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Review$2.25 1987 NOVEMBER Stereo "Polk Builds State -of -the -ArtComponents:' Consistently Superior Technology Results in Dramatically Better Sounding for You.

IIIIatthew Polk's genius is multifaceted. Poll8 Exclusive Silver Coil In addition to breakthroughs like SDA technology which totally revo- Dome 7iveeter Technology lutionized the whole concept of stereo- This state-of-the-art transducer is the only phonic reproduction, it is also responsible tweeter in the world which utilizes a voice coil for the advanced and exclusive component wound with costly silver coated wire formore technology present in every Polk loud- extended frequency response. The extremely speaker which results in unequalled high light polyamide dome allows exeptionally definition musical sound quality. quick transient response while the inherently well damped material eliminates annoying High Definition Reproduction resonances. The small diameter diaphragm Polk loudspeakers are true high definition assures wide dispersion of high frequencies systems which reproduce sonic images with throughout your listening room. In addition, life -like clarity and detail, much like a high the huge magnet structure combined with the resolution camera captures a visual image low mass moving system results in vanishingly Tweeter voice coils are centered with exacting precision by a with all the subtle detail and focus intact. sophisticated machine designed and built by Polk Audio eng,neers low distortion, superb wave form accuracy When you listen to a pair of Polks, notice how and high efficiency. A specially contoured response. Additionally, they don't deteriorate non -resonant faceplate improves dispersion, you can hear each and every individual instru- over time as do foam surrounds. They incor- ment clearly and distinctly, even when there lowers diffraction and helps eliminatereso- porate high -temperature aluminum voice coilsnant distortion. are many instruments playing at the same which allow high power operation without time. This high resolution capability is in large burnout. Optimized Flux Density magnet struc- part due to the consistently excellent transient Polk Fluid Coupled tures are used for perfectly balanced opera- Subwoofers response of all the drivers as well as the tion assuring clearer, more highly defined, Most Polk home speakers utilize a fluid seamless blending achieved by the Isophase more musical sonic performance. - Crossover systems. coupled subwoofer system for tight, quick, The Polk Isophase Crossover deep, powerful and room -filling bassresponse. Polks Exclusive fl-ilaminate This system realizes the performance advan- The crossover network is the most impor- tages of both large and small diameter woofers Polymer Driver Technology tant component in a high quality at the same time. Small diameter woofers have These superb drivers are specifically engi- system. It is responsible for properly blending neered to cover the entire fundamental musi- the sound of the individual drivers together faster transient response, better midrange and dispersion. Large diameter bass drivers couple cal range with life -like clarity and minimal into the homogeneous sounds of individual better to your room and produce more bass. coloration. PQIk's exclusive trilaminate (3 instruments and voices. The crossover acts like The Polk Fluid Coupled Subwoofer System layer) polymer cone technology is responsiblethe "musical conductor" of the loudspeaker, excels in all these areas. It utilizes the low for a purity and naturalness of reproduction telling each driver just when to come in and frequency energy produced within the en- unapproachable by conventional drivers exactly how loud to play. The elaborate Polk closure by the small bass/midrange driver to which utilize paper, or simply vacuum formed Isophase Crossover Systems utilize huge cop- plastic cones. Polk's unique trilaminate poly- per coils and precision capacitors and resis- hydraulically energize the large diameter low resonance subwoofer below approximately 60 mer cone is made of three complimentary tors to assure the lowest possible harmonic, Hz. The result is remarkably clear, well-defined materials, each of which has unique perform- IM, and transient distortion with complex high low frequency reproduction, exhibiting excep- ance advantages all its own. One material is level musical signals. Close tolerance, ex- tional upper bass detail which extends very light and structurally strong, one is very tremely costly mylar and silver mica capacitors smoothly and seamlessly down through the stiff with a high speed of sonic wave trans- are used in many models to achieve even sub -bass and cleanly up into the midrange. mission, and one very effectively removes higher sonic definition. In addition, driver sonic colorations by efficiently damping the equalization is optimized by the sophisticated cone structure. The exceptional performance and complex circuitry, while isophase (phase gained when all three are combined together coherent) operation is maintained by careful could never be equalled by a simple one layercontrol of the various phase relationships in cone of any single material. Polk drivers utilizethe system. Many loudspeaker manufacturers costly butyl rubber surrounds for more accu- polk skimp on this critically important component rate cone movement and deeper. better bass because it is usually hidden from sight, but The Speaker Specialists Polk builds crossovers correctly so that our S601 Metro Drive, Baltimore. Md. 21210 speakers will sound better for you.

Where to buy Polk Speakers? For your nearest dealer, see page 210. CIRCLE NO37 ON READER SERVICE CARD Polk Audio's dedication to quality is apparent in every &stain of design, construction irand performance. "Matthew Polk Hasa Passion for Perfection!" Experience the Awesome Sonic Superiority of His New Signature Edition SDA 1C and SDA 2B.

The genius of Matthew Polk has now signal (and speaker) meant to he heard by "Mindboggling, astounding, brought the designer styling, ad- both ears at once. However, the fundamental flabbergasting" MOFidelity Magazine vanced technology and superb sonic and basic concept of stereo is that a much Words alone cannot fully describe how performance of his award winning SDA more lifelike three-dimensional sound is much more lifelike SDA TRUE STEREO repro- Signature Reference Systems into the new achieved by having 2 different signals, each duction is. Reviewers, critical listeners and Signature Edition SDA 1C and SDA 2B. played back through a separate speaker and novices alike are overwhelmed by the magni- each meant to be heard by only one ear apiece tude of the sonic improvement achieved by "They truly represent a (L or R). So quite simply, a mono loudspeaker Polk's TRUE STEREO technology. You will hear breakthrough."Rolling Stone Magazineis designed to be heard by two ears at once a hugh sound stage which extends not only while true stereo loudspeakers should each Polk's critically acclaimed, 5 time Audio - beyond the speakers, but beyond the walls be heard by only one ear apiece (like head- Video Grand Prix Award winning SDA tech- of your listening room itself The lifelike phones). The revolutionary Polk SDAs are the nology is the most important fundamental ambience revealed by the SDAs makes it sound first TRUE STEREO speakers engineered to advance in loudspeaker technology since as though you have been transported to the accomplish this and fully realize the aston- stereo itself Listeners are amazed when they acoustic environment of the original sonic ishingly lifelike three-dimensional imaging ca- hear the huge, lifelike, three-dimensional event. Every instrument, vocalist and sound pabilities of the medium. sonic image produced by Polk's SDA speakers. becomes tangible, distinct, alive and firmly The nation's top audio experts agree that Polk placed in its own natural spatial position. You SDA loudspeakers always sound better than "A stunning achievement" Australian Hi Piwill hear instruments, ambience and subtle conventional loudspeakers. Stereo Review Polk SDA Technology solves one of the musical nuances (normally masked by con- said, "Spectacular... the result is always better ventional speakers), revealed for your enjoy- than would be achieved by conventional greatest problems in stereo reproduction. When each ear hears both speakers and ment by the SDAs. This benefit is accurately speakers." said, "Astounding described by Julian Hirsch in Stereo Review, ...We have yet to hear any stereo program that signals, as occurs when you use conventional (Mono) speakers to listen in stereo, full stereo "...the sense of discovery experienced when doesn't benefit." Now all 5 SDAs incorporate playing an old favorite stereo record and many of the 3rd generation advances in SDA separation is lost. The undesirable signal reaching each ear from the "wrong" speaker hearing, quite literally, a new dimension in the technology pioneered in the Signature Edition sound is a most attractive bonus..." Records, SRS and SRS2 including full complement sub - is a form of acoustic distortion called inter- aural crosstalk, which confuses your hearing. CDs, tapes, video and FM all benefit equally bass drive, time -compensated phase -coherent as dramatically. driver alignment and bandwidth -optimized dimensional signal. "Literally a New "You owe it to yourself to Why SDAs Always Sound Dimension in the Soundaudition them."Higb Fidelity Magazine Stereo Review Magazine SDAs allow you to experience the spine Better tingling excitement, majesty and pleasure Stereo Review confirmed the unqualified The Polk SDA systems eliminate interaural of live music in your home. You must hear sonic superiority of Matthew Polk's revolution-crosstalk distortion and maintain full, True the remarkable sonic benefits of SDA tech- ary SDA Technology when they wrote, "These Stereo separation, by incorporating two com- nology for yourself You too will agree speakers always sounded different from pletely separate sets of drivers (stereo and with Stereo Review's dramatic conclusion: conventional speakers - and in our view dimensional) into each speaker cabinet. The "the resuh is always better than would be better - as a result of their SDA design. stereo drivers radiate the normal stereo sig- achieved by conventional speakers... it Without exaggeration, the design principalsnal, while the dimensional drivers radiate a does indeed add a new dimension to re- embodied in the SDAs make them the world's difference signal that acoustically and effec- produced sound." first true stereo speakers. The basic concept oftively cancels the interaural crosstalk distor- speaker design was never modified to take intotion and thereby restores the stereo separation. account the fundamental difference between a imaging and detail lost when you listen to nor- mono and stereo signal. The fundamental and mal "mono"speakers. The dramatic sonic bene- Polk basic concept of mono is that you have one fits are immediately audible and remarkable. The Speaker Specialists ®

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Polks ro-IggritgVeonSeries Loudspeakers have received worldwide acclaim byoeringoffering state of the art technology and performance usually found only in systems which sell formany times their modest cost. (stands optional) "Polk Monitors Deliver Incredible Sound and Value:' They Utilize the same State -of -the -Art Components As the top of the line SDAs.

olk Audio was founded in 1972 by "The best high petformance and design features. However, more impor- three Johns Hopkins University gradu-speaker value on the tantly, it is the elegant integration of concepts ates who were dedicated audiophiles and components which results in the superior market." Witte Record with a common dream: superior sound for sonic performance and value which sets the A new generation of Polk Monitors is now everyone. Monitor Series apart. Audiogram magazine available which incorporate the same high said, "How does Polk do it? We think it is "The cdford4able dream" definition silver coil dome tweeter and Opti- mostly execution. They hear very well and they 'the Record mized Flux Density drivers developed for the care." Audiogram is absolutely right. At Polk They believed that it was possible to design SDAs. Polk Monitor Series loudspeakers have we take the same care with each and every and manufacture loudspeakers of uncompro- always had a well deserved reputation for product we build, whether it is our most or mising quality which performed as well as the offering state-of-the-art performance and tech- least expensive. We lavish the same lengthy most expensive and exotic loudspeakers avail-nology usualy found only in systems which amount of critical listening and tuning on able, but in a price range affordable to virtuallysell for many times their modest cost. In fact, every single Polk speaker because we know every music lover. The Monitors are the spec- many knowledgeable listeners consider that that having a limited budget does not neces- tacularly successful result of their quest. outside of the SDAs, the Polk Monitors are the sarily indicate that you have a limited ability The original Monitor 7 was the first productfinest imaging conventional speakers in the to appreciate true musical quality. of their efforts and it was so successful that world, regardless of price. They have been when it was shown at the Consumer Elec- compared in performance with loudspeakers "At the price they're simply a which sell for up to $10,000 a pair and are tronics Show, dealers and experts alike could steal " Audiogram Magazine absolutely the best sounding loudspeakers for not believe its superh performance and afford- No matter what you budget is there is a the money available on the market. able price. Audiogram Magazine said, "when superb sounding Polk speaker perfect for you. we heard the Polk speakers at the CES Show "Absohttekfirst rate... Polk's incredible sounding/affordably priced we were so impressed we could not believe the Monitor Series loudspeakers utilize the same prices." The entire Polk Monitor Series was superior sound at a modest basic components as the SDAs and begin designed in this tradition of incredible, state- price" Stereo Review Magazine under $100. each. The breathaking sonic of-the-art sound and affordable prices. All the Polk Monitors regardless of price benefits of Matthew Polk's revolutionary True offer consistently superb construction and Stereo SDA technology are available in 5 SDA "Vastly superior to the sonic and performance. They achieve open, models priced from $395. to $1495 ea. boxless, three-dimensional imaging surpassed competition" only by the SDAs. The Monitors silky smooth You can (Ilford the incredible Musician Magazine frequency response assures natural, non - sound of Polk Polk Audio has worked hard over the fatiguing, easy to listen to sound: while their The experts agree: Polk speakers sound instantaneous transient response results in ensuing years to maintain the Monitor Series better! There is a Polk speaker which is preeminent position as the standard for music that is crisply reproduced with lifelike perfect to fulfill your sonic dreams at a clarity and detail. In addition dynamic bass quality and value in the audio industry. The price you can afford. Visit your nearest Polk performance, ultra wide dispersion, high effi- Monitors have been continually improved and dealer today and audition the remarkable ciency and high power handling are all much refined as a result of Polk's never ending Monitors and the revolutionary SDAs. 10'1'11 appreciated hallmarks of Monitor Series search for better sound quality. There have always be glad you bought the best. been literally thousands of improvements performance. made to the Monitors and the result is that The consistently superb performance of the today, as in the past, the Polk Monitors are Polk Monitors is in large part due to the fact absolutely the best sounding loudspeakers for that they ad utilize very similar components Polk the money available on the market. Musician 1)( Magazine siad, "If you're shopping for stereo, our advice is not to buy speakers until you've .3601 Mett Urns! Baltimore. Sid 21215 heard the Polks." You owe it to yourself

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BULLETIN 6 TECHNICAL TALK 21 EDITORIAL 8 POPULAR MUSIC 157 LETTERS 10 CLASSICAL MUSIC 183 NEW PRODUCTS 13 VIDEO REVIEWS 205 AUDIO Q&A 18 THE HIGH END 216 EQUIPMENT HIRSCH-HOUCK LABS EQUIPMENT TEST REPORTS 25 Harman Kardon Citation Twenty -Three Tuner, page 25 Pioneer PD-M9OX Compact Disc Changer, page 35 Polk Audio SDA-1 c Speaker System, page 41 NAD Model 7600 AM/FM Receiver, page 51 PAGE 100 ADC Model 16/2R Compact Disc Player, page 71 Perreaux SM3 , page 75 Jamo Compact 120 Speaker System, page 81 THE NEW SEPARATES 86 Electronics for audiophiles by Michael Smolen HOW To BUY A TUNER 93 The rules of rating radios by Peter W. Mitchell WIRED 100 Good, clean sound all over the house by Ian G. Masters BOB LUDWIG 113 An interview with a recording master by Mark Dery SYSTEMS 118 Music in Malibu by William Burton OPEN -REEL RECORDING 122 There's life in the old format yet by Craig Stark MUSIC PATTY LOVELESS 98 A new traditionalist on the country scene by Alanna Nash CALENDAR OF CLASSICAL COMPOSERS 105 A chronological guide to music by WilliamLivingstone SUZANNE VEGA 127 Success hasn't spoiled Suzanne by Elizabeth Costello RECORD MAKERS 144 BEST RECORDINGS OF THE MONTH 147 Cover The Harman Kardon Citation Twenty -Three tuner (see test report on STEREO REVIEW BUYER POLL, SEE PAGE 164 page 25) and the Sony TA-E77ESD Please fill in if you bought equipment in the past thirty days. ("The New Separates," page 86). READER SERVICE INFORMATION CARD, FACING PAGE 164 Design by Sue Llewellyn, photo by Circle the items you want to know about. Hing/Norton. COPYRIGHT 0 1987 BY CBS MAGAZINES, A DIVISION OF (:BS INC. All rights reserved. Stereo Review. November 1987. Volume 52, Number II. Published monthly by CBS Magazines at 3807 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010. Editorial and Executive Offices at 1515 Broadway. New York. NY 10036; Tele- phone (212) 719-6000. Also publishers of Car Stereo Review. Stereo Buyers' Guide, Compact Disc Buyers' Guide, and Video Buyers' Guide. One-year subscription rate for the United States and its possessions, $11.97; Canada, $14-97; all other countries, $16.97, cash orders only, payable in U.S. currency. Second-class postage paid at Los Angeles, CA 90052. and at additional mailing offices. Authorized as second-class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. Canada, and for paymentof postage in cash. POSTMASTER 'SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: Please send change -of -address forms and all subscription correspondence to Stereo Review, P.O. Box 2771, Boulder, CO 80302. Please allow at least eight weeks for the change of address to become effective. Include both your old and your newaddress, enclosing, if possible, an address label from a recent issue. If you have a subscription problem, write to the above address or call (800) 525-0643; in Colorado,call (303) 447-9330. PERMISSIONS: Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Requests for permission should be directed to William S. Bunchuck, Rights and Permissions, CBS Magazines, One Park Avenue. New York, NY 10016.

