge of playing time; in fast search the predecessor, which was originally of the cabinet contains a headphone increments are roughly I second. designed for use by disc jockeys and jack and its horizontal -slider vol- Another useful feature is Auto - other professionals who need very ume control. On the rear apron are Cue. When this button is engaged, accurate cueing and mixing control. the conventional phono-jack line the player automatically goes into The SL -P1300 carries over most of outputs, a pair ofXLRconnectors pause at the end of each track and the special operating features and carrying balanced line outputs, for positions the laser at the actual the rugged mechanical construction minimum noise pickup in profes- starting point of the following track. of the SL -P1200 while adding sev- sional applications, and coaxial and SinceCDtracks are often separated eral advanced circuit features. optical digital outputs for connec- by a silentinterval,this feature For aCDplayer, the SL -P I 300 is tion to an externalD/Aconverter. makes it easy to begin play precisely rather large and heavy, measuring Perhaps the most distinctive ex- on the first note of a track when the 17 inches wide, 15 inches deep, and ternal feature of the SL -P1300 is start button is pressed. 65/8 inches high and weighing a solid its2I/4 -inch -diameter search knob, Most of the other control buttons

SITAR) REVIEWJULY 1989 23 TEST REPORTS on the panel will be familiar to users feature that plays a few seconds of played symbols and words indicate of conventionalCDplayers. A nu- each track before proceeding to the the status of the various operating merical keypad provides direct ac- next one, its version of the feature is controls of the player. cess to any track or, with the index unique in that the duration of the Like the earlier SL -P1200, the SL - button, any indexed point within a sample, normally 10 seconds, can P1300 makes extensive use of mul- selected track. It can also be used to be varied between 1 and 59 seconds tilayer damping materials within its program up to twenty tracks for with the keypad on the supplied zinc die-cast case. The entire player playback in any sequence. The key- remote control. is supported on four large, rubber - pad also permits access to any por- Finally, another unique feature of damped spring feet, and the optical tion of a disc by its elapsed -time the SL -P1300 is its pitch control. assembly and power transformers position, and a time cue can be When activated by a button, this (separate for analog and digital cir- stored during play by pressing a sin- slider control varies the speed of the cuits) inside the case are individu- gle button. Later, pressingTIME RE- playback (and thereby the pitch of ally isolated from the base to mini- CALLbegins playback from that the music) over a nominal ± 8 -per- mize vibration effects. The wireless point. cent range. This feature is useful to remote control operates all main - The entire disc, a programmed home tapists or broadcasters who panel functions except power on/ sequence, or any selected portion of may need to adjust the length of a off, disc compartment open/close. a track can be repeated, and there selection to fit an available time slot Time Recall, dial search, Auto -Cue, are the usual forward and reverse or to match the pitch or tempo of and pitch control. The music -scan track -skip and track -search buttons. one recording to that of another. and index -skipping functions can be The search buttons are designed to The display window is conven- performed only from the remote shift the laser by one track width tional, with large numerals showing control. (approximately 0.1 second of play- the track and index numbers and Advanced circuit features of the ing time) with each momentary elapsed or remaining time in min- SL -P1300 include an eight-times- touch, so that a user can synchro- utes, seconds, and tenths of a sec- oversampling (352.8 -kHz) digital fil- nize twoCDplayers for smooth in/ ond. A "music calendar" grid shows ter and an 18 -bit, high -resolution out fades. Although the SL -P1300 is the numbers of all unplayed tracks D/Aconverter system using dual not unusual in having a music -scan up to a maximum of twenty. Dis- converters for each channel (one for the positive half and the other for the negative half of the analog FEATURFS waveform). A comparison of tech- O Accepts CD -3's without an nical specifications indicates that Eight-times-oversampling digital filter(352.8 kHz) adaptor the SL-P1300's ratings are about 6 O Four 18 -bit D/A converters (two O Separate power supplies for dB better than the SL-P1200's in per channel) analog and digital circuits respect to noise and channel separa- O Programmable to play up to O Optical and coaxial digital twenty tracks in any order outputs tion. The new player is also de- Cueing knob with two search O BalancedX LRaudio outputs as signed to accept 3 -inch as well as speeds, rocker control for well as standard line outputs standard CD's. Price: $1,599. Tech- precise mixing and editing O Headphone jack with volume control nics,Dept. SR, One Panasonic O Direct keypad access by track Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094. number, index number, or Vibration -isolated, antiresonant elapsed -time position cabinet with double isolation of O Pitch adjustable over ±8% range optical mechanism Lab Tests. O Auto -Cue for exact start of each O Wireless remote control of most Meaningful performance meas- track panel functions as well as music O Memory for instant recall of any scan (with adjustable sample urements on the Technics SL -P1300 cued point duration) and index skipping would be impossible (or atleast impractical) without the very latest in test equipment, which we have in the Audio Precision System One. LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS For example, the player's frequency Maximum output level: 2.49 volts Frequency response: ±0.04 dB response varied only ± 0.04 dB Total harmonic distortion at from 15 to 20,000 Hz from 15 to 20,000 Hz. The equaliza- 1,000 Hz: less than 0.0016% Speed -adjustment range: +9.49%, tion of the de -emphasis circuit was from 0 to -80 dB except for -7.4116 accurate within 0.02 dB from 125 to 0.005% maximum at -20 dB Low-level linearity error: less than 0.5 dB down to -100 dB 1,000 Hz in one channel and within Signal-to-noise ratio (A -weighted): Its 114 dB Cueing time: 1.5 seconds about 0.003 dB in the other. Channel separation: 130 dB at 100 Cueing accuracy: A noise -spectrum level when playing Hz, 122 dB at 1,000 Hz, 97 dB at Impact resistance: top and sides, the "signal -zero" portion of a test 20,000 Hz A+ disc was -120 dB at 20,000 Hz and Maximum phase shift (from 5,000 Defect tracking: tracked fell to -145 dB at 30 Hz (except for to 20,000 Hz): -1.2 degrees at 1,500 -micrometer defects on 60- and 180 -Hz hum components in 20,000 Hz Pierre Verany #2 test disc one channel at -116 dB). Low-level spectrum analysis of

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the output from test tones between best we have seen in a home CD Ali of these measurable differ- - 70 and -100 dB showed a strik- player. Only with the most extraor- ences really have little to do with ing absence of resolvable harmon- dinary pounding on its case (more the sound of the player, however, ics, which are usually present at lev- painful to the perpetrator than to since we are dealing with infinitesi- els of -15 to -30 dB in other CD the victim) could we cause brief mal performance aberrations. The players. This result was a first in our dropouts. The cueing time of 1.5 principal significance, as we see it, is experience testing CD players with seconds ranks with many of the fast- that Technics has made a number of the Audio Precisioninstrument. er CD players made today. Finally, refinements that, in the aggregate, The level of the 1,000 -Hz test tone the headphone volume was excel- make an excellent product even bet- was within a fraction of a decibel of lent, about 3.5 to 4 volts into typical ter. One of the most striking char- the correct value even at -100 dB, headphone impedance loads before acteristics of our measurements of another indication of the low-level clipping occurred. the SL -P1300 is their symmetry. linearity of the D/A converter. The Measurements on the two channels linearity of the playback from the Comments of a CD player almost always differ, sweeping tone (with dither) of the The Technics SL -P1300 is one of often by a substantial amount. Even CBS CD -I disc was excellent from the most advanced CD players we though the differences are not likely -60 dB until it disappeared in the have seen to date. While a few of to have an audible effect, their pres- noise level at about -116 dB. its individual measurements have ence suggests a degree of uncertain- been equaled or slightly surpassed ty that seems out of place in such a The Technics SL-P1300's by some other top units, its overall sophisticated component as a CD performance places it at the head of player. The fact that the two chan- defect -tracking ability was its class in our experience. nels of the SL -P1300 measured so excellent, and its impact We have been using an SL -P1200 much more alike than those of other resistance was the best we have for some time as a reference CD CD players suggests that its makers player, so we were naturally curious really had a handle on what they seen in a home CD player. to compare it with its successor. were doing, from the conception to Making the same measurements on the manufacture of thefinished both units with the same discs and product. The channel separation, almost test equipment, we verified that the The SL -P1300isa most im- identical on both channels, was newer circuits of the SL -P1300 do in pressively engineered component. about 130 dB at 100 Hz and about fact produce measurable benefits. While I cannot say that it sounded 100 dB at 20,000 Hz. The total har- Compared with the SL -P1200, its better than other top -of -the -line CD monic distortion (THD) plus noise at wide -band noise level was 7 dB low- players,or evendifferentfrom 1,000 Hz was -96 dB (0.0016 per- er, its quantization noise was 3 dB their, I can say that I have not seen cent) at 0 dB and -98 da (0.0013 lower, and its dynamic range was 2 another CD player combining such a percent) from -40 to -80 dB. For dB greater.Its low-level linearity high level of performance and ver- reasons that are not clear, the distor- curve was visiblysuperior, and satility with such an overall feeling tion rose abruptly to -86 dB (0.005 channel separation was about 10 to of ruggedness, quality, and precision. percent) at -20 dB, but from a lis- 20 dB greater. Circle 140 on reader service card tening standpoint, of course, that level is as insignificant as the other distortionmeasurements. Inter - channel phase shift varied smoothly from -0.2 degree at 5,000 Hz to 1111.1., -1.2 degrees at 20,000 Hz. The A -weighted wide -band noise Mc ft1E8SoN was -114 dB, and quantization Cl PRESioe Per noise (with the D/A converters oper- ALIDITM SPEAKEK ating) was -95 dB. The dynamic CORP. range (EIAJ) was 97.5 dB. The frequency error was +0.0018 percent, a- and the pitch control had a range of +9.49 percent to -7.41 percent. The 0 -dB output level into an EIA load was 2.49 volts, with a channel imbalance of 0.05 dB. The defect -tracking ability of the SL -P1300 was excellent, reaching beyond the 1,500 -micrometer level of the Pierre Verany #2 test disc before audible dropouts occurred, and its impact resistance was the

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Dept. SR, 425 Huehl Rd., North- brook, IL 60062. Lab Tests For our measurements and listening tests, we installed the Jamo Con- cert II speakers on 26 -inch stands and placed them about 2 feet from the wall behind them. The room - response measurements indicated a notably flat and smooth response, with the usual floor -reflection peak and dip between 250 and 500 Hz, and a strong output between 50 Hz and our 20,000 -Hz measurement limit. The close-miked woofer and port response curves combined for an unusually flat response from about 35 to 200 Hz, falling gently at higher frequencies to -10 dB at 2,000 Hz. When this was combined with the room curve, the result was a composite frequency response of -± 3 dB from 25 to 20,000 Hz. Although the composite curve seems to suggest a remarkable bass extension for a 61/2 -inch woofer, the 25 -Hz figure should not be taken too literally. The actual low -frequency limits of the speaker are defined by its power -handling and distortion characteristics rather than by an ar- tificial low-level measurement. JAMO CONCERT II SPEAKER The system's sensitivity was 88.5 dB sound -pressure level (sPL) at 1 Julian Hirsch, Hirsch Houck Laboratories meter with a standard input of 2.83 volts of pink noise. Our reference THE Danish -made Jamo magnetically, with its edges fitting level for the distortion measure- Concert II speaker is a fairly into slots along the sides of the ments was 3.36 volts, corresponding conventional two-way sys- speaker panel. The unusual design to a 90 -dB SPL. The woofer distor- tem with a 61/2 -inch woofer allows the grille to be removed and tion was about 1 percent at 100 Hz, operating in a bass -reflex enclosure. replaced with exceptional ease, and 2 percent at 80 Hz, and 7 percent at The cabinet, suitable for shelf or the absence of protrusions on the 50 Hz. The effective crossover be- standplacement,measures 161/s sculptured panel makes the Concert tween the cone and port radiation inches high, 9inches wide, and 97/8 II much more attractive than most was at about 75 Hz, and between 20 inches deep, and each speaker unit speakers are when operated without and 50 Hz the system's actual distor- weighs about 20 pounds. The cross- a grille. tion with a 3.36 -volt input was in over, at a nominal frequencyof Beyond the Concert II's physical the 10- to 30 -percent range. 2,000 Hz, is to aI -inch soft -dome specifications, crossover frequency, The impedance of the system was tweeter. The rated system imped- and impedance, the only ratings 7 to 7.5 ohms at 43 and 180 Hz, with ance is 8 ohms, and the system has provided in the owner's manual are another dip to 5 ohms at 3,500 Hz. no controls or adjustments. its frequency range, given as 40 to There were impedance peaks of 21 The cabinet of the Jamo Concert 20,000 Hz, and three distinct power ohms at 27 Hz, 27 ohms at 80 Hz, and 30 ohms at 1,000 Hz. The hori- IIisfinishedinmahogany or ratings: "Operating Power 6.3 watts, stained black ash. Gold-plated bind- IEC Input Power 40 watts, and zontal dispersion was good, with lit- ing posts, recessed into the rear of Rated Power 80 watts (120 watts tle divergence between the response the cabinet, accept stripped wire music)." These numbers, like all measured on -axis and 45 degrees ends or bananaplugs,butare speaker power ratings, derive from off -axis below 8,500 Hz and only spaced too widely for dual banana - nonstandard measurement meth- about 6 dB difference at 12,000 Hz. plug connectors. The woofer port is ods and are not easily correlated Quasi-anechoic FFT response meas- in the rear of the cabinet. The black with real -world operation.Price: urements with our IQS signal -analy- perforated -metal grilleis retained $798 a pair. Jamo Hi-Fi U.S.A., sis system confirmed the smooth -

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ness and uniformity of the system in the audible range, showing only ± 1.5 dB variation from180 to 16,000 Hz. The overall group -delay variation of 0.2 millisecond from 3,000 to 20,000 Hz was consistent with our other measurements. High -power tests with one -cycle tone bursts showed that the Concert II was no midget inits power - handlingabilities.Our amplifier clipped before the speaker rattled, reaching inputs of 490 watts at 100 Hz (into14 ohms), 250 watts at 1,000 Hz (30 ohms), and 790 watts at 10,000 Hz (8 ohms). Comments The measured performance of the Jamo Concert II indicated that it should be a very listenable small speaker, but we knew that before we AUDIO -TECHNICA AT-ML170 made any measurements. The Con- cert II had a balanced spectral re- PHONO CARTRIDGE sponse and unmistakable smooth-*Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Hauck Laboratories ness that were instantly apparent. In A/B comparisons it showed itself to be in the same class as some highly /N recent months, it has become dent left- and right -channel coils. Like earlier Audio-Technica car- size but much higher price. It was and universal acceptance of the tridges, the M LI70 features a nude- not even badly outclassed by some compact disc medium, the de- mounted MicroLine diamond sty- much larger, as well as more expen- velopment of new and improved lus whose shape closely resembles sive, systems. There are no miracles phono cartridges (and tonearms and that of a cutting stylus, which is said in audio, however, and although the turntables) has not ceased. The re- to result in low playback distortion cent announcement of the cancella- and high channel separation. The jamo Concert II hada tion of marketing plans for the Fin- A number of high -end Japanese ial laser record player suggests, how- audio manufacturers (and some in balanced spectral response ever, that future major advances in other countries as well) believe that and a smoothness that analog recording and playback tech- using certain exotic materials can were instantly apparent nology are unlikely in view of the have a positive effect on the sound declining market for LP'S. Rather, of a product. The ML170 cartridge's in our listening tests. what we have seen, and may contin- coils are wound with "Pure Copper ue to see for a while, is a process of by Ohno Continuous Casting" (Pc- refinement, especially in phono-car- occ). It is claimed that this special Concert II had a pleasing frequency tridge design, that will enable the high -temperature extruded copper balance, its bass output could not phonophile to extract the last bit of has "virtually no transverse crystal compete with that of systems using performance and usefullife from barriers to... color sound." Even larger drivers in larger enclosures. his valued disc collection. the connecting pins of the cartridge Of course, each speaker has spe- The latest example of this trend to are made of PC-OCC. The benefit is cialcharacteristicsthat makeit come to our attention is the new said to be "greater resolution and more or less attractive to any given flagship cartridge from Audio-Tech- signal clarity." listener, and no two speakers (in- nica, the ML170. This moving -mag- The body and mounting base of cluding pairs of the same model) are net cartridge is based on the dual - the ML 170 are formed of nonreso- truly identical. I would not presume magnet design used throughout the nant ceramic. The magnetic por- to rank one speaker above or below company's line. The dual magnets, tions of the cartridge are shielded another merely because their indi- mounted on a boron cantilever against hum pickup, and the remov- vidual colorationsdifferslightly, that's gold plated to damp reso- able stylus assembly is user -replace- but I have no hesitation in ranking nances, form a "V" that matches able. The cartridge weighs 7 grams the Jamo Concert II as one of the the geometry of the recording pro- and mounts on standard'/.-inch better contendersinthe under - cess. As the stylus traces a record centers. It has a relatively high out- $1,000 -a -pair price class. groove,themagnets' movement put, rated as 4 millivolts per chan- Circle 141 on reader service card generates voltages in the indepen- nel for a lateral velocity of 5 centi-

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meters per second (equivalent to The 30-cm/s 1,000 -Hz tones of the more than sufficient to deal with the 3.54 cm/s in each channel). The rec- Fairchild 101 record were played most demanding discs. ommended vertical tracking force is without mistracking at only 0.5 The final question is, "How does 1.25 grams ±0.3 gram, and the gram, another measurement first. it sound?" Frankly, we heard no tracking ability is rated as 90 mi- Only the low -frequency tracking special or unique qualities in the crometers (Am) at the center value, ability of the cartridge failedto ML170's performance playing an 100 Am at the maximum tracking match its other achievements. The assortment of the better discs on force. 32 -Hz tones of the Cook 60 record hand. It would take an impractically Channel separation is rated as 31 mistracked at any force within the long search to find recorded musical dB at 1,000 Hz and 21 dB at 10,000 cartridge's design range. This result passages, rather than test signals, Hz, with a channel imbalance of less does not mean that the cartridge is that might stress the abilities of this than 0.5 dB. The vertical tracking inadequate at typical low frequen- cartridge to their limits (if any such angle of the stylus is 20 degrees. The cies, however, since the Cook 60's actually exist). When components recommendedcartridgeloadis 32 -Hz tone is recorded at a very high attain the degree of refinement evi- 47,000 ohms in parallel with a ca- level, about 56 cm/s, with a groove - dent in this cartridge, it is unreason- pacitance of 100 to 200 picofarads modulation amplitude that is easily able to expect to find meaningful (pF). Price: $345. Audio-Technica, visible to the unaided eye at a dis- sonic differences between them. Dept. SR,1221 Commerce Dr., tance of 2 feet or more. From a listening standpoint, then, Stow, OH 44224. The frequency response of the Isuspect that this cartridge has ML170 obviously extended well reached a level of performance that Lab Tests beyond the audio range (it is rated is sufficient to extract all the useful We installed the Audio-Technica as 5 to 40,000 Hz, with no tolerance sound from any analog record with ML170 in a medium -mass tonearm specified). Its response to a 1,000 -Hz insignificant distortion. No, it is not loaded with 47,000 ohms and 100 square wave was nearlyperfect, "perfect," but neither is a digital pF forour measurements. The showing only a low-level damped compact disc or a CD player, yet tracking force was set to 1.25 grams. ringing at about 40,000 Hz, which their performance is generally more Playing a 3.54-cm/s, 1,000 -Hz test appeared to be the stylus resonance than adequate for even critical lis- band, the cartridge's output was frequency. teners. I doubt that any future de- 3.75 my, with a channel imbalance velopments in cartridges will ever of 0.7 dB. The vertical tracking Comments eclipse one of the caliber of the angle was 16 degrees. The measurement data on the Au- ML170, nor is there any need for The frequency response and chan- dio-Technica ML170 clearly place it such an achievement other than to nel separation were measured using among the elite of phono cartridges. provide equivalent performance at both the CBS STR 100 and CTC If it had tracked our low -frequency lower prices. It does not matter (to 300 test records. The results differed test bands as well as the higher fre- me, anyway) what exotic materials only slightly, with the flattest re- quencies, we would have no hesi- or methods are used in a product- sponse being obtained with the STR tancy in giving it a 100 -percent per- what counts is how well it performs. 100. In fact, the ML170 produced formance rating. In our view, no In that respect, this one will be hard oneoftheflattestfrequency - cartridge needs to be better than this to beat. response curves we have seen from one, whose playing capabilities are Circle 142 on reader service card a phono cartridge-it varied only ±0.5 dB from 40 to 20,000 Hz. As often happens, the two channels did not have the same separation characteristics. The left -channel separation was about 30 dB in the midrange, but the right -channel separation was about 22 dB. The separation was 30 dB in both channels at 10,000 Hz, however, and it was still a strong 20 dB at 20,000 Hz. In most respects,the tracking ability of the ML170 was outstanding, setting new records in our experience with cartridges. With the DIN 45549 test record, it tracked the 100 -micrometer level at1.25 grams and almost handled 110 Am at 1.55 grams (a slight mistracking distortion was audible). Very few cartridges we have tested have been able to track 100 Am at any force. "... l71 try 'Slew Factorsof Japanese Amplifiers' for $1,000, Ted."

