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Room Acoustics for Stereo /The Impatient Peter Nero 4 The Baffling Case of ANTON BRUCKNER www.americanradiohistory.com Inside...the XP -4A is quite unlike any of the other speakers it resembles externally... proved to be an unusually wide-range, smooth system... the response was virtually flat from 5,000 cps to beyond the limits of audibility. .. Tone -burst tests showed very good transient response. .. In listening ' tests, the XP -4A ...was almost neutral in character, very smooth and natural-sounding ... It had an especially fine and satisfying presence... a healthy amount of undistorted output in the 30 -to -40 -cps range. Over -all, I would rate the XP -4A as one of the best, most truly musical reproducers avail- able today. The XP -4A is priced at $199.50. JULIAN D. 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Wilson 24 Notes from Abroad- London, Milan 40 Sandor Konya: an interview Shirley Fleming 69 Music Makers Roland Gelait Sound Reproduction 45 High Fidelity Ill Defined: an editorial 50 Room Acoustics for Stereo David P. Eisenman 61 Equipment Reports EICO ST -70 Integrated Amplifier Rek -O -Kut Auto -Poise AP -320 Tone Arm H. H. Scott Model LC -21 Preamplifier Fisher XP4A Speaker System 119 High Fidelity Newsfronts: CBS -3M Tape Cartridge Norman Eisenberg Reviews of Recordings 71 Feature Record Reviews Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Soloists: Anthony Lewis) Bach: St. Luke Passion (Soloists: George Barati) Music from Philharmonic Hall (Soloists; Leonard Bernstein) 74 Other Classical Reviews 87 The Imports Gene Bruck 100 The Lighter Side 107 Jazz I 1 1 The Tape Deck FEBRUARY 1963 VOLUME 13 NUMBER 2 Published monthly at Great Barrington. Mass. by The Billboard Publishing Co. Copyright ® 1963 by The Billboard Publishing Co. 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