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Offer voic after 12/193 $0 BULLETIN by William Livingstone and Bob Ankosko Beam Me Down, Scotty The nation's first high -power direct broadcast satellite (DBS) system is scheduled to go on-line next spring, according to DirecTV, a divisicn of Hughes Communications and the major force behind the new service. The system is slated to offer some 150 channels of digital audio/video programming. including pay -per -view movies, professional and collegiate Contest Winners Contest conducted by House The winners in the Bad Song of Guitars in Rochester, New sports. special -interest programs. and a number of CD - Survey conducted by the York, were still listening to quality audio services. humorist Dave Barry have the more than 5,000 tapes Anyone with a TV set will be able to receive DBS been chosen. No. 1 as Worst submitted from around the Overall Song and Worst world, and more were broadcasts-all you have to do is pay a subscription fee and Lyrics is MacArthur Park as still coming in. Watch this purchase a hardware package consisting of an 18 -inch sung by Richard Harris (and space. satellite dish and a TV -top decoder box. RCA has announced later by Donna Summer). The Similarly, Anthem! runner-up in both categories America, of Raleigh, North that it will offer a package that includes a universal remote was Yummy Yummy Yummy Carolina, has postponed control for about $700. (I've Got Love in My Tummy) announcing the winner in its by Ohio Express (and later search for a new U.S. by Julie London). Third place national anthem until the There are two floor -standing Academy of Recording Arts went to (You're) Having My Fourth of July, when we can models ($650 a pair) and two and Sciences accepted two Baby by Paul Anka, a deeply all rally round the flag. We'll bookshelf models ($450 a classical recordings into its hated recording. Great keep you posted. pair), each of which uses an Hall of Fame: Stravinsky's hostility was registered for 8 -inch woofer and an Allison - Rite of Spring with the Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Speakers with Clout designed convex :weeter. Boston Symphony conducted Ray Cyrus, and a Lifetime Roy Allison, noted speaker RDL speakers are available by Pierre Monteux (1951) and Bad Achievement Award designer and founder of by mail-order only and carry Verdi's "Celeste Aida" sung went to Mac Davis (for Baby Allison Acoustics, and Edgar a thirty -day money -back by Enrico Caruso (1908). Both Don't Get Hooked on Me and Villchur, inventor of the guarantee as well as a full are RCA recordings. other lousy lyrics). Honorable acoustic -suspension speaker five-year warranty. RDL is Mention was voted to Bobby and a founding father of located at 26 Pearl St., #15, Musical Television Goldsboro by those who hate Acoustic Research, have put Bellingham, MA 02019. Major musical programs on his Honey. their talents behind a new PBS this month include The Feelings (as waxed by speaker venture, Room Off the Beaten Path Beatles Songbook, May 5, in various weenies) did not win, Designed Loudspeakers, or Sanyo's new SPT-1500 which songs made famous place, or show, but Barry RDL Acoustics. The Sportable personal AM/FM by the Beatles will be was pleased to learn that company's initial offerings cassette player ($70) features reinterpreted by headliners others besides himself include four speakers a built-in pedometer for of today including Los Lobos, cannot stand Stairway to designed to compensate for calculating distance, a Dr. John, Buddy Guy, and Heaven. Our hat is off to Mr. the acoustical effects of stopwatch, and a calorie Kathy Mattea. On May Barry for his public service. specific room locations-next counter so you can watch 26, The Real McTeague, a At press time judges in the to a wall, on a shelf those calories disappear. documentary, will give World's Worst Guitar Player surrounded by books, etc. Mass Engineering background to a new opera of Orlando, Florida is by William Bolcom. .It offering an electrostatic will be followed by a No Sticky Floors speaker system for the car. performance of Stravinsky's Home -theater systems deliver a big bang for the buck, It includes a 1,200 -volt Oedipus Rex starring the power supply and four 3'/2 x dynamic American diva according to the findings of a national leisure -time survey 5 -inch panels; price is $799. Jessye Norman. Ms. Norman, sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Group of the who just received Japan's Electronic Industries Association. Nearly 90 percent of home - Halls of Fame Grand Prix International Artists inducted into the Music Award for the best theater owners say their systems represent an "excellent" or Rock -and -Roll Hall of Fame performance by a classical "good" value. (Home theater was defined as a system having this year are Ruth Brown, artist in 1992, was included a big -screen TV, a hi-fi VCR or laserdisc player, surround - Cream, Creedence on this year's list of the Clearwater Revival, the world's ten best -dressed `7' sound processing, and four or more speakers.) Two-thirds of Doors, Etta James, Frankie women. Like Ms. Norman's 7 those surveyed said they spent $3,000 or less on their Lymon and the Teen-Agers, weight, her dress size has systems. We suspect that the absence of the sticky floors and Van Morrison, Sly and the never been made public, but Family Stone, and Dinah Norman -watchers report that overpriced candy common in movie theaters figured Washington. it has decreased greatly in prominently in their enthusiasm for home theater. This year the National the last two years. 0 3' 4 STEREO REVIEW MAY 1993 REFRESHING SEAGRAM'S GIN HAS HIDDEN PLEASURE. WELCOME INTO THE FOLD. A (FOLD SO "A" MEETS "B") B ,b=2:1\ ' 111.-v .