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there is no band selector as such. The up and down buttons step the MITSUBISHI M -AV 1 tuned frequency by 200 kHz forFM and 10 kHz forAM;when the end of AUDIO/VIDEO RECEIVER the band is reached, the receiver automatically switches to the other Julian Hirsch, Hirsch Houck Laboratories band. ThePRESET MEMORYbutton is used with the tuning buttons to ITSUBISHI'SM-AV1 au- are two pairs of buttons with up/ storeselectedfrequencies.The dio/video receiver, down arrow indicators, one marked speaker -selector button is used to signedasthecontrol SCANand the otherINPUT.The drive either one or two pairs of 4de- speakers from the front channels. center for a group of input buttons are used to select the compatible components that form a main program source for listening When the surround mode is select- complete and highly versatileA/V or viewing, and the scan buttons ed, the second pair of speakers is system, includes four channels of step through the tuner's sixteenAM automatically driven by the rear amplification. The front channels or FMpresets. The selected source (surround) channels. The conven- are rated for 125 watts each into 8 or preset station appears in large tionalbalanceknobissupple- ohms from 20 to 20,000Hzwith less characters on the display, along mented by anINPUT BALANCEknob than 0.05 percent total harmonic with such other status indications as to minimize leakage of the front distortion, the rear channels for 25 TUNED, STEREO, MUTE,andCLIP- channels into the rear ones during watts each into 8 ohms from 50 to PING.The receiver has input con- surround operation. 10,000 Hz with less than 0.5 percent nections for a turntable, aCDor vid- The other operations of the M - distortion. The surround -sound de- eodisc player (identified as CD -N), a AV 1 are handled in a rather uncon- coder is compatible with Dolby - TVmonitor/receiver, two vCR's, ventional manner. There are two encoded video sources and has a and digital and analog tape decks. pairs ofAUDIO FUNCTIONbuttons matrix mode for adding ambience Theremainingalways -visible with up/down arrows behind the to any stereo program. controls are the power switch at the hinged panel, one pair markedSE- Although the M -AV 1isfairly lower left and a small, round push- LECTand the other ADJUST. The large, it has perhaps the simplest - button markedPUSH OPEN.Pressing selectbuttonsstepthroughFM looking front panel we have seen on this button causes the bottom of the mode (mono,stereo,and high - a component of this type. Only the paneltoswing down,revealing blend), surround mode (off, matrix, large volume knob, a few pushbut- more buttons, a few knobs, and a and Dolby), surround volume, bass, tons, and the approximately 2 x 3 - headphone jack. treble, tone defeat, loudness, sub- inch illuminated display are nor- The tuning buttons operate in a sonic filter, high -cut filter, and re- mally visible. Next to the display conventional manner except that cord monitor. For each selected

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function, the adjust buttons step viewing when the user's eyes are not contains all of the audio and video through the available range of val- on the same level as the display. input and output jacks, a 75 -ohm ues or switch the function on or off. The M -AV Ihas separate record - coaxialFMantenna input, terminals Perhaps the most unusual control selector buttons for audio and video for an AM wire antenna or the sup- on this receiver is its DISPLAY AN- programs, and either type of record- plied loop antenna, input/output GLE adjustment. The M -AV I uses a ing can be made independently of jacks for an audio -processor loop liquid -crystaldisplay(LCD)with the program being heard through (normally joined by jumpers), and green, yellow, and white letters and the speakers. There are direct video heavy-duty binding posts for two numerals on a dark background. An connections for dubbing between pairs of speakers. A small slide LCD normally has a narrow viewing two VCR'S as well as S -VHS inputs switchbypassesthefront -panel angle; contrast and legibility are and an S -VHS output. The S -type speaker selector and drives the rear best when it is viewed head on and inputs and output are not switched speakers only from the rear -channel fall off rapidly as the angle changes. by the receiver's dubbing controls. amplifiersina surround mode. The M-AVI's DISPLAY ANGLE knob requiring a direct S -cable connec- There are five AC outlets, three of electronically "steers" the optimum tion between video components. them switched. A multipin jack is viewing angle up or down for easier The rear apron of the receiver provided for direct connection to compatible Mitsubishi components FEATURES for total system control through the receiver's remote unit. A video out- O Integrated front -panel and O External -processor loop put supplies signals to an external remote control for complete OIndependent selection of monitor (or a receiver with a direct audio/video system listening and recording sources video input). O Four amplifier channels for audio and video The remote control is a key part O Drives one or two speaker pairs O Surround -sound decoder in stereo or surround mode O LCD panel with adjustable of a total system based on the M - OAM/FM tuner with sixteen viewing angle AV I .Itis quite large, about 914 presets O Headphone jack inches long, and is covered in a O Inputs for phono, CD or O Audio mute on remote control It can be videodisc player, two tape decks, O Volume control motor driven in suede -like gray flocking. two 'Cles, monitor/receiver remote operation switched by its ownSELECTbutton O Outputs and switching for tape O Audio menu and status display to operate the audio, TV, orVCR decks, VCR's, monitor/receiver on video monitor portions of the system. Pressing this button also lights the corresponding letters in the remote's small display LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS window for a few seconds. Sliding out the bottom part of the 0 Tuner Section (all figures for FM 0Amplifier Section only exceptfrequencyresponse; control unit's cover an inch or so 1,000 -Hz output power at clipping: exposes the audio and video but- measurements in microvolts, or front, 147 watts into 8 ohms, µv, referred to 300 -ohm input) 195 watts into 4 ohms, 218 watts tons, which select various functions Usable sensitivity (mono): 15.5 dBf into 2 ohms; rear, 31.5 watts of those portions of the system (the (3.1 µV) into 8 ohms audio button duplicates the SELECT 50 -dB quieting sensitivity: mono, Clipping headroom (relative to button on the receiver's subpanel). µV):stereo, 44 dBf 19 dBf (5 rated output): 0.7 dB TheADJUSTbutton between them (87 µv) Dynamic power output: 202 watts Signal-to-noise ratio at 65 di& into 8 ohms, 338 watts into 4 varies the selected function. Sliding mono, 76 dB; stereo, 69.5 dBf ohms, 400 watts into 2 ohms the cover back further reveals a Harmonic distortion (THU + Dynamic headroom: 2.1 dB number of additional buttons re- noise) at 65 dBf: mono, 0.4%; Maximum distortion (20 to 20,000 lated toTVandVCRoperation and stereo, 1.35% Hz into 8 ohms): 0.045% at programming. Fully opened, the re- Capture ratio at 65 dBf: 1.5 dB 20,000 Hz at 125 watts, 0.019% isan impressive 13 AMrejection: 72 dB at 62.5 and 12.5 watts mote unit Selectivity: alternate -channel, 58 Sensitivity, (for a 1 -watt output into inches long, but for most purposes it dB; adjacent -channel, 0 dB 8 ohms); CD, 14 mV; phono, can be used fully closed. Stereo threshold: 15 dBf (3 µV) 0.22 my The M-AV1 can supply an on- Pilot -carrier leakage: 19 kHz, A -weighted noise (referred to a screen audio menu to a video mon- - 37 dB 1 -watt output): CD, -77.5 dB: itor, which is a convenient way to Hum: -78 dB phono, -72 dB set or review the preset tuner fre- Stereo channel separation at 100, Phono-input overload: 84 to 92 1,000 and 10,000 Hz; stereo my from 20 to 20,000 Hz quencies. The numerical keypad on mode, 24, 41, and 40 dB: Phono-input impedance: 48,000 the remote unit can be used for high -blend mode, 20, 10, and ohms in parallel with 90 pF direct access to any preset station or 0.2 dB RIAA equalization error: +0, -1 for setting the preset memories. The Frequency response: FM (stereo dB from 20 to 20,000 Hz mode), 30 to 15,000 Hz +1.5, Tone -control range: 100 Hz, +9. on -screen menu also duplicates the -2 dB; FM (high -blend mode), - 10 dB; 10,000 Hz, +12.5, status indications of the front -panel 30 to 15,000 Hz +0, -6.3 dB; - 8.5 dB display. AM, 75 to 2,600 Hz +1, -6 dB The Mitsubishi M-AV1 measures 16.3/4 inches wide, 61/4 inches high,

34 SITREO REVIENJULY1989 ENOUGH To MAKE A Twisr Go STRAIGHT

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AMERICAS No .l7j---. - SELLING GIN TEST REPORTS and 153/4 inches deep, and it weighs dB. The treble control had a fixed the instructions," we began to ap- 261/2 pounds. Price: $1,000. Mitsubi- turnover frequency of 1,500 Hz and preciate its extraordinary versatili- shi Electric Sales America, Dept. a maximum range of +14, -10 dB. ty. We can only guess how this SR, 5757 Plaza Dr., P.O. Box 6007, The loudness -compensation circuit receiver would perform in a com- Cypress, CA 90630-0007. boosted both low and high frequen- plete Mitsubishi A/V system, but as cies moderately. With the subsonic part of a conventional audio system Lab Tests filter, the response was down 3 dB at it was quite satisfactory. With both front channels driven 50 Hz and 6 dB at 30 Hz, and with Although the M-AV1 has a very at 1,000 Hz into 8 -ohm loads, the the high -cut filter the response was powerful amplifier section, its FM Mitsubishi M-AV1 clipped at 147 down 3 dB at 6,500 Hz and 6 dB at tuner section was less distinguished. watts per channel. Into 4 ohms, the 11,000 Hz. Some of its measured characteris- clipping level was 195 watts. To pre- The response of the surround tics-such as the channel blending, vent damage to the receiver, we (rear) channels in the matrix mode which almost eliminated stereo re- drove a 2 -ohm load with only one was flat from 200 to 2,000 Hz, -7 ception without quite being pure channel, loading the other with 4 dB at 20 Hz, and -3 dB at 7,000 Hz. mono, and the relatively high stereo ohms. The 2 -ohm clipping level was There was a 25 -dB notch in the distortion-were reminiscent of car 218watts.The surround(rear) response at about 12,000 Hz, and radios and not atalltypical of channels delivered 31.5 watts to an the output returned to a - 5-ds lev- today's home tuners. Also, this is 8 -ohm load. The dynamic power el at 20,000 Hz. the first FM tuner we can recall test- output was 202 watts into 8 ohms, The FM tuner section's usable sen- ing that had zero adjacent -channel 338 watts into 4 ohms, and 400 sitivity was 15.5 dBf in mono and selectivity (fortunately that's not a watts into 2 ohms. 21.5 dBf in stereo. The 50 -dB quiet- critical matter in most locations). The input sensitivity for a 1 -watt ing sensitivity was 19 dBf in mono The ingenious DISPLAY ANGLE con- outputwas 14millivolts(my) and 44 dBf in stereo. With a 65-dBf trol worked more or less as claimed, through a high-level input and 0.22 input, the S/N was 76 dB in mono, but the range over which the display my through the phono input, with 69.5 dB in stereo; distortion was 0.4 was legible remained very limited, respectiveA -weighted signal-to- percent in mono, 1.35 percent in ± 30 degrees at most. noise ratios of 77.5 and 72 dB. The stereo. The distortion was not at a We used the surround portion of phono input overloaded at inputs minimum when the tuner and our the receiver in its matrix mode to between 84 and 92 my from 20 to signal generator were set to the same enhance stereo reception. The effect 20,000Hz. Itsimpedance was frequency, but the offset required was comparable to other basic (non - 48,000 ohms inparallel with 90 for a minimum reading varied from logic) matrix systems we have used, picofarads. The RIAA equalization 35 to 55 kHz as the signal level was with some sibilant spillover into the error was +0, -1 dB from 20 to adjusted. surround channels, but it provided 20,000 Hz. The FM frequency response varied good front -rear separation nonethe- At its rated 125 watts output into over a +1.5- to -2-ds range in the less. Although Mitsubishi refers to 8 ohms, the receiver's total har- stereo mode. The channel separa- Dolby Surround in its literature, its monic distortion (THD) plus noise tion was 40 to 42 dB between 1,000 decoder is not licensed by Dolby was about 0.04 percent from 20 to and 10,000 Hz and 37.5 dB at 15,000 and the receiver carries no Dolby 20,000 Hz. At half -power and less, Hz. Below 1,000 Hz, the separation logo on its panel (the logo does the distortion was 0.02 percent over decreased linearly to 13 dB at 30 Hz. appear on the display when Dolby that range. The 4- and 8 -ohm distor- In the high -blend mode, the maxi- Surround is selected). Instead of us- tion readings were similar. At 1,000 mum separation was 20 dB in the ing Dolby B noise reduction, the Hz, the THD plus noise varied from 100- to 200 -Hz range, falling to 10 receiver apparently uses a Mitsubi- 0.08 percent at 1 watt to a minimum dB at 1,000 Hz and 0 dB at 6,000 Hz shi -developed compandercircuit of 0.015 percent at about 60 watts. and above. The high -frequency re- that is claimed to provide a wider Into 4 and 2 ohms, the readings sponse was also slightly rolled off dynamic range than the Dolby sys- were similar except that the mini- above 5,000 Hz, to -6 dB at 15,000 tem does. mum of 0.012 percent was reached Hz. Although the AM rejection and Mitsubishi's ergonomic approach at 100 and 170 watts, respectively. the capture ratio were very good, in the M-AV1 makes good sense for The distortion in the rear surround the image rejection was only passa- a product designed as a control cen- outputs (1,000 Hz into 8 ohms) was ble, and adjacent -channel selectivi- ter for a complete A/V system, for 0.9 to I percent at power outputs ty was nonexistent. The AM tuner's use by people who prefer to enjoy from 10 to 30 watts, reaching 1.8 frequency response, relative to its listening or watching with a mini- percent at 1 watt. 1,000 -Hz level, was +1, -6 dB from mum of involvement in operating The frequency response with the 75 to 2,200 Hz. details. After all, what could be tone controls defeated was +0, simpler than a receiver with only -0.5 dB from 20 to 20,000 Hz. The Comments one knob and almost no buttons? bass tone control had a shelved Our initial attempts to use the Especially when it works smoothly, response, with a turnover frequency Mitsubishi M-AV1 were frustrating, sounds good, and does a lot more shifting between 300 and 700 Hz but after following our own oft -giv- than most receivers. and a maximum range of +10, - 12 en advice, "When all else fails, read Circle 143 on reader service card

36 STFREO REVIEW JULY 1989 Old Records, New Life

Iwanteda better cassette deck. So one Saturday I dropped by a hi-fi store. The salesman took me into one of the sound rooms for a demonstration. Racks of equipment were everywhere. He started to make a recording and I immediately fell in love with the music. It was so clean, so rich, so dynamic. "What CD is that?" I asked. He didn't hear me over the music but it didn't matter because I quickly saw that I wasn't listening to a CD at all. It was a record. I made quick mental notes of the system I was hearing. I walked over to the wall of speakers and discovered that KLIPSCH® kg4s® were playing. That was the first time I had truly heard wide dynamic range. I didn't buy a cassette deck that day. I spent less money and bought a new pair of kg4s. They've put new life in my old record collection. My CDs sound simply awesome. I never heard music so clearly.

For your nearest KLIPSCH dealer, look in the Yellow Pages or call toll free, 1-800-223-3527.

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er's response to augment the induc- tive and capacitive elements of the crossover network. According to the manufacturer, every production unit of the Export Monitor is matched to a reference system within 0.25 da (it is not clear whether this figure refers to the system's frequency response or its sensitivity). The cabinet is made of composite fiberboard with Medite front and rear baffles for improved overall damping and higher stiffness. The woofer is located at the center of the front baffle, with its port below and the tweeter above. The black cloth grille is retained by plastic snaps. The cabinet is covered with oak, walnut, or black -ash ve- neer on all surfaces except the front speaker board. The multiway binding -post connectors, separate for the tweeter and woofer, are recessed into the rear panel of the cabinet. The two sets of terminals are normally joined by jumpers, but the Export Monitor can be operated as a biwired or biamplified system by removing the jumpers. In any case, the individual crossovers (for tweeter and woofer) are always present between the amplifier and the drivers. The system's specificationsin- clude an on -axis frequency response of 55 to 20,000 Hz ± 2 dB, sensitivity of 88.5 dB, and a nominal impedance of 8 ohms. The cabinet measures 24 inches high,103/4 inches wide, and 14 inches deep, and each speaker weighs 33 pounds. The Ex- port Monitor is designed to be operated on matching stands, away from any room walls, and for best results the tweeters should be approxi- PARADIGM EXPORT MONITOR mately at the listener's ear level. Price: $790 a pair; stands, $120 a SPEAKER SYSTEM pair. Paradigm, Dept. SR, P.O. Box 2410, Niagara Falls, NY 14302. Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories Lab Tests Lacking the matching Paradigm THE Canadian -made Para- perature plastic voice -coil former, stands, we used other available digm Export Monitor is a and a butyl surround. speaker stands to bring the tweeters moderately sized two-way The tweeter, which takes over at nearly to the ear height of a seated speaker system with an 8 - 2,000 Hz, has a laminated -textile listener. The room response of the inch woofer and a 1 -inch soft -dome dome and a high -temperature ferro- speakerswasimpressivelyflat, tweeter. The woofer, which operates fluid-cooled voice coil on an alumi- within ± 2 dB from 200 to 20,000 in a vented enclosure, is assembled num former. The crossover from Hz. The output rose slightly at lower on a die-cast aluminum chassis and the woofer is a fourth -order (24 -dB - frequencies to a maximum of about has a mineral -filled copolymer poly- per -octave) quasi -Butterworth type, 5 dB between 50 and 70 Hz in the propylene cone, a Kapton high-tern- using the natural rolloff of the woof- composite curve, which was con -

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110 7't11041:,;0pif SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, '3ZdAPplIEST/C "'".*. Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnarcy. C107 MIL TEST REPORTS structed by joining a close-miked watts into its 6.5 -ohm impedance. judged as soft sounding or perhaps woofer measurement to the aver- At 1,000 Hz, still in the woofer's somewhat lacking in high -frequency aged room response of the two operatingrange, theamplifier output. speakers, corrected at high frequen- clipped at 242 watts into its 31 -ohm This situation points up the vir- cies for the room -absorption char- impedance before any distortion tually unsolvable problem of deter- acteristics. The overall composite was audible. mining objectively what is the ideal response was an excellent ±4 dB speaker response. We found the Pa- from 20 to 20,000 Hz (the upper Comments radigm's sound to be distinctly dif- measurement limit in this test). The overall sound quality of the ferent from that of some of our pre- Paradigm Export Monitor speaker viously favored speakers, though it was characterized by balance and was at least as enjoyable, and after a The Paradigm Export clarity. The common speaker aber- brief period of listening to it, the ration of an emphasized upper -bass other speakers seemed a trifle dull Monitor sounded distinctly response, which gives male voices a sounding! This dichotomy between differentfrom some of our tubby, unnatural quality, was nota- the perceived sound characters of reviouslyfavored speakers, bly absent, and there was no ob- two different speakers is one of the vious sign of an emphasis or lack of more fascinating aspects of loud- but at least as enjoyable, with response in any other part of the speaker performance, and since ei- a slOit crispness in the upper audible range. ther type of response may be pre- Comparisons with other speakers ferred by different listeners, or by midrange and treble. on hand revealed what appeared to the same listener for different pro- OPM11111111111111416A111111' be a slight crispness in the Export gram material, it is not advisable to Monitor's upper -midrange and tre- be too dogmatic about the "correct- The quasi-anechoic FFT response ble output. When we checked our ness" of one or the other. plots from our IQS analysis system response measurements on the oth- The Paradigm Export Monitor confirmed the uniformity of the er speakers,it was apparent that was a very smooth, natural -sound- output of the Paradigm speaker. their high -frequency output either ing speaker with good, if not excep- On -axis, the output was flat within sloped off gently or was shelved at a tional, imaging properties. Its low - ± 3 dB from 180 to 30,000 Hz. The lower level than the woofers' maxi- bass performance was at least ade- response measured 45 degrees off - mum output. If the overall response quate, and the middle and high axis did not diverge significantly of the other speakers was assumed ranges were exceptionally smooth from the on -axis curve at frequen- tobe "correct," the Paradigm's and extended. Its overall well-bal- cies below 8,000 to 10,000 Hz, indi- sound could be considered slightly anced, unified sound was what we cating good horizontal dispersion. bright. But it would be equally justi- would expect, but do not always The success of Paradigm's efforts fiable to accept the response of the hear, from any speaker in this price to preserve phak coherence over Export Monitor as "flat," in which range. the audio range was demonstrated case the other speakers could be Circle 144 on reader service card by the system's group -delay variation, which was less than ± 0.2 millisecond in the overall tweeter range from 2,000 to 28,000 Hz and much better than that, about ± 0.02 ms, from 10,000 to 20,000 Hz. OMEGA The system's impedance reached its minimum of 6.2 ohms from 110 HEADPHONE to 140 Hz and its maximum of 35 RESEARCH ohms at 1,200 Hz. The sensitivity DEPT was 88 dB sound -pressurelevel (sPL) atI meter with a pink -noise input of 2.83 volts. With a drive level of 3.5 volts (equivalent to a 90 -dB SPL), the woofer distortion was 3 to 4 percent from 60 to 100 Hz. The effective crossover to the port was at about 50 Hz, where the distortion was 2 percent, increasing to 5 percent at 30 Hz. The Export Monitor was able to handle very large peak inputs with-

out distortion or damage. At 100 ". .Of course, there are still a few bugs to work out, but Dr. Epstein. Hz, the woofer cone began to rattle here. feels that the 'moving -head' concept will produce greater bass with a single -cycle input of 500 response than the conventional 'moving -coil' principle."