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by Christie Barter and and the remote -controlled CD 770 cludes two high -power cassette William Burton ($549). Both players have Favor- radios and two speaker models. ite Track Selection, and the CD LONGEST -PLAYING CD 960 also features dual 16 -bit digi- MUSIC NOTES With each passing month re- tal -to -analog converters and a sin- Tyka Nelson, Prince's sister, has cently the outer limit on a CD's gle integrated circuit for both de- been signed to Chrysalis Records' playing time has been exceeded by coding and error correction. Phil- new dance and r -&-b label, Cool one or another new release, ips consumer -electronics products Tempo. . . . Ellis Marsalis, father usually by only a few seconds. The have been sold in the U.S. under of trumpeter Wynton and saxo- latest record holder was a record- the Magnavox, Sylvania, and Phil - phonist Branford Marsalis, is the ing of Rachmaninoff piano music co brand names. host of Jazztown, a thirteen -part on the Etcetera label (reviewed in series on contemporary New Or- this issue) that clocked in at 74 TECH NOTES leans currently airing on Na-

minutes, 32 seconds. But just as The first direct-to-DAT record- tional Public Radio. . . . A huge we were going to press, we re- ing has been made by Reference Plexiglas plaque has been created ceived a recording of Ervorait's Sta- Recordings, which used an Onkyo by the Recording Industry Asso- bat Mater on the German Metro- DT -2001 DAT recorder to tape a ciation of America to commem- politan label that set a new rec- live session by the Blazing Red- orate Elvis Presley's "landmark" ord-by about 5 minutes. The new heads, a San Francisco rock/jazz recording achievements. The CD, manufactured by Pilz Compact group. Although the master was plaque is installed at Graceland. Disc of Munich, West Germany, recorded at 48 kHz, its sampling . . . When Los Lobos' La Bamba has a playing time of just over rate will be converted to 44.1 kHz hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 79112 minutes! (the CD standard) before duplica- singles chart, it became the first tion to prevent direct digital copy- No. 1 hit for its composer, Ritchie DAT BREAKTHROUGHS ing on home DAT decks. . . . A Valens, subject of the popular bio- Sony digital audio tape (DAT) four-way speaker measuring pic. Valens's own highest -chart- recorders for home and portable about 6 feet square, but only 2D2 ing single was Donna, which use went on sale in Europe in inches thick, has been developed peaked at No. 2 in February 1959, October, and Sony duplication ma- by Technics. The Model AFB1000 three weeks after he had died in a chines are now being offered to uses twenty drivers and weighs plane crash.

record companies for mass pro- about 838 pounds. . . . Sony is duction of prerecorded DAT cas- introducing a new 25 -inch XBR THE DIVINE BETTE settes. The Sony DTC-1000ES Pro TV monitor and a portable Bette Midler will perform a home deck is selling for about Watchman TV with a 2N -inch song written by Barry Manilow, $2,000 in Europe. The company's screen. . . . Mitsubishi will make with Bruce Sussman and Jack remote -controlled TCD-D10, the a 40 -inch TV picture tube for sets Feldman, for a Walt Disney ani- first DAT portable on sale any- with the largest direct -view mation based on Dickens's Oliver where, weighs 4 pounds (with re- screens so far.. . . AR's Powered Twist that's due for theatrical re- chargeable batteries) and meas- Partners speakers were named lease next Christmas. Meanwhile, ures about 9x 2 x 7 inches. one of the best -designed consumer though Midler is not out on tour Neither DAT recorder contains products by the Industrial Design herself, a costume she once wore Copycode-detector circuits. Society of America. . . . RCA is is. Included in an exhibit circu- DAT critics have said that high- shipping two Super VHS videocas- lated this fall by the Philadelphia speed mass duplication of DAT's is sette recorders, the digital Maritime Museum is a mermaid impossible, but Sony's $600,000 VTP695 at $1,300 and the VHS outfit Midler donned in a stage super -dupers can produce a prere- Hi-Fi VTP640 at $1,000. show she called Divine Madness. corded DAT for the same cost as a Says Bette now, "There comes a compact disc by using barium -fer- DREAM MACHINE time when you just have to let rite tape, not the more expensive Pioneer is promoting its Truck your clothes go out in the world metal formulation. An 80 -minute Riders line of autosound systems and try to make it on their own." prerecorded DAT can be dupli- with a "Drive Away Your Dream cated in 15 seconds using Sprint- Machine" contest. Through De- er contact printing (transferring cember 31, 1987, anyone who lis- the magnetic pattern by pressing tens to a Pioneer dealer's Truck the master tape and a blank tape Riders demonstration will be eli- together). gible to win the grand prize, a 1988 SR -5 Turbo 4x4 PHILIPS BRAND IN U.S. truck outfitted with up to $5,000 The first home audio compo- worth of off -road accessories, nents to carry the Philips brand which will be awarded in a con- name in the U.S. are two compact test drawing on January 29, disc players, the CD 960 ($949) 1988. The Truck Riders line in-

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The Senate bill Assistant Managing Editor does provide for exemptions that MARGARET BRUEN are supposed to protect American Associate Art Director companies, but according to the ELIZABETH COSTELLO Times story "officials in the elec- Assistant Editor tronics and high-technology indus- BARBARA AIKEN, ROCCO MATTERA tries said the American companies IdDHN WEINBERG have begun to recognize that their itorial Assistants relationships with Toshiba and oth- HENRY PLEASANTS er foreign high-technology compa- Editor BRYAN HARRELL nies are so complex and intertwined Tokyo Correspondent that there is virtually no way to WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE Sanctions avoid serious economic damage." Editor at Large That's the point, isn't it? Techno- Contributing Editors: Robert Ackart, logical interdependence. The Glob- Chris Albertson, Richard Freed, Phyl TODAY'S New York Timesal Community of the late twentieth Garland, Christopher Greenleaf, David carries a front-page storycentury. Well, maybe we are learn- Hall, Julian D. Hirsch, Ralph Hodges, Stoddard Lincoln, Ian Masters, Louis headlined "Top U.S. Cor-ing something.It's high time.If Meredith, Alanna Nash, Mark Peel, porations Lobbying Againstthose big multinational corpora- Charles Rodrigues, Eric Salzman, Steve Curb on Toshiba Imports." The sto- tions have only now "begun to rec- Simels, Craig Stark, Joel Vance ry, of course, has to do with pro-ognize" the complexities of all this, Production Director: Gerald Palacios posed legislation that would bar To-where must the rest of us be on the Production Manager: Laura LaFontaine shiba products from this country in learning scale? ROMAN BEYER retribution for the sale, by a Toshi- National security is not at issue in Vice President and Publisher ba subsidiary, of some restrictedthe Congressional debate over digi- milling machinery to the Soviet tal audio tape, or DAT. Neither is Associate Publisher: Winston A. Johnson ADVERTISING Union. The Senate passed the bill"serious economic damage" unless National Manager: Richard J. Halpern by a large majority, and at this pointyou call what the record industry (212) 719-6037 it is before a House -Senate confer- Eastern Manager: Charles L. P. Watson says it is losing to home taping "se- (212) 719-6038 ence committee. rious." The proportions of the To- Account Representative: Sharon Dube By the time you read this column, (212) 719-6915 shiba debate make the DAT debate Assistant to the Publisher: Trisha Nickel thebill may have become law,seem trivial. But there are some Classified Advertising: (212) 503-5999 reflecting the general consensus that similarities that bear examination. Midwestern Managers: Arnold S. Hoffman, Dirk Barenbrugge, (312) 679-1100 we have to do something to discour- Both debates are being conducted in Western Director: William j. Curtis age other foreign companies fromthe samepoliticalclimate-you Regional Manager: Meg Roberts (818) 784-0700 breaking trade agreements. Or, per-don't have to be much of a political Tokyo Office, Iwai Trading Co., Ltd. haps more likely now, it may haveanalyst to come up with the idea 603 Ginza Sky Heights Building, 18-13, been voted down or vetoed by Pres- that our trade deficit has inclined us Ginza 7-Chome, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 104 ident Reagan, or some version of it toward protectionism lately. Both Account Manager: J. S. Yagi, (03)45-3908 EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS must be accompa- may still be in committee. What-are concerned with imposing sanc- nied by return postage and will be handled with reason- able care, but the publisher assumes no responsibility ever has happened to it in the Con-tions on high-technology products, for return or safety of art, photos, or manuscripts. gress, it will undoubtedly continue mainly from Japan. And both meas- Member Audit Bureau of Circulations to be the subject of much debate. ures before Congress, if adopted, For the questions being raised would set precedents in the regula- CD WA STEREO REVIEW IS PUBLISHED BY about the proposed legislation go far tion of trade and technology that we CBS MAGAZINES, A DIVISION OF CBS INC. beyond sanctions against the impor- President: Peter G. Diamandis might all come to regret. Vice President. Editorial Director: Carey Winfrey, tation of television sets and micro- Clearly, neither of these debates Senior Vice President, Publishing: Robert F. Spillane Senior Vice President, Circulation: Robert Alexander wave ovens from one Japanese will be resolved once and for all, to Senior Vice President, Operations & Administration: manufacturer. The top corporations Robert J. Granata everybody's satisfaction, in the leg- Senior Vice President, Manufacturing & Distribution: that the Times headline refers to, islature. It is just not that easy any Murray M. Romer according to Congressional aides more. But, again, maybe we are Vice President, Finance, Arthur Sukel: Vice President, Subscription Circulation, Bernard B. Lacy; President, and industryofficials quoted as learning something. 0 CBS Magazine Marketing, Carl Kopf

8 STEREO REVIEWNOVEMBER 1987 Nowwedo forAmadeus what we've always done for Mozart. years you've relied on "1 his advanced tech- lamaha to faithfullyreproduceFor nology injects a mirror the vibrancy and clarity of image of the output your music. distortion back into the Now, innovative input stage. The dis- Yamaha technology tortion component drops does the same for your virtually to zero. favorite movie videos What's more, this as well. receiver has plenty of Introducing the headroom-up to RX-1100U. The Yamaha recei 360 watts/channel into a that combines our legendary 2 ohm load-so it's never audio quality with broadcast cramped by the wider quality video. A major enhance- § dynamic range and varying ment to our long line of successful ----speaker impedances associated receivers. with digital sources. In fact, the RX-1100U contains so Now, walk to the other side of the mom, where features, you might want to visit your authcrized you can appreciate the new RS interactive remote Yamaha dealer and spend a few minutes exploring control to its fullest. them for Notice how it packs fingertip operation of the VIDEO ENHANCER yourself. receiver, as well as other Yamaha RS -remote CD Start by players, cassette into one slim playing a hand-held unit that ends coffee table clutter forever. video cassette Home entertainment has certainly changed. through the RX-1100U. And watch the results on the It had to. You started out as an audiophile and find finest video monitor. yourself becoming a videophile as well. Or vice The powerful new video -enhancing circuitry versa. restores clarity and sharpness to even the weakest, noisiest video signal. So any

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What Happened to FMX? twelfth root of two. This makes sense dynamic range of CD's. This seems a since there are twelve semitones within more reasonable approach than tamper- About a year and a half ago, Julian an octave and the octave interval is rep- ing with the original recording. Hirsch expounded on the virtues of resented by the ratio 2:1. FMX broadcasting, which would im- Far from being a scale that "makes no prove the signal-to-noise ratio ofFM sense to the mathematician," the well - Copy Protection, Continued stereo by up to 20 dB. Aside from the tempered scale is considered by some The July issue carried several letters compact disc, this sounded like one of musicians to be too greatly dictated by addressing the controversy surrounding the few really important improvements mathematical considerations. Hodges's digital audio tape (DAT). Your re- in audio in many years. Unfortunately, conclusion that "if we had decided on a sponse directed readers to the Home I haven't seen a flood of tuners with system of temperament that more close- Recording Rights Coalition. In an effort FMX capability, nor are any of the ly approached mathematical ideals, dis- to assist your readers, you seem to have broadcasters in my area bragging that tortion might very well be less audible forgotten that every issue has two sides. they use it (at least not the ones I listen or less objectionable" makes little sense. Your readers will get only one point of to). So whatever happened to FMX? The heart of the tempered scale is a pure view from the HRRC, primarily the JOHN WILSON geometric progression, making it more rhetoric thatsuits their interests as Hanover, NJ ideal mathematically than the "natural" hardware manufacturers. scales based partly on harmonics. The Coalition to Save America's Mu- As Peter Mitchell explains in "How to DAVIDR.WALDMAN sic represents those who make the mu- Buy a Tuner," page 93, implementation Staten Island, NY sic. The Coalition is made up of song- of the FMX system has been delayed for writers, music publishers, record com- several reasons, but FMX-decodingtc panies, and others who are concerned chips are now ready for production. For the Record about the $1.5 billion annual loss to the The article on "European Audio" by music industry from home taping. DAT Ian G. Masters in the August issue cred- poses a new and even more serious Tampering with the Beatles its Europeans with invention of the threat to America's music community. After several months of "mono vs. phonograph record. Not so. The flat Encoding prerecordedmaterialas stereo" controversy surrounding the re- disc was invented by Emile Berliner in non-copiable allows those involved in lease of the first four Beatles on 1892 in the U.S. My reference is the late the creative process to decide whether CD, I find it extremely strange that I Roland Gelatt'sThe Fabulous Phono- or nottheirwork may be copied for free. have not heard any outrage about the graph,which is probably the best non- The choice should belong to them. blatant tampering with the master tapes technical history of the phonograph I think you owe your readers the same in the reissue of "Please Please Me." record. choice by letting them know where they It is well documented that John Len- RAYMONDB.BERNSEE can learn the other side of this issue. non made an error in singing the lyrics Ketchikan, AK They can write to the Coalition to Save of the final verse of the title cut on that America's Music (SAM) at 1200 New , and the mistake can be heard In his article Ian Masters credits Euro- Hampshire Ave.,N.W.,Suite320, easily on any LP pressing, American or peans with "much of the basic technolo- Washington, DC 20036; or telephone British. But when I cued up my CD of gy of consumer electronics, from the (202) 778-1019. "Please Please Me" to that spot, I found original phonograph record to the com- PATRICIAA.HEIMERS thata correctedversion had been pact disc." Although Emile Berliner. a Director. Public Relations spliced in. Perhaps someone at EMI German immigrant to the U.S., was the Recording Industry Association thought the mistake would be too ap- first toproducea phonograph disc-he of America parent on CD and "cleaned it up." patented it in 1887-it was a French- If these recordings were released on man, Charles Cros, who firstconceived To be fair, the telephone number for the CD in mono for the sake of historical it. In April 1877, Cros, unable to afford Home Recording Rights Coalition is accuracy (the most valid of the many the application for a patent, deposited a (800) 282 -TAPE. explanations put forward), then who paper with the Academie des Sciences in has the right to tamper with the tapes in Paris in which he described the record- I would like to commend you for your such a drastic way as this? ing process and specified a disc. As Mr. very fair reporting on CBS's Copycode DAVID S. THOMAS Gelatt pointed out in his excellent book, scheme. I truly enjoy making tapes of Fishkill, NY "Berliner's first steps were to carry out in combinations of different music, and I practice what Charles Cros had sug- will be very unhappy if any company gested in theory." prevents me from doing this.Iwill Equal Temperament absolutely and permanently boycott I usually enjoy Ralph Hodges's "High CBS and all its associated companies if End" columns and often find them CD Dynamics they are the ones responsible for this instructive. The September column, I am one of the faithful, but I have a taking place. however, might be more aptly entitled complaint about CD's. The loudness P.MussO, JR. "The Deep End" since he seems to have may be realistic for a symphony hall; at New Orleans, LA gone off it this time. He is confused home, it's often ear-splitting. When will about the nature of the well -tempered audio engineers recognize that if the Being a blind person,I depend on scale, and some of his statements are pianissimos are to be heard, the fortissi- recorded media. Records and tapes not just misleading but completely mos may have to be toned down? have been my life.I hope that the wrong! His statement about ". . . no NATHAN LEARNER record industry will think very deeply note having any particular bearing on Boca Raton, FL before it does such a drastic thing as to its predecessor or successor" is non- create bad sound on master tapes to sense. Each successive semitone in the At least one equipment manufacturer, prevent copying. I am crushed inside. scale has a frequency that is a precise . includes a circuit in its CD players FREDERICKT.HAYASHI multiple of that of its predecessor, the that enables listeners to compress the Wahiawa. HI

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Koss The Koss SST/10 stereophone uses a closed -cup design and foam -filled Pneu- malite earcushions to seal out external noise. Earcup pressure is said to be optimized by a cup -motion limiter. The slideband is notched for user comfort, and the SST/10 has a 10 -foot cord with a1/4 -inch phone plug. A Hold-a-Fone storage hook is included. Frequency re- sponse is given as 10 to 30,000 Hz. Price: $119.95. Koss, Dept. SR, 4129 N. Port Washington Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53212. Circle 120 on reader service card etary dropout -compensation circuitry. Yamaha Up to fifteen video chapters or audio Yamaha's CDV-1000 opticaldisc tracks can be programmed into the player accepts the new CD Video discs CDV-1000's memory via the supplied in addition to standard 12.inch laser wireless remote control. An on -screen videodiscs, 8 -inch laser videodiscs, and chapter/track display with a roving cur- compact discs. (CD Video discs contain sor simplifies program selection, and 5 minutes of high -resolution digital audio plus another 20 minutes of lated time of programmed chapters or digital audio only.) Yamaha's Direct tracks. The remote control offers ran- FM Time Base Corrector, using a spe- dom access to individual video frames cially developed LSI, is said to result in and time codes. A four -mode repeat pictures that are exceptionally sharp function can be set to replay indefinitely and finely detailed. A "super -tracking an entire disc, a single chapter or track, tilt servo" mechanism is said to enable any user -defined segment, or an entire the CDV-1000's laser to read even bad- program. Price: about $800. Yamaha, ly warped discs. Other performance fea- Dept. SR, 6660 Orangethorpe Ave., tures include a noise canceller, a high- Buena Park, CA 90620. performance digital filter, and propri- Circle 122 on reader service card

CBM America The CBM- 1 000 portable CD player SPL from CBM America, a division of Citi- zen Watch Company, weighs just over I SPL has added the Model 1000 to its pound and measures 5 inches square Digital Monitor Tower speaker line. and4'sinchthick. The top -loading The Model 1000 has a Xi -inch soft - player has a three -spot laser, sixteen - dome tweeter with ferrofluid cooling track programming, a high -cutfilter, and dual 5V4 -inch polypropylene woof- and scan and repeat functions. The LCD ers. The port of the bass -reflex enclo- screen indicates current track number, sure is located at the front to accommo- elapsed time in the current track, and date shelf mounting. The Model 1000 is time remaining on the disc. A line-out compatible with delivering pin jack, AC adaptor, battery pack, and from 10 to 100 watts. Frequency re- "earbud" headphones are included. An sponse is given as 40 to 20,000 Hz ± 3 optional carrying case holds the CBM- dB. Dimensions are 91/2 inches wide, 1000 and up to five CD's. Frequency 20114 inches high, and 11% inches deep. response is given as 20 to 20,000 Hz ± 3 The Model 1000 is finished in black - dB, dynamic range as at least 90 dB, and ash vinyl veneer with a silver vinyl channel separation as 80 dB at 1,000 front baffle. A ten-year limited warranty Hz. Prices: CBM-1000, $249.95; carry- is included. Price: $400 a pair. SPL, dis- ing case, $29.95. CBM America, 2999 tributed by Audio Products Interna- OverlandAve.,LosAngeles,CA tional,Dept. SR,135 Torbay Rd., 90064. Markham, Ontario L3R 1G7. Circle 121 on reader service card Circle 123 on reader service card

