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Authoritative Megezlne About High Fidelity SEPTEMBER 1982 $1.50 ®06030 WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CASSETTE DECK BASICS OF TAPE PERFORMANCE SEEING -:, SOUND 1000ZXL j:..f. L ¡ D 0 ó -i I WITH A I. , LASER a l REVIEWED HEATH'S i BIG AMP 1-1- ` q AA -1800 dir .; , FULTON MC 4er CARTRIDGE ADC SPECTRUM ANALYZER ZOz02 QW n3nvn 9QE H9n0b06SQn09 22L9'I 60 113111XdW E USA 21W 0 EE09032929 i E89n11 9 h9 6605211.9 1T1X14 OSE09h 2 loo 0603u- - --:-Wa j r ' Oreal NuNoIOSfUrlACODMMVIIN , f I^ 1# 1' i r+ ma belong.. 41 ti 41.411ffili. a 111" - 1 4 1 J ~4" 41 _._ . f : Y- ' G , 4 1 4 1 .r ?;71,- 1 -1;4- iks- L GHT& 8 mg. "tar. 07 mg. nicotine ay. percigareie,FTC Report DEC. '81; FILTERS: 15 mg." lar",1.1 mg. nicotine ay. per cigarette by FTC method. u, Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined Experience the That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. Camel taste in Lights and Filters. K. LISTEN. 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Each cassette package been reformulated to a higher now ncre than ever, it's the has been redesigned for quick level of audio tape measurements, mach ne for your machine. and cor-ect identification. Yet, for values and standards. all you see, it's only a hint of what The result is a degree of i you'll get when you listen to what's sound clarity, quality, fidelity and inside. dynamic range in each bias/EQ Listen. And you'll hear the category unmatched by any com- ultimate in metal bias, high bias petitive :apes on the market today. THE MACHINE FOR YOUR '<MACHINE® C1982 tDr, _'p Enter N. 27 on Reader Service Card u SEPTEMBER 1982 VOL. 66, NO. 9 `i 1~110011~1~ r% CARVER HolographyThe C-1 Sonic ~WI Reamplifier. MepcuÍous performance. engineering. finest Highreliabili See page 84. C-1fu of the h requirementsts FEATURE most demanding ARTICLES audiophile BASICS OF MAGNETIC TAPE Hwhat acclaimed PERFORMANCE Howard A. Roberson 28 and far state-of-the-art,manufactuersbceall nit REFOCUS ON DEMAGNETIZATION Herman Burstein 36 the-art is a the Cancer ONE -BRAND SYSTEM REVIEW: wonderfully C-1 experience affordable JVC S-40 SYSTEM Leonard Feldman 40 pleasure the sheer to WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE of musical Sonic Holography. CASSETTE DECK Ivan Berger 42 A quality SEEING SOUND WITH A LASER Graham Bank 44 precision instrument gold re resistors, -band laser trimmed EQUIP_MENT PROFILES switches lubricated G-10 ADC SOUND SHAPER SA -1 REAL machined glass sealed solid boards, TIME ANALYZER Howard A. Roberson 50 vapor deposited metal part contacts, 24 -Karat and HEATHKIT AA -1800 STEREO POWER AMP Leonard Feldman 53 the YAMAHA Tillett coil in C. provides P-850 TURN TABLE GeorGeorge W. 56 soft gmodin an infrasonic touch controls, FULTON RS -1 MOVING -COIL PHONO filter, g amplifier, a CARTRIDGE, FULTON MC -1 dual headphoe vanable tape monitors, MOVING -COIL TRANSFORMER R.V. Pisha turnover 58 silent muting tone controls, AUDIO-TECHNICA AT813 MICROPHONE Jon R. Sank 60 and processor external loop an R1RECORDCORD REVIEWS Its straight RECORDINGS 12 that -wire a watt of input assures ROCK/POP Michael Tearson, Jon & Sally Tiven .... 16 0.00000000002511 leaveslle wfias distortion. CLASSICAL REVIEWS Edward Tatnall Canby 24 watts of Or less. DEPARTMENTS If your goal is new levels AUDIO ETC Edward Tatnall Canby 8 and three of in audi -dimensionality AUDIOCLINIC Joseph Giovanelli 10 must preamplifier, ty WHAT'S NEW 64 hear you affordable prisingly DEAR EDITOR 66 C-1. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 68 TAPE GUIDE Herman Burstein 81 VIDEO SCENES Bert Whyte 82 BEHIND THE SCENES Bert Whyte 84 THE BOOKSHELF 88 Carver Corporatio See page 82. PO. Box n 14304 664 N.E. 93rd Woodinville, Place WA In Canada 98072 distributed The Cover Photographer: Robert Lewis Evolution by Audio. The Cover Equipment: Nakamichi 1000ZXL Limited Audio Publishing, Editorial and Advertising Production Offices, I 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036. Subscription Inquiries, (800) 525-9511: in Rr Colorado (303) 447-9330. 2 Enter No. 6 on Reader Service Card r V Ji NOW YOU CAN HAVE DIGITAL RECORDING WHERE YOU WANT IT MOST: AT HOM E. There are moments when a musician is so inspired he stops making music and starts rr-a!ing magic. And, as most Lrtists agree, these peak periods of supreme inspiration dcn't always occur in the clinical conditions of the recording studic Which explains why Sony, the inventor of digital audio processirg, has just created the world's smallest, lightest =nd most compact digital audio processor-the PCM-F I. 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