40STERFoRF.viEwiuts 1989 "McIntosh... noother transistor am is capable .of reproducing as well." "All the sounds, even those different one from another, remain separated and distinctive. There results a sensation of contrast, precision, and un- common clarity. . A close analysis of different frequencies reveals an extremely deep bass, very rich in spatial detail ... The upper bass region is very linear testifying to an extraordinary richness of information. The very structured mid -range con- tributes enormously to listening pleasure. The feeling of power is never refuted and instead of stunning the listener, the 7270 recreates an audio environment of a majesty that no other transistor amplifier is capable of reproducing as well." Need we say more? -ReV1411041 SON. foremost trench stereo magazine. For a copy of the RUE DU SON and information on thle,McIntosh MC 7270 Amplifier and other Mclnt s products write: McINTOSH LABORATORY INC. P.O. Box 96 EAST SIDE STATION, T. A47 BINGHAMTON, NY 13904-0096

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hether you are combined withmultistage noise shaping (MASH) will set Wlookingfora I)'VI 11'11111'1 I 1 1( )I(' I1 new CD player, the stage for truly spectacu- a sleek tuner/tape player for your lar living -room listening sessions. Porsche, a digitally controlled preamplifier, or Multiroom systems that let users control audio even a digital audio tape (DAT) deck, odds are you and video sources independently for every room will consider equipment designed and built some- in the house will capture the eyes and ears of music where across the Pacific. Provocative new audio lovers. It's getting easier to have music anywhere and video components as well as modern twists on in your home that you want it. old themes are coming from Japan, Taiwan, and Other areas of interest include sophisticated sur- Korea to make your choices harder than ever. round -sound processors, large -screen improved - Digitally driven components appear to be the definition television sets, loudspeakers, and auto- biggest news. The first preamplifier and receiver to motive products that rival the construction and do the bulk of their processing in the digital sound quality of home audio equipment. The domain are due to arrive on these shores this fall. components shown on these pages are just a sam- New CD players utilizing "true" 18 -bit linear digi- ple of what you can get your hands on right now or tal -to -analog (D/A) conversion and I -bit converters in the next few months.

42SiEREO REvww JULY 1989 NaIcamichi has a Model 1000 clarion's 720EQ again, only this electronic time it's a two - equalizer and p ece reference -standard spectrum dgital audio tape analyzer includes a recorder. The United built-in digital surround - States version will sound circuit that permit recording at a combines with a digital sampling frequency of delay to create a 360 - 44.1 kHz through its degree sound stage in the digital inputs. But don't car. It also has five EQ rush too quickly to the presets with audible and store-the Model 1000 visual preset scan. costs $10,000!

udio-Technica's AT-MLI70 phono cartridge _A' uses dual magnets mounted on a gold-plated boron cantilever to damp orrowing a bit resonances. The Bof styling from nude -mounted Micro - the turntable. Line diamond stylus is the top -loading shaped like a cutting Technics SL-PC20 offers stylus, which is said to the flexibility of a five-cH result in low playback carousel changer. It distortion and high features a four-times- channel separation. oversampling digital filter and dualDMA converters, all at a 4great price: $330. SFERE° REviEwjut,' 1989 43 onkyo's Grand Integra DX -G10 CDplayer features linear 18 -bit iicircuitry with an eight- times-oversampling digital filter, dualD/Aconverters, five -element Opto-Coupling, and variable shuttle search.

As the center of a complete audio/video system, Toshiba's 125 -watt XB-1000

integrated amp can switch DIGITPL PROCES5T.1,-,

up to ten audio and four 71: - video inputs. It also has Dolby Surround and eight factory -preset and four user - adjustable surround modes.

TP-I 17 tuner/preamplifier looks deceptively simple. It actually has two preamp sections and can be the heart of a multiroom system offering separate audio and video source control for every room in the house.

itsubishi's CS - 3504R is a 35- inch direct -view TVset with a full range of digital special effects,MTSdecoding, and S -VHS inputs.

amaha's AST -C10 Unity system makes use -yof the company's Active Servo Technology, which provides impressive deep bass without large speakers. The complete system sells for $999. WWWWW MIR 1,1,0

44 STEREO REVIEW JULY1989 -....~41,111111111WME=mmom pioneer's new Elite PD -71 CD player boasts dual "true" 18 -bit linear D/A converters with eight-times- oversampling, 18 -bit digital filters. Its disc tray is 111 engraved, "Dedicated to the true music lover.'

he RX-801 V from JVC,a100 -watt receiver, features the Compu Link remote system, which allows you to preset every variable parameter (volume, bass, surround sound, equalizer. etc.) for any source

hooked up to the receiver. vam eon. ON!. 41. ..

ony's D-555 Discman is the first portable CD player to use an eight-times- oversampling digital filter with noise - shaping circuitry and dual D/A converters. It is also the first portable to use digital signal processing (DSP).

rxrfr,". Kenwood's premier A/V receiver, the KR -V9010, has 130 watts per channel and Dolby Pro Logic surround -sound circuitry. Other features include a 20 -watt rear - channel amplifier and S -VHS inputs and outputs.

STEREO REVIEW Juts 1989 45 sansurs new CD-X7I I is the first compact disc P 2 0 20 2ti player to use a 1 -bit D/A converter in combination with Matsushita's multistage noise - shaping digital filter (MASH). Sansui calls the whole process LCDS, for "linear direct converter system."

AIwa s XC-005 he Eclipse 4111111111111111111111=111111 CD player has EST -240 car an eight-times- DAT player oversampling has three digital filter and dual volume presets, thirty - track programmability, 18 -bit linear D/A PRIG converters. Its unique and electronic volume. "IP1I n n.1-1n PPLIV 1 recording -calibration tone, balance, and 11111111111111 IMO 1 / 1li1.f 011 system allows you to fader controls. optimize your tape DIGITAL AutTO TACT DECK (3(440 deck for recording CD'S. , .

he Panasonic PV -S4990VCRis a videophile's dream come true. It offers digital reemIPPS .... special effects, VHS Hi-Fi LIU cootie sound, S -VHS compatibility, and bar- code programming.

NEC's new Renaissance Series CD -830 CD player uses a sixteen-times- oversampling digital filter that's said to improve sound reproduction over the audible range.

46STEREO REVIEW Juts 1989 FThe Alpine 7909 is the first carCD player that has 18 -bit processing,

eight -times I1 oversampling, and dual 7 !7.1. Piga tot D/Aconverters. It's also .7rJLC ri r the first in -dashCD D:I player to control a trunk -mounted changer. TAIIIta:1/PACT OW. PLAY VI ALFINE ,909 INS. I I

Fisher 1 name returns to hi-fi -prominence min the 150 -watt RS -Z1 .441 receiver. It has built-in DM processing and can accept digital inputs from aCDplayer, aDAT deck, or a satellite broadcast -, receiver. , ......

harp's DX -R830CD player has dualD/A converters, eight -times oversampling, and a three -beam pickup.

r-- --i- he Denon 'A VC -2000 integrated amp features Dolby Pro Logic decoding, fourteen audio inputs and nine outputs, and facilities 4for video display of its operating status.

itachi's I DA70 changerhas twin six -disc magaz nes that allow you to load and program six co's while listening to six others. sherwood's AM - 7040 power amplifier, rated for 200 watts per channel with 0.008 percent distortion from 20 to 20,000 Hz, has independent power transformers for each channel.

The Marantz CD - 94 r -s a 16 -bit, foutimes- oversamplingCD player with a die-cast aluminum transport I mechanism that's I mounted on a floating subchassis for optimum isolation from vibration.

i --proton's AI -3000, "The System" from Taiwan, includes a 22 -watt amplifier, an AM/FMtuner, aCDplayer, a cassette deck, speakers, and a remote control.

DK's line of Taudio cassettes features two new high- -performance, normal - bias tapes and new formulations for seven existing grades of tape.

elebrating its Ctwentieth anniversary inA the United States, Maxell introduced a new audio cassette line-up including the UR, UD, XL, XLS, and MX series.

48STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 1111 11 Sophisticated engineering and methodicalJAPAN constructiongo into a Yamaha receiver on its wayto American audio consumers.

BY BRYAN HARRELL

PHOTOGRAPHS BY AKIRA KOBAYASHI

OVERa century ago, in 1887, Torakusu Yama- medium -price model that will hit the U.S. ha, a medical -equipment technician, built the market early this summer. The RX-530 is first reed organ in Japan. Just five years later, made in large quantities, and compared with he exported eighty-seven Yamaha reed organs Yamaha's higher -price receivers, it isn't par- to countries in Asia. In another five years, ticularly "high tech" in outward appearance. Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd., was established with In a talk before our tour, the Yamaha prod- Mr. Yamaha as president. uct -planning staff emphasized that the compa- Nippon Gakki ("musical instrument") set ny's line of receivers is continually evolving, up for business in Hamamatsu, today still a albeit slowly, to reflect the demands of con- small city by Japanese standards, located on a sumers. Generally, more and more Yamaha plain at the mouth of the Tenryu river, which receivers are "A/V," or video compatible, with originates high in the Japan Alps. In early more video terminals and circuits to switch times, lumber from Japan's mountainous in- them. terior was floated down the Tenryu to the Since the receivers are primarily destined Pacific Ocean, making the area a major center for North America, I asked the planning staff of Japan's lumber and woodworking indus- what sort of consideration is given to Ameri- tries. The location was a natural; Yamaha pro- can preferences. One unanimous reply was, duced its first upright piano in 1900 and its "the volume control." Though electronic up/ first grand piano two years later. down rocker switches are now less expensive Interestingly, Hamamatsu's location about than conventional volume controls, easier to halfway between Japan's two largest cities, build into receivers, and quite compatible Tokyo and Osaka, is somewhat symbolic of with remote -control systems, Americans over- Yamaha itself. Tokyo is home to Sony, a rela- whelmingly still prefer the familiar round vol- tively new company that cuts a dynamic fig- ume knob-the bigger and heavier, the better. ure.Osaka's Matsushita (Technics, Pana- Apparently this preference was particularly sonic), on the other hand, is an older company puzzling to Yamaha's parts suppliers, who with a more conservative presence. Yamaha is had a hard time understanding why the up/ squarely in between in character, earning it down switches, which are often superior to the distinction of being perhaps the most typ- conventional knobs in many respects, weren't ical of Japan's consumer -electronics leaders. It good enough. Nevertheless, Yamaha spurred is also the oldest, and considered by many one the development of a conventional -looking of the best managed. volume knob that can also be motor driven We recently toured Yamaha's audio pro- for operation by remote control. duction facilities in Hamamatsu. Since Yama- The Yamaha engineers also pointed out that ha makes so many different products in sev- Americans don't share the Japanese fondness eral facilities in and around Hamamatsu, we for rows of tiny buttons. So how small is too decided to focus on one product- small? Engineer Kenji Yokoyama a typical receiver. The receiver is smiled and gave me the thumbs - perhaps Yamaha's most "Ameri- up sign. "We just think of our can" product, in that almost all it thumb when judging the size of makes are sold in North America. American fingers," he explained. Hardly any are sold in Japan, and A rule of thumb indeed. in Europe there is demand only for I asked the planning engineers lower -price models. about the "titanium color"in We chose the RX-530 receiver, a components, first introduced in to Yamaha's 10,000 series two years ago. After a trip through several insertion Since then, other manufacturers have machines, the circuit board is still not released components in similar colors. finished. The machines have placed ap- One engineer explained that Yamaha proximately 560 electronic parts on the was the first major manufacturer to offer RX-530's circuit board. Another ninety black components, a little over ten years or so will be added by hand after the ago, and that black became the trend. boards are sent to another assembly line Will the new titanium -color front panels in an adjoining building. There they are soon become the rage? Nobody would checked and soldered, and larger parts answer directly, but to a man their faces and terminals are added. read, "Definitely." ON completion, the boards are sub- First on our tour agenda was Yama- ject to electrical checks by a com- ha's large-scale integrated circuit (Ls° puter, which performs a sequence factory in the village of Toyo-oka, about of 616 tests in a matter of seconds. 18 miles northeast of Hamamatsu city. I The computer identifies any faulty was told that this was where the "heart" connections by an "address" on of the RX-530 receiver was designed, the circuit board so that a worker can but since a handful of different Lsi's are replace the improperly positioned part mountedontheRX-530'scircuit by hand. After the electrical check, each boards, we might as well think of them board is sent to another computer sta- as internal organs. tionfor a software -drivenfunction The master for each LSI must be check. Boards that pass inspection are created in extremely clean surroundings; stacked in special boxes and trucked the a speck of dust smaller than the eye can 20 miles to Hamamatsu for final assem- see could foul up the micrometer -order bly into the RX-530 receiver. electronic pathways that allow the inte- Our last stop was the receiver assem- grated circuit to function. The "clean bly line in Hamamatsu. This time, it was rooms" at Toyo-oka have a rating of all human workers, with nothing even Class 10, a standard specifying less than resembling a robot. The finished circuit ten dust particles of 0.1 micrometer or boards from the Fukuroi factory are larger per cubic foot of air. unpacked, and each one is placed on a 3 The Lsi's themselves are manufac- chassis along with displays and subas- tured at Yamaha's own semiconductor semblies. The front panel and some I. Inside one of the "clean factory in Kagoshima prefecture on the knobs are added in stages, the circuit rooms" at Yamaha's board is screwed onto the chassis, the Toyo-okaLSIresearch lab. southern island of Kyushu. Both the air The location has a rating of and water are extremely clean in this power cord is connected, and the al- Class 10, meaning that relatively remote location, a distinct ad- most -completed RX-530 rolls into a there are less than ten vantage in production. testing station where a computer per- contaminant particles of 0.1 AFTER leaving Toyo-oka, we headed forms a 49 -step function check in a mat- micrometer or larger per about 10 miles southeast to the ter of seconds. The remaining knobs are cubic foot of air. town of Fukuroi, where the Yama- added, and the RX-530 heads around 2. The main corridor ha Lsi's are mounted onto the RX- the corner of the line to another testing linking the various clean 530 circuit boards along with tran- bench where audioparametersare rooms. The light is specially sistors,resistors, capacitors, and checked. If it passes, the top cover is fit- filtered to reduce the other electronic parts. At the Fukuroi ted and all final screws are inserted. harmful effects of ultraviolet plant, one might expect to see rows of The RX-530 travels its last few yards radiation on the circuit robots banging out stacks of circuit down the line toward a worker who design and etching boards. In reality, there are several rows carefully wraps it in plastic and boxes it processes. of insertion machines that automatically together with a packet of accessories and 3. A completed silicon wafer insert transistors, resistors, and other another packet containing the owner's containing numerous parts into the circuit boards, but these manual and other printed material. The identical 1..s! chips. Between machines are tended to by a fairly large packaged receiver is then sent by truck one-third and one-half are staff of factory workers, who keep a close to one of several ports for shipment. normally judged to be defective. Those deemed watch on how everything is going to- Most RX-530's leave through Hama- perfect are precision cut and gether and often lend a hand. matsu port or nearby Shimizu. mounted. Below the wafer is When a blank circuit board is fed into Few Americans will ever look inside a completed 1...si with its the machine, each mounting "hand" an RX-530 receiver. But looking at these internal chip exposed. (the number of these vary) picks a single pictures from our factory tour will give electronic part and mounts it in a speci- you an idea of the sophisticated engi- fied location on the board. Another neering and methodical construction "hand" underneath bends the pins of that go into making a receiver users can each part to hold it in place. The elec- take for granted. tronic parts are supplied to the machine on large rolls of paper tape fed into the back. We saw parts for the RX-530 that Bryan Harrellis Tokyo correspondent for bore the names of virtually every major STEREO REVIEW. 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4. The wiring diagram for the RX-530's circuit board shows the routing of "cable jumpers." 5. An insertion machine at the Fukuroi factory. The circuit board is moved around while each of the vertical, cylindrical devices mounts a specific type of electronic part in the blink of an eye. 6. The insertion machine mounting pushbutton switches (they look like little white dots) on a part of the circuit board that will be separated and placed just behind the receiver's front panel. 7. The partially completed circuit board, containing Lst's, capacitors, resistors, transistors, and other electronic parts, is sent to this automatic soldering machine, where it is 'floated" through a bath of molten solder to fix the pins of the components to the contacts on the board.

STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 51 8. After the solder bath, workers visually check all connections and add more electronic components and other, larger parts not mounted by the insertion machines. 9-10. Any abnormalities found on the circuit boards are corrected and hand -finished by experienced line personnel. Most of the internal cables used are installed at this stage. 11. Slow and careful visual inspection is followed by solder touch-ups where necessary. 12. A surprising amount of time is spent pushing, poking, and prodding each circuit board to make sure every piece is perfectly placed.

52 STEREO REVIEW JULY1989 14 13. Running production totals are displayed on each assembly line. 14. After completion, the receiver's circuit board is checked electrically by computer. The board is held in the checking machine while the long, white probes make connections for the computer, which performs a sequence of 616 tests in a matter of seconds. 15-17.Various stages of completion of the RX-530's circuit board at the Fukuroi factory.

STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 53 23 18. At the Hamamatsu assembly factory, the circuit 20 boards from the Fukuroi factory are unpacked and placed on chassis, and rear panels are fitted. 19. The receiver heads down the final assembly line, where larger parts are added in stages. 20. The front panel and knobs are positioned. 21. Final soldering of the last internal cables. 22-23. The performance of the receiver's amplifier section is tested at one work station, the tuner section at the adjoining station.