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Meitner The Meitner AT -2 turntable uses a small, lead -filled aluminum platter that supports the record by its label area only,holdingitinplacewithan inverted, double-edged clamp. The sub- chassis rests on three large aluminum cones. The unique platter design is said to result in low resonance and efficient dissipation of vibrational energy to the surrounding air. The subchassis and platform are made of Corian, a synthet- Onkyo specific segments within tracks is sim- ic marble that is said to have the inert plifiedbytwo -speed,bidirectional characteristics of stone and to provide Up to six CD's can be inserted into search with the program audible. effective isolation from feedback. Ad- the Onkyo DX -C600 compact disc Onkyo's Opto-Coupling design con- justable controls for vertical tracking changer. The CD's can be programmed nects the player's digital and analog cir- angle and pitch are provided, and the to play in any order, and up to thirty- cuit blocks by fiber optics, not electrical AT -2plays331/3-,45-, and 78 -rpm two tracks from any of the CD's can be wiring, which is said to eliminate the records. selected for a programmed sequence. A harshness sometimes associated with The supplied AT -2 unipivot tonearm random -play mode shuffles the track the CD medium. The DX -C600 has a consists of three rods instead of the order automatically. The disc magazine three -spot laser, and oversampling and usual single arm tube. The arrangement does not have to be loaded into the digital filtering are said to eliminate any is said to eliminate any standing -wave changer in order to be programmed. audible effects of ultrasonic noise. A resonance. Price: $1,500. Meitner, dis- Nonexistent track numbers that have twenty -three -key wireless remote con- tributed by Museatex Audio, Dept. SR, been programmed in error are skipped trolis supplied. Price: $600. Onkyo, 3143 de Miniac, St. Laurent, Quebec automatically so that playback can con- Dept. SR, 200 Williams Dr., Ramsey, H4S 1S9. tinue without interruption.Locating NJ 07446. Circle 124 on reader service card

Vector Research The Vector Research VRX-9200R audio/video receiver uses eight discrete output transistors, which are said to allow it to drive audio signals with wide dynamicsintocomplex -impedance loads down to 2 ohms without signal degradation. Power output is given as NEM .1111= 120 watts per channel into an 8 -ohm load. The VRX-9200R has built-in Dol- by Surround decoding circuits, and acti- vating the system switches the ampli- fier's output configuration automati- cally to 40 watts each into four chan- rrt nels. There are alsoMATRIXsurround andHALLsurround features to enhance monoornon -Dolbystereosignal sources. The receiver provides input and out- put jacks for two video sources, a sepa- rate audio/video processing loop, a vid- eo -monitor output, and a dedicated CD input. Other features include twenty tuner presets, wireless remote control amp for moving -coil cartridges, a mid- SR, 1230 Calle Suerte, Camarillo, CA with motorized rotary volume control, range tone control, and power meters. 93010. preamplifier-out/main-in jacks, a head Price: $749.95. Vector Research, Dept. Circle 125 on reader service card

14 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER1987 k0 IHowDenon turned receiver ;s one, 01:0; vtlo_seo vince ,1 CCIOVa MIVP°1 design inside out co%eopa% jeci\INoksroco.N.ail:10. Vses.i.0:::410.0490res NN% sm.p2,20.5,.5. Audio companies must dynamic passages. In fact, CESCEiNe% ltwaNNIVetAc!oar%kcompos-NecA have a fairly low opinion of the the Pure Current Power vv`"a:k. receiver customer. How else to Supply of the DRA-95VR explain the bewildering array ofreduces dynamic IM distortion integration a practical reality. buttons, lights and winking by an impressive 60 dB. Anyone with an easy chair will fluorescent displays that festoon enjoy the remote control sup- so many of today's receivers? "Distortion is,in a plied with Denon's top two These outward trappings may word,negligibler models. It operates not only the impress the innocent, but they rece ver, but also a choice of High Fidelity Magazine contribute not one iota to better Denon cassette decks and CD sound. The circuit topology of players. every Denon receiver truly epit- While you might expect to omizes the Denon credo, pay more for a Denon, our "Simple is Best: For example, receivers start at under $3001'

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could be cannibalized and the woofer speed -related differences in a VCR's au- by Ian G. Masters installed in your old cabinet. This was a dio or video quality? popular speaker in its day, so finding LEONARD FRIEDMAN one should not be impossible-and Sacramento, CA even if you locate a broken one, it's more likely that the owner has blown Videocassette recorders handle au- the tweeter than the woofer. dio and video in entirely different ways, so the effects of tape speed vary. The picture information is recorded di- High -Impedance Amplr agonally across the tape by a rotating My old integrated amplifier is still head; its tape -to -head speed (called its in very good condition, but its out- "writing speed") is constant whatever put is specified as 16 ohms. Speakers of the linear tape speed. Theoretically, that impedance are hard to find, so I therefore, the picture quality should not have bought a pair rated at 8 ohms. Is it depend on what speed is chosen. With safe to drive these with my 16 -ohm the slower speeds, however, the video amplifier, or am I likely to damage tracks are closer together, so there is a them? greater possibility of interference, which LUIS QUIN shows up as noise. For this reason, Manila, Philippines some manufacturers roll off the high end of the video signal at the lower A There is little risk to the speakers speeds to improve noise performance at ',Li themselves, but driving too low an some sacrifice of resolution. impedance is always unwise, as the Conventional audio, on the other higher current drain could damage the hand, is recorded in a linear fashion output stages of the amplifier. That pos- along the edge of the tape. As with any N sibility is even greater with older units audio recording medium, the slower the like yours, as the chances of their hav- linear tape speed the worse the sound ing adequate protection circuits are fair- quality. It was to overcome this limita- ly remote. tion that hi-fi video sound was devel- Your safest course would be to wire oped. Like the video signal, the hi-fi Discontinued Speakers an 8 -ohm resistor in series with each audio tracks use the rotating head and QRecently I damaged the woofer in speaker, making sure that each resistor therefore have a constant writing speed; one of my fifteen -year -old Dynaco has a high enough wattage rating to han- because the audio signals are frequency A-25 speakers.I want very much to dle the full output of the amplifier. modulated, however, they are relatively replace or repair it because the speaker Doing this involves a small sacrifice in impervious to noise and therefore need is housed in a gorgeous solid -walnut total output power, but it would protect no compensation at the slower speeds. enclosure that matches three others I your amplifier by loading it properly. So, in theory at least, a hi-fi recording own. Unfortunately Dynaco no longer on videotape should sound the same exists, and I don't even have specifica- whatever the linear speed of the tape. tions for the A-25. Is there any way to Replacement Woofers restore it, and, if so, should I replace the I am considering upgrading my woofer on the other speaker as well? - speakers by replacing the woofers Fiber -Optic Cables JIM PURDY with ones of higher quality. Will this in Could I replace the wires within San Jose, CA fact improve my sound? my speakers with fiber-optic ca- TRACY ALLEN bles? If so, would the expense and effort AUnless you can get your hands on Springfield Garden, NY be worth it? an exact duplicate of the original DAVE GILLESPIE woofer, replacing it will almost certain- Probably not. Good speaker design Portsmouth, NH ly degrade your sound. Speaker design hinges on the delicate balancing of involves the careful matching of all the the physical and electrical characteris- No, and no. Fiber-optic cables are system'selements-tweeter,woofer, tics of the drivers used, the enclosure marvels of modern technology, crossover network, and enclosure. Al- they are mounted in, and the crossover and they allow transmission of huge tering the characteristics of any one of network that distributes the signal with- amounts of information over very great them will upset this delicate balance in the speaker system. To replace any distances. They are also useful in areas and result in inferior sound. one element, such as a woofer, would where electrical interference might be a In some cases, it might be possible to disrupt this balance and almost certain- problem,suchasincompact disc operate with only one woofer, as the ly result in worse sound rather than bet- players, because they are impervious to lowest frequencies are more or less om- ter, even if the woofer were superior to stray electromagnetic signals. nidirectional.Alternatively,anout- the original in "absolute" terms. But fiber-optic cables are not replace- board subwoofer might stand in for the ments for conventional wires. They re- woofers of both speakers, allowing the quire a signal to be converted into light, use of the original pair as satellites. Hi -F, Video Recording usually in the form of a laser beam, and With the A-25 however, these are not / am trying to reconcile two state- to be reconverted photoelectrically at viable options because the woofer han- ments about video I have read the other end. To use optical cables dles much of the midrange, crossing recently in STEREO REVIEW. One says within a speaker system is definitely a over to the tweeter at 1,500 Hz. that "a faster recording speed results in a possibility for the future, but it would Your best bet would be to find a sec- higher -quality product," while the other require optical transducers and built- ondhand A-25.If you're lucky, you holds that "the speed has no effect on the in amplification. To convert an exist- might even find one in walnut; if not, it quality of a hi-fi recording." Are there ing speaker is next to impossible. 0

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system encouraged thedevelop- vs. power amps and . byJulian Hirsch ment of single -unit receivers (often, Today, receivers can be (and of- then as now, called "tuner -ampli- ten are) very compact, requiring lit- fiers" to set them apart from mass - tle more panel space than is occu- market products). The first hi-fi re- pied by their controls. Most give off ceivers,introducedinthelate a negligible amount of heat and can 1950's by Harman Kardon, com- safely be installed in an enclosed bined a modestAM/FMtuner with a space. Their operatingflexibility low -power (20- to 40 -watt) mono and control features can rival many amplifier. The preamplifier section separate systems. Nearly always, a \' ' 1(.-11 wascompatiblewithmagnetic receiver isless expensive than a phono cartridges and provided such combination of its equivalent sepa- basic conveniences as tape inputs ratecomponents.Mostfull -line and outputs. The concept took root, manufacturers produce equivalent and the receiver has been a major products in both separate and inte- part of the hi-fi equipment scene grated form, so it is easy to compare ever since. specifications and prices and judge The early receivers, which predat- for yourself. ed the transistor era, tended to be In many ways, the receiver ap- rather hot in operation despite their pears to have a clear advantage over limited power capability. Of course, separates, but as usual there is more this was equally true of separate than one point of view to be consid- power amplifiers, and I recall that ered. It might seem that the power 1) my firststereo power amplifier, limitations of receivers would rule which delivered about 60 watts per them out for users who have low - channel, weighed something like 65 efficiency speakers or for other rea- pounds and could not be enclosed sons need a high power capability. in a cabinet because of the heat it In past years, the few receivers that generated! could deliver 150 or more watts per Can a Receiver Equal Originally,hi-fi receivers made channel were usually undesirably Separate Components? no claims to "state-of-the-art" per- large and heavy. Their successors formance-their forte was conveni- are still large. Despite recent ad- ence. Serious audiophiles consid- vances in miniaturization (especial- Tone time,all audiophile ered them unworthy of consider- ly in power -supply designs), no one music systems were formed ation. as many of them still do. It has yet miniaturized a watt or the Aof separate components. A wasinevitable,however,that radiating surface necessary to dissi- "mix -and -match" assem- people would begin to ask about the pateits equivalent inheat! The bly of tuner, turntable, tonearm, real differences between separate development of high -efficiency am- phono cartridge, preamplifier, pow- andintegratedcomponents,not plifiers and signal -tracking power er amplifier, speaker (stereo was not only receivers vs. tuners and ampli- supplies, however, has now made it yet a commercial reality), and, pos- fiers but also integrated amplifiers possible to make relatively powerful sibly, an open -reel tape deck was the receivers (100 to 200 watts per usual system format. People did not channel) that can be lifted and moved by almost anyone and do use receivers because there were Tested This Month none-at least, none of acceptable not have stringent ventilation re- quality. quirements. In those days an "all -in -one" re- Hannan Kardon Citation One of the continuing distinc- ceiver was synonymous with the tions between integrated and sepa- conventional radio -phonographs of Twenty -Three Tuner rate components is in their control thetime,thequality of which Pioneer PD-M9OX and operating flexibility. This is not a limitation of technology but rather ranged from mediocre to abomina- Compact Disc Changer ble. The stigma attached to such one of marketing policy. Usually a products, which in any case were Polk Audio SDA-lc separatepreamplifierwillhave generally not available except as Speaker System more inputs and control facilities part of a console system from one of than a receiver that contains identi- themajor -brandmanufacturers, NAD Model 7600 Receiver cal operating circuits and delivers ruled them out for serious consider- ADC Model 16/2R equal performance. But most good receivers today offer more operating ation by audio hobbyists. Compact Disc Player As hi-fi enthusiasm spread flexibility than most users will ever beyond the narrow limits of a hob- Perreaux SM3 need or use. byist activity, the obvious incon- What about performance quality? Preamplifier In many cases separate components venience of a multiunit component Jamo Compact 120 Speaker

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5., carry slightly better specifications ing to replace the other parts of the than the equivalent integrated com- system at the same time. Although ponent. This is becoming rarer to- the better receivers do provide sepa- day now that many receivers have rate access to each of the major distortion and noise levels far below operating sections, it doesn't make / audiblydetectablelevels.Many economic sense to leave a perfectly people hold that electronic compo- good power amplifier in a receiver nents have sound qualities that are unused in order to add a "better" Carto not related to conventional mea- external amplifier to the system. le. one surements. If such sonic differences NT PRI* S! There is another side to this coin, exist, they almost certainly have however-suchanarrangement nothing to do with any measurable makes it easy to add enhancement You'll find the most helpful shopping infor- audio parameters. Thus, even when systems that may need additional mation in the 116 page Crutchfield catalog. receivers are measurably equivalent amplification, such as time delays to separates, a segment of the audio- or Dolby Surround decoders, with- philepopulationgenerallyfinds out unnecessary obsolescence. separates more satisfying. In addi- Perhaps the most serious disad- FREE tion, those who prefer vacuum -tube vantage of integrated components is equipment for sonic reasons (or simple nostalgia) must also go the Stereo way of separate components. There is little of Let's look at some of the major ownership in vla advantages and disadvantages of an receiver, no matter hozu good, Catalog integrated component, either an Refer to the Crutchfield catalog amplifier orreceiver,compared compared with owning before buying your next car stereo, with its separate equivalents. On limited -production separates. home stereo, or video product: the plus side, the integrated compo- 116 pages of helpful articles, consumer nent needs fewer external iptercon- tips, charts, and installation guides. nections since its operating sections that they are manufactured for a Color photos, complete descriptions are connected internally by short, much wider market than the "high and technical specifications on properly shielded leads. Best of all, end" of the audio -enthusiast group. hundreds of the finest brand name these connections are usually made There is little pride of ownership in products. withoutusingplugs and jacks, having a receiver, no matter how You get more value shopping which are the least -reliable parts of good, compared with the pride of Crutchfield: almost any electronic system, and owning limited -production separate lbll-free product advice, ordering, and especially of a hi-fi system. Prob- components. 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channels) without difficulty, but ad- jacent channels (200 kHz away) can HARMAN KARDON CITATION present a severe problem. Typical adjacent -channel selectivity meas- TWENTY-THREE TUNER urements are in the 3- to 5 -dB range, which in practical terms means that Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories the tuner simply cannot reject such interference effectively. Aspart of the recently revived against interference from signals re- Some tuners have narrow -band Citation line of premium - moved in frequency by one or two filters that can be switched into the grade components, Harman channels from the desired station- circuit when needed, but these typi- Kardon has developed an is provided by band-pass filters in cally introduce a large phase shift innovativeAM/FMtuner, the Cita- the intermediate -frequency (IF) am- anG amplitude change near the out- tion Twenty -Three. TheFMsection plifier. Today's tuners use ceramic er limits of thefilter pass -band, of the tuner features an unusual cir- filters that require no adjustment. causing significantly higher distor- cuit design, called Active Tracking, The tandwidth of anFMtuner'sIF tion and degraded channel separa- to provide exceptional selectivity section must be at least 150 kHz to tion and captureratio. Harman when needed without sacrifice of pass a fully modulated signal with- Kardon's solution to the problem is any audible performance qualities out distortion, anditisusually the Active Tracking system. When during normal operation. somewhat greater than that. Most high adjacent -channel selectivity is In a conventionalFMtuner, selec- tuners are able to reject signals 400 needed, the usualIFfiltering system tivity-the ability to discriminate kHz from the desired one (alternate is augmented by a phase -locked

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loop (PLL) similar in principle to the tuners using conventionalfilters. which can help eliminate interfer- circuits used in stereo multiplex de- Because the Active Tracking circuit ence from a strong adjacent -channel modulators and in the digital -syn- excludes the low-level modulation signal by slightly detuning toward thesis tuning sections of almost all sidebands that lie outside its ± 75 - the desired signal. tuners. Although few specific details kHz limits, but are vital to the accu- Except for the large tuning knob were available, the following is our rate reproduction of the original and smallFINE TUNINGknob, all of understanding of the operation of program, certain tuner characteris- the operating controls of the Cita- this circuit. tics-such as capture ratio, channel tion Twenty -Three are pushbuttons. Basically, aPLLsystem "locks" separation,anddistortion-are Each button contains a green light thefrequency of avoltage -con- somewhat degraded, though not to that comes on when itis pressed. trolled oscillator (vco) to a signal an audible degree. The display window has greenLCD from another source. In the Har- Like most contemporary tuners, signal -strength indicators and large man Kardon Active Tracking sys- the Citation Twenty -Three uses dig- frequencynumerals.Theword tem, a local oscillator is locked to ital -synthesistuning,but,unlike "Stereo" appears when a stereoFM the instantaneousIFfrequency (at most, the desired frequency is set by broadcast is received. Pressing the the output of the mixer stage) and a rotary knob. The knob, whose HI -Qbutton turns on the Active accuratelyfollowsitsvariations. motion is smoothed by a flywheel, Tracking circuit and theFINE TUN- The tracking limits of the system drives an optical shaft encoder that INGknob next to it. "Fine Tuning" are set just beyond the maximum sends digital codes to the synthesiz- and a center -tuned symbol then ap- allowable frequency deviation of an er circuits. To a user, the effect is pear in the window; the symbol is FMbroadcast signal ( ± 75 kHz). The much like that of an analog tuner replaced by left or right arrows as vco's output effectively replaces the except that the frequency changes in the FINE TUNINGknob is turned. original signal; the difference is that discrete steps of 100 kHz (10 kHz When the frequency is changed to it does not include interfering sig- for AM). A fine-tuning feature, how- another channel, theH1 -Qcircuit au- nals from an adjacent channel. ever, is enabled whenever the Ac- tomatically disengages. The tuner's resulting effective IF - tive Tracking systemisselected, Each of the eight preset buttons stage frequency response has and it can be used to adjust the fre- can be switched between two fre- "skirts" much steeper than those of quency over a± 25 -kHz range quencies by another button. The sixteenavailable preset channels FEATURES can be divided between theFMand AMbands as desired. The intersta- O Digital -synthesis tuning with O Switchable muting with tion muting is turned on or off by a flywheel knob variable threshold level mute button, and a small knob on O Active Tracking circuit for O Wireless remote control for the rear apron adjusts the muting- high adjacent -channel all functions except Active threshold level. A group of four but- selectivity Tracking and fine tuning O Fine-tuning control with O Antenna inputs for 300- and tons selects theAMor FM band, range of ±25 kHz 75 -ohmFMantennas,AM mono mode, and seek tuning, in O Sixteen preset station antenna which the tuner scans the band and memories using eight buttons O PivotedAMloop antenna stopsatthefirst O Variable and fixed audio signalwhose output levels strength exceeds its muting thresh- old. Unconventionally, a slight turn of the tuning knob is used to begin a LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS scan from the current frequency. The rear apron of the Citation (All figures forFMonly except Am rejection at 65 dBf: normal, 64 Twenty -Three has binding -post ter- frequency response) dB:HI -Q, 74dB minals for AM and 300 -ohmFM Usable sensitivity (mono): 14 dBf Image re.jection: normal, 77 dB; antennas and a coaxial F connector HI -Q, 73dB (2.8 µV) in normal mode, 20.5 for a 75 -ohmFMantenna. A hinged, dBf (5.8 µV) inHI -Q mode Selectivity: alternate -channel, 69 50 -dB quieting sensitivity: mono, dB normal, 84 dBHI -Q; removable wire -loopAMantenna is 17 dBf (4.1 µV) normal, 18.5 adjacent -channel, 5 dB normal, furnished. There are gold-plated 46 dBHI -Q dBf (5.6 µV)HI -Q;stereo, 41 dBf fixed- and variable -level audio out- (62 µV) normal, 38 dBf (43.7 Stereo threshold: normal, 42 dBf (62 µV); 35 dBf (31 µV) put jacks; the adjustment for the µV) HI -Q variable outputs is also on the rear. Signal-to-noise ratio at 65 dBf: Muting threshold: maximum, mono, 84.5 dB normal, 83.8 dB approximately 64 to 81 dBf (870 The tuner has a single unswitched HI -Q;stereo, 72.5 dB normal, to 6,170 µV); minimum, 34 to ACoutlet. 72.7 dB Ht -Q 40 dBf (28 to 55 µV) The Citation Twenty -Three tuner Harmonic distortion (THU + Stereo channel separation at 100, is supplied with a wireless remote noise) at 65 dBf: mono, 0.095% 1,000, and 10,000 Hz: normal, control that duplicates all its front- normal, 0.3%HI -Q;stereo, 46.5, 51.5, 46 dB;HI -Q,34, 34, 0.11% normal, 0.32%HI -Q 28 dB panel controls except the HI -Q and Frequency response:FM,30 to fine-tuning systems. Using the re- Capture ratio at 65 dBf: normal, 15,000 Hz ±0.8 dB;AM,-6 dB 1.2 dB;HI -Q, 6 dB at 22 and 4,700 Hz mote, the tuner frequency can be varied by a pair of pushbuttons. The