54 STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 26 24. Part of Yamaha's extensive testing facility. A sample RX-530 receiver undergoes a shock and vibration test while a technician makes note of each mode of the test performed. 25. The finished receiver is wrapped in plastic and boxed with accessories, the owner's manual, and other documents. 26. Newly hired employees return from a lunch break at the Hamamatsu factory. !!!

STEREO REVIEW JULY1989 55 SYSTEMS

Out of sisktinLa -La Land

byRcheccaDay

THEY'RE familiar words to collectors: A fed -up spouse, feeling crowded out by stereo components or recordings, issues the ultimatum-"Either they go or I go." For Leo Gutman, it meant finding a new home for the 150 Metropolitan Opera broadcasts he had recorded onto 7- and 101/2 -inch reels. It also meant devising a way to hide his huge array of equipment. Gutman shares his wife's love for music and distaste for exposed electronics, however, so when he drew up preconstruction plans for their Los Angeles condominium he provided for tucking his equipment away in a cabinet and connecting it through the walls with 12 -gauge cable to floor -level speaker outlets in five rooms. He set up pairs of JS Engineering Infinite Slope Model 1 speakers in the living room, dining room, and den and pairs of KEF C30 speakers in both bedrooms. He has another pair of KEF C30's in the den "just for fiddling around" so that no one is disturbed when he is tuning in a radio station or sampling a tape. Gutman also designed the mirrored Formica cabinet and the acrylic shelves inside, which he had made to order. Below the equipment are different -size drawers for different kinds of recordings and accessories. Inside the cabinet is the comprehensive collection of taping gear that Gutman, a movie and Tv -show syndicator, uses for recording broadcasts and dubbing and editing his tapes. There are two Technics RS -1700 open -reel decks, a Technics RS -B905 cassette deck, Sony EV-S800 and 5700 8mm VCR's, and Panasonic PV -S4864 and PV -S4880 S -VHS vcR's. Gutman recently started using his 8mm VCR's for audio -only recording, transferring his open -reel tapes to the smaller format. The rest of the system consists of a Technics SE-A3MK2 300 -watt -per -channel power amplifier, a Sony TA-E77ESD preamplifier, a Technics ST -S8 tuner, a Sony CDP-650ESD CD player, a Sony CDP-C15ESD Co changer, a Pioneer LD-838D videodisc player, and a Panasonic CTK-2073S 20 -inch monitor/receiver with S -VHS inputs. To select all the different source and speaker combinations, there's also a Russound SD -8 sound -distribution system and a Russound AV -4 audio/video patch bay. Gutman, a twenty -five-year patron of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he also has a residence, is still trying to find a permanent home for

his Met broadcast recordings.

CI FIANEEII3 Eel the music plat and play... BY IAN G. MASHIE

OSTpeople who have been so it eventually fell out of favor. buying recorded music for a The other method of gaimng long while have become resigned playing times has usually been to to the notion that building a transfer favorite selections to tape. collection is hardly cost-effec- This has the advantage of weeding Sony's CDP-C7ESD tive; the number of recordings out unwanted music, certainly, but uses the companys that we always want to listen it also commits a listener to one proprietary five -disc to in their entirety is typically group of tracks in a particular order. carousel format. Priced at $480, it small.Classicalrecordings And while itis possible to make features four -limes may be an exception, as many of such compilation tapes from com- oversampling, dual them contain a single work, or at pact discs, this tends to offset some D/4 converters, leastrelated items, but when it of the sonic advantage of the digital Custom File, variable comes to popular music most of us format. line output, and end up with a large number of discs Increasingly, therefore,listeners Ilittale play. or tapes, each containing only two have been turning toCDchangers: or three selections of interest. players that hold from five to twelve That being so, the compact disc is discs and allow random selection an ideal format, as it allows a listen- from tracks on any of them. While er to delete tracks with ease. The theCDchanger is still a relatively result, however, is often a fairly new product category, the number short playing time for any one disc. of models available has mcre than Usually thatis no problem, but doubled in the past year, now stand- there are times when it would be ing at about fifty.Prices start at preferable not to have to change around $300 and go up to several discs every few minutes-when en- thousand dollars for the most elabo- tertaining, say, or simply spending a rate versions. quiet evening with a good book. One form of changer, available In predigital days, it was possible from Sony and Technics, is the car- to achieve long playing times in a ousel. Instead of the famikar disc couple of ways. For some years, drawer, a carousel machine has a many North American audio buyers much larger drawer that can accom- choserecordchangers, which modate up to five discs, which are played up to six records in succes- arranged in a circle on a platter that sion. There was no ability to choose rotates to bring each disc into posi- particular cuts, of course, or to mix tion as required. You can play five selections from different recordings discs nonstop or choose a selection at random, but there was still the of tracks from among them. And by possibility of hands-off listening for simply loading a single disc, you can reasonable stretches of time. The use this type of changer as a conven- record changer did involve some tionalCDplayer as well. technical compromises, however, The first carousel changers were

58 STEREo REVIEMJULY1989 Equipped with two six -disc magazines, Hitachi 's DA -C70 change- allows you to play one magazine while adding or removiag discs from 1 another. Random play is possible using one disc, all iwelve discs, or a se! of up to thirty-two selections from several discs. Price: $550.

'WM Sansui's CD-X5I0M changer has ivy° six -disc magazines. It comes with a remote

control, a single -disc - magazine, and a 3 -inch -disc adaptor. Miro scan previews z the beginning ofeac track. Price: $630. 8

Thelite I'D-MS.00 ($82.5) is Pioneer's top changer. It features an eigat-times- oversa.npling died filter, dual t/.4 conveners, and a disc-s:abll.'zer system said ti; eliminate vibratiln during play.

Sl'EREO REviEwfuLY1989 59 CV CAGES somewhat awkward to program and Sharp's SA-CD800 uses five -disc were plagued by long pauses be- magazines, with an extra single -disc tween selections if those selections drawer for six-cD capacity. What were on different discs, but the cur- sets this unit apart, however, is that rent models from Sony have solved it also contains a complete stereo these problems for the most part. receiver-it's what the company The primary appeal of this configu- has dubbed a "CDver"-all for ration is the simplicity with which $899.95. Another unusual combina- the changer is loaded: Simply insert tion is the VCD-650CX from Vec- a disc, rotate the platter, put in tor Research, which contains both a another disc, and so on. It is also six -disc changer and a full -featured possible to program the units while autoreverse cassette deck, locked actually reading the discs' labels. into the CD player for easier dub- Sony has five carousel changers bing. It lists for $599. While the magazine configuration available, with varying degrees of ThePhilips CDC -875 programming flexibility, with and is the most common, standardiza- six -disc changer without remote control, and with tion has only recently gotten started. ($469) has a digital differing levels of sophistication in Not only are there five-, six-, and output jack, a digital -to -analog (D/A) conversion. ten -disc magazines, but each type wireless remote Virtually all other changers em- has variations. Pioneer and eleven control, a ploy multidisc magazines that must other manufacturers-including quadruple- be loaded with the desired discs and Denon,Hitachi, Kenwood, Ma- oversampling digital then inserted into the player. The rantz, Nakamichi, Philips, and San- filter, thirty -track majority accommodate six discs at a sui, among others-have now set- programming, and time, although models from both tled on the same six -disc magazine shuffle play. Mitsubishi and Fisher take five, and for at least some of their changers, changers from Sanyo, Yamaha, and but JVC, NAD, and Toshiba had Sony employ ten -disc magazines adopted a different type for their (the Sony models use the same load- six -disc models. When in doubt ing magazines as Sony's automotive aboutcompatibility,checkwith CD changers). Scott, Sansui, and Hi- your dealer. tachi all offer changers that will hold All changers are supplied with at Kenwood's two six -disc magazines each, allow- least one magazine, and several in- DP-M107R ($399) ing the user either to program from clude a single -disc magazine as well has a six -disc the contents of the twelve discs or to for those occasions when multidisc magazine and a program one magazine while the capability is not required. Many us- single -disc drawer. Up other is playing. ers find, however, that having extra to thirty-two tracks magazines is useful for setting up can be programmed Although the magazine approach from any of the seven does allow for a considerable reduc- separate "standard" programs. In CD's. Random play is tion in space compared with the such cases, the cost of extra maga- also provided. A carousel, and discs can be stored in zines must be taken into account, "music calendar" the magazines rather than their own and this may turn out to be fairly shows the program jewel boxes, any time you want to expensive in the long run: Extra order and how many listen to a different selection of discs magazines sell for between $15 and discs are loaded. you'll have to unload and reload a $29 each. magazine. Also, in most cases, lis- How useful the ability to choose tening to a single disc requires plac- music from several discs will be ing it in a magazine first and then depends on how many selections loading the magazine in the player, can be programmed. The minimum a process somewhat more awkward number of tracks that can be select- than loading a conventional single - ed is Mitsubishi's twenty, but most disc player. To get around that, sev- models offer thirty-two, and the eral companies offer changers that Matsushita brands (Technics, Pana- combine magazine capability with a sonic, Quasar) give you thirty-six. conventional one -disc tray. In most cases, individual tracks can The NAD 5170, for instance, willbe programmed from anywhere on take a six -disc magazine plus anthe discs inserted, for something extra disc in its own drawer, and it like two hours of uninterrupted mu- lets you select tracks from all sevensic. In some cases, though, there is discs or use the two sections sepa-even more flexibility.With the rately. A different approach is taken Sharp changer, for instance, any one in the Philips CD 875, which ac-of the selections can be a single commodates a magazine of six full-track, a group of continuous tracks, size cD's and also provides a single -or a complete disc, which can ex- disc tray for the smaller 3 -inch cD's. tend the playing time considerably.

60 STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 Denor 's DCM-555 changer ($550) uses a six-d:sc loading magazine. It features three modes of random playback, a quadruple-oversampling digital filter a vibration -resistant pickup mechanism, and a remote control

Yamaha's CDC -610U, with a ten -disc magazine has a quadruple- oversampling digi al filter ana twin D/4 converters. Random - play and repeat -play °pitons are offered. The changer's list price is1599.

onloo's DX -C400 magazine - loading six -disc charger ($430) has an Ofno-Coupling system to separale the digita: cnd analog sections electricak4 It uses double oversampits and has a 16 -bit D/A converter.

STEREO REviF.wf uLY1989 61 CD CAGE

c.. Nal Re, Pioneer's top changers contain 14,101 ' 12 memory for some 256 program tag steps from a number of different magazines, allowing for very long programs (but ones that require switching magazines every so often). This feature's greatest benefit Teac's six -disc PD -700M changer is the ability to set up a number of ($499) has a quadruple-oversampling separate standard programs from digital filter. It allows up to thirty-two discs stored permanently in their tracks to be programmed in any own magazines. Several of Sony's order. changers have a Custom File feature, which stores user -programmed information about some 226 discs, including track preferences for each disc. In terms of capacity and selection, two changers stand out. The Nikko

NCD-600 stores sixty discs at once, allowing selection of any track from any disc. "Unlimited programmability" is possible by means of the company'scomputer interface, which allows the changer to be con- trolledbyanyIBM-compatible computer. The changer alone car- The NAD Model 5170 has a six -tai ries a $3,999 price tag; the interface as well as a single -dm module costs an additional $4,599. drawer. It uses a quadruple- oversampling digital filter and a And for sheer outrageous flexibility, four -pole analog filter. Price: $6963.: there's the Audio Access PX-240, a $5,000 changer that holds up to 240 discs. Its programming features allow the selection of some ten "play - lists" of up to ninety-nine tracks each as well as eighty-one random - playback combinations. Programs can even be automatically selected by musical type. All the flexibility of the new generation ofCDchangers would be of little worth if they were inferior as digital playback devices, but the Mitsubishi'sM -C4100 ($449) has a manufacturers have been careful to five -disc magazine. It features include the latest technological de- twenty -track programmability, intro velopments in virtually all of these scan, audible scan, and index search. It can play 3 -inch discs without an machines. Onkyo features its Opto- adaptor. Coupling system, for example, to separate the digital and analog circuits. Sony offers an 18 -bit digital - to -analogconverterwitheight - times oversampling. Technics has built a floating isolation system into itschangers. And nearlyevery changer comes with a full -featured wireless remote control. Only a couple of years ago, the idea of a cD changer seemed to many observerslikeacurious The Panasonic SL-P3800C uses a throwback to record players of the six -disc magazine and features a Sixties. But the many advantages two-color display. Priced at $380, it they offer, without any sacrifice in has a quadruple-oversampling digital audioquality,have earnedCD filter and offers random play. changers a legitimate place in the audio arsenal of even the most dis-

criminating hi-fi enthusiast.

62 SFERE°R vi vwf uLy 1989 11 I ?II 1 11 11 I I I L'Ilert KII/Okr4C13 -110-

INNE-SOPHIE MUTTERisa met cellist -conductor Mstislav Ros- violinist who has a powerful ouhavetodevelopyour tropovich a few years ago, he pro- effect upon people who en- posed that she form a string trio counter her for the first time. with himself and the violist Bruno When she played Bach for Giuranna. violinist Henryk Szeryng (she With such endorsements behind was nine years oldatthe pliyl/.s her, it's no wonder that Mutter, now time), be forthwith told her to evenill(meaas barely twenty-six, is one of the most call him "Uncle Henryk." When sought-after young violinists in the Herbert von Karajan heard her (by 11111 7(' youcloth world today. She plays 120 concerts now she was thirteen), he invited a year, travels the globe, and records her to play a Mozart concerto with 71 copiously,mainlyforDeutsche him and the Berlin Philharmonic at !aimsfa/1cl initnecliately Grammophon, with whom she now the Salzburg Festival. And when she has an exclusive contract.She's

SI ERE° REVIEW JULY 1989 63 made seven American toursal- with her. His support, she acknowl- ready, and in 1990 she will observe edges, obviated any need to enter the tenth anniversary of her U.S. further competitions or take other debut. Her concert engagements traditional steps to advancement. and recording dates stretch far into She was sixteen when Zubin Mehta the future, yet she makes it clear invited her to make her U.S. debut that she has by no means exhausted with the New York Philharmonic, her ambitions or her enthusiasm. an event whose tenth anniversary "My main desire is to enlarge my she'll celebrate next February when repertctire," she told me in a recent she plays the Bruch G Minor Con- interview, "andI am doingit certoand WitoldLutoslawski's through contemporary music. You Chain 2 with the orchestra. have to push yourself further and It was her introduction to Luto- further. You have to develop your slawski'sdifficultscorethat got musicalpersonality,evenifit Mutter started on contemporary means playing music you don't un- music, she says. Paul Sacher, the derstand immediately." veteran Swiss conductor who com- Mutter has been praised by critics missioned the piece and to whom it for her assured technique, rich tone, cc is dedicated, asked her to give its and general command of her instru- ou candosomuch world premiere in Zurich in 1986. ment. And her career has certainly Some twenty minutes in duration, it not been harmed by the striking pic- derives its name, according to Lu- ture she presents on stage-a hand- inside ofjustone toslawski, from "two structurally some young woman who invariably independent strands," with an im- wears low-cut, strapless, form -fit- provisational section for the soloist. ting, split -skirt gowns expressly de- notewhenyou put a Whatever else it offers, it demands a signed for her in Paris. To many in high level of intensity and almost her audiences she is a feast for the continual playing from the violinist. eyes no less than the ears as she ow on a strins.71 Mutter has played it in Germany presses her Stradivarius against her thirty-two times, she told me, "and bare shoulder and sweeps her right now all Germany loves it." Next arm smoothly and gracefully into year she'll offer America the same the music. ments. She started with the piano, opportunity, for she plans to play it UTTER insists that her décol- which she still plays, but suddenly not only in New York but also in leté gowns are as practical as decided that she wanted violin les- Los Angeles and perhaps in one or they are decorative. Holding sons "for my fifth birthday." two other cities. the violin directly against "I don't remember exactly why," Lutoslawski has also written for the skin produces a better she said. "It was just an urge. My her an orchestral version of his Par- sound,shesaid,pointing brother Andreas, who was nine, tita, originally scored for violin and out, inarguably, that "there saysthatIhad heard Yehudi piano. She seems to have an affinity 11is nothing to dampen the vi- Menuhin play Mozart's A Major for Polish composers, for Krzysztof brations." Also, she added, perspi- Concerto on the radio, and that Penderecki is writing a concerto rationisless troublesome. She's pushed me into it. Maybe he re- that she commissioned. "I should rather amused, in fact, by the Amer- members better than I." have it by the end of 1991." Mutter ican preoccupation with her concert Her first teacher, Erna Honigber- said. "It's practically impossible to garb. ger, was an excellent pedagogue who get a great composer to write quick- "In Europe, nobody cares," she found time to walk the dog and per- ly, and Penderecki is the kind who said. "Even in Paris, I'm just anoth- form other household chores while rushes up at the last minute with er woman in a nice dress. I usually giving lessons to her young pupil. five more pages. So I'm giving him travel with four or five of the gowns, "It was concentrated, yet relaxing," plenty of time." but, like all concert dresses, they Mutterrecalled.Whateverthe Her recordings offer as good an don't last very long-maybe ten formula, it worked, for after less index as anything of her mastery of concerts a year, with all that dry- than a year she entered a German the standard repertoire. For DG, cleaning. How do I pick the one I'll youth competition, Jugend Musi- she's done the Beethoven, Brahms, wear on any particular night? That's ziert, for contestants six to twenty- Bruch, and Mendelssohn concertos, easy. It really depends on how much four, and walked off with first prize. all with Karajan and the Berlin Phil- I eat, and I love to eat. The dress I When Honigberger died,Mutter harmonic, as well as Mozart's Con- can get into is the one I take." moved on to the Swiss violinist certos Nos. 3 and 5, Beethoven's Mutter didn'thavetoworry Aida Stucki (some of whose Mozart TripleConcerto,andBrahms's about such details when she first recordings appeared in the U.S. on Double Concerto. Just out from DG took up the violin at the age of five. the old Period label in the early days are the Tchaikovsky concerto, in a Her father edited a newspaper in the of the LP). live performance with Karajan and small city of Rheinfelden in Germa- Mutter's auditionforKarajan the Vienna Philharmonic, and the ny's Black Forest; neither of her par- was, of course, the turning point of Stravinsky concerto on a disc that ents was particularly musical, but her young life. He proclaimed her includes"her" twoLutoslawski they wanted Anne -Sophie and her one of the three top violinists in the pieces, Chain 2 and Partita. Next two older brothers to take up instru- world and gave regular concerts year her plans include recordings of 64 STEREO REVIEW JULY 1989 the Berg concerto and Bart6k's Sec- tomary lunch and tea breaks to keep ond Concerto with Seiji Ozawa and working-a request that some re- the Boston Symphony. garded as presumptuous, coming as For EMI/Angel she has recorded it did from a twenty -two -year -old Bach's Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and "professor." But she has had no lack 2 and the Double Concerto, sonatas of pupils. "Since I've been doing by Brahms and Franck with pianist this in London I realize the impact Alexis Weissenberg, Lalo's Sym- that teaching has, especially on the phonie espagnole,and Mozart's mid -levelpupil,"shesaid."A Concertos Nos. 2 and 4. And Erato greatly gifted talent will survive bad has just released her versions of the teaching, but a mid -leveltalent Prokofiev First Concerto and the might not." Glazunov A Minor Concerto with Mutter has been known to present the National Symphony under Ros- her musical views forcefully outside tropovich. the classroom as well. She expects to ISKED if she ever envies pianists be treated as an equal by the con- their more extensive repertoire, ductors with whom she plays and she answered, in effect, yes and has reportedly even had several dis- no. "Sure, I envy them their agreements with Karajan. Her only Chopin, their five Beethoven known serious dispute, however, in- concertos,thatgreatSchu- volved the Romanian -born conduc- mann Piano Concerto, which tor Sergiu Celibidache and had to has more genius than his Vio- do with the tempos of the Sibelius lin Concerto," she said. "But on the concerto at a concert in Munich. "I other side, having a string instru- listened to everything he had to say, ment in your hand is so much more but he wouldn't listen to anything I satisfying than sitting down at a had to say," she recalled. "So after keyboard. Just think of the phrasing three rehearsals we decided to call opportunities you have with a vio- off the concert. The announcement lin, the sounds you can bring forth. said it was a question of 'artistic You can do so much inside of just responsibility.' " one note when you put a bow on a For all the intensity Mutter brings string. I don't think you can do that to her violin playing, it by no means with a piano." represents her sole interest in life. Mutter currently is the owner of Like Karajan, she is addicted to fast not one but two Stradivarius instru- driving, and she likes to streak along ments. "If I could afford it, I'd have the German autobahns in her white three," she declared. The instru- Porsche. She enjoys American jazz ment she prefers is the "Lord Dun - and movies and once, at a party, raven" (named after a previous indulged in an impromptu session owner), which she has had for five with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. She years. She likes it for its superior swims and does yoga as antidotes to sound and projection and what she indulging in her favorite dish, which calls its "palette of colors." Her oth- happens to be pasta. er Strad she keeps locked up in a Last January, she was married to safe as a back-up should anything Detlef Wunderlich, a lawyer she happen to the Dunraven. met while negotiating her contracts She acknowledged that she is not with recording and film companies. a fanatical practicer, working on her "He loves music," she said, "espe- instrument principally when she is cially Italian opera." One change learning a new piece. "I do most of brought about by her marriage is Mutter noted that the trio is adding my practicing in my head," she con- that she will henceforth make her pianist Lambert Orkis to its ranks, fessed. "Interpretation only grows home in Munich rather than in thus expanding itsrepertoire. "I in your head. I'm not saying it hap- Monte Carlo, where she has been would like to play some piano quar- pens just like that, but that's where residing for the last six years. tets," she said. "I want to play more it takes place." She foresees no change in her chamber music and to vary it as Since 1986 Mutter, who speaks music making, however. She ex- much as possible." Englishfluentlythoughwitha pects to continue both her solo And then, in words that apply not marked accent, has been on the fac- appearances and her work with the only to chamber music but to the ulty of the Royal Academy of Music Mutter - Giuranna - Rostropovich whole range of her art, Mutter ex- in London, where she holds the first Trio, which, she said, she finds par- claimed: "There is so much time International Chair of Violin Stud- ticularly stimulating. (When she ap- ahead to do so many things!" ies. She conducts master classes pears with the trio, incidentally, she there twice a year, one week at a is clad more sedately than at her Herbert Kupferberg is a senior editor time. She ruffled some feathers at solo concerts.) Deutsche Grammo- of Parade magazine. His most recent the staid institution when she asked phon has just released their record- book is The Book of Classical Music her students to give up their cus- ing of the complete Beethoven trios. Lists, published by Penguin.

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Stereo Review's and commitment is one of the her sincerity-or her pain-for a themes developed in this song as second of this remarkable album. critics choose the outstanding well asinCherish and Express Parke Puterbaugh current releases Yourself; the latter a rousing exhor- tation for women to bail out of a MADONNA: Like a Prayer. Madonna relationship if they're not getting (vocals); vocal and instrumental accom- respect from a mate who can't "ex- paniment. Like a Prayer; Express Your- MADONNA'S self Love Song; Till Death Do Us Part; press himself." Promise to Try; Cherish; Dear Jessie; "LIKE A It's tempting to suppose that this Oh Father; Keep It Together; Spanish bit of advice is one of the lessons of Eyes; Act of Contrition. SIRE 25844-1, C) PRAYER" Madonna's recently dissolved mar- 25844-4, © 25844-2 (51 min). riage, a subject broached with disarming candor in Till Death Do Us you can't judge a record by Part. It's a powerful song, as confes- its cover. On the jacket of sional as any artist is likely to get in her new album, "Like a public. Over a skittering pop -funk Prayer," Madonna bares track, Madonna sings ethereally of her midriff; in the music inside, she love's waning, her voice ominously bares her soul. It is easily her most matter-of-fact as she ticks off a list serious work, and if you can clear of horrors that ensue when things your mind of any preconceptions of turn ugly: "He takes a drink, she Madonna as disco diva, it is well goes inside/He starts to scream, the worth taking seriously. The conclu- vases fly." The sudden crash of sions are as inescapable as the breaking glass at the end may be one images are penetrating: of a tempes- of the most chillingly evocative mo- tuous marriage to Sean Penn that ments on record. didn't work; of a childhood wracked As the album is structured, her by an angry union that didn't work; marriage's undoing leads into a pair of a defiant independence masking of songs that find her reflecting on a vulnerability confessed in lines troubled ties to her mother (Prom- like, "When I get lonely ... I need ise to Try) and father (Oh Father) to be/Loved for who I am, not what and arriving at an inner peace with they want to see." both of them. Musically, both songs While Madonna still makes syn- are adventurous and imaginative- thesized music that doesn't miss a a far cry from cookie -cutter dance technological trick, "Like a Prayer" music. Promise to Try is a ballad is humanized by the openness and sung to the accompaniment of pi- warmth in her voice. This isn't real- ano and strings, and Oh Father is ly an album to dance to at the club; laden with a deep emotionality, the rather, it's meant to be listened to in rhythms liquid and slow as Madon- solitude after the club has closed na sings, "You can't hurt me now/I and you've gone home alone. With- got away from you." out being maudlin or bitter, Madon- Dear Jessie, on the other hand, is na announces that the party's over a whimsical, Lewis Carroll -type tale and it's time to look into the mirror about an idealized childhood in a and commit to the things that have fantasy world of "Pink elephants lasting value in this life: honoring and lemonade .../Running through family ties, pursuing a higher ideal the love parade." Her inventive of love, possibly even placing faith pop-psychedeliaflowsmesmeriz- in a higher power. ingly while smart, unconventional Regarding that higher power, she percussion from the Brian Wilson appears to be following Prince's school tethers it to a recognizable lead. In the title song-despite the beat. Finally, the message of these ill-fated Pepsi tie-in and the misbe- meditations is tied together, in Keep gotten video-the act of love be- It Together, with a simple statement comes a sacrament, something holy, of belief: "Don't forget that your vital, and exultant. Prince himself family is gold." Madonna, who has turns up in Love Song, a fragmented the whole world at her feet, sounds track in which mistrustful lovers as if she'd trade it all for the uncon- ask each other questions against a ditional love of a family. In other slowly oozing scratch -funk back- words, the Material Girl has just ground. An insistence on honesty gotten spiritual, and I didn't doubt

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him to exploit orchestral color with ing to this recording my feeling was NORRINGTON such unprecedented imaginative- thatit would make an intriguing ness. That, in brief, would seem to back-up, a novelty for alternating CONDUCTS be the basis for Norrington's under- with the two or three favorites BERLIOZ taking-an approach to Berlioz, as among the conventional modern to Beethoven, on the composer's versions. Before I got to the end I own terms-and it turns out to be knew thatthiswas theFantastique NE of conductor Roger productive beyond imagining, even that will be the "basic" recording Norrington's first record- more revelatory than his Beethoven from now on, and the others will be ings-perhapsthefirst- performances. the alternates. Richard Freed was a collection of Berlioz Again, as in the Beethoven, this 0choral songs that he made for Argo approach involves an awareness of BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, Op. with the Heinrich-Schiitz Choir of the composer's performing practice 14. London Classical Players, Roger London more than twenty years as well as of the instruments he Norrington cond. EMI/ANGEL 0 CDC ago. With that early juxtaposition of used-and, again, some of the tem- 49541 (53 min). his name and Berlioz's in mind. per - pos are a good deal brisker than the ones to which tradition has accus- tomed us. All repeats are taken, but JAZZ PIANIST the total playing time is no longer than in most performances in which MARCUS they are not. The waltz goes with a ROBERTS wonderful dash, and the middle movement, taken at a pace that shows its clear relationship to what pIANIST Marcus Robertsis H. C. Robbins Landon character- part of that refreshing breeze N izes as "the non -slow slow move- of young jazz talent that has ments" of Haydn's symphonies, blown onto the jazz scene in gains immeasurably in terms of recent years and raised the con- convincingdramaticnarrative. sciousness of many who had taken Both the "March to the Scaffold" the soul train to more lucrative ter- and the finale, on the other hand, ritory. It was in 1985 that Roberts are taken more deliberately than to- answered the call of Pied Piper Roger Norrington: revelatory day's norm-the march particularly Wynton Marsalis to join his group, so-and again the musical and dra- but "The Truth Is Spoken Here" is haps it ought not to be all that sur- matic gains are pronounced. Roberts's first album as a leader. prising that he turned to Berlioz The instruments are tuned not to And what an impressive debut it is! to follow up his "original -instru- today's A = 440 but to Berlioz's pre- That should come as no surprise to ments" cycle of the Beethoven sym- ferred pitch, A=435, and the or- anyone who has heard Roberts with phonies with his current group, the chestra seating for the recording fol- theMarsalis group,butif you London Classical Players. But the lowed the highly effective (and clar- thought he was impressive as a side- new Berlioz release is nothing less ifying) plan he devised for his own man, wait until you hear him here. than theSymphonie fantastique,the performances.Theinstrumental Produced by Wynton'sbrother, very work that is regarded as the balance is magical, permitting one Delfeayo Marsalis, this is one of the first grand showpiece for themod- to hear, for example, little muted best jazz albums I have heard in a ernorchestra. Why on earth would asides from the horn in the first very long time. Roberts is decidedly anyone want to consider a period - movement that hitherto have gone star material; his solos and compo- instruments approach to such a unnoticed. There's a voluptuous- sitions (of which the album contains work? ness evoked by the fairy-tale promi- five) are like perfectly composed Well, Berlioz may have come up nence of the four little harps in the pictures, so full of delicate details with a new way of writing for the waltz and a picture of credible terror orchestra, but it was based entirely intheimplacabletreadof the Marcus Roberts: star material onpossibilitiesthatpresented march, with its raspy, narrow -bore themselves at the time (1830), just trombones and ophicleides, and the after the deaths of Beethoven and bell strokes in the "Witches' Sab- Schubert in 1827 and 1828. There's bath" go right to the marrow. no need to debate whether Berlioz EMI has come through with the was actually the first great Romanti- only sort of sonics that would do in cist or the last great Classicist. The this case-a recording of outstand- point is that no one understood the ing excellence in its own right that orchestra and its instruments better allows all the performance's won- than he did, and it was that pro- derful points to be made most clear- found understanding that enabled ly and directly. When I began listen- -Z0

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that you discover something new each time you listen. Convinced thatcurrent music NOW ON CD must respectfully acknowledge the Compact Discs of past, Roberts has honed his work on this album accordingly. He isa previously released LP's devotedadmirerof Thelonious Monk and teams up with the late pianist's long-time associate, tenor POPULAR saxophonistCharlieRouse,for O CHRISCONNOR:Sings the three Monk -tinged Roberts origi- George Gershwin Almanac of Song. nals. (Sadly, these turned out to be ATLANTIC 601-2 (two crfs). Thirty-four tracks dating from the late Fifties and Rouse's last recordings.) Also in- early Sixties. cluded is a stunning solo rendition O THECURE: Japanese Whispers. of Monk's Blue Monk. Not surpris- SIRE 25076-2.The Top.25086-2. ingly, Wynton Marsalis, himself a Albums by the British rockers originally well-known keeper of the flame, is released over there on the Fiction label on hand for the proceedings, play- in 1984. ing superbly, and so is former John O BENNY GOODMAN:Big Band in Europe.MUSICMASTERS CIJ 60157X. Coltrane drummer ElvinJones, Previously unreleased recordings made providing a link to another Roberts at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958, idol.The performances here of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli featuring Jimmy Rushing, Zoot Sims, Duke Ellington's In a Mellow Tone and Roland Hanna. and his lesser -known Single Petal of sy set down, with every emphasis on O CHARLIE HADEN:The Golden Number.A&M CD -0825. "Inspired" a Rose reflect the young pianist's precision, refinement, and sublety, duets with Don Cherry, Ornette admiration for Duke's music, but so that any programmatic or evoca- Coleman, Hampton Hawes, and Archie the real tribute to those who came tive impressions seem generated by Shepp (May 1978). before him lies in the purity of Mar- the music itself rather than by an O MEL LEWIS:And Friends.A&M own music. A beauti- interpretive overlay. No other pian- CD -0823. "Light 'n' lively" (June 1977). Chris Albertson ist who has recorded this music has O ROY ORBISON:The Classic Roy ful album. Orbison (1965-1968).RHINO R2 70711. so successfully clarified Debussy's An eighteen -track compilation covering MARCUS ROBERTS: The Truth Is textures-or gone about it less os- the late artist's first four years with Spoken Here. Marcus Roberts (piano); tentatiously. MGM Records. Wynton Marsalis (trumpet); Charles The realization of the specified O REO SPEEDWAGON:Good Rouse(tenorsaxophone);Reginald "brusquesoppositionsd'extreme Trouble.EPIC EK 38100.Nine Lives. Veal (bass); Elvin Jones (drums).The violence et de passionnee douceur" EK 35988. Hard rock played with Arrival; Blue Monk; Maurella; Single "disarming exuberance" (November Petal of a Rose: Country by Choice; The in La Puerta del Vino is perhaps the 1982). Truth Is Spoken Here; In a Mellow most striking single example of the Tone; Nothin' But the Blues.Novus/ elemental impact Michelangeli CLASSICAL RCA 3051-1-N, 0 3051-4-N, © 3051-2- achieves here by simply (or not so BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 N (53 min). simply) taking Debussy at his word, and2. Thomas. CBS MDK 44905. but the chaste understatement of "Elegant" (September 1986). O GERSHWIN:Porgy and Bess. Canope and the exalted sobriety in Warfield, L. Price; Henderson. RCA MICHELANGELI Feuilles mortes are hardly less re- 5234-2-RG. Highlights from the PLAYS markable. Indeed, every one of the memorable revival of 1963. twelve pieces reaches a level that O GOTTSCHALK:A Night in the DEBUSSY may be called "exalted." The piano Tropics; Grand Tarantelle.List, I Abravanel. VANGUARD VCD 72026. sound itself is the most lifelike "Spectacular" (November 1968). have heard in any of this pianist's O MOZART:Andante in C Major. RTURO BENEDETTIMICHEL- recordings, focused just right to con- ROSSINI:Theme and Variations. ANGELI'Sremarkable record- vey a shimmering, "liquid" quality WEBER:Clarinet Concerto No. 1. ing of the first book of De- that never turns soupy or brittle. Stoltzman, Schneider. RCA Thirty-nine minutes is not very 60035-2-RG. Performances of bussy's Preludes was is- "brilliance and passion" (September sued on LP more than ten years ago generous for a full -price CD, but iri 1983). and has been available onCDfor the face of this recording's musical O ROSSINI:William Tell.Bacquier, nearly five years. It has taken a long values such a consideration is rather Caballe, Gedda; Gardelli. ANGEL time for the other shoe to drop, but beside the point. Richard Freed CDMD 69951 (four CD's). "Uniformly all expectations are abundantly ful- first-rate" (Best of Month, December 1973). filled in the recording of Book II DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book H. Arturo O WAGNER:Die WalkOre, Act II. issued recently by Deutsche Gram- Benedetti Michelangeli (piano). DEUT- Flagstad, Lehmann, Melchior, Schorr; mophon. Once again, Michelangeli SCHEGRAMMOPHON 427 391-2 (39 Reiner. LEGATO LCD 133-1. Recorded is entirely absorbed in what Debus- min). live at the San Francisco Opera in 1936.

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Discs and tapes reviewed by Chris Albertson, Phyl Garland, TOM PETTY ON HIS OWN Ron Givens, Roy Hemming, Tom Perry's "Full Moon Fe- of Its Own,with its Bo Diddley beat and ver," his first album without primitive slide guitar, suggests some Alanna Nash, Mark Peel, the Heartbreakers (actually, all unutterably cool band you missed at the and Steve Simels of them except drummer Stan Whisky a Go Go in 1966, or at how Lynch show up in cameo roles), is not Depending on Youmakes such effective only the finest thing he's done in ages and subtle use of a supposedly obsolete BIG BAM BOO:Fun, Faith & Fair - but a truly glorious throwback. And I effect (like a tremolo amplifier), or at play.Shark (vocals,guitar); Simon don't mean musically, although there's how Runnin' Down a Dreammanages Tedd (vocals, guitar, keyboards, pro- almost nothing here that-stylistical- to be part car song, part homage to gramming); vocal and instrumental ac- ty-would have been out of place in Dave Edmunds. And all that's without companiment.Fell Off a Mountain; 1969. Rather, it's a throwback to an era even considering the long -overdue re- Shooting from My Heart; If You Could when superstar albums weren't years make of the Byrds' greatFeel a Whole See Me Now; What's Bigger Than Life (and millions of dollars) in the making, Lot Better,which manages the neat trick Justice;andfiveothers. UNI/MCA to that long -vanished time when rock of sounding thoroughly authentic and UNI-8, 0 UNIC-8, 0 UNID-8 (42 musicians simply wrote a bunch of new thoroughly personal at the same time. min). songs and got them out to the public as Of course, given the debased times in quickly as they could, to the days when which we live, it is tempting to oversell Performance:Fresh -faced pop commercial pop music was exciting be- "Full Moon Fever" as some sort of Recording:Good cause it had something in common with masterpiece, which it isn't. Modest, un- Two guitars, two voices, and two na- journalism-topical immediacy. And, assuming, recherché, it breaks no new tionalities-CanadianandBritish- most important, it's a throwback to an ground and has little of importance to give this duo the flavor of an interna- age that now seems as remote as the say. Nevertheless, it is smart, tuneful, tionalized Everly Brothers or a late - Pleistocene, when musical and artistic and witty rock-and-roll, a commodity model Peter and Gordon. Like their decisions were made more on the basis never to be sneezed at. If it's commer- popabilly forebears,Big Barn Boo's of gut instinct than market research. cially successful, it can only encourage Shark and Simon Tedd sing in close In other words, "Full Moon Fever" is similareffortsand, consequently, harmony and accompany themselves an album of short, catchy songs, cool should be purchased by anyone whose on guitar. They write alltheir own riffs,seemingly tossed off but often sensibilities are even remotely screwed material, half of which is very good, the amusing lyrics, and brilliantstudio on right. Steve Simels rest just okay. But when they hit the touches, all of which seem to exist solely mark, the songs take off like long -lost because the participants believed in TOM PETTY:Full Moon Fever.Tom pop nuggets whose date of origin could what they were doing. The music, not Petty (vocals, guitar, keyboards, tam- be the Sixties or Eighties (but definitely surprisingly, is Petty's trademark mix of bourine); Mike Campbell (guitar, man- not the Seventies) and actually sound the Byrds, the Rolling Stones, and a cer- dolin, keyboards); Jeff Lynne (guitar, like a hybrid of the best parts of both tain kind of Southern soul, but it's keyboards, vocals); Phil Jones (drums, decades.Fell Off a Mountainboasts a unencumbered here by the need to percussion); George Harrison (guitar, poppish underpinning not unlike the make Big Statements or (on the aural vocals); other musicians.Free Fallin; I Easybeats'Friday on My Mind,and the evidence) by any sort of self-imposed Won't Back Down; Love Is a Long guitarsinWhat's Bigger Than Life pressure beyond the desire to have fun. Road; A Face in the Crowd; Runnin' recall the twangy tone of Duane Eddy's It has a good beat, too, and you can Down a Dream; Feel a Whole Lot Bet- big rig. Meanwhile, the roller -coaster dance to it. It is, in short, a thoroughly ter; Yer So Bad; Depending on You; The vocalsin Wicked Lovecould pass mus- entertaining record. Apartment Song; Alright for Now; A ter in a Timbuk 3 album. If Big Barn Although the basic sound will come Mind with a Heart of Its Own; Zombie Boo's mission is to put fun, faith, and as no shock to anybody who's heard the Zoo.MCA MCA -6253, Q MCAC-6253, fair play back into pop music, they're Traveling Wilburys album (also co -pro- 0 MCAD-6253 (40 min). off to an encouragingstart. P.P. duced by Jeff Lynne), "Full Moon Fe- ver" is hardly the Wilburys, Part Two, E.U.:Livin' Large.E.U. (vocals and or any kind of star -on -a -lark indul- instrumentals);instrumentalaccom- gence. Taken on their own, simply as paniment.Buck Wild; Livin' Large; songs, the new tunes here are uniformly Shake Your Thong; Taste of Your Love; strong, and several of them-particu- Shako Zulu;and five others.VIRGIN larly the wonderfully ominousWon't 91021-1, 0 91021-4, 0 91021-2 (49 Back Down-willdoubtless sound ter- min). rific when Petty gets around to performing them with the Heartbreakers. For Performance:Hot fun that matter,Zombie Zoo,which nods Recording:Very good slightly to the Cars, provides the best This isa greatparty record, one of the outsider's take on alienated youth that best I've ever heard. That comes as no has been heard this decade. surprise, for E.U.is the group that But what's ultimately most rewarding about the album is that none of its craft or playfulness seems calculated: It's as EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS: spontaneous sounding as a 3 a.m. jam = DIGITALLY RECORDEDLP session. 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STEREO REVIEW JULY1989 73 brought an incendiary surge to Spike porary pop, where artifice is more high- en home by lines like, "Weave me a Lee's movie School Daze with the au- ly compensated than art. Tim Finn, rope that will pull me through/These thentically funky rhythms of Da Butt. It however, doesn't back down from his impossible times." is reprised here in an updated version true feelings, which run the gamut from On the brighter side, Finn turns for along with several other selections set to heart-rending disillusionmenttothe inspiration to the life of Te Whiti, a moderately paced rhythms that are per- hopeful stirrings of a new beginning. Maori prophet of nonviolence, in the fect for marathon dancing. E.U.'s music The result is an album that will touch a prayerful and pulsating Parihaka, and harks back to early rhythm-and-blues, resonant chord within anyone who's he looks beyond his own suffering to tell layered over with a playful, homespun ever been troubled and confused at the story of one Derek Bainbridge in kind of rap. The combination is all but some point in his life and found the Suicide on Downing St., a portrait of irresistible.Occasionallythegroup faith and will to surmount his prob- incurable despair whose moral is, "You shifts to a quieter mood, proving that lems. (Hey, is there anyone who has not cannot call us civilized/As long as one there's more than one level to their tal- felt that way?) life is denied." There's an eloquent met- ent, as in Taste of Your Love, an evoca- TimFinn,brotherof Crowded aphor for renewal in Young Mountain tive piece suited to dim lights, close House's Neil Finn and one-time leader and some wonderful linesin Birds movement, and sensual thoughts. E.U. of Australia's beloved Split Enz, is bold- Swim Fish Fly about the changeable is already immensely popular in Wash- ly confessional and brilliantly percep- and fickle nature of emotional states ("I ington, D.C., its home town, and its fol- tive in this, his third solo album. His turn one way and the wind blows me lowing is sure to grow with the release of distinctive, bittersweet voice conveys over/I turn another way and it's holding "Livin' Large." P.G. emotions with sureness and power, and me up"). The latter song is also musical- he never allows bathos to get the better ly irresistible, a solid rocker reminiscent TIM FINN. Tim Finn (vocals, guitar, of him. As with Phil Collins in his first of Split Enz at peak power. keyboards); vocal and instrumental ac- solo album, "Face Value," you get the Producer Mitchell Froom allows Finn companiment. Young Mountain; Not sense here of a man carrying himself the room to express himself, leaving the Even Close; How'm I Gonna Sleep; Par- through an episode of depression to a musical quirks and emotional openness ihaka; Tears Inside; and five others. more cheerful place, using work as ther- intact but applying just enough polish CAPITOL C1-48735, Co C4-48735, © C2- apy. Finn examines his life with candid to make Finn accessible to more than a 48735 (40 min). objectivity, drolly portraying himself as cult following. Froom was able to work Performance: Emotionally candid a former pop star currently out of public much the same magic with Crowded favor in Been There Done That. Such House, so who knows? In any case, an Recording: Very good songs as Tears Inside, Not Even Close, album as courageous and creative as Baring your soul in public is a risky ven- and How'm I Gonna Sleep are achingly this one deserves to be heard by more ture in the superficial world of contem- personal, the feeling of loss starkly driv- than just the cognoscenti. P.P.