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tuner is finished in black and meas- surpassed the specifications but has to -use tuner that always delivered ures 17118 inches wide, 145/8 inches never been approached by any other clean sound quality in our listening deep, and 21'4 inches high. It weighs FM tuner we know of. tests.It had a few idiosyncrasies, 15 pounds. Price: $650. Harman Harman Kardon concedes that however, which were exceptionally America, Dept. SR, 240 -Crossways the Active Tracking system does re- obvious because of its overall excel- Park West, Woodbury NY 11797. duce performance in some respects lence. but claims there is no real sacrifice The muting threshold was always Lab Tests of listening quality. With the circuit higher than we felt it should have We made most of our measure- in use, the distortion was roughly been. Even when the threshold was ments in both the normal and HI -Q tripled though still negligible, and set at its minimum, the tuner ex- operating modes. The tuner's sensi- the channel separation decreased by cluded many perfectly listenable sig- tivity was good in the normal mode, 15 to 20 dB. Even so, the measured nals. With a good antenna, or the but in the HI -Q mode it was some- separation was a very uniform 30 right location,this would be no what reduced. The noise level was dB or so across the audible frequen- problem, but with an indoor dipole slightly lower than rated in both cyrange,whichismore than antenna the high threshold made modes. Alternate -channel selectivi- enough to produce full stereo per- the tuner appear to be rather insen- ty comfortably surpassed the rat- formance. sitive. Most of the time we preferred ings. The adjacent -channel selectiv- to use the tuner with the muting sys- ity, an average 5 dB in the normal Coinments tem switched off. mode, was a phenomenal 46 dB in The Harman Kardon Citation The fine-tuning control had the the HI -Q mode, which not only far Twenty -Three is an attractive, easy- rated ± 25 -kHz range, although in our location we found no adjacent - channel stations strong enough to hear, let alone suffer interference. In many cases we could hear heavy program splatter when we tuned 200 kHz away from from a strong station, but switching to HI -Q and adjustingthefine-tuningknob usually reduced this to near or total inaudibility. We never heard any deterioration of signal quality while listening to a number of stations in the HI -Q mode. Ergonomically, the Citation Twenty -Three is a well -designed, at- tractive, and functional tuner. Our only criticism of its external fea- tures concerns the indicator lights in some of the smaller pushbuttons, particularly those in the ends of the present selectors. The lights are very difficult to see in a well -lit room or when viewed at a slight angle in- stead of head-on. Although we have no substantive criticism of the Harman Kardon Ci- tation Twenty -Three, itis a fairly expensivetuner.Inasituation where adjacent -channel interference is a problem, however, the HI -Q fea- turealonemakestheCitation Twenty -Three a clear winner. There is no other tuner that comes even close to matching its adjacent -chan- nel selectivity. In addition, many people will consider that its attac- "... You say you purchased a compact disc player here, and your wife was tive styling and general perform- standing by it in a very sheer negligee, and when you pressed the remote -control ance justify the price. We cannot button, the infrared beam did not activate the sensor even though it was plainly imagine anyone being disappointed visible through the negligee. . . . Have you checked with the lingerie department, in it. sir, third floor?" Circle 140 on reader service card

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played. Successive operations of the TIME button change the readout to PIONEER PD-M9OX show the time remaining on the cur- COMPACT DISC CHANGER rent track, the time remaining on the disc, the total number of tracks Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories on the disc and their playing time, and, in programmed operation, the pIONEER'SPD-M9OX CD RANDOM buttonthatplaysthe number of programmed steps and changer is an improved ver- tracks on the disc(s) in a random their total playing time. sion of the PD -M6 we tested order. A keypad, with an additional In timer -controlled operation, the for the January 1986 issue row of six keys to select the desired PD-M9OX can be started in either of STEREO REVIEW. With a few disc in a magazine, provides direct the normal or random -play mode exceptions, its control and operat- access to any track on any disc. when power is applied.It has a ing features are identical to those of Up to thirty-two steps of pro- headphone jack with its own vol- the PD -M6. gramming instructions can be en- ume control on the front panel. The The most obvious difference be- tered in the player's memory. In rear apron contains a single un- tween this player and most others is general, each selection must include switched AC outlet,gold-plated its removable magazine holding up both its disc and track number, so a jacks for the audio outputs, and a to six discs. All of its programming maximum of sixteen tracks can be SUBCODE output socket for use with features, including direct and pro- programmed from among six discs future accessories. Unlike the ear- grammed access to all tracks of all or thirty-two tracks from a single lier PD -M6, the PD-M9OX also has discs and a random -play mode, can disc (only test discs are likely to a gold-plated digital output jack to be applied to all the discs in the have that many tracks). The PD- supply a digital signal to an external magazine as well as all the tracks on M9OX can also accept a pause in- digital -to -analog(D/A)converter any one disc.Different program struction as a program step, which such as those now being built into groupings are easy to assemble since can be useful when taping a pro- some integrated amplifiers and re- additional magazines are available gram from CD's since a pause can ceivers or sold as outboard accesso- from Pioneer and discs can be be entered at the point where it will ry units. stored in them with complete safety be necessary to turn over the tape The remote control supplied with and easy access. The player is also cassette. the PD-M9OX contains a number of supplied with a single -play drawer The PD-M9OX has an exception- keys not present on the control unit that slides out when the eject button ally complete display. The normal of the PD -M6 as well as a Y4 x 17/8 - is pressed. display, in orange fluorescent char- inch alphanumeric LCD readout. The controls of the PD-M9OX acters, shows the numbers of the The remote duplicates nearly all of are, for the most part, similar to current disc and track and the the front -panel controls, and two those of other CD players. They elapsed time on that track. In addi- additional keys electronically con- include track skipping and high- tion, a row of disc symbols shows trol the volume at the line outputs. speed search (with audible sound) how many CD's are contained in A group of four red LED's, marked inbothdirections,conventional the magazine; a red center section DIGITAL LEVEL CONTROLLER, on the play, pause, and stop buttons, and a indicates the one currently being player's display show the approxi-

STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 35 Power Precision. Performance. The new generation of Citation separates goes far beyond its prede- In contrail to traditional cessors to create the ultimate i'istening experience. methods. the Citation twenty-thae's Active Designed and developed by Harman Kardon, one Tracking circuitry provides previously of the most respected names in audio, every gener- unheard of adjacent ation of Citation has earned a reputation of channel selectivity, with little or no excellence with audiophiles around tne world. A sacrifice n stereo true testing and proving ground for the most separation or THD revolutionary audio concepts. Citation's innovations ADJACENT CHANNEL SELECTIVITY have ultimately been featured in all Harman Kardon CAUTION TWENTY -TIRE TYPICAL SINGLE IF TUNER components. NARROW MOM OF TYPICAL WIDEINARROW TUNER Steeped in audio breaktnroughs and As the world's first High Voltage/High Current power aovanced designs. amplifiers the 200 -Watt -per -channel' Citation harman Kardon 's twenty-two and the 100 -Watt -per -channel' Citation Citation division intro - twenty-four redefine amplifier design. With just the diced the world's flick of a switch, their exclusive High Voltage/High first Ultrawideband Current technology lets you select the optimum amplifier in 1963- mode for driving either 8.Ohm or 4.Ohm loud the Citation 2 speakers. The result is higher power output and vacuum tube ampli- cleaner, clearer sound than any traditional design, her In 1972, the without distortion. overheating or current limiting. atation 14. the first In an area where the smallest interference can result FM stereo tuner with Dr Sdney Harman. Founder and Chairman in the biggest problems, the new Citation twenty-one Phase Locked Loop of Harman Kardon preamplifier further ensures accurate signal repro- (FLL) MPX decoding duction.Its symmetrical circuitry and many was introduced In 1977 the 150 -Watt -per -channel design refinements offer the most precise Citation 19 became the first power amplifier to amplification, for a difference you can hear feature low negative feedback 1981 saw the introduction of the Citation XX. Its exclusive High instantaneous Current Capability (HCC) design provided the instantaneous current required to precisely drive and control any loudspeaker system.

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mate volume reduction, which var- the remote unit can accommodate level, and the dynamic range was 97 ies smoothly from 0 to 24 dB. For 2 thethirty -two-steplimitof the dB. Channel separation was 100 dB seconds after one of the remote vol- player's memory, but the sum of all at 1,000 Hz, narrowing to 83 dB at ume buttons has been operated, the the steps cannot exceed eighty. The 20,000 Hz. The 1,000 -Hz distortion actual attenuation setting, in deci- remote memories can be modified was a very low 0.003 percent at the bels, appears in the player's display or erased at will. 0- and -10 -dB levels and 0.0085 window. Each time the PD-M9OX is The Pioneer PD-M9OX presents percent at -20 dB. The D/A con- turned on, its digital volume -con- an attractive,elegant appearance verter's nonlinearity at low levels trol circuit is set at 0 dB (maximum that is enhanced by its glossy wood - produced an output -level error of volume). grain side panels and black front about -2 dB with input levels of When any key on the remote con- panel with clearly legible gold mark- -90 and -100 dB. trol is pressed, its display shows the ings.It measures 18 inches wide, The frequency response was flat corresponding information (usually 12:Y4 inches deep, and 41/8 inches within ± 0.1 dB from 20 to 20,000 the disc or track number). Across high, anditweighs15 pounds. Hz. Interchannel phase shiftin- the top of the display are the letters Price:$800.Pioneer,Dept. SR, creasedlinearlywithfrequency, A throughH,correspondingto 2265 E. 220th St., Long Beach, CA reaching 44 degrees at 20,000 Hz, memory keys on the control unit 90801. which indicated the use of a double- that allow up to eight different pro- oversampling D/A converter multi- gram sequences to be entered and Lab Tests plexed between the two channels. stored. At any future time, pressing The Pioneer PD-M9OX delivered The square -waveresponseindi- the TRANs(mit) button sends one of 2.03 volts output from a 0 -dB re- cated the use of digital filtering. these programs to the player over corded signal into an EIA standard The PD-M9OX tracked all the cal- theinfraredbeam.Thepro- load of 10,000 ohms in parallel with ibrated defects on the Philips TS5A grammed sequence can then be a1,000-picofaradcapacitor. The test disc without problems. Its cue- played as though it had been en- channel levels were balanced within ing was accurate, and the slew time tered directly with the front -panel 0.08 dB. The A -weighted noise level of about2.5secondsbetween keypad. Each of the memories in was -98.5 dB referred to the 0 -dB Tracks 1 and 15 of the Philips TS4 test disc was about average for cur- FEATURES rent CD players. The access time from one disc to another averaged Double oversampling time on disc, number of discs in about 10 seconds, since the first disc Digital filtering magazine, and programmed had to be returned to its magazine Magazine for up to six discs and sequence slot and the second one loaded into single -disc drawer Wireless remote control of all the player before play could be Programming for sequences up functions except power on/off to thirty-two steps, can include and single -disc drawer eject resumed. The impact resistance of pauses Remote control of volume over the PD-M9OX was excellent. A rath- Keypad for programming and 24 -dB range, with visible er hard slap on its top plate or a sol- direct access to any track on any indications on panel and in id blow to a side was required to disc display window Track skipping and fast search, Remote -control memory storage make it mistrack. with audible sound, in either of up to eight programmed direction sequences for instant Continents Random -play mode transmission to player The Pioneer PD-M9OX did not Repeat of single track, entire Gold-plated phono jacks for disc, or programmed sequence analog and digital audio outputs disappoint us in any respect. All of

Front -panel headphone jack with Subcode output jack its operating features that we put to volume control Facility for operation by practicaltestworkedflawlessly. Display of current disc and track automatic timer in normal or And, as our tests showed, its per- numbers, elapsed playing time, random -play mode total tracks on disc, total playing formance as a conventional CD player was first-rate.Its only ob- LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS vious omissions are the ability to access indexed sections of a disc (ei- Maximum output level: 2.03 volts Maximum phase shift (from 20 to ther directly or by programming) Total harmonic distortion at 20,000 Hi): 44 degrees at and the ability to repeat a user - 1,000 Hz: 0.003% referred to 0 20,000 Hz defined phrase or segment. or -10 dB, 0.0085% referred to Cueing time: 2.5 seconds on same We wondered what distinguished -20 dB disc; typically 10 seconds the PD-M9OX from the PD -M6 be- Signal-to-noise ratio (A weighted): between different discs 98.5 dB Cueing accuracy: A sides cosmetic features and the en- Channel separation: 100 dB at Impact resistance: top, 84-; hanced versatility of its remote con- 1,000 Hz, 83 dB at 20,000 Hz sides, A trol. Obviously, the digital output Frequency response: ± 0.1 dB Defect tracking: tracked maximum could be a desirablealternative from 20 to 20,000 Hz defect levels on Philips TS5A method of interfacing with an am- Dynamic range: 97 dB test disc plifier in years to come, as this type of feature becomes more commonly

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The makers of the famous D4+ Record Cleaning System. TEST REPORTS used. Although the instruction man- ual does not mention internal cir- cuit differences, our tests showed that the analog filters and 44.1 -kHz D/A conversion of the earlier model have been replaced by digital filters and an 88.2 -kHz oversampling con- verter. A measurable result was that the PD-M9OX had a flatter frequen- cy response than the PD -M6, which showed a slight but definite drop in response above 15,000 Hz because of its analog low-pass filters. The added programming features of the PD-M9OX (especially the ca- pability of storing sequences in the memory of the remote -control unit) may not be very important to some people, but they are easy to use and do not complicate the more conven- tional aspects of the player's opera- tion. In fact, the overall versatility provided byPioneer's magazine loading system can simplify the problem of storage and access to discs. The magazines can be loaded and labeled according to any con- venient system, greatly reducing the amount of handling to which the discs are subjected and the conse- quent risk of accidental damage. Even more than with most audio components, it is imperative to read the instructions in order to use this CD player effectively. The Pioneer magazine requires that the discs be loaded with their labelsdown,oppo- site to the usual orientation; it does not recognize the presence of a disc if the label side is up. We also found POLK AUDIO SDA-lc it awkward to handle the discs when transferring them from the maga- SPEAKER SYSTEM zine to their regular plastic storage cases because the design of the mag- Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories azine tray makes it difficult to grasp a disc by its edges. This fact under- THE SDA-lc is the latest in later because it has to travel the scores the desirability of storing Polk Audio's series of Ster- additional distance around the lis- your discs in the magazines if they eo Dimension Array speak- tener'shead. One effectof this are to be used in a Pioneer multidisc er systems.Itisan im- "crosstalk" is to limit the width of player. proved version of the first in that the stereo sound stage to the dis- In general, we appreciated the cir- series, the SDA-I. The Polk SDA tance between the speakers. cuit refinement and versatility that speakers are designed to correct for If crosstalkiseliminated,the distinguish the Pioneer PD-M9OX the interaural crosstalk that occurs sound stage can broaden strikingly, from its predecessor. The differ- during stereo playback through con- not only filling the space between ences are more than cosmetic, al- ventional speaker systems. With the speakers but extending beyond though we would not discount the conventional speakers, each ear re- them to the full width of the room improvements in appearance. After ceives not only the sound from its and even along the side walls. The all, why not have a CD player that correspondingspeaker(theleft degree to which this effect occurs performs well, has more features speaker to the leftear, the right depends on several factors, princi- thanmost, and looks goodto speaker to the right ear) but also pally the amount of stereo separa- boot? sound from the opposite speaker, tion in the recording itself. A mono Circle 142 on reader service card which arrives about 0.5 millisecond signal will be heard as usual from a

STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 41 TEST REPORTS

point midway between the speakers, will be incorporated in all other and one with moderate separation yet it is appreciably less expensive, Polk SDA speakers in thenear even when the effects of inflation may sound much as it would with future). are ignored. the crosstalk present. If the two Although the SDA-lc is the same The Polk SDA-lc is 44 inches channels are largely uncorrelated size and weight as the original SDA- and thus contain a large proportion high,163/4 inches wide, and 111/2 1 and appears to have thesame of difference information (L inches deep.It weighs about 85 - R driver complement, there aremany pounds. The top and bottom sur- and R - L), the maximum effect internal differences between them. will be heard. faces are solid oak, and the rest of In the SDA-1, the dimensionalar- the cabinet is finished in black. The Although interaural crosstalk can ray consisted of an acoustically iso- sides are covered in black cloth, lated 61/2 -inch midrange/woofer matchingtheremovablegrille, The Polk SDA- lc'scrossover crossing over to a 1 -inch dome driv- which is firmly retained by plastic netzvork has been simplified er at 2,500 Hz; together, the drivers fittings and covers the entire front operated over the full range from of the cabinet. The nominal system in the process of adapting it 100 Hz to the upper limits of audi- impedanceis 4 ohms.Price: for use with isolated -ground bility. Beside them was an identical $799.95 per speaker in oak or wal- stereo array, also acoustically iso- nut, $699.95 in an all -black studio amplifiers. As a result, it lated. Below the two arrayswere version. outperforms the earlier SDA-1, two 61/2 -inch woofers operating be- yet it is less expensive. low 100 Hz and handling only a sin- Lab Tests gle stereo channel. A 12 -inchpas- Because of the electrical connec- sive radiator augmented their out- tion between theleft put below 50 Hz. and right be speakers, many of the performance canceledelectronically(the The SDA-1c uses a similar driver qualities of the Polk SDA-lc are Carver Sonic Hologram is an exam- complement, but the cone drivers best measured with the intercon- ple of this technique), Polk has now use edge -wound voice coils necting cable in place, one speaker achieved cancellation in a passive similar to those developed for Polk driven and the other short-circuit- acoustic system. Basically, the Polk Audio's flagship SDA-SRS speak- SDA ed. Except for measuring frequency techniquecombinestwo ers. Since doing the research that led response, we tested the system in speaker arrays in each cabinet. One, to the SDA-1, Polk has determined the "stereo" array, operates as part that manner. thatinteraural-crosstalkcancella- Our frequency -responsemeasure- of a conventional front -firingsys- tion, originally thought to requirea ments, both room response and tem.The second,the"dimen- relatively wide range of frequencies, sional" array, is located immediate- actually need involve only the fre- ly adjacent to the stereo drivers. quencies between 200 and 1,000 Hz, We found the roomfilling The spacing between the twoarrays which provide most of our direc- spatial quality of the is typically about 6 inches, roughly tional hearing cues. Thisrange of the distance between a listener's frequencies is radiated by one of the SDA- lc to be addictive. And ears. The left and right speakers are 61/2 -inch drivers in the dimensional compared with earlier SDA constructed in mirror image, with array. The two dome tweeters in seakers, it is relatively the stereo drivers closest to thecen- each speaker are now vertically ter of the room and the dimensional aligned on the centerline of the freefrom the need for drivers toward the outer sides of the speaker panel, and both handle only critical listener positioning. cabinets. the signal from a single channel. In addition to the usual amplifier This configuration narrows thever- connections,theleftandright tical radiation pattern at high fre- speakers are joined by a cable that close-miked woofer response, were quencies, minimizing floor reflec- virtually identical to those we made carries signals from the stereo array tions that could interfere with the of each speaker to the dimensional on the original Polk SDA-1 almost speaker's spatial qualities. five years ago. The overallresponse array of the other. Until now, the Surprisingly, limiting the band- variation was ± 5 dB from 20 to SDA design has required that the width of the dimensional arrays-a amplifier be able to function with a 18,000 Hz. Above 70 Hz, the point technique first introduced in Polk's of maximum bass output, thecom- common connection betwen its out- top -of -the -line SRS speakers-ac- posite response curve was a relative- put ground terminals, a require- tually enhances the spatial spread of ment that most amplifiers meet. ly smooth, straight line that sloped the SDA-1c and extends its benefits gently down as the frequencyrose, Among other changes, however, the to a wider listening area. The com- with unusually small superimposed SDA-Ic'sinternalcircuitshave plex crossover network has also been modified to allow the ampli- variations. We noted with interest been considerably simplified in the thatthe5 -dBtweeter -resonance fier's left and right grounds to be process of adapting it for use with peak at 13,000 Hz that we found in isolated from each other with the isolated -ground amplifiers. As a re- the earlier version was again present help of an optional adaptor avail- sult, the SDA-lc outperforms the in the SDA-lc. able from Polk for $50 (this feature earlier SDA-1 in several respects, The SDA-lc is a relatively sensi-

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tive speaker, matching its 90 -dB rat- up to about 12,000 Hz. The group As with other Polk SDA speakers ing (sound -pressure level at 1 meter delay of the system was constant we have tested, we found the spatial with a 2.83 -volt drive level). The within 0.2 millisecond from 1,000 quality of the SDA-lc to be very minimum impedance was 3.9 ohms to 22,000 Hz. addictive. It is certainly an acquired at 25 Hz, with a maximum of 12 to taste, and not everyone will prefer it 13 ohms at 53 and 20,000 Hz. The Comments to the more sharply defined imaging impedance averaged about 6 ohms Comparing our test data on the of some conventional speakers. For over much of the audio range. SDA-lc with our original data on my part, I have always enjoyed the The bass distortion was phenom- the SDA-1, we were struck by their sensation of the room -filling sound enally low. At a 2.83 -volt (90 -dB) close similarity, which is hardly sur- provided by an SDA system, which drive level, it was between 0.3 and prising in view of the basic similari- is much more suggestive of a (hypo- 0.8 percent from 100 Hz down to 25 ty of the two systems but nonethe- thetical) concert hall than the imag- Hz and only 3.2 percent at 20 Hz. less indicates excellent manufactur- ing of most conventional speakers. The passive radiator's output was ing consistency over the years. A noticeable improvement in the predominant below 50 Hz. Pulse- We were equally impressed by the SDA-lc,comparedwithearlier power tests produced a woofer rattle new speaker's extraordinary bass - SDA speakers we have heard in the with 400 watts input to its 4.9 -ohm distortionmeasurements,which, same room, is its relative freedom impedance at 100 Hz. At higher fre- unfortunately, we could not com- from the need for critical listener quencies, our amplifier ran out of pare directly with the earlier data positioning. A useful effect is ob- power before the speaker distorted, since we have changed our test pro- tainable over most of the room, reaching input levels of 800 watts at cedures slightly in the interim. We although for optimum results the 1,000 Hz and 735 watts at 10,000 cannot recall ever having measured listener should be equidistant from Hz (into a 9 -ohm impedance). distortion lower than 1 percent at 25 the two speakers. Quasi-anechoic FFT response Hz from any speaker driven to our Aside from the SDA effect, the measurements confirmed our swept 90 -dB SPL reference output level. SDA-lc tends to have a slightly soft sine -wave data and showed that the According to Polk, this was the sound, completely free from shrill- horizontal dispersion of the system result of some modifications to the ness or stridency. Despite its power- was excellent. There was little dif- passive radiator, which is almost ful bass, it is not overbearing in the ference between the response meas- solely responsible for the low -bass lower registers, and it does not color ured on -axis and 45 degrees off -axis output of the system. the human voice excessively. The speaker does not project the stereo stage forward of the grille (except along the side walls) but tends to have a more "laid-back" quality. The sound has depth, extending beyond the wall behind the speak- ers, as well as width, but the very techniques that create the SDA ef- CE DVIDEO' fect (multiple drivers and cross -cou- pling between channels) probably keep it from achieving the pinpoint PLAYER positioning of certain sounds that canbeexperiencedwithsome SALE$187s7 speakers using a minimum of driv- ers, especially when they are angled toward the single optimum listening location. On the other hand, that sort of imaging-to me, at least- .1(4!" Ii-7,7-744/2/4:25°E does not sound remotely like what I Mrr hear at a live performance, in spite of its striking sonic illusion. It is not likely that both types of sonic pres- entation could be achieved with the same speaker. All in all, with the SDA-lc Polk has made a good speaker sound bet- ter and look better, made it usable with more types of amplifiers, and made it less expensive as well. That is a rare combination of improve- "Don't you believe those doomsayers, sir. CED video titles arenotdrying up. ments to find in any product! They're here to stay-Iguarantee it,or my name isn't Joe Edsel!" Circle 37 on reader service card

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The Mitsubishi spin your vinyl on a E -5000R may not look linear tracking, fully- like your idea of a musical You can load up to genius, but were confi- five discs into the optional DP -411R dent it sounds like it. CD player and either play all of With 150 watts per them in order, or up to 30 segments (a channel and so little segment can be a harmonic distortion single track or an entire disc). Plus you can random access we dorit even know all five discs. why we brought it up. automatic turntable. It's got a digital tuner In fact, this with 16 presets and auto- genius will get along stop signal search. Along quite well with your with a 10 -band graphic television. Thanks equalizer. largely to the video/ You can play up toaudio interface and seven cassettes in a on -screen displays. row for hours of un-Its 12 -inch three- interrupted music.way speakers are With dual trans- even magnetically ports and high- shielded to prevent speed dubbing.interference with And you canthe TV's picture. The 30 -function remote control handles primary audio and video features including those of most algeniuslooks like.

Mitsubishi televi- for precise playback. sions and VCRs. Every Mitsubishi com- For the ulti- ponent is meticulously mate in musical engineered to produce the richest sound imaginable over the broadest range possible. From fire- breathing guitar solos to the softest, most subtle passages. From crystal -popping so- pranos to neighbor - rattling bass. And you can buy the system using -the The E-5000Rs speakers include a 12-inch new Mitsubishi Three woofer, a 4 -inch midrange and a 3-irich tweeter with a 12 -inch passive radiator Diamond Care. virtuosity, you can The Mitsubishi always add the E -5000R. For all those optional Mitsubishiwho believe that a DP -411R compact musical genius is born, disc player. With a not made, it is proof to five -disc auto- the contrary. changer for even more uninterrupted A.MITSUBISHI For the mm: oi your a uihonzaidealer, call 1807/ 556-1234 music. And our ea. 245. In California 8CV11 441-2345 ext. 245. © 1987Mitsubishi Electric Sales America.Inc three -beam optical CIRCLE NO. 64 ON READER SERVICE CARD tracking system Beyond Digital Ready

Many speakers todayare supposed to be digital ready But what happens if there's something beyond digital? The original Bose 901 Direct/Reflecting speaker was ready for digital back in 1968, because it reproduced music with realism and impact never before heard from a speaker. Today's Bose 901 Series V adds some 350 design improvements to the original's legendary performance. Unlimited power handling and very high efficiency make the Series V speaker ideal for listening to the best that audio presently has to offer-the digital compact disc. And while no one can predict exactly what the future has in store, one thing is certain: it will sound better on the Bose 901 system. Audition the complete line of Bose speakers at your au- thorized Bose dealer. For more information, write: Bose Corporation, Dept. SR. 10 Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01701.

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can deliver nearly 3 kilowatts of dynamic power into a pair of 4 -ohm NAD MODEL 7600 RECEIVER speakers! Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -HouckLaboratories tion features a switchable moving - magnet (MM) or moving -coil (Mc) NAD describesthe new terist.c by means of a "Power Enve- phono preamplifier with extremely Model 7600 Monitor Se- lope" rating, a plot of maximum low noise levels. Its bass and treble ries stereo receiver as "the power versus time. The concept of tore controls, which NAD describes most powerful receiver" the rating makes sense to us, al- as"semi -parametric,"arefairly on the market. At a list price of though it has no official standing, conventional center-detented knobs $1,498, it is also one of the most and we run this test on all ampli- except that each control provides a expensive.Butasasingle -unit fiers. boost or cut over a two -octave band equivalent of three top -of -the -line The NAD 7600 receiver is rated centered at one of three selectable NADcomponents-the Model to deliver 150 watts per channel frequencies. The center frequencies 2600 power amplifier,the1300 continuously into 8 -ohm loads from were chosen for their usefulness in preamplifier, and the 4300 tuner, 20 to 20,000 Hz with no more than correctingfor common response which list for a total of $1,844-the 0.03 percent total harmonic distor- problems. The tone controls can be receiver could be considered eco- tion. Although a couple of other completely bypassed with a front - nomical. In addition, it comes with receivers on today's market have panel button. A switchableBASS EQ a wireless remote control that can similar or slightly higher ratings, circuit provides a maximum 8 -dB be a complete system controller. NAD's claim to the power cham- boost at 35 Hz, where most speakers Like the Model 2600 power am- pionship is based on its ability to need help, combined with a steep plifier, the NAD 7600 employs a deliver dynamic (20 -ms) outputs of infrasonic cut that prevents over- dual -voltage, signal -tracking power 400, 600, and 800 watts into loads loading the amplifier or speakers at supply that makes possible an ex- of 8, 4, and 2 ohms, respectively. subaudible frequencies. tremely high dynamic headroom Furthermore, the two channels can The receiver has high-level inputs (short-term power output) fora be bridged to deliver continuous for a CD player and a video sound time far exceeding the 20 millisec- mono output of 480 watts into 8 source as well as full playback and onds of the standard dynamic pow- ohms,with dynamic ratingsof recording facilities for two audio er test. The amplifier section can 1,200 and 1,400 watts into 8- or 4 - tape decks. Lever switches select deliver far more than its rated con- ohm loads. In this mode, a separate tape -copying connections and the tinuous output power for longer Model 2600 power amplifier (also center frequencies for the tone con- than 200 milliseconds, a period that bridged) is used to drive the other trols. Small pushbuttons operate the NAD considers to be more repre- channel with the same power capa- other switching and selection func- sentative of actual music require- bility. As NAD points out, a combi- tions as well as the balance control. ments. NAD describes this charac- nation of the Models 7600 and 2600 Pressing the L or R button produces

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a smooth change of relative channel ceeding 120 dB. The tuner section any case, the sound maintains its levels (a small light glows when the has a switchable FM noise -reduction basic stereo qualities, with some re- balance is centered). Each control circuit (FMNR) that automatically duction in separation but a typical button is clearly labeled to show its blends the stereo channels over the noise reduction of about 10 dB effect when pressed. full frequency range, instead of the (roughly comparable to the per- Its tuner specifications indicate more usual high -frequency blend- formance of the Dolby B system in that the Model 7600 is a top-quality ing, at low signal levels. Except for tape recording). product, with at least one superla- the very weakestsignals,which Although the receiver has a digi- tive rating, an image rejection ex- would not be listenable in stereo in tal -synthesis tuner section, the con- trol knob's tuning action is much like that of an analog tuner. But it FEATURES has several major advantages. The tuning is always precise, and the O Rated for 150 watts per channel O Bass and treble tone controls continuous output, bridgeable with two -octave bands and tuned frequency is always visible on for 480 watts mono output switchable center frequencies the large numeric display. When the O Signal -controlled power supply (50, 120, or 250 Hz For bass; tuning control is close to a station, for high dynamic power output 3,000, 6,000 or 12,000 Hz for arrows show the correct tuning di- O Low -noise phono preamplifier treble) switchable for MM or MC O Volume knob motor driven rection; an amber light goes on cartridge when used with remote control when the station is tuned correctly. Phono input capacitance O Digital frequency -synthesis The tuning,knob does not actually switchable to 100, 200, or AM/FM tuner with eight presets, vary anything in the receiver but 300 pF each usable for both bands O High-level inputs for CD player O FM noise -reduction circuit merely turns a shaft encoder that and one video sound source (FMNR) to improve weak stereo sends digital pulses to the synthesiz- O Connections for two audio tape reception er circuit. The control is nearly fric- decks with dubbing possible O Analog -like tuning knob tionless, and a single spin will turn from either deck to the other O 75 -ohm coaxial FM antenna independently of program being input the knob for up to 10 seconds, time heard O Pivoted ferrite -rod AM antenna enough for the tuner to scan either El BASS EQ and infrasonic filtering O Wireless remote control for radio band from end to end. The volume, balance, tuning, input usual presets are provided, with selection, power on/ofr each of the eight buttons assignable to one AM and one FM frequency. LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS The rear apron of the Model 7600 contains the usual input and output

Tuner Section (all figures for FM 0 Amplifier Section phono jacks, including preamplifier only except frequency response) 1,000 -Hz output power at outputs and two sets of power - Usable sensitivity (mono): 12 dBf clipping: 190 watts into 8 ohms, amplifier inputs, marked LAB and (2.2 µV) 255 watts into 4 ohms, 325 watts NORMAL. Removable jumpers be- 50 -dB quieting sensitivity: mono, into 2 ohms tween the preamp outputs and the 11.7 dBf (2.1 µV); stereo, 33.5 Clipping headroom (relative to dBf (26 µV) rated output): 1 dB (8 ohms) power -amp inputs simplify the use Signal-to-noise ratio at 65 dBf: Dynamic power output: 480 watts of an external Model 2600 amplifier mono, 86 dB: stereo 75.7 dB into 8 ohms, 800 watts into 4 in bridged mode or of various sig- Harmonic distortion (THD ohms, 1,000 watts into 2 ohms nal -processing accessories. The nor- noise) at 65 dBf: mono, 0.128%; Dynamic headroom: 5.1 dB (8 mal amplifier inputs have 12 -dB - stereo, 0.064% ohms) Capture ratio at 65 dBf: 1.85 dB Harmonic distortion(mu + per -octave rolloffs below 15 Hz and AM rejection at 65 dBf: 72 dB noise) at 1,000 Hz into 8 ohms: above 40,000 Hz. In addition to the Image40 rejection: greater than 1 watt, 0.0034%; 10 watts, switchedinfrasonicfilterinthe 1 dB 0.0021%; 150 watts, 0.0067% preamplifier, these built-in rolloffs Selectivity: alternate -channel, 74 Maximum distortion (20 to 20,000 safeguard the system against over- dB: adjacent -channel, 4.5 dB Hz into 8 ohms): 0.016% at 150 load from signals outside the audio Stereo threshold: 19 dBf (4.5 µV); watts (20,000 Hz) with FMNR, 44.5 dBf (92 µV) Sensitivity (1 -watt output into 8 range. Through the LAB inputs, the 19 -kHz pilot -carrier leakage: ohms): CD, 4.4 mV; phono (MM), bandwidth is 3 to 80,000 Hz. -70 dB 2.25 mV A slide switch on the rear apron Hum: -90 dB Phono-input overload: 183 to bridges the amplifier, and another Stereo channel separation at 100, 222 mV optimizes its power -supply voltages 1,000, and 10,000 Hz: 45, 45, A -weighted noise (referred to a for operation either with "high" and 35 dB 1-wattl output): CD, -93.2 dB; Frequency response: FM, 30 to phono (MM), -85.2 dB speaker load impedances (8 to 16 15,000 Hz +0.3, -0.2 dB; AM, Phono-input impedance: 50,000 ohms) or for "normal" loads (4 to 8 -6 dB at 25 and 4,000 Hz ohms in parallel with 118, 209, ohms). Also on the rear is the switch or 264 pF to select either MM or mc mode for RIAA equalization error: ±0.15 dB from 20 to 20,000 Hz the single pair of phono-input jacks Tone -control range: ± 12 dB and another switch to connect a nominal capacitance of 100, 200, or

54 STEREOREVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 Experts applaud a newspeaker system they've barely seen.

ligSuperb sound and virtual invisibility. 99 66In our listening room, side by side with speakers costing three to five times as much, the AM -5 consistently produced the more exciting and listenable sound in A/B tests.