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1384 ViiiVA RIM CERRITOS, CA 90701 IN CANADA: NORESCO CANADA INC., TORONTO, ONTARIO C 1989 INKEL *MOM CIRCLE NO 103 ON READER SERVICE CARD FOSTER ANDLLOYD: Faster and Llouder.Radney Foster (vocals); Bill SUZY BoGGuss Lloyd (vocals, guitar, mandolin, tam- bourine, piano); vocal and instrumental accompaniment. Faster and Louder; Fair Shake; She Knows What She Wants; Happy for a While; Fat Lady Sings; and four others (five others on CD). RCA 9587-1-R, 0 9587-4-R, 9587-2-R (36 min). Performance: Amalgamated steal Recording: Crisp You couldarguefrom nowuntil doomsday about whether Radney Fos- ter and Bill Lloyd are rock musicians who mix it up with a country twang or country musicians who cut their teeth on rock-and-roll. Either way, Foster and Lloyd have kicked up a dust storm of excitement around Nashville, where one journalist quipped, "If the Byrds and the Beatles were to have lunch at the Everly Brothers' house and listen to Hank Williams, Sr., records, the music would sound like Foster and Lloyd." For me,atleast,that'stherub. Despite a multitude of catchy hooks, NE of the joys of writing rec- rites of passage that most new recording sparklinginstrumentals,andoften ord reviews is the knowledge artists experience. The songs succeed thrilling vocal harmonies, the bottom that one of the thousand al- because of their inherent character and line is that Foster and Lloyd are more bums that stumble across the functional beauty, and because of the exquisite mimics than true creators. 0threshold each year will deliver the kind of honesty that transcends studio - Their various influences include all of thrill of discovering an immensely tal- made technique. There's not a jive lick the above along with Chuck Berry, ented new artist. Occasionally, a smart from start to finish. Buck Owens, Poco, the Flying Burrito record executive will pair such an artist Described by her press material as a Brothers, the Band, Roy Orbison, Bruce with an equally rare find-a producer "second -generation revivalist," Bogguss Hornsby, and evenVelvet Under- who understands what the artist is try- nonetheless steps forward as afull- ground, and the all -too -obvious allu- ing to do and surrounds him or her with blown artist. She dusts off three of sions to these artists' work run rampant the kind of tasteful, creative backing country's most tenacious numbers- through the F&L song catalog. That was that helps make the record a classic, like Merle Haggard's title song, Hank Wil- the problem in their debut album, too, the debut discs of Emmylou Harris and liams,Sr.'s My Sweet Love Ain't but now, in "Faster and Llouder," their Rodney Crowell, both produced by Around, and Patsy Montana's campy I second effort, the approach seems even Brian Ahern in the mid -Seventies, and, Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart- more like a pose than a commitment, a more recently, those of Lyle Lovett and and approaches them with a fresh per- calculated attempt to evoke some of the Steve Earle, with Tony Brown at the spective and eager passion. She can also best -loved music in country -rock. Still, helm. segue convincingly from the Texas if none of that bothers you, "Faster and As these examples might hint, that swing of Handyman's Dream to the Llouder" offers high energy, sure-fire kind of thing doesn't happen in country urban angst of Guilty As They Come. picking, singablelyrics, an instantly music all that often. Amazingly, howev- Bogguss is nothing if not versatile. nostalgic groove, and plenty of attitude. er, another startling debut effort has "SomewhereBetween,"then, es- Make that plenty of attitude. A.N. floated to the top, this one from a young chews all the easy formulas-of song - woman with the unlikely name of Suzy writing, of sequencing, of mindless ses- INDIGO GIRLS. Amy Ray, Emily Sal- Bogguss and with the unlikelier back- sion picking, and of the normal star - iers (vocals, acoustic guitars); vocal and ground of having worked as one of the building procedure. It heralds the arriv- instrumental accompaniment. Closer to house acts at Dollywood, Dolly Par - al both of a serious new country talent Fine; Secure Yourself Kid Fears; Prince ton's theme park in Pigeon Forge, Ten- and of a producer finally coming into of Darkness; Blood and Fire; and five nessee. Bogguss's new record for Capi- her own. And, most of all, it adds a new others. EPIC FE 45044, © FET 45044, tol, "Somewhere Between," was pro- name to that short list of artists known EK 45044 (44 min). as Nashville's New Integrity. Dolly - duced by Wendy Waldman, who has Performance: Unrestrained never appeared so in command of the wood's loss, it happily appears, is every- Recording: Good essence of both traditional and progres- one else's gain. A lanna Nash sive country music. The two women of Indigo Girls, Amy Bogguss comes as a surprise for sev- SUZY BOGGUSS:Somewhere Be- Ray and Emily Saliers, make music eral reasons. Her debut album seems tween.Suzy Bogguss (vocals); vocal and with great passion.Iimagine them anything but a freshman effort. Rather, instrumental accompaniment. Some- standing upright, lifting their chins, and like Emmylou Harris's "Luxury Liner" where Between; I'm at Home on the singing to the rafters, strumming might- of over a decade ago, it seems to reflect Range; My Sweet Love Ain't Around; ily at their acoustic guitars all the while. years of working out the kinks and try- Guilty As They Come; Handyman's Their husky altos threaten to shatter ing on styles to achieve a certain refine- Dream; I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweet- our feeble resistance as they belt out ment. In other words, Bogguss's "Some- heart; Cross My Broken Heart; Take It strong words and stronger feelings. This where Between," with its exceptionally Like a Man; Hopeless Romantic; Night is red-blooded folk music with no holds poised and polished vocals and inspired Rider's Lament. CAPITOL C1-90237, © barred. song selection, bypasses those awkward C4-90237, C2-90237 (35 min). Ray and Saliers are Romantic roman- tics,and theirsolipsisticlyricsare

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Yourself,written by Ray, is a clot of dis- 0, al I el a, parate images: "In the ink of an eye I LEO KOTTKE: My Father's Face. Leo saw you bleed/through the thunder I Kottke (vocals, guitar); instrumental ac- could hear you scream/solid to the air I companiment.Times Twelve: Every- breathe/open-eyed andfastasleep." body Lies; B.J.; Why Can't You Fix My And Ray'sBlood and Fireboils longing Car; Theme From "The Rick and Bob down to its brutal essence with a verse Report"; and six others.PRIVATE MU- that repeats, four times, "I am intense, I SIC2050 -I -P, © 2050-4-P, 2050-2-P am in need, I am in pain,I am in (39 min). love." Producer Scott Litt knew enough to Performance: Wonderful Recording:Very good AudioNideo, Car Stereo, Telephones get out of the way of Indigo Girls. The accompaniment is dominated by the Leo Kottke is one of those people who's AT LOW DISCOUNT PRICES! duo's pounding guitar work, augmented been good for so long that people tend You?! find the most helpful shopping infor- by occasional rock touches. Members of to take him for granted, which is a mation in the 116 page Crutchfield catalog. Hothouse Flowers and R.E.M. provide shame since he's something of an Amer- support, but without obscuring the ican natural resource. This latest effort two headstrong lead voices. Recom- from the reclusive virtuoso offers pretty mended. R.G. much the usual Kottke mix of reflective guitar instrumentals (in what used to be FREE CAROLE KING: City Streets. 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True, the album has a certain ener- times and fears/So whilethere'sa City State Zip gy, and in the abstract it may be more chance and you're near/Let's dance." palatable than theYou've Got a Friend - "New Light Through Old Windows" style treacle she's been peddling for is a catalog of romantic joys and afflic- CRUTCHFIELD many years. But take away the vocals - tions. Considering that the emphasis is

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The instrumentals MARC V are slick, sometimes distractingly so, and you may be reminded of Mark Knopfler or Billy Joel, not always in a good way. For the most part, however, Rea is as restrained musically as he is vocally.Melodies,countermelodies, and solosall make their emotional points without being strident or pushy. Yet they linger on, like heartache. The same is true of Rea's lyrics. Wisps of longing breeze by, like this memory from Windy Town: "No car for kissing/ Nowhere to go/Except inside each other/And I loved you so." A number of these songs have been hits in Europe. In fact, a number of them have appeared, in other versions, in Rea's previous American releases, which have been little heard. The dis- crepancy between his popularity on the two sides of the Atlantic is hard to explain, but it just might be eliminated by "New Light Through Old Win- dows." R.G. KAREN STALEY: Wildest Dreams. Karen Staley (vocals); vocal and instrumental accompaniment. So Good to Be in Love; Tumbleweed; Give Me One Good Reason; That's Not the Kind of Love I Need Tonight; Now and Then; He Thinks He's James Dean; Wildest Dreams; Looks Like Rain; and two others. MCA 0 MCA -42112, © MCAC- 42112, 0 MCAD-42112 (33 min). Performance: Yeah! ARC V. is a new artist who ter Young is one of his favorites. Per- Recording: Variable seems to have everything: a haps this knowledge of jazz gave him a spirited, seamlessly polished taste for musical adventure and a pref- Karen Staley has been known around singing style, a gift for writ- erence for substance over flash. Nashville for several years now both as ing songs with both intelligent lyrics Yet he is a totally modern performer. Reba McEntire's harmony singer and as and instantly appealing melodies, and a Though his voice is a bit higher and the writer of a handful of standout big enough talent to attract the sort of sweeter, at times he resembles Stevie songs recorded by Patty Loveless, the top-ranking producers and back-up mu- Wonder, especially in Paint the Moon- Dirt Band, Holly Dunn, and Michael sicians who can give him a dazzling light Black, withitssurprising har- Martin Murphey. But probably no one send-off. His first solo outing, "Too monic changes and rhythmic twists. anticipated the range and power of her True," shows that he has another im- Also like Wonder, he edges into social debut album, "Wildest Dreams," a portant attribute as well: personality, an commentary, as in Let Them Stare, smart collection of original, sassy songs identifiable musical presence that sets about the public disapproval faced by a co -produced by Jimmy Bowen, Tony him apart. racially mixed couple, and Cops & Rob- Brown, and Staley herself. Marc V.'s work is wonderfully eclec- bers, in which he muses about the way Influenced by such diverse artists as tic, drawing from the diverse strains of children are corrupted by the terrible Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, and Ma- his own background. The obvious com- examples adults set for them. haliaJackson,Staleyhasadeep, parison is with Sade since, like her, he Marc V. delivers all these songs- throaty, and enormously expressive has a Nigerian father and a British which he wrote together with Colin voice that sometimes brings to mind mother. There is also a stylistic similar- Brown-with an affecting energy and Tracy Nelson. But because her music is ity in the minor mode of some of his directness. They have enough driving so diversified-segueing easily from songs and the way he often employs rhythms and vitality to infuse a party, progressive country -rock to contempo- close harmony in the vocals. But his but they also repay close listening. Marc rarywesternswingto wild -and - approach is much hotter than Sade's, V. has a lot to say, and he says it with wounded ballads and even glorious gos- more closely linked to current pop mu- admirable authority. Phyl Garland pel-blues-it is unfair to compare her sic, with the soul strains carefully wo- with anyone. Armed with a heavy back - ven in. MARC V.: Too True. Marc V. (vocals, beat, she approaches traditional country Marc V. (his last name is Vormawan) keyboards); vocal and instrumental ac- with due respect but adds a certain crea- was born in Liverpool, and, like that companiment. Cops & Robbers; House tive recklessness, melding acoustic and city's most famous sons, the Beatles, he Arrest; Let Them Stare; Something to electric guitars, for example, in a way writesmelodicallyrichsongsthat Believe In; Paint the Moonlight Black; I not usually found in the strictly country would stand up even without modern Remember; Powerful Love; When Am I genre. And if Staley, from the hard - electronic enhancements. He credits his Gonna Learn; Can't Stop Lovin' You; scrabble steel -mill country of Pennsyl- mother for exposing him to a broad You Can Turn the Lights Out. 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TONE-LOC: Laced After Dark.Tone- LOc (vocals); vocal and instrumental accompaniment.On Fire; Wild Thing; LOc-ed After Dark; I Got It Goin' On; Cutting Rhythms; Funky Cold Medina; Next Episode; Cheeba Cheeba; Don't Get Close; LOc'in on the Shaw; The Homies.DELICIOUS VINYL/ISLAND DV 3000, © ZCD 3000, © CCD 3000 (51 min). Performance:A real hoot Recording:Appropriately cheesy To paraphrase Morrissey of the Smiths, most rap doesn't have a lot to do with a lot of people's lives. But here's a rap record that has alotto do with alotof FOR the past eight years, Phoebe career, unending legal hassles, and the people'slives,henceitsastonishing Snow's shimmering, four -octave demise of an important romantic rela- commercial success, and yet it makes voice has been confined solely to tionship. no concessions to pop -radio program- commercial jingles, her instantly The songs in "Something Real" natu- mers or guardians of public morals like recognizable, otherworldly alto extoll- rally reflect such struggles; more impor- Tipper Gore and her Parents' Music ing the virtues of AT&T, Coca-Cola, tant, they also chronicle recovery and Resource Center. Basically, this is great, Pillsbury, and even Exxon. But Snow, lessons learned. And yet none of this is stupid/funny party music, rap as a who admits that doing jingles is "nice pushed down the throat. Snow's enor- direct linear descendant of all the great, work if you can get it," yearned for mously seductive music often lunges stupid/funny frat-party rock and r -&-b something else. What she wanted, she forward with intense urgency, but out of songs so beloved by the characters in sings in her first album since 198 I 's strength and compassion, not finger- Animal House.What, for example, is "Rock Away," was "something real. wagging. The two most affecting origi- Wild Thing,the monster hit in "LOc-ed one time, before 1 die." nal songs, in fact, are heartbreaking in After Dark," if not a contemporary Snow's new effort, "Something Real," their honesty and emotional exposure: Louie LouieorShout-thatis, an ex- is her most accessible and coherent InTouch Your Soul,Snow bids an affec- cuse to party and yell "Toga!" at top record since her left -field debut in 1974. tionate, if self -protecting, goodbye to a volume? The similarities found in this It opens with that statement in the title lover who has little to give to himself, new album are unmistakable: the great song and at once recalls the finger - much less another. And inI'm Your thumping beat, the minimalist melody, picked, airy folkiness ofPoetry Man, Girl,a song she wrote for her late moth- the sly innuendos, and the general atti- reacquainting her old fans both with er, she sings of a continuing, if changed, tude of disposable silliness. that magnificent voice-which zooms relationship, of a lifeline that has not True, some of the subjects that Tone - to stratospheric heights at the slightest withered. It is a love song of a different Lac deals with so engagingly here would provocation-and with the tough emo- kind. have been taboo in the days of the tionalism that always stitched her more "Something Real" is the work of sev- Kingsmen-for example, transvestism, remarkable songs together. From there eral producers-RobFraboniand aphrodisiacs, and marijuana (he's am- she moves on to explore a variety of Ricky Fataar produced most of it, but bivalent about the first, interested in the musical niches, including grandiose bal- Russ Titelman did three tracks and Phil second, and enthusiastic aboutthe lads, kick -out rock, and, most success- Ramone one. Occasionally, the patch- third). Nevertheless, the message that fully, a bluesy, comfortable style of pop- work shows, particularly in the more lurks beneath the surface of this music soul. All of these, with their careful pro- routine second half. When the album is exactly the same as that of such early duction and instrumental finesse, set really connects, however-and connect- Sixties classics asDouble Shot of My her squarely in the Eighties and give her ing is what it is fundamentally about- Baby's LoveorTwist and Shout,and I a very different kind of image-that of a Snow achieves that rarest of musical suspect that that's why so many folks strong, caring, benevolent romantic, but feats, a shortcut to the soul. "Something who normally rate rap right up there a romantic with her head screwed on Real" turns out to be just that. with root canal have taken to this stuff straight. Alanna Nash so enthusiastically. "Something Real" has been called a It is also worth noting, for rock critics pop album for grown-ups, because it PHOEBESNOW: Something Real. and other amateur musicologists, that examines life in the post -twenties years, Phoebe Snow (vocals, guitar); vocal and this album is a veritable treasure trove when emotional scarring or growth are instrumental accompaniment.Some- of pilfered riffs. In fact, half the fun of likely to have occurred as a result of thing Real; Mr. Wondering; Touch Your "LOc-ed After Dark" isfiguring out adversity and disappointment. Snow, at Soul; We Might Never Feel This Way from whom the drum parts and rhythm thirty-six, has experienced a good deal Again; I'm Your Girl; If I Can Just Get grooves were digitally sampled. (I'd say of pain-a failed marriage, the rearing Through the Night; Stay Away: Sooth- it's the late John Bonham inDon't Get of a handicapped child, the death of her in; Best of My Love; Cardiac Arrest. Closeand Charlie Watts, from hisSatis- mother, to whom she was exceptionally ELEKTRA 60852-1, ©60852-4, ©60852- factionbreak, and Foreigner, fromHot - close, a debilitating illness, a faltering 2 (41 min). Blooded,inFunky Cold Medina.)Still, all that is merely icing on the cake. The 84STEREo REviEwjuts 1989 I NO. 3 ineluctable truth of the matter is that Tone -Lac is a very amusing fellow who AUDIO has created here one of the great, trans- cendent artifacts of the under-the-counter culture. His is a profoundly demo- cratic music that says the urge to do the Wild Thing knows no race, color, or creed. S.S. RICKY VAN SHELTON:Loving Proof. Ricky Van Shelton (vocals, guitar); vocal and instrumental accompaniment.Swimming Upstream;I'll WHY MANY Leave This World Loving You: From a Jack to a King: Let Me Live with Love (and Die with You); Living Proofand PEOPLE five others. COLUMBIA FC 44221, C) FC'T 44221, ©CK 44221 (29 min). CAN'T GET NO Performance:Best foot forward Recording:Very good SATISFACTION When Warner Bros.turned Randy Travis into a Major Force several years ago, Columbia went into a frothy sweat WHEN scrambling for a surrogate. What they came up with was a soft -talking Virgin- THEY TAPE ian named Ricky Van Shelton, whose first album for the label traded on his muscular sex appeal (including a cover ROCK & ROLL. that posed him in his undershirt) and sounded like the work of a manufac- Lots of tapes out there think rock & roll is a communist tured artist. Van Shelton was probably conspiracy to corrupt the youth of America. You'd think each too eager to succeed and too green *TE4GgEAL- tape comes with its own little censor who snips out all those about the business really to assert him- great, devastating sounds-the ones that really challenge a selfmusically,andthepackaging tape's performance. tended to obscure the fact that he was But don't be dismayed. Because there's a new cassette (and is) one of the finest ballad singers out there thatfaithfullyreproduces the dynamism of rock & ever to hit Nashville, a talent that pro- roll. From the lowest lows. To the highest highs. It's TDK's ducer Steve Buckingham now show- spectacular AR -a "normal" position tape that craves high cases to perfection in "Loving Proof." resolution digital sources. Van Shelton mixes such contempo- What gives AR its ability to deliver such clean, powerful rary material asSwimming Upstream sound begins with an incredible TDK innovation: NP (non- andThe Picture,an affecting gem of porous) ferric magnetic particles. Since the particles have no true hillbilly longing he co -wrote with pores, the magnetic energy is far greater. There's also a Troy Seals and Buckingham, with a gen- special binder system and coating technology that insure erous sampling of classic oldies. It's in maximum dispersion and super high packing density. these that he really proves his mettle. In He's Got You,for example, he breaks The results? High and low frequency MOLs (Maximum the song out of its Patsy Cline mold Output Levels) are -6.0 dB and + 6.5 dB respectively. (The low is equal to METAL tape! Wow!) Bias noise is a low -56.0 dB. with the vocal leaps and turns of an early -Sixties rocker, but in others, includ- And the dynamic range is exceptionally wide. ingHole in My Pocket,a remake of Lit- To preserve the integrity of this unparalleled tape, modu- tle Jimmy Dickens's 1958 rockabilly lation noise has been substantially decreased, thanks to jumper, andSomebody's Back in Town, TDK's low resonance HP -AR mechanism and shell. And to get a 1959 hit for the Wilburn Brothers, the most from your CD's, it's available in 100 as well as 60 and Van Shelton proves more faithful to the 90 minute lengths. original versions, duplicating Dickens's Now, AR you satisfied? powerful vocal stance and including a note -for -note emulation of Hank Gar- land's hopping guitar solo. The treatment of both these songs is in the nature TDK:1014 PRECISIMECHANISMONANTI RESONANCE of a salute rather than a rip-off, honor- CASSE TTE ing a timeless subgenre of the country idiom. "Loving Proof" also serves up another oldie whose title just may prophesy Van Shelton's fate. In a velvety -smooth performance of Ned Miller'sFrom a HIGH MOL LON NOISE HIGH OUTPUT Jack to a King,Van Shelton proves that NIVEAU DE SDRTIE MAXIMUM ELEVE, TRES FAIBLE BRUT I" DE FOND a sure baritone and a healthy Bakers- field-rockabilly approach make one hell of a strong country ticket. If he was no real threat to Randy Travis when he started out, he is one now. Hats off to IEC I/TYPE I you, fella. A.N. NORMAL POSE Ion ARioo

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MICHEL CAMILO. Michel Camilo CHICK COREA:AkousticBand. marked the work of Harry James, but in (piano); instrumental accompaniment. Chick Corea (piano); John Patitucci the main, this second album with High SuiteSandrinePartI;Nostalgia; (bass); Dave Weckl (drums). Bessie's Voltage shows us a kinder, gentler, Dreamlight; Crossroads; Sunset (Inter- Blues; My One and Only Love; Sophisti- more musical Maynard Ferguson. C.A. lude/Suite Sandrine); and four others. cated Lady; Autumn Leaves; Morning PORTRAIT/CBS 0 OR 44482, © ORT Sprite; and three others (five others on KEITH JARRETT: Dark Intervals. 44482, © RK 44482 (44 min). cD). GRP 0 GR-9582, © GRC-9582, Keith Jarrett (piano). Opening; Hymn: GRD-9582 (61 min). Performance: Dazzling Americana; Entrance; Fire Dance; and Recording: Excellent Performance: Splendid three others. ECM © 837 342-2 (58 min). It seems as if Michel Camilo came out Recording: Excellent of nowhere to dazzle us with his fiery WhenHerbieHancockreturnsto Performance: Okay style and extraordinary piano tech- acoustic jazz, which he does occasional- Recording: Very good nique, but this young Dominican mu- ly, it's not without traces of the fusion This concert, recorded in Tokyo in the sician has actually been impressing jazz style that so broadened his audience. spring of 1987, marked Keith Jarrett's fans and critics for some time. He has Chick Corea, on the other hand, seems return to solo improvisation after ex- roused audiences at jazz festivals on to have lost nothing to the fusion style tended work in the classical repertoire both sides of the Atlantic, has made that gave his career a financial, if not and with his jazz trio. For most of records as both a sideman (with saxo- artistic, boost. Corea's new "Akoustic "Dark Intervals" Jarrett seems ponder- phonist Paquito D'Rivera) and a leader, Band" is a substantial trio session that ous, slow to develop melodic fragments. and has made his presence felt writing strokes my semi -purist's ears with dis- The music is somber and the perform- music for movies and television. Now, arming charm. This is not Corea hiding ances painstaking. The first cut, Open- with his new album on the CBS Portrait behind lumps of synthesized sound; it's ing, lasts for nearly thirteen minutes, label, he is finally stepping front and Corea as he ought to be heard, out in the and the closer, Recitative, goes for more center, treating many people to their open, playing some of his most striking than eleven-and in both the pianist is first earful of his considerable creative compositions,includingCircles and unabletosustainhismomentum and technical skills. Indeed, "Michel Spain, one tune each by Duke Elling- through to the end. This is not the lyri- Camilo" is a splendid, wholesome sam- ton, Johnny Mercer, John Coltrane, and cal, expansive style that characterized pling of music that blends the best of Cole Porter, and (on CD only) a fine ver- much of Jarrett's earlier solo albums. American jazz traditions with south -of - sion of Someday My Prince Come. No one can question his technical pow- the -border fire. Camilo is Jose Iturbi In all, an excellent album. C.A. er, but in this album his imagination with soul and substance, a breath of seems to lag a bit. R.G. fresh air on a musical scene that for a MAYNARD FERGUSON: High Volt- while was filled with the studied key- age2. Maynard Ferguson (trumpet, flu- MARCUS ROBERTS: The Truth Is board tinkles of McCoy Tyner clones. gelhorn); John Toomey (keyboards); Spoken Here(see Bestof the Month, After you've heard Camilo's fingers race Dave Tull (drums); Michael Lufkin page 68) across the keyboard, you won't be sur- (bass); other musicians. Omaha; Wat- prised to learn that it was Art Tatum's cha Thinkin; Star Eves: Till Then; and ROSS TRAUT AND STEVE RODBY: music that inspired him to turn to jazz. four others. INTIMA/ENIGMA 0 73360- The Great Lawn.Ross Traut (guitar); And he is a gifted composer as well. 1, © 73360-4, © 73360-2 (43 min). Steve Rodby (bass). Up on the Roof; There is no risk in predicting that we Round Midnight; The Great Lawn; The will hear a lot of good music from Ca- Performance: Moderate Maynard Recording: Very good Song Next Door; Old Folks; La La milo in the future. I hope a good portion Means / Love You; and three others. of it is in the jazz vein. C.A. The press kit for "High Voltage 2" re- COLUMBIA 0 FC 44472, © FCT 44472, fers to Maynard Ferguson as a "legend- CK 44472 (48 min). Michel Camilo: front and center ary trumpeter." The tag was presum- ably attached by a well-meaning pro- Performance: Quietly bracing moter to make us bow our heads rever- Recording: Very good ently and perk up our ears, but it made The concept for this album was blind- me wince. True, Ferguson has been ingly simple: Put an electric guitarist around for a few years, but legendary he and an acoustic bassist-two friends- is not. If you are old enough to have fol- together in a room by themselves, and lowed the jazz scene in the late Fifties let them play music they love. The and Sixties, you probably remember results are superb. Of course, the two him as a high-powered trumpeter whose musicians are topflight jazzmen: Ross big band generated so much steam that Traut has performed with the likes of some people thought it obscured the David Samuels and Paul McCandless, music. It sometimes did, but there were and Steve Rodby is a member of the Pat first-class musicians in the band, and Metheny Group. It also helped that they that was its saving grace. chose a nice mix of pop and jazz tunes Ferguson's current band is a septet and wrote some fine ones together as called High Voltage. Its members are well. Capping off the whole project are relatively young, and its sound is a cross the wonderfully empathetic perform- between fusion funk and Fifties funk- ances of the two men. Traut's sweet, nowhere near the voltage of old, I'm decorative guitar is often in the lead. glad to say. Ferguson was always a good but Rodby's thick, strolling bass is nev- technician, and that facility was fully er far behind. They know what these exploited when he rose to the top thirty songs have to offer, and together, seam- years ago. There isstill some grand- lessly, they extractitall. Traut's got standing here, and a touch of the bal- music, Rodby's got rhythm: who could loon -about -to -burst exhibitionism that ask for anything more? R.G.

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Its tonalities are output, they're unmistakably Berlioz. upsetting, it boasts no "arias," its narra- All of the earmarks are there-the tive is depressing, its language is stark. quicksilver shifts,the vigorous bass ALBENIZ: Cantos de Espana, Op. 232; No romance touches its dramatis per- writing, the heroic brass, the collage -like Suite espanola, Op. 47. FALLA: The sonae. We do not attend a performance juxtaposition of several musical ele- Three -Cornered Hat, Three Dances; El or play a recording of it at home to be ments. But, surprisingly, it's the earliest amor brujo, excerpts. Ruth Laredo (pi- transported. Yet, by virtue of its inven- that proves the most satisfying. La Mort ano). MCACLASSICS ©MCAC-6265, 0 tion and intention, it is a monumental d'Orphee, written in 1827 for the Prix MCAD-6265 (65 min). work, a work that becomes more imme- de Rome competition, is the best thing diate and moving with each hearing. here. The music is specifically charac- Performance: Albeniz better This new Deutsche Grammophon re- terized and deeply felt, and the lushly Recording: Vibrant cordingisfirst-rate.Admirablyre- scored opening monologue prefigures Ruth Laredo plays Albeniz with consid- corded and authoritatively conducted the sublime monologue that opens The erable fluency and charm, and she ben- by Claudio Abbado-who approaches Damnation of Faust. But whileit's efits here from sonics of demonstration - much of it, quite rightly, as though it interesting to hear this early work, it class vibrancy. But there is that inescap- were chamber music-it is a perform- cannot justify buying a full -priceCDall able Alicia de Larrocha, who always ance by artists who have not only mas- by itself. Unfortunately, it's all downhill manages to bring such music to life that tered Berg technically but have also from there. much more convincingly and to make imbued themselves with the spirit of his It'spossible to find seeds of Les even the piano reductions of Falla's bal- work. Troyens in the wild choral writing of the let music not only charming but pianis- As Wozzeck, Franz Grundheber is 1827 Scene herolque, written in praise tically irresistible. Laredo strikes me as particularly effective, drawing a power- of Greeknationalism,butitstill being more closely competitive with De ful characterization from the music and amounts to Berlioz trying out tech- Larrocha in the Albeniz than in the Fal- text and, when the music permits, sing- niques rather than using his rich cre- la. The El amor brujo pieces, in particu- ing lyrically. The part does not have to ativity with the sort of discipline and lar, sound like music Laredo had not be unremittingly barked or delivered in sense of purpose that mark his major quitepersuadedherselfshereally a kind of Sprechstimme. Hildegard Beh- works. The two remaining pieces are wanted to play, but the first bars of Gra- rens, surely one of our foremost singing more mature but even less interesting. nada, which opens the Suite espatiola, actresses, is undaunted by Berg's tor- The 1835 Le Cinq mai, a eulogy to take us at once into an atmosphere of tuous vocal line and creates an entirely Napoleon (who died on May 5), and utter conviction and no little evocative- credible Marie-pitiable, hateful, vul- L'Imperiale, written for the 1855 Inter- ness. As recorded here, that suite com- gar, weak, and vulnerable. Walter Raf- national Exposition in Paris, are his- prises only the four numbers of the ear- feiner's Drum Major, Heinz Zednik's trionic trifles full of bombast and mock- liest version, but more of the music of Captain, and Aage Haugland's Doctor heroic gestures. the final version is present in the album are on the same commendable level. Recorded live, the performances are than might appear to be: Among the Each singer is musically secure in Berg's reasonable realizations of these Berlioz- four additional pieces added to the suite intricate tonal tapestry, and each evokes ian curiosities. While conductor Jean after Albeniz's death were the Preludio strongly a character to which Wozzeck, Fournet has a good sense of French (Asturias) and Seguidillas(Castilla), victim both of his environment and of style, none of the soloists seems particu- which Laredo plays here in their origi- his own limitations, reacts. And the larly confident or inspired. The record- nal positions as the first and last of the remaining members of the large cast ing itself has some nice resonance but five Cantos de Espatia. Overall, though, make their contributions to the overall lacks transparency during the key cli- De Larrocha's account of thefinal, effect of human desolation with similar maxes. D.P.S. eight -movement version of the Op. 47 conviction. suite is superior, and it's included with Most important, perhaps, is the con- BERLIOZ: Symphonic hintastique. Op. her stunning recent remake of the com- tribution of Abbado, who so deftly bal- 14 (see Best of the Month, page 68) plete Iberia on London. R.F. ances the orchestra and voices, text and musical line, that the performance as- BERNSTEIN: Prelude,Fugue, and BERG: Wozzeck. Franz Grundheber sumes the dramatic relentlessness and Riffs (see COPLAND) (baritone), Wozzeck; Hildegard Behrens musical richness intended by the com- (soprano), Marie; Walter Raffeiner (ten- poser. The accompanying notes are ex- BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Ma- or), Drum Major; Heinz Zednik (tenor), cellent and will especially be of help to jor, Op. 77; Academic Festival Over- Captain; Aage Haugland(baritone), the listener wanting to delve deeper into ture, Op. 80.Shlomo Mintz (violin); Doctor; others. Vienna State Opera this complex score. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Clau- Chorus; Vienna Boys' Choir; Vienna Perhaps Wozzeck is not everybody's dio Abbado cond.DEUTSCHE GRAMMO- Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Ab- opera, but it deserves the careful atten- PHON ©423 617-4, © 423 617-2 (53 tion of anyone interested in the art min). form. And this recording is a fine place Performance: Glowing XPLANATION OF SYMBOLS: to start. R.A. Recording: Demonstration class 0 = DIGITALLY RECORDEDLP =TAPE CASSETTE BERLIOZ: La Mort d'Orphee; Scene Shlomo Mintz and Claudio Abbado = COMPACT DISC (TIMINGS ARE heroique;LeCinqmai,Op.6; have made some fine recordings to- TO NEAREST MINUTE) L'Imperiale, Op. 26. Soloists; Dutch gether in Chicago, and they seem espe- Radio Choir; Dutch Radio Symphony cially well attuned to each other in this

88STEREO ItemEw_Nix1989 CLASSICAL MUSIC handsome account of the Brahms Vio- lin Concerto. Certainly there is no want of commitment here, and there's not a single perfunctory phrase. This is mellow, warmhearted, expansive playing. It reaches a proper glow with the soloist's first entry and maintains it throughout the work. Moreover, while Mintz is focused close enough to make the very most of his sumptuous tone, the demonstration -classrecordingdoesnot slight the orchestra, whose playing is very much in the same expressive vein. The opening of the slow movement is really eloquent, and while the finale is not allowed to run away with itself, it has plenty of real flair. In short, while this recording may not displace existing favorites, itis a profoundly satisfying version of the concerto. The filler is an even more vital, assured, and smiling performance of the Academic Festival Overture than the one Abbado recorded with the same orchestra more than twenty years ago, which makes it altogether one of the best around. R. F.