Stereo Review Julian Hirsch, April, 1987

66...a sonic standout.

66It was reassuring to find in extensive listening tests that no sonic essentials had been sacrificed to virtual invisibility.II of The New York Times, Hans Fantel Sunday, April 5, 1987

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300 picofarads (pF) across the fixed provided useful information about repeated twice per second,pro- 47,000 -ohm resistive input. In the the received signal level. duced maximum outputs of 480 Mc mode, the input is 100 ohms in The tuner distortion, in the range and 800 watts into loads of 8 and 4 parallel with 1,000 pF. of 0.1 percent at fairly high signal ohms usingHIGHimpedance and The insulated spring -clip antenna levels, was roughly the same for 1,000 watts into 2 ohms at theNOR- inputs are designed for an external stereo or mono signals. The quiet- MALsetting. The 8 -ohm dynamic wireAMantenna, and the receiver ing action was excellent, with the headroom was 5.1 dB. Power -enve- also has an integral hinged ferrite - noise level measuring -86 dB in lope measurements resulted in out- rodAMantenna. The onlyFMinput mono and -77 dB in stereo at high puts (with 200 -ms bursts) of 375, is a 75 -ohm coaxial connector, but a signal levels. TheFMfrequency re- 380, and 420 watts into loads of 8, 4, coupler is provided for use with the sponse was flat within ±0.2 dB and 2 ohms, respectively. more common 300 -ohmFManten- from 30 to 15,000 Hz, and the chan- na systems. Two of the threeAC nel separation, 45 to 50 dB from 30 Comments convenience outlets are switched. to 5,000 Hz, decreased to 30 dB at Not surprisingly, the sound quali- TheMASTER POWERrocker switch 15,000 Hz. TheAMtuner section's ty from the NAD 7600 was as good on the rear is normally left on so frequency response was flat from as we have heard from any tuner, that the receiver can be turned on or 100, to 2,500 Hz and down 6 dB at amplifier, or receiver. We were not off from the remote -control unit. 25 and 4,000 Hz. tempted to test its almost limitless The remote control operates all The other tuner performance pa- power reserves, out of consideration the basic functions, omitting only rameters were all good or better. for our speakers and ears, but there the filters, tone controls, and tape - Two of them transcended our pre- was no doubt that in terms of power deck controls. It is designed to rest vious experience in tuner measure- this receiver is exactly what NAD on a table or to be held in the hand, ments. The hum level was an al- claims it to be! and its infrared output is emitted most unmeasurable -90 dB, and Some of the most striking quali- over a wide angle; in most cases the image rejection could not be ties of the Model 7600 had nothing there is no need to point the control- measured at all because it exceeded to do with its sound. The tuning ler directly at the receiver. our 140 -dB measurement limits! "feel" was extraordinary, so far su- The NAD Model 7600, finished TheBASS EQresponse rise began perior to the usual pushbutton tun- in charcoal gray and black with below 100 Hz, reaching 7.5 to 8 dB ing or scanning systems that one white markings, measures about 17 at 36 Hz and falling 24 dB per wonders why more tuners don't inches wide, 153/4 inches deep, and octave below that frequency. The have similar controls. TheFMNR 61/4 inches high. It weighs about 38 RIAA equalization was so accurate worked so well that we were not pounds. Price: $1,498. NAD, Dept. that we had to plot it on a ten -times - aware of its action except when SR, 575 University Ave., Norwood, expanded scale to measure it. The switching it on or off. MA 02062. response was flat within ±0.15 dB It is probably stretching things a from 20 to 20,000 Hz. bit to call the tone controls on this Lab Tests Because of our experience with receiver "semi -parametric," but the TheFMtuner of the NAD 7600 the NAD 2200 amplifier, a junior family of response curves they pro- had very good sensitivity, quieting, relative of the Model 2600 used in duced were reminiscent of a good and distortion characteristics. The this receiver, we were prepared for graphic equalizer with exceptionally FMNRcircuit performed as claimed, some impressive power measure- well-chosen center frequencies. Al- reducing stereo noise by about 14 ments, and we were not disap- though we rarely use tone controls, dB at the stereo reception threshold pointed. NAD recommended that the Model 7600's unconventional of 19 dBf (4.5 AV). The improve- we make our measurements with and highly effective system is much ment gradually lessened to 6 to 8 dB theHIGHload -impedance setting, at more flexible than most. As with at more useful signal levels and which the amplifier can operate any equalization system without a finally to zero at 65 dBf and beyond. safely into almost any reasonable calibrated microphone, reaping its There was a minimal stereo effect speaker impedance. Into 8 ohms, full benefits requires the operator to with very weak signals, but at any the 1,000 -Hz output clipped at 190 have a good ear for tonal changes, useful level the circuit worked as watts per channel (a clipping head- but the excellent instruction manual claimed. Applying our usual criteri- room of 1 dB). Dropping the imped- suggests settings for various cor- on for the stereo threshold of a tun- ance to 4 ohms, we measured 255 rective effects, and the results were er having signal -controlled channel v watts at the clipping point. We then pretty much as claimed. blending, we found that the output switched toNORMAL(low) imped- The NAD 7600 must be used to level of an L-R modulated signal ance, measuring maximum outputs be appreciated fully. Its features and had decreased by 6 dB when the sig- into 8 and 4 ohms of 136 and 210 performance make it not only the nal level was reduced to 44.5 dBf watts, respectively-still nothing to most powerful receiver on the mar- (92 AV). The five signal -strength be ashamed of. We also loaded the ket, but one of the very best you can lights in the receiver's display win- amplifier with 2 ohms, measuring a buy at any price. If any compro- dow lit at levels of approximately potent 325 watts at clipping. mises were made in its design, we 19, 32, 42, 63, and 72 dBf, so that The standard dynamic headroom didn't find them. unlike many such indicators, they measurement, with a 20 -ms burst Circle 143 on reader service card

58 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 Introducing the Bose 401Direct/Reflecting® speaker system: Our most affordable floorstanding speaker.

What separates the 401 system from Lifelike spaciousness-your What separates the 401 system other speakers? Direct/Reflecting music sounds life-sized, instead of from all other Direct/Reflecting sys- speaker technology. Taking their cue being confined to the speakers. tems is that it's Bose's most affordable from a live performance, Direct/ -loorstanding loudspeaker. It gives you The 401 system draws on the Reflecting speakers deliver a precise -rue musical realism at less than half design heritage of the world - combination of direct and reflected he price of a 901 system. acclaimed Bose 901Direct/ sound. The result is a sense of musical Reflecting speaker system. A result Tie 401 system's spaciousness. realism and impact usually experi- of years of ongoing research, the 401 ifelike performance and high power enced only during a live performance. system is built around the Stereo candling capability combine to bring Only Bose makes Direct/Reflecting Spacearray, an innovative way to Dut the best in today's source material- speakers. To the listener, the benefits achieve a sense of musical realism especially digital compact discs are immediately obvious: usually heard only during a live and MI video. And like all Bose Full stereo-so you enjoy performance. products, it's subjected to the natural, balanced stereo Syncom computer compre- throughout the listening area, hensive quality assurance no matter where you stand program. or sit. Audition the new Bose 401 Even sound distribution- system soon at your nearest so you hear the correct blend Bose dealer. For more informa- of instruments and vocals tion, write Bose Corporation, everywhere in the room, not Department SR, The Mountain, just between the speakers. Since conventional speakers The 401 system projects Doth Framingham, MA 01701. radiate primarily Jirect sound, direct and reflected sound, stereo is heard in only part of providing full stereo evert, - the room. where.

Each speaker has two long - The 40- system consists of two excursion 6', 2" woofers that operate slim. m rror-image speakers in a computer -designed ported that recuire less than one enclosure, for deep, powerful bass square foot of floorspace each. with /ow distortion. The 2" tweeter delivers crisp, clean highs.

Copyr01198 7 Boo Common= AA mine nbryneb Covoly1 by pbyyry obeys :ssuoyd andAd WO" FbOducl tut,ect to change **mut nonce.' Better sound through researct- CIRC_E NO?4 ON READER E RV !CI" CARD Is Escort Scaredor Smart?4TH IN A SERIES Cincinnati Microwave, the maker of Escort and Passport radar detectors, has ignored DAK's third,one-on-one Maxon versus Escort radar challenge. I think they're hiding behind 'independent' magazine reviews and refusing to meet us on the true field of battle. And now, I think I've finally figured out why. I believe they're in a NO WIN SITUATION! Read On. By Drew Kaplan $7990 Maxon, it would be catastrophic take over the highways. It's time to attack. No more Mr. Nicefor their advertising. And, even if they But Cincinnati Microwave kept adver- Guy for me. I've done everything I can to beat Maxon by a second or two, are they tising about Rashid. (My opinion of an get them out for a conflict. worth double or even triple the price? advertising gambit). It's been a year and I've offered $10,000, then $20,000, if So, that's why I think they're in a no nobody I've talked with has run into a

they could beat Maxon's lowest pricewin situation. Without the magazine's Rashid. I challenged Cincinnati Micro - $9990 detector (now on sale for just loving editorial comments, we'd be down wave to prove that there were even 500 $7990) by more than 10 feet. I've even to who won and by how many feet? on the road in the whole U.S., but they've offered to print the results in my next And while they may or may not be been silent. (I wonder why???) catalog, win, lose or draw. scared of losing to Maxon, so far, they Anyway, just to prove that we had the In a minute, I'm going to introducesure seem to be smart enough to stay technical expertise, Maxon has devel- Maxon's revolutionary new Micro -Detec- out of a footage contest. oped and implemented an Anti -Rashid tor that is CORDLESS and built totrounce MAGAZINE ROUND UP circuit in the new Micro -Detector. Escort and Passport, but first let's see Popular Mechanics Magazine in No- It's added about $5 to your cost which what we can do to compare detectors. vember '86, in their Around A Corner Test we all think is a waste, but at least THIS FAIR? YOU DECIDE said, "The low ranked . . .and Passport won't get any more letters saying that In their recent ads, Cincinnati Micro- had to be rounding the bend and pointing the only reason we think it's worthless is wave quotes what Car and Driver Maga- at the radar gun before they'd detect it. because Maxon doesn't have it. zine's April '87 issue says about Passport, Too late then!" (Not quoted by Passport.) TRUE BREAKTHROUGH NO. FIVE "At $Z95 direct from the factory, it's the Although in July, after Cincinnati Mi- Unlike the questionable value Anti- most expensive piece of electronic pro- crowave complained, Popular Mechan- Rashid circuit from Cincinnati Microwave, tection in the group, but it's worth every ics said in an Around A Corner Test, Maxon has now leapt ahead. Now you can nickel in roadgoing peace of mind." "Consistent with the results of our pre- have a micro detector that operates from Well, wouldn't you think that Passport vious test, Passport was easily the best 6 AA rechargeable batteries (included). obliterated every other detector by a of the minis." (Quoted in Passport Ads.) Now you can forget plugging your radar country mile? And, don't you think every- Speaking of 'consistent', the magazines detector into your cigarette lighter. A rev - one is going to go out and find the mag- aren't consistent even from issue to issue. olutionary circuit design gives you cord - azine and read the WHOLE review??? By the way, in July's test they hated less freedom and improved protection. Well, look what else Car and Driver Maxon, but at least they said, "No detec- Maxon is using a circuit used in jet said in the same article (and not quoted tor in this group had to round the corner fighters and other military applications in Passport ad), "As it turned out, the top before sniffing out Smokey." which replaces the traditional Gunn five brands are so close in their "Overall Road and Track Magazine (September diode oscillator with a DRO (Di-electri- Sensitivity" scores that a minor juggling '86) top rated Passport even though Max- cally Resonated Oscillator). of the X/K-band would on (a recommended buy) appears to have The efficient DRO circuit is much more upset the apple cart." Wow, imagine that! beaten Passport in Uninterrupted Alert, stable when subjected to temperature So, Passport didn't beat everyone by a and Passport beat Maxon in initial alert. extremes and vibration (hence its use in mile.In fact, on the X Band tests,it So, when you get right down to which the military, especially aircraft). Its only appears that it came in 3rd in a Dead - detector protects you, an on -the -road test disadvantage is that it costs more. Ahead Trap, 3rd in an Over -the -Hill Trap, without all the loving editorial 'quotable The new detector also has incredible and 3rd in an Around -the Corner Trap. remarks' seems to be the only way to go. "support systems". Its bright LEDs, dim But in choosing Passport as best, Car We need to win or at least tie, to prove themselves at night. And speaking of and Driver says, ". . an 'excellent' ap- to the world that our challenge is for real, dimming, they can be switched off so praisal of support systems (cords, lights, and not, as Cincinnati Microwave said, you can't be spotted from the rear. alarms etc.) is well worth several hun- "an advertising gambit". But, speaking And, as for the separate X and K warn - dred feet of warning distance..". of advertising gambits, read this! ing tones, not only is the volume adjust - Which brings me back to the point PROTECTION FROM RASHID $5? able, 'Mute' lets you silence the alarms I've been trying to make since I first WHOOPEE without adjusting volume. They will auto - challenged Escort. Today, a good de- Last year, Cincinnati Microwave an- matically reset after the alert passes. tector can often sniff out police radar as nounced to the world, in virtually every You can plug the Micro into your cigar - much as 60 seconds ahead. magazine I picked up, that all radar de- ette lighter, you can run it for about 8 Traveling at 55 mph, you only cover tectors but theirs would be obsolete. hours on its rechargeable batteries, and about 80 feet a second. So, whether It seemed that a K band collision avoid- it automatically recharges from your cig- there's a 10' or even 100' difference in ance system called Rashid VRSS would arette lighter overnight or while you use sensitivity, with today's detectors it just knock out everyone's detectors. it plugged in during the day. doesn't make much difference. Well, I said then that the $558 system OK, now it's time to prove that Maxon READ THIS that recommends cutting a 6Y2" hole in is Number One. Cincinnati Microwave, ASo, if Passport$20,000 or Escort lose to the yourChallenge grill for installation, wasn't going to eatTo our dust! Escort Let's cut through the Radar Detector Glut. We challenge Escort & Passport to aone-on-one Distance and Falsing 'duel to the death' on the highway of their choice. If they win, the S20,000 check pictured below is theirs. By Drew Kaplan more accurate at interpreting real radar moth electronics prime manufacturer. We've put up our $20,000. We chal- versus false signals? They actually make all types of sophis- lenge Escort to take on Maxon's Dual So Escort, you pick the road (contin- ticated electronic products for some of Superheterodyne RD -1 $9990 detector ental U.S. please). You pick the equip - the biggest U.S. Electronics Companies. (right) (Now just $7990 ), Maxon's new ment to create the false signals. And (No, they don't make Escort's.) Mini RD25 $9990 detector (middle) or finally, you pick the radar gun. Bob Thetford, the president of Maxon Maxon's Cordless Micro-Trouncer $14990 Maxon and DAK will come to your Systems Inc. and a friend of mine, was radar detector (left) on the road of their highway with engineers and equipment explaining their anti-falsing Dual Super - choice in a one-on-one conflict. to verify the results. heterodyne Radar detector to me. I said The real question today is:1) How And, we'll have the $20,000 check "You know Bob, I think Escort really has many feet of sensing difference, if any, is (pictured) to hand over if you win! the market locked up." He said, "Our there between Maxon's Detectors and BOB SAYS MAXON IS BETTER new designs can beat theirs".