COPLAND: ConcertoforClarinet, Strings, Harp, and Piano. CORIGLIA- NO: Clarinet Concerto. BERNSTEIN: Prelude,Fugue, and Riffs.Richard Stoltzman (clarinet); London Sympho- ny Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton Smith cond. RCA 0 7762 -1 -RC, O7762 -4 -RC, 0 7762 -2 -RC (56 min). Performance: Spectacular Recording: Superb These three contemporary American RICHTER LIVE works have been issued previously on CD in stunning performances derived SVIATOSLAV RICHTER'S new re- tion in a sly caricature is provocative in from various analog masters, but this cording of Beethoven's Diabelli the best sense, and in the concluding newly recorded collection fully meas- Variations, just issued by Phil- variations his direct, even slightly un- ures up to those formidable predeces- ips, is another strong argument derstated approach may he more per- sors. Richard Stoltzman plays with daz- in favor of live recordings. Richter has suasive than Arrau's broadening of the zling agility, articulation, and colora- made a lot of them by now but perhaps tempo. on the one hand, a gesture in the tion, Lawrence Leighton Smith and the no other as compelling as this one, direction of utter simplicity, and on the London Symphony providesuperb taped in a recital at the Concertgebouw other, a more overt gesture toward dis- backing, and the digital conics are truly in Amsterdam in June 1986. We can tilling a -spiritual essence" from the state of the art. dispense with most of the concern music. But a few observations on the The John Corigliano concerto is the regarding the sound quality; itis fo- beginning and end of the respective per- most spectacular item. Fashioned in an cused as effectively as a studio record- formances cannot begin to convey the eclectic contemporary style with a sense ing and virtually free of audience noise. characer or quality of either. Both are of high drama, the work traverses Bar- I could have done without the applause profound, stimulating, and richly sat- tokian territory in the opening move- at the end, and I do think Philips could isfying explorations of a remarkable ment, touches on Britten in the poig- have eliminatedit. What cannot be work on which no single performance nant second movement, and in the last eliminated in a live situation, however, can be expected to give us the last word. movement employs very nearly every is the damage to the piano's tuning in Yet Richter's is one performance that sonic -theatrical device short of elec- the course of a solo work that takes seems indispensable, projecting at the tronics available to a composer today. nearly an hour to perform. "Correc- same time a sense of individuality and The deployment of winds and brass tions" can be spliced in, of course, and of modesty in the face of the music and around the recording space suggests apparently were in this case-smoothly its creator, a sense of exploration rather Giovanni Gabrieli (from whom there's enough to keep most listeners from than of manipulation, and the sort of a brief quotation), and the timpani on noticing the seams. momentum that comes most naturally both sides of the stage suggest Carl Some may prefer the more straight- in the live setting, Richard Freed Nielsen. As an aural experience, partic- faced statement of the theme and the ularly with surround -sound playback first variation in Claudio Arrau's studio BEETHOVEN: Variations in C Major equipment, the Corigliano is quite an recording made one year earlier, also by on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120.Svia- earful, and the scoring for the clarinet is Philips. But Richter's greater individu- toslav Richter (piano). PHILIPS 0 422 the most wide-ranging in terms of its ality in drawing out that march varia- 416-2 (52 min). capabilities that I have encountered to

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PHILIPS 0422 074-4, For the Bernstein work, the complex- 074-2 (71 min). a ion of the London Symphony ensemble Performance:Articulate changes from the strings, harp, and Keith Jarrett. a match for Harrison Recording:Very good piano of the Copland to a hard -driving swing band comprising reeds, brass, (piano);ensemble,RobertHughes MONTEVERDI: Second Vespers for piano,bass,anddrums-nineteen cond. NEW WORLD() 366-1, © 366-4, the Feast of Santa Barbara. Soloists; the players in all. Stoltzman rides over and 366-2 (51 min). Sixteen, Harry Christophers cond. HY- through the group at a pace marginally PERION CDA 66311/2 two co's (109 Performance: Excellent min). faster even than Goodman's in Bern - Recording: Superior stein's own blistering performance. Performance:Indistinct I'm not about to give up my earlier Lou Harrison, born in 1917, belongs to Recording:Even worse recordings of these works, butIcan that generation of olde American eccen- wholeheartedly recommend this release tric originals. Like John Cage, his friend At first glance, these two recordings on both musical and, especially, sonic and sometime collaborator, he was a appear to deliver major new discoveries grounds. D. H . disciple of composer Henry Cowell and in Monteverdi's output. On closer ex- a West Coast native who came to New amination, however, the music all turns CORIGLIANO: Clarinet Concerto (see York. Like Cowell and Cage, Harrison out to be previously known-some- COPLAND) was also influenced by Eastern culture timeswellknown. TheSt. JohnVespers and music. on Philips is musicologist Frits Noske's F. COUPERIN: Organ Mass No. 1; The Suitefor Violin,Piano, and reconstruction of a service referred to in Organ Mass No. 2. Anthony Newman Small Orchestra, written in 1951 for the a written account by a Dutch composer (organ). NEWPORT CLASSIC NCD Ajemian sisters, Maro and Anahid, is in who was traveling through Venice in 60041 (69 min). no way an imitation of Oriental music, 1620, but the music mostly comes from but it constantly evokes its spirit in a Monteverdi's1641collection,Selva Performance:Outgoing Western context. This utterly delightful morale e spirituale.While there's really Recording:Fine work is so unpretentious that, for all its no harm in putting these marvelous Nearly everything Anthony Newman originality and charm, it has been over- psalm settings in a liturgical context, it does has a surface brilliance and an looked-along with many other Harri- seems a bit audacious to revive the ear- ebullient spirit-sometimes to a mad- son works-for years. lier title for what is a rather speculative dening extent. His performances here of In 1985, Harrison was commissioned endeavor. Couperin's Masses for solo organ are to write a concerto for Keith Jarrett, a The music itself is considerably more done in a very definite style that may pianist more closely associated with advanced in style than the famous 1610 not be to everyone's taste. If you believe jazz than with the rarefied atmosphere Vespers, reflecting Monteverdi's deep- that solemnity is essential to this music, of CaliforniaOrientalism.Yetthe ening experience as an opera composer. look elsewhere. match is perfect. The way back to Har- There's no less dramatic contrast than Newman convincesme,however, rison has been paved, so to speak, by in the earlier work, but the music seems that these are the works of a decidedly the triumph of minimalism and the new more integrated, less splintered, and the unsolemn twenty -two -year -old genius. interest in world music. Along with melodies have more character and per- The often cheerful spirit of his readings Cowell, Harrison was one of our first sonality. Gustav Leonhardt's direction isunderscored by thebright, open musical world travelers, and his works is articulate and expressive, the vocal sound of the Fisk organ at the Down- have an extraordinary appeal. Fittingly soloists are excellent, and the choir is town Presbyterian Church in Roches- enough, the Piano Concerto was re- first-rate. ter, New York. Only occasionally does corded in Tokyo with the fine Western- The so-called Second Vespers for the hisplayingseemtoorelentlessly ized musicians found there, but the Feast of Santa Barbara, on the other sprightly, but it's hard to fault him too suite was recorded in New York with an hand, is the sort of thing that gives much for that since his fast tempos excellent group of New York studio musicology a bad name. Operating on allow both works to fit on one generous - musicians. Altogether, a recording of some sketchy evidence, Graham Dixon length CD. D. P.S. extraordinary charm and interest. E.S. decided that the 1610 Vespers were originally written in praise of St. Barba- DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 11 (see Best HAYDN: Symphony No. 90, in C Ma- ra, rather than the Virgin Mary, and he of the Month, page 70) jor; Symphony No. 93, in D Major. has shuffled the pieces around in a way Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans that makes little dramatic sense. He has FALLA: The Three -Cornered Hat; El Brfiggen cond. PHILIPS © 422 022-4, 0 also cluttered up the work with various amor brujo (see ALBENIZ) 422 022-2 (51 min). ceremonial interludes and, for a sense of liturgical continuity, interpolated a HARRISON: Piano Concerto. Keith Performance:Rugged motet by Palestrina that makes no sense Jarrett (piano); New Japan Philhar- Recording:Excellent stylistically even in a work so diverse. monic, Naoto Otomo cond. Suite for Frans Bruggen's vigorous approach to Hyperion has provided instructions Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra. 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Also, many details are blurred by man, both are even more dazzling with In response to popular the distant recording perspective, which their faster speeds in the respective demand, we have reprinted the seems to put you in the rear pew of a finales, and DG's analytically clear ana- large church. D.P.S. log transfers serve the music more effec- five -page, fold -out Calendar of tively than CBS's warmer, more diffuse Classical Composers by MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A Ma- sonic focus. Still, Bronfman makes a William Livingstone published jor (K. 622); Clarinet Quintet in A very good showing here. He is really in the November 1987 issue. Major (K. 581). Eric Hoeprich (clari- inside the music, and if the coupling of net); Orchestra of the Eighteenth Cen- the two sonatas should appeal to you In addition to showing the tury, Frans Brilggen cond. PHILIPS C) more than the alternatives on DG, you life spans of 147 major 420 242-4, © 420 24202 (60 min). certainly won't be disappointed. In any composers, the calendar Performance: Well considered event,I do hope CBS will continue includes pithy descriptions of Recording: Good through the Prokofiev sonatas with Bronfman; right now he'd have a clear the principal musical stylistic Although clarinetist Antony Pay and field for No. 9 and most of the earlier periods. For each full -color conductor Christopher Hogtwood have ones. R. F. copy, please send a mailing produced a revelatory recording of Mo- label with your name and zart's Clarinet Concerto on original in- RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Symphonies: struments for L'Oiseau-Lyre, using an No. 1, in E Minor, Op. 1; No. 2, Op. 9 address along with a check or authentic basset clarinet, which has a ("Antar"); No. 3, in C Major, Op. 32. money order for $2 (no cash lower register than the modern clarinet, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. or stamps) to Stereo Review, it is superseded by this one featuring 36; Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34. Gothen- Calendar of Classical Eric Hoeprich, who also plays a basset. burg SymphonyOrchestra,Neeme Composers, 1515 Broadway, He may lack Pay's creamy tone, but his Jarvi cond. DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON interpretationismore characterized © 423 604-2 two CD's (126 min). New York, NY 10036. and deeply considered, thanks in part Outside the United States, to conductor Frans Bruggen. While Performance: First-rate send $3 ( in U.S. funds). Briiggen isn't the most exciting early - Recording: Very good music conductor (some of his perform- Once again the indefatigable and versa- ances even court blandness), he never tile Neeme Jarvi has undertaken one of records any piece until he has toured his all -embracing orchestral surveys- with it extensively and thoroughly ex- this time of the Rimsky-Korsakov sym- plored its inner workings. The result phonies, with a pair of his popular A DIFFERENT K here is that even the most incidental shorter works thrown in as a bonus. strands in the orchestration are inflect- (Another bonus here, by the way, is the FREEOF RECORD CU ed with an ear for the total picture. excellent and highly informative anno- TREMENDOUS SAVINGS Mozart's Clarinet Quintet-which, tation by Richard Taruskin.) The com- INCLUDING COMPACT DISCS... like the concerto, hails from the composer completed all three of the sym- on every record and tape in print- poser's late period-is a sensible cou- phonies before he was thirty, but by the no "agree -to -purchase" oblication of any kind pler. It was written for the same clarine- time he got to No. 3 he had "gotten reli- DISCOUNTS OF 20% TO 73% off mgf. suggested list special catalog tist, Anton Stadler, and is also in the key gion," having accepted an invitation to features hundreds of titles and artists. of A Major. 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CBS © MT 44680, 0 MK that, when well performed in the right Discount Music Club isa no -obligation membership club that guarantees tremendous discounts onall 44680 (48 min). edition, seems a worthy precursor of the stereo records, tapes and CD's and let you buy what Performance: Very good composer's great Scheherazade. The you want...when you want...or not at all it you choose. Recording: Warm symphony was overhauled no fewer These are just a few of the money -saving reasons to than three times, the last being a pub- write for free details. You can't lose so why not fill out Yefim Bronfman has been a frequent lisher's compromise in 1903 between and mail the coupon below for immedi.rte information. recital and recording partner of Shlomo do versions dated 1880 and 1897. The din DISCOUNT MUSIC CLUB, INC. 009-0789 Mintz, and their most recent joint posthumously published 1897 version 481 Main Street, New Rochelle. N.Y 10801 release happens to be a surpassingly fine is favored and has been recorded in the Name Deutsche Grammophon recording of U.S.S.R., but most non -Russian record- Address the two Prokofiev violin sonatas. His ings have used the 1903 compromise. new CBS record of two solo sonatas is JArvi here gives us the 1897 score in a City

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At all events, we can be City" itself, superbly recorded by EMI grateful to the Gothenburg Symphony, in the Oslo concert hall in which Mariss 157 Cambridge SoundWorks 10-11 its conductor, its fine concert hall, and Jansons has built so impressive a repu- Carver IS, 19 CBS Columbia House -CD Club 16-17 Deutsche Grammophon's expert pro- tation with the Oslo Philharmonic over 18 Coustic 79 duction team for a fascinating package the last few years. As usual with Jan - 8 Coustic 81 of Russian music and history. D.H. sons, the tempos are brisker than what 98 Coustic 83 78 we might regard as the norm, and in this Crutchfield SCHUMANN: Waldszenen, Op. 82; sprawling work that can be a decided Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Piano Sonata plus: His reading conveys a very con- Delco Electronics 33 No. 1, in F -sharp Minor, Op. 11. Vla- vincing urgency and tension. The slow 71 Discount Music 94 dimir Ashkenazy (piano). LONDON 0 movement might remind us of Solo- 421 290-2 (74 min). mon Volkov's report that Shostakovich 95 regarded his Seventh and Eighth Sym- 1 Electronic Wholesalers Performance: Lovely Waldszenen 58 Energy 87 phonies as his "requiem," but what is Recording: A little clattery most pertinent is how well this big piece Schumann'sWaldszenen,curiously, can work simply as a symphony. It 70 Hills Products 82 has not been offered in stereo onCD works very well indeed in this perform- until now. It is gratifying to have that ance. R.F. Illinois Audio 93 gap filled by a performance as thor- 30 I nt'l Jensen -Advent 69 oughly satisfying as Vladimir Ashke- nazy's. This is perhaps not one of Schu- COLLECTION mann'sabsolutelygreatestmaster- MONTREAL SYMPHONY: Fête a la 39 J&R Music World 90-91 works, and there is no effort or. Ashke- francaise. Chabrier: Joyeuse marche; nazy's part to make it into something Espana. Dukas: The Sorcerer's Appren- 2 Klipsch 37 grander than it is; his straightforward. tice.Satie: Two Gymnopedies. Saint- unaffected approach is just what serves Saens: Samson et Dalila, Air and Bac- the music best. His freer, more overtly chanale. Bizet: Jeux d'enfants. Thomas: 52 Luxman 22 eloquent reponse to the big Op. II sona- Raymond, Overture. Ibert: Divertisse- ta is quite in order for that work, but ment. Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 25 Maxell 7 I'm not sure his performance here will Charles Dutoit cond. LONDON C) 421 29 McIntosh 41 wear aswellas some others.For 527-4,0 421 527-2 (70 min). 45 Mirage 71 instance, Maurizio Pollini's 1973 re- Performance: Classy cording of the sonata on Deutsche Recording: Luminous Onkyo 26-27 Grammophon, very handsomely transferred to CD, takes an aristocratic ap- Charles Dutoit is one of the few major proach to the work that happens to suit conductors who truly enjoys "light clas- Perfectbound Press 82 it especially well. sics" and isn't afraid to record such Philips Cover 2, 1 music. This particular collection of Philip Morris -Merit Cover 3 Kinderszenen, of course,is one of 89 Pioneer -Home 21 those works one can hardly avoid dupli- French lollipops is so suave and stylish 90 Polk Audio 8-9 cating, and just as well, for Ashkenazy that it's miles above similar collections. 93 Proton 66 seems off his form here-not technical- In fact, Dutoit's performances here are ly, to be sure, but interpretively. The quite the opposite of those by extroverts like Arthur Fiedler. Dutoit is more like Radio Shack 72 more animated sections struck me as RCA-BMG Direct 24 a, b downright dull, though there is a glim- Sir Thomas Beecham, and he ap- R. J. Reynolds -Camel 39 mer of poetry in some of the more proaches even The Sorcerer's Appren- R. J. Reynolds -Magna 31 ruminative ones (including a very taste- tice as a valid piece of concert music ful Trdumerei). London's piano repro- rather than as the soundtrack of a Dis- Seagram's 35 duction is generally good, though a little ney cartoon. In Dutoit's hands, nothing 103 Sherwood 75 clattery here and there. R.F. seems schlocky or kitschy. But while 105Signet 74 Beecham could convince you, however 106 Sony 4-5 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, temporarily, that this kind of music is in C Major, Op. 60 ("Leningrad"). great, Dutoit only convinces us that it's 119 TDK 85 LeningradPhilharmonicOrchestra, engaging. There isn't quite the meticu- MarissJansonscond.EMI/ANGEL lousness of his other Montreal record- CDC 49494-2 (69 min). ings-or the heart. Wisconsin Discount Stereo 97 In any case, these clean, beautifully Performance: Stunning engineered performances offer much to Recording: Excellent Cover 4 enjoy. Chabrier's Espana is full of color- Yamaha Shostakovich and his music have been istic masterstrokes, the Bizet has a lean, subject to several episodes of condem- tight sparkle, and the Montreal strings nation and "rehabilitation" in his own have a sheen that makes the Raymond country and, on a less dramatic scale, in Overture seem more substantial than it JULY ours as well. His Seventh Symphony is. Best of all is the Ibert Divertissement. received enormous attention when it Dutoit and company have a grand time was new, as a symbol of heroic determi- with this comic piece. D. 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by Ralph Hodges thenticallyflabbergastingresults, transparent at low frequencies) be- and the amazement doesn't wear off fore the port has had a chance to get even after some of its limitations involved with it. With an increase have been uncovered. in damping factor, however, the di- A technical description of the Ac- aphragmis commensurately stif- tive Servo Technology, or AST, fened, passing less energy out pre- concept of amplifier/speaker inter- maturely. Yamaha states that with action is available from Yamaha, AST,thewooferactuallyap- but I don't find it especially illumi- proaches the stiffness of the speak- nating. It has a good deal to say er's particle -board enclosure walls. about modeling loudspeakers with Truly there is much to marvel at electronic circuit analogs, a tech- here, but words are cheap. Only per- nique that has proven useful over formance counts. When I first set up the years without quite having be- the AST system, being a thoroughly come a precise science. civilized audiophile, I promptly at- Inessence, what Yamaha has tempted to break it.I almost did, aimed at is the neutralization of cer- but I came nearer to breaking my- tain components of loudspeaker im- self and sending my wife back to pedance, including static voice -coil mother as well. Yet as I contem- resistance and, to some degree, back plated various bass -drum and pipe - electromotive force, by application organ cataclysms, awaiting God's of what might be called a sort of certain punishment for this berserk "anti -drive" originating within the behavior, I began to feel that the amplifier via feedback and servo special character of each individual circuits. If you find all this a little instrument was being preserved in a SIX-INCH difficult to grasp, I can sympathize. rather distinct way and that a subtle OVERACHIEVER If you find it suspiciously similar to muddling effect was conspicuous by the long -familiar motional -feedback its relative absence. This impres- techniques used in many past and a sion carried over to more reason- ANYaudiophiles do not few present speaker systems, it isn't able sound levels, where the virile, care much for the com- quite. The operation of the Yamaha singing thrum of string -bass choirs ponent size and expense AST system istotally electronic, seemed to adhere more strictly to entailed in truly big bass with no sensing transducers em- the written musical lines than I was response. Not a few of them have ployed, and it attempts to go some- used to, and individual beats of the found rationalizations for all but what beyond the mere adjustment timpani were less lost in the general ignoring deep low frequencies, often of amplifier gain. acoustical clutter of crescendos. asserting that show-off sonics are Theory aside, what are the bene- Good news all. A few informal not what high fidelity-or at least fits Yamaha claims to reap? They measurements made later, however, their high fidelity-is all about. But all have to do with improving the altered the picture a bit. At 30 Hz, breathes there a single one of us drive characteristics of the asso- where the output of the little AST - whose attentionisnot grabbed ciated speaker. First, nullifying the S1 was certainly usable, the second when something goes off with a voice -coil resistance is said to offset harmonic was down only 6 du rela- stentorian, convincingly subterra- some of the thermal and other tive to the fundamental (commend- nean boom or roar? And are we not losses heretofore inevitable in am- ably, it did not appear to increase at intriguedwhenthatsomething plifier -loudspeaker energy transfers. somewhat higher levels). In several turns out to be itsy-bitsy, appearing Second,itgreatlyincreasesthe response curves the classic double to have no business hanging around damping factor of the system, allow- hump of a vented enclosure seemed major acoustical events? If you an- ing the amplifier to act as a much to emerge. What did not emerge was swered "No" and "Yes," perhaps a more effective electronic brake on a fleeting coloration at a somewhat new Yamaha line of powered speak- the voice coil. higher frequency that I had become er systems has something for you. Itis the second benefit that re- convinced was real.It may have The system I have in mind here is ceives most of Yamaha's emphasis, corresponded to the frequencies at thediminutiveAST-Sl,which and it is tied in quite interestingly which the AST process is phased comes in pairs with the companion with the choice of a vented speaker out (it only functions up to about AST -A 10 poweramplifier for design. The ideaisthat vented 200 Hz), or it may not have. $1,200 a set. The "woofer" of the S1 speakers have never realized their Theseslapdashtestsnotwith- has an effective diameter of barely 5 full potential because energy from standing, I remainedgenerally inches. Its vented enclosure, which the port has been deficient-defi- pleased when I went back to listen- fits easily under one arm, has a cient because the driver itself has ing. The system is agreeable, ex- prominent but very small circular been lossy, passing acoustical ener- traordinarily potent, and probably port. Altogether, it hardly promises gyoutthroughitsdiaphragm destined to solve many more prob-

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