Escort's or Passport's? And 2) Which is Here's how it started. Maxon is a mam- . . .Next Page Please There are many cheap imports that aren't . . .Challenge Continued 1/4 second gives you protection from So, since I've never been one to be in signals from other detectcrs, intrusion very good. My quarrel with them is that except for themselves, I don't know who second place, I said, "Would you bet systems and garage door openers. $20,000 that you can beat Escort?" And, So, when the lights and X or K band the,/ think is any good! as they say, the rest is history. sounds explode into action, take care, CHECK OUT RADAR YOURSELF By the way, Bob is about 6'9" tall, so if there's very likely police radar nearby. RISK FREE we can't beat Escort, we can sure scare You'll have full volume control, and a Put a detector on your visor, dash or the you know what out of them. But, Bob City/Highway button. wirdshield. When it sounds, look around and his engineers are deadly serious Ex DAIL. for the police. There's a good chance about this 'duel'. And you can bet that II you'll be saving money in fines and higher our $20,000 is serious. 27418 insurance rates. We only ask the following. 1) The public - 03 If you aren't 100% satisfied, simply be invited to watch. 2) Maxon's Engin- return it in its original box within 30 days eers as well as Escort's check the radar L!'w for a courteous refund. gun and monitor the test and the results. (RD -1 Pictured to Right.) To get your 3) The same car be used in all tests. 4) Maxon, Dual Superheterodyne, Anti-Fal- We'd like an answer from Escort no later Maxon detectors are backed by Max- sing Radar Detector risk free with your than December 31, 1987, and 60 days on's standard limited warranty. credit card, call toll free or send your

notice of the time and place of the con- Note from Drew: 1) Use of radar de- check for DAK's $79"sale price ($4 flict to alert the public. And, 5) If Escort tectors is illegal in some states. PEtH). Order No. 6116. can prove that there are even 500 Rashid 2) Speeding is dangerous. Use your Note: An optional units in operation, we will present them detector to help keep you safe when you suction cup windshield with a check for $5,000 at the conflict. forget, not to get away with speeding. mount and extra coiled HOW'S THIS FOR FAIR? DON'T WASTE MONEY power cord (we can't Cincinnati Microwave will be deemed As I've said, good radar detectors today afford to throw them in the winner and given the check if either are very similar. The RD -1 is great. It is for free) is just $5" ($2 Escort beats Maxon's RD -1 or RD -25 by 10 much smaller than Escort at just 31/2" PE -H) Or. No. 4800. feet in both uninterrupted and initial wide, 4%" deep and 11/2" tall. (RD -25 Pictured in Middle.) To get alerts or equals the Micro-Trouncer, OR your Maxon, Dual Superheterodyne, Anti- if Passport beats Maxon's RD -1 or RD -25 Falsing Mini Radar Detector complete by 2 seconds at 55mph in both uninterrup- with 2 Power Cords, Window Suction ted and initial alerts or equals the M icro- do, Cup, Dash and Visor Mounts risk free Trouncer. So, DAK wins only if we beat with your credit card, call toll free or both the $295 Passport and $245 Escort send your check for just $99" ($4 PEtH) Radar Detectors. If you want an even smaller detector, Order No. 6117. CA res add tax. SO,WHAT'S the RD -25 at just 27/8" wide, 4%2" deep (Micro-Trouncer Pictured, DUAL SUPERHETERODYNE? and 1'tall, with its included windshield to Left.) To order Maxon's OK, so far we've set up the conflict. mount and identical specs is for you. Top -Of -The -Line, DRO Cir- Now let me tell you about the new dual cuit Radar Detector with superheterodyne technology that lets Mute, 4 Second LED Meter Maxon leap ahead of the pack. Hold, Dark Switch, Cordless It's a technology that tests each sus- Battery Operation (6 AA Ni- pected radar signal 4 separate times Cad Batteries Included) with before it notifies you, and yet it explodes Windshield, Dash, and Visor into action in just 1/4 of one second. If you want the very best, or if you mounts and 2 power/charging (1/10th second for the Micro-Trouncer.) want to forget cords and be able to slip a Cords risk free with your Just imagine the sophistication of de- credit card, call toll free or vices that can testa signal 4 times in less send your check for this rev- than a 1/4 of one second. Wow! olutionary $249 suggested But, using Maxon is easy. These long retail detector at DAK's mar- range detectors have all the bells and ket breaking price of just whistles with separate audible sounds $149" ($6 PEtH) Order No. 6119. for X and K radar signals. OK Escort, it's up to you. We've got LED Bar Graph Meters accurately show $20,000 that says you can't beat Maxon the radar signal's strength. And, you 41/2" wide, 33/4" deep,'." tall (It mounts on the road. Your answer, please? Escort and Passport are registered tredemarks of Cincinnati MIC(OWeVID won't have to look at a needle in a meter. sideways to the rest) detector into your Rashid VRSS, and Realm] Radar Safety Brake ere registered trademarks Keep your eyes on the road, you'll see shirt pocket, choose the Micro-Trouncer. of Vehicle Radar Safety Systems. Inc. these meters with your peripheral vision. I'd love to tell you that the Micro- You'll have a very high level of protec- Trourcer is light years ahead in detec- OAKINDUSTRIES tion. Maxon's Dual Conversion Scanning tion, because its circuitry certainly is. INC. Call Toll Free For Credit Card Orders Only Superheterodyne circuitry combined But, I'd be into advertising gambit - 24 Hour, A Daly 7 Days A Week with die-cast aluminum ridge guide wide - land ifI claimed that 1 or 2 seconds of I -BOO -325-0200 band horn internal antennas, really fer- imprcvement over Maxor's other detec- For Toll Free Information. Call 6AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST ret out radar signals. tors or even over Escort and Passport Technical Information 1-800-272-3200 And the key word is 'radar', not trash. really make a significant difference. Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 The 4 test check system that operates in Caution: Cincinnati Microwave is right. 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 The Great $9990 Copier Blow -Out DAK has obliterated the $349 suggested retail price. Now forjust $9990, you can copy price lists at trade shows, articles in libraries, receipts in your car, stock quotes on airplanes, recipes at home or blueprints on a construction site. By Drew Kaplan You're in a restaurant. An important meeting is in progress. FINAL CLOSE-OUT The person you're meeting with shows List Price was $349 you a confidential price list. You whip DAK sold it for $299 out your new Silver Reed Industrial Pock- et Copier and make yourself a copy. 9IVIH1,1 10 IN 4:1/11,1, NOW JUST Great Idea, but.. While thousands of PORTA COPY rich executives are currently increasing $9990 their productivity by using this sophisti- cated copier at meetings, in hotels, and of course at home, it's simply been too expensive for the rest of us to use. Well, no more. Silver Reed couldn't find as many rich executives as it needed, so DAK bought all their copiers for cash! Now, for just $9990, which I've been told is $40 below the Japanese manufacturing cost, we can all make full size, crisp, flaw- less copies wherever we are, instantly. CI+AHt 1! Now we can all enjoy the productiv- ity and luxury of the rich. We can forget the $349 suggested retail price. We can forget the 1987 Confidential $230 Dealer Price List Cost. Cordless, hand held copying is now a reality while our limited supply lasts, for just $9990. 1 At home you can copy checks, recipes BUT IT'S ONLY 3" WIDE or airline ticket schedules. It copies a 3" wide path, as long as On the road, you can copy your ex- you like, flawlessly. So, it's really great pense receipts as they occur. If you're for sections of blueprints, computer print- like me, you often lose half of them, so outs and hard to copy items like box this copier is saving me a lot of money. labels in the warehouse or on the dock. You can copy a typical 6" letter (that's the average text amount) in two quick passes. So, for letters, checks, research or newspaper articles, you can now copy where no copier has gone before. ALL THE CORDLESS USES From copying EKG results for doctors HOW IT WORKS to bibliographies for students and pro- Dozens of magazines have reviewed fessors, you'll be more productive. this product because of its revolutionary Forget taking tedious notes. Just copy miniaturized technology and utility. paragraphs or sections you need. You'll Just glide this less than 2 pound copier have error free permanent records. over any printed surface including words, You can copy charts or music. Copy pictures and graphs. And, your perma- an income statement or a balance sheet. nent copy will instantly emerge. And, if you've ever stood in line at a This copier uses the newest sophis- federal, state or city archive as I have, ticated CCD image sensors to scan the you can now copy anything instantly. material to be copied. And, speaking of aggravation, being It then digitally converts the image. stuck in a hotel room or on a commuter Finally, much like a laser printer, it prints train can just devastate my productivity. an image so sharp and crisp and with And look at this. It's ideal for copying I can't copy my notes. I can't copy sec- such incredibly fine dots, that it can even numbers & addresses from phone books tions of articles I'm reading to show my have more contrast than the original. in phone booths. Now you don't have to fellow DAK executives, and I hate writ- Since it uses the newest thermal tech- scribble notes; just pass the copier down ing notes on original spec sheets. nology, there are never any chemicals or the pages and you'll have a perfect copy, powders to bother with. And best of all, even from the yellow pages. absolutely no maintenance is required. It's a phenomenal amount of technol- ogy for just $9990. Plus, look at every- thing you get! It comes with built-in rechargeable ni-cad batteries. So, you won't have to buy batteries. And, even the charger is included. There's a leatherette carrying case and it all fits easily into your brief- case, purse or overcoat pocket. HERE AND THERE So, if you want to copy a column out of an encyclopedia, or a document that can't be removed from a file room or li- brary, or stock quotes from the paper, If you make house calls to sell insurance, Silver Reed has the solution. ...Next Page Please .. .Copier Blow -Out Continued for the rental, plus a charge per copy. We had to send a copy of our can- or real estate, or if you simply work on Well, now at home or in my own office celled check for a house payment to our school projects at other peoples' homes at DAK. I can make perfect copies of let- bank. And, I copied a poem from a book as my wife does, this copier is a must. ters and reports. I can make 8W' wide for my son to learn. We even made copies You can copy title reports, old medi- copies from 3" to 11" long. of my son's 3rd grade speech. cal forms, or even original blueprints. This copier is absolutely silent. There This desktop copier is just 16" wide, For working on school projects, you can are no fans to disturb you. The only sound 1412" deep and WA" tall. It's backed by instantly copy class phone/address lists you'll hear is a gentle whirr during the Silver Reed's standard limited warranty. and save lots of tedious note taking. actual copy process. It's absolutely per- THE UGLY SERVICE PROBLEM You can copy the front and back of a fect for your desk at work. Everyone knows that copiers need ser- check. Or, you can copy a map so you won't get lost. It's all really easy. Copy driver's licenses if you own a store and cash checks, or if you have an accident. Hospitals can copy health cards or IDs for permanent, error free records. And if you're into government espion- age (our side only please), this copier should replace your old spy camera. Of course, the most common use is at your desk. You'll be amazed at how many things you'll copy when a copier is at your side. As I mentioned, ifI read an article, I like to copy the important parts for others at DAK, to maximize my efforts.

At DAK, we have several large expensive vice. But Silver Reed's sophisticated copiers. But, we have a 64,000 square maintenance free thermal copiers elimin- foot building. So, they are never nearby. ate the problem. Forget powders, toners I can buy 12 of these copiers for the cost and drum cleaning. Just turn these cop- of just one standard machine. ie,rs on and enjoy the luxury of making AnC since the copy qua 'ity is so good, copies whenever and wherever you want. several departments at DAK have their MAMMOTH COPIER BLOW -OUTS BUT IS IT REALLY GOOD? own. They're thrilled and I'm happy be- RISK FREE OK, if you're standing next to your cause they save time. I love having a copier. I never have to desktop copier, which copier should you get in the car when I need a copy of a use? Well, the answer is simple. Assum- document when I'm at home. And now, I ing you don't have to wait for the desk- can even make flawless copies in an air- top copier to warm up, (the Porta Copy is plane, a hotel room or on a loading dock. instant on) the answer is the desktop. If you're not 100% thrilled with either But, you'll love the quality of this cop- copier, return it to DAK in its original box ier. You'll love all the places you can take within 30 days for a courteous refund. it. And, now that it doesn't cost $349, To order Silver Reed's Hand Held Porta you'll love how much cheaper it is. Copy Cordless Copier complete with The quality of the copy is nothing built-in ni-cad batteries, charger, carry- short of superb. So, you won't be sacri- ing case and a 30' roll of paper risk free ficing quality for portability. Just switch it on and in 3 secondswith your credit card, call toll free, or It's just 6%" tall, 4" wide and 1%" you're ready to make great looking copies. send your check for DAK's limited blow- deep. It weighs less than two pounds There's even a contrast control to com- out price of just $99" ($6 PEtH). Order (Wow). It has a copy density control that pensate for imperfect originals. No. 6203. CA res add tax. lets you adjust for imperfect originals. It uses the same breakthrough CCD Extra 30 foot rolls of Thermal paper It comes complete with a carrying image sensing circuitry as the portable. are just $149 each. A box of 5 is just $746 case, a roll of paper and the rechargerThe revolutionary computerized thermal ($1 PEtH). Order No. 4679. for its internal ni-cad batteries. It's back- technology that makes these copiers To order Silver Reed's DeskTop AC ed by Silver Reed's limited warranty. possible, provides you with crisp, drama- Powered Copier with CCD Imaging, 3"- Desktop Blow -Out Too tically sharp copies with contrast that 11" long Copying, for home or office use If you don't need cordless portability, can even surpass the original. risk free with your credit card, call toll DAK also bought all of Silver Reed's top My wife often says she married me free or send your check for DAK's limited of the line desktop copiers too. Forgetbecause I had a copier at home. (She blow-out price of just $229 ($12 PEtH). the $449 suggested retail price. Forget was a teacher at the time.) And, we all Order No. 6204. the 1987 Confidential $280 Dealer Cost. use italot. From homework assign- 100' Rolls of Pure White Thermal Paper For an incredible $229 you can copy ments to road maps to report cards, our are just $4" ($1 P&H). Order No. 4836. full 8%2" X 11" papers and even books, copier is always running. Having a copier at home or in your flawlessly. Itis maintenance free and briefcase is one of life's true luxuries. doesn't require toner or powders. And, once you have it, you'll realize that Take a moment and journey back with it's a money saving necessity as well. me to about 1978. My very first real lux- ury was renting a Xerox machine for my office at home. DA UIU Call Toll Free For Credit Card Orders Only Every time I made a copy of a letter or 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week a magazine article, I felt successful. 11-800-325-01100 My wife copied recipes and a never For Toll Free Information, Call 6AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST ending series of school projects for our Technical Information. .1 -800-272-3200 kids. I could copy checks, tax returns or Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 receipts. But, it cost me $100 per month 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 $3 Rip -OffsExposed? Who says people can't make money with their computers? There are people downloading games, utilities and wordpro- cessing programs for FREE from public bulletin boards and then selling them to you for $3 to $6. Well,now you can get thousands of programs for your IBM PC, clone or other computer, mostly for FREE, plus help the American Cancer Society! By Drew Kaplan for contributions if you like the program. So here's what I'm going to do. I want Get free programs yourself! If you own It's totally up to you, but if you like the you to have all the productivity, and yes a computer this may be the most impor- program and some guy spent 5 months fun, you can with your computer. So I've tant article you ever read. writing it, usually sending him $10-$25 put together two packages so you can Imagine printing 10 foot long ban- will get you an expanded version, some vastly broaden your computer's use. ners, playing dozens of arcade style ac- new documentation and his undying love I have a list of 2,000+ electronic bulle- tion and adventure video games (no joy-and gratitude. But it's up to you. tin boards, AND I've packed a ton of the sticks required), using spreadsheet pro- Imagine programs that let you track great programs from the bulletin boards grams, typing labels automatically, speed- your stocks, generate forms, play soli- for IBMs and clones onto two (2) disks, ing up the use of your computer and taire, golf or sail, make your computer to show you a little of what you'll get in doing everything from listing out text into a piano (wow!), diagnose the speed case you don't already have a modem. files, to making DOS easy. and accuracy of your computer, rename AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Well, there are over 2,000 numbers and re -sort directories and a million more Unfortunately I can't afford to give you you can dial right now, and on many of useful and fun programs. everything for free, but look at this. I'll them you will find hundreds of disks BUT PEOPLE ARE MAKING MONEY send you the list of 2,000 electronic bul- full of exciting 'Public Domain' software. It's OK to copy these programs for letin boards for $2 ($1 PEtH). Order No. These are hobbyist boards. Most of yourself and you are actually encouraged 4888. And/Or two (2) disks full of pro - the System Operators, or SysOps as they to make copies for friends. This way the grams for $3 ($1 PEtH) for both disks. are called, operate these electronic bul- software really gets spread around. Order No. 4889. Ca add tax. letin boards for fun. But, there's a loophole that allows you DAK will donate to the American Can- And, every SysOp I've spoken with to make and distribute copies and to cer Society (I have a personal interest in loves to have new blood, and that's you. 'recover distribution costs'. their research) all proceeds from the sale You can leave messages, people sell Well, now there are companies making of the List and Disks beyond the cost of things (not businesses), and there's a money (by downloading free programs producing and distributing them. wealth of Public Domain software. Why and selling them to you for $3 to $6) on And what's more, the cost of this 'ad' is there Public Domain Software? the backs of these generous program- will NOT be included in my costs. So, the THE AMERICAN DREAM mers who have actually done the work. disks, the duplication, the printing, the Many computer engineers find that So, if you pay $3-$6 is it a rip-off, or is typing, packing and postage etc., will be they have special needs and so they it still a good deal, because the software subtracted and the rest will be donated. write sophisticated programs. is obviously worth many times the price? Watch my next effort for a picture of Since they aren't in business, they It's up to you to decide. the first check I donate. place these programs on bulletin boards ENTER DAK URGENT, DON'T CALL DAN for everyone to use. That way their name OK Martha, here's the catch. No, I've set up a special P.O. BOX for this gets known and everyone benefits. there's no catch. You don't have to buyservice. Send your order with checks In other cases, programs are develop- 10 tapes or disks. You don't even have to only (no cash or credit cards) with the ed at universities or under government buy a modem from DAK. words 'LIST' and/or 'DISKS' to DAK, P.O. grants where sale is prohibited, so these Of course, you'll need a modem, but BOX 3045, Canoga Park, CA 91306. too find their way onto the public do- you can even borrow a friend's and both Please no phone orders or phone in - main bulletin boards. benefit from the great software. quiries. All information must be handled Another class of programs called Free - I started DAK as a hobby 22 years ago through the P.O. BOX. Even if you order ware is released to the public for limited when I was a student at UCLA. And, I've anything else from DAK, these items still use. AlongCom with the program is a requestutertried to keep it aFlood hobby ever since. MUST sates be ordered separately. You'll be deluged with free programs, instant information and incredible entertainrThFt whenyou connect ADC's Hayes Compatible 1200 baud auto-answer/auto-dial modem to your computer at a breakthrough price. By Drew Kaplan gram. I've compared my Visual Com- knowledge. There are even programs Get ready.If you're just using your puter's speed to a true PC (100%), and that let your computer talk or play music. computer for word processing or spread an AT Clone came in over 600% faster. PHONE LINE BLUES sheets, boy, have I got a surprise for you. If you're like me, whenever you type a So, you don't have a spare phone line? With a modem you can dial any of the DOS command and make a mistake you Don't worry. You can use your regular thousands of electronic bulletin boards get frustrated. phone line. You won't hurt it, and who across the country and download (I'll Well there's a program that not only wants to talk on the phone when you're explain in a minute) programs that will remembers your last few entries, it lets using your modem anyway. literally knock your socks off. you use the up arrow to retrieve them GIVE A MAN A FISH And forget expensive long distance and you can edit them without retyping Please forgive me. I'm not invoking calls. With thousands of electronic bul- the entire line. Great! the Bible to sell you a modem. But, truth letin boards, there are likely to be several There's a program that turns the entire is truth. You can buy most of the pro - right in your own area. face of my monitor into a clock and an- grams you'll find, but that requires some - FREE FREE FREE FREE other program that just puts the time in one to sell you a fish each day. I just printed out a 10' banner for my the upper right hand corner. With a modem you can fish forever so son's birthday. The program prints on How about a word processing pro- you'll continue to quench your thirst for any printer, daisy wheel, dot matrix or gram with spell check and all the refine- knowledge and entertainment forever. ink jet. Wow, and it was free. ments you'd expect for hundreds of And, you won't be alone. Enclosed with I'm really enjoying three action video dollars? Well, it's free too. your modem will be step by step instruc- games. In Striker, a helicopter game, I What you're reading about is the won- tions on how to use the bulletin boards. have to pass through enemy territory to derful world of Public Domain Software. So, don't be shy. Get your feet wet. recover my spies, get supplies and more. From File Utilities to diagnostic and de- Everyone is friendly and glad to help I haven't won yet. In Beasts, I keep get- bugging to multi -tasking, you'll find thou- once you're on-line. ting eaten and in Pango, well, it's arcade sands of programs to experiment with. HAVE I LOST YOU YET? action at it's best. From C compiling to artificial intelli- First,I may have hit you with some

I've designed forms using a form pro- gence language, you'll have a wealth of . . .Next Page Please ...Computer Floodgates Continued Every professional modem bills itself may geed a short sex education course. 'Jargon' that isn't familiar. Well have no as 'Hayes Compatible'. But the big ques- Sex Education 1A. You need to deter- fear. Everything will be explained withtion is, how much does it really cost to mine whether your computer's RS232 your modem, but look at this. make a top -of -the -line 1200 baud mo- conrector is male or female. I've referred to an electronic bulletin dem? Or, who's getting rich? board. It's really complicated and you'd For DAK's new breakthrough price of probably never understand what it is. just $1199°, you'll not only be getting a Wrong! An Electronic Bulletin board duck that quacks properly to Hayes mo- is nothing more than a computer, just dems, but sings like a nightingale to like the one you probably own, hooked your pocketbook. It can save you a for- If you look at the picture above, you'll to an auto -answer modem like ADC's. tune in time with its extra features. note that ADC's RS232 Modem connec- Instead of word processing software, you run a bulletin board program and have lots of storage capacity. Simple? I mentioned downloading. Well, it's simply like bringing up a program from your own floppy or hard disk. All you do is use your modem to con- nect you to the bulletin board and then when you download, you're bringing a file from the bulletin board's hard disk to your own computer. The distance may be great, but the principal is identical. You'll find information about virtually any subject that interests you. If you're into butterflies, why look through every nature magazine in the library. Just access the word Butterfly, to read every article. Wow, no flipping through pages and books. The computer finds it all. ARE YOU GETTING THE MESSAGE? For stamps, coins, soccer, football, DUCK SOUP tor has holes going in. It's a female. If it American Indians, chocolate, coffee, Any computer with an RS232 stan- had copper pins sticking out, it would be mortgages, banking, ulcers, steel pro- dard serial port, will work flawlessly with a male. Now wasn't that simple? duction and more, the information is this powerful automated modem. So, if yours is female, order our male instantly available. I've owned a Hayes 1200 baud modem cable and modem program Or. No. 4353. PAY PAY PAY PAY for about 4 years. I just unplugged it and If you have male pins sticking out, order No, it's not all free. There's lots of plugged in ADC's to operate my Hewlett- our female cable, Order No. 4354. information that you can buy. It's like an Packard dumb terminal which I use at For your Apple IIC, your serial inter- electronic bookstore. And, it's great. home to monitor DAK's computer. face is built-in. All you need is our cable OK, I'm aggressive. You can see it in The only differences I noted were im- and modem program on disk. They are my challenges. And, my friends will tell proved monitor sound, more screen dis- just $14" ($3 P&H). Order No. 4356. you I'm definitely a 'Type A' personality. plays arid a help menu. And, oh yes, one For your ApplellE, you'll need a serial Well, when Ibuy stocks,I want to last extra.I use a few local data bases interface with an RS232 port, a cable know about the company. And frankly, Iwhose phone lines are always busy. and a modem program. It's all yours for get frustrated. I want to invest NOW, and Well, ADC's intelligent modem recog- just $69 ($4 HIFI). Order No. 4357. it takes days or even weeks for me to getnizes a busy signal, hangs up and keeps 1200 BAUD SMART DUCK 10K reports so I can get the inside infor- retrying the number every 30 seconds. RISK FREE mation and history I need. There are less important (to me) extras For business or pleasure, you'll com- Well, now I can get the inside infor- like day, date and time, an extra phone municate, gather information and save mation instantly by using my modem. I jack and auto tone/pulse switching. time. If you aren't 100% satisfied, simply can get the Company profile, SEC filings, 1200 BAUD POWER return it in its original box to DAK within officers' names and ownership. So, I can The ADC Modem will communicate at 30 days for a courteous refund. check out companies that I do business 1200 baud (about 120 characters per To Order Your ADC 1200 Baud Intel- with or that compete with me. second) or 300 baud (about 30 charac- ligent Auto -Answer, Auto -Dial Modem Well, with a modem, you can instantlyters per second) automatically, depend- risk free with your credit card, call toll read and download complete informa- ing on the link at the other end. free or send your check for DAK's market tion on over 9,000 public companies. It comes with a modular phone cord busting price of just $119" plus $6 You'll find forecasts of sales, includ- that you simply connect to any standard P&H. Order No. 4334. CA res add tax. ing product mix. And, you'll even find modular jack. And, it uses standard Bell Super Bonus: Now you can try a Pay officers' salaries. What a killer edge you'll 103 and 212A protocols. (Don't worry.) It Data Base for Free. 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But, before you order your cable, you 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 Cable Controller Improved Get all the cable channels on any TV or video recorder with this all new wireless infrared remote control cable tuning system. And at just $699°, we're sure to break the cable market wideopen. By Drew Kaplan If you've got cable, we've got itall. Now you can tune in up to 72 cable channels on any TV or VCR from your favorite easy chair. The Universal Cable Controller re- ceives all VHF Low Band channels 2-13 and VHF Mid -band 14(A) -22(l). Plus, it tunes the Super Band VHF chan- nels 23(J) -36(W) and Hyper Band chan- nels from 37-73. You'll get a lot of enter- tainment for our breakthrough price. Just imagine all the exciting shows that are fed right to your TV but can't be tuned in. And, even cable compatible TVs and VCRs, usually only have 10 or remote handset. And you'll have micro- don't even tune in 72 channels can cost 12 presets. So, unfortunately, you have processor controlled synthesized tun- much more. Plus, if you use your cable to choose only your favorites. ing for the finest picture. compatible VCR as a tuner for your TV, With the Cable Controller you won't You'll see the number of the station you can't record one cable channel while have to choose. You can instantly tune that you have selected displayed on tie you watch another. in up to 72 channels all the time, any- command base. And, you can tune chan- You can feed both your TV and video time. So, your choice of entertainment nels either from the remote or the base. recorder. Or, you can separate them so will never be restricted. Color tints, volume, brightness andyou really can watch one program and MOVIE CHANNELS contrast are all controlled by whatever record another. If there are movie channels on your method you now use. WHAT IT ISN'T cable and they're not scrambled, the INSTALLATION It isn't one of the infamous 'black box- Controller is all you need. If they're scram- Nothing to it. All cable systems use 75 es' you might have read about that il- bled, you'll need the cable company's box. ohm round cable. Simply unscrew the legally decode various 'Pay TV' channels. Note: Check with your cable company end from your TV and screw it into the On cable, most of the programming isn't before viewing anything at all, to see if Controller base input. scrambled, it's just found outside the they require you to pay a fee. Then screw in an identical cable (in- tuning range of the average TV. SPORTS PLUS cluded) between the Cable Controller So, if there is a Pay TV channel that is There are lots of 'Super Channels' and your TV. Finally, plug your TV's AC scrambled, or is only unscrambled on broadcast on cable. 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The Cable Controller is actually a very card, call toll free or send your check for If you like to watch two ball gamessophisticated, all electronic VHF TV DAK's market breaking price of just S6990 and switch between them as I do, there's tuner/receiver. It's really like a TV set plus $6 for postage and handling. Order a special 'Alt' switch that lets you flip without a picture tube. Number 4870. CA res add tax. back and forth with the touch of a button. Since it's all electronic, you won't be There's a whole new world of enter- Plus, you can select favorite channels getting snow from dirty tuning contacts tainment waiting for you just off your for step tuning. So, you can tune all and loss of fine tuning as the set ages. normal TV tuning range. With the Cable channels or just your favorites with the The Controller tunes all the possible Controller, you can sit back in your fa- step tuning controls. 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Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 ing is handled from the wireless infrared Cable compatible video recorders that 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 The Observers At the office or at home, you can scrutinize up to 4 separate areas with both picture and sound. New technology allows a single cable to both power a camera and carry the audio and video signals. There's even an automatic switcher for up to 4 cameras. It's all yours at an amazing new price. By Drew Kaplan It does it all. And, it's absolutely terrific. You can monitor loading docks or swim- ming pools. You can watch for pilferage, shoplifting or accidents. And, there's even an output for a video recorder so you can make a permanent re- cord. Now you can see who comes and goes. And, you'll see what they do. The system comes with a 12" video monitor, a sequential switching system that allows you to view up to 4 cameras from 4 to 60 seconds each, a camera complete with microphone, and an infin- itely adjustable mounting arm. You'll also get 57 feet of cable and you can add up to 300'. You can even add a weather resistant case for outside use. LOOK AT ALL IT DOES The technological breakthrough that allows you to make a single wire installa- tion lets you have sound and picture monitoring of all types of areas. Risk areas: Monitor secluded side doors, corridors, equipment yards, tool cribs and other storage areas. And, whatever you monitor, you'll have front and back of your home from the Hazardous areas: Prevent accidents a superbly detailed high contrast picture. kitchen or the bedroom, or both. or get help for one fast. You can see While I wrote this ad, I had a camera The monitor is 12" wide, 111/2" tall by when people do unsafe things. aimed out the window. As it got dark, I 12W' deep. Each camera is just 9" deep, Supervision: You can't be everywhere couldn't see down the street. But the 4.5" wide and 21/2" tall and weighs 21/2 at once. Now you can see who comes camera's automatic sensitivity adjusted, lbs. It's made by Magnavox and backed and goes. Monitor an entire night crew if so I could see the street on the monitor by their standard limited warranty. you're on the premises, or have an 8 hour almost as well as I had in the afternoon. OBSERVE YOUR WORLD tape you can view in about 11/4 hours And best of all, the cameras are incre- RISK FREE using high speed search on your VCR. dibly easy to install. You don't even need Use it to protect your business or home, Retail Protection: Don't leave your AC plugs where you mount them. your employees, your family and your employees alone in your store or in your And, the infinitely adjustable mount- possessions. If you're not 100% satis- parking lot or structure. Now the manager ing arms attach with only 3 screws to fied, simply return it in its original box can be there to assist. And, you can have floors, walls or ceilings. within 30 days for a courteous refund. a recorded audio and video record. Switch on the monitor and press a To order Magnavox's Observation Sys- Theft: From shoplifting to employeecamera button. All power for the entire tem, complete with 12" Monochrome theft to vandalism, anonymity is the cul- system comes from the monitor/switcher. Monitor, 4 Station Electronic Automated prit's protection. With observation cam- You can have one or all 4 cameras Switcher, Black and White Camera, 57' eras, no one knows when they are being connected. And, connecting the cameras of Cable, and Infinitely Adjustable Mount- watched or when a recording is being is the simplest thing of all. ing Arm risk free with your credit card, made. It's a safety feature to protect em- This system uses standard round coax call toll free, or send your check for only ployees from danger and to protect the type cable, just like your home's cable $299 ($11 PEtH). Order No. 4415. company from all sorts of crime. TV system. Through this standard cable, Each Extra Camera with Built-in Micro- Magnavox sends power for the cameras. phone, 57' Cable and Mounting Arm is And, the camera sends both audio just $169 ($4 PEtH). Order No. 4549. and video signals back down the very Weather Resistant Cases are just $3990 same cable. So, installation consists of ($3 PEtH). Order No. 4550. CA add tax. simply running one standard video cable. 100' extension cables are just $199° The monitor has a built-in electronic ($2 PEtH) Order No. 4551. Note: a pair switcher. Most automatic switchers that of cable ends is included, so you can I've seen in surveillance, cost hundreds make your own cable, up to 300'. of dollars. With Magnavox it's included. To view almost double the width you You set it to lock onto any camera for a see in the picture above, there's an 88° minimum of 4 seconds and a maximum wide angle lens for just $699° ($2 PEtH). of 60 seconds, or pick one camera. Order No. 4823. NOT JUST FOR WORK VCR AU TO MANUAL You'll have a new sense of security You can monitor your front door, your me I 2 3 4 when you can see and hear what's hap- POWER back yard and your pool. You can even I= 11.1 1.1 pening. And, by connecting a video re- monitor the animals in your barn or your 011111110 rahcorder, you can have a permanent record baby in the bedroom. So, if you raise The signal (both audio and video) from of the comings, goings and actions of animals or children, you can always keep all cameras being viewed can always be everyone on your property. an eye on their safety. sent to your VCR for a permanent record. DA K INDUSTRIES Always check local laws which may And there's more. By simply running Call Toll Free For Credit Card Orders Only restrict some types of observation. a standard video cable, you can also 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week EFFORTLESS INSTALLATION watch the output of the monitor on other 1-800-325-0800 From 3 lux to 30,000 lux, you can TVs in other rooms. For Toll Free Informatoon, Call 6AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST watch what's happening with this su- ENDLESS USES Technical Information.. _1-800-272-3200 perb new system. You'll be amazed at Think of the feeling of safety you'll Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 how sensitive it is at low light levels. have when you can monitor both the 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 2 -Way Ear Thrillers Now you can experience auditory euphoria. Discover a truly controlled and patented method of reproducinga musical frequency response that spans 10hz to 40,000hz, right in your head, at a limited market breaking $4990 price! By Drew Kaplan Bass, to a large extent, is a function of It's thrilling. Koss's the driver and the enclosure. With speak- two -wayaudiophile er systems, it's acoustic suspension or stereophonesrepro- ported, or even passive radiators that duce music with such help make the bass full and rich. incredible impact and Koss uses a sealed enclosure in the purity that you'll be as- form of a Pneumalite® ear cushion that tounded by the music surrounds and fully encloses each of you can't hear from your your ears. So, your ears actually become conventional speak- speaker enclosures. ers or headphones. A nice side benefit is that there is no With a 10hzto pressure on your ears from the stereo- 40,000hz frequency re- phones because they are totally enclosed. sponse, certainly only The real benefit, of course, is that you'll CDs can really fully util- thrill to music with a bass component ize the capabilities of Q down to 10hz. Wow! these breakthrough So, these stereophones are immune to stereophones. But, any room conditions. You'll be in a perfect music you hear will 1 acoustical environment. Forget speak - be unequalled. er placement. Forget curtains, carpets Before we examine and couches. Your sound will be perfect. how Koss has really John Koss, writing to customers, said widened the frequen- of these stereophones (at their $85 sug- cy response capabili- gested retail price), "Perhaps the PRO/ ties beyond conven- 4X isn't for everyone; perhaps the very tional audiophile def- qualities that so excite me are too spe- initions, let's 'touch cial for many. But for the discriminating and feel' the sound. music lover, the PRO/4X with its unique Nobody can actually new dual elements provide that extra hear 10hz, but the bot- margin for greatness." torn registers of string Well, at $85 these headphones are phe- instruments, organs and nomenal. At DAK's breakthrough $4990 bass drums produce a price, our limited supply won't last long. virtual tidal wave of THE PRIVACY ISSUE sonic impact from It's a fallacy. People are supposed to about 10-45hz that will envelope you. morph disc with a special cone to create wear headphones so they won't bother It's really a feeling as much as a sound. a special tweeter with a frequency range other people. You'll experience a new feeling ofof 3,500 to 40,000hz. Rubbish, I wear headphones so no depth, warmth and fullness. Instruments As you may already know, high fre- one will bother me. Forgetting the price, will become separate and distinct. quencies are extremely directional, so I simply can't equal the sound quality In fact, you'll hear string basses and even with a good tweeter in a stereo sys- produced by these stereophones. individual bass instruments separate and tern, you won't have as crisp highs unless Koss's Stereophones have an infin- provide you with realism never beforeyou sit directly in front of the tweeter. itely adjustable headband. Plus, each ear available outside of an orchestra pit. You can try this in your own system. swivels so that it perfectly matches your From 45hz to 3,500hz you'll hear total- But, you'll find the highs too strong be- head. There's a 12' coiled cord with a ly unrestrained musical perfection. They cause they have to be overpowering or standard 1 /4" stereo plug. They're back - can handle the music from a single violin you'd lose them in the room. ed by Koss's standard limited warranty. to a full orchestral crescendo with in- Since this tweeter fires directly into SHATTER YOUR CONCEPTION credible purity and presence. your ear, it can be much more sensitive OF SOUND RISK FREE Because they aren't stretching theirand its movements can be much finer; Wait till deep bass wells up and en - acoustic limits, your music will be clean- hence, the dramatically improved highs. gulfs you in its massive tide. Listening to er and more open than ever before. At music with these stereophones is really 3,500hz, the woofer crosses over and "7. a participatory event. the tweeter takes over. .11110. .111 411111. - From the rich full thunder of a kettle Wait till you hear the gentle sound of 41111Mi. drum to the finest detail of a violin har- brushes on a snare drum. The upper har- monic, you'll be there. monics of a violin. A separate tweeter If you're not 100% thrilled, simply reproduces sounds up to 40,000hz. return them in their original box within And, while most of us probably can't 30 days for a courteous refund. hear much above 20,000hz, most head- To order Koss's 2 -Way StereoPhones phones strain just to reach 20,000hz. With The Patented Piezoelectric Bimorph Koss reproduces sounds that you can Disc with Special Cone Tweeter and hear and feel so effortlessly that you'll separate woofer risk free with your credit think you're sitting next to a vocalist. card, call toll free or send your check for You'll even hear their clothing rustle Also, other headphones use the same DAK's market breaking price of just and experience other sonic cues of a live driver for the highs and lows so t,ey $4990 ($4 PEtH). Order No. 4882. CA res performance. Most of these cues which have to compromise between the mas- add tax. actually may exist on CDs are masked by sive movements for low bass and the Whether you're a professional musi- normal reproduction. fine vibrations of the highs. cian or a dedicated music lover, these Close your eyes and a flute will float Well, Koss produces massive base by Stereophones will deliver the finest in right in front of you. Tubas will be well using a special large mylar driver with a stereo listening by mixing the music in separated from singers and trumpets be- rare earth dynamic coil. your head, not on your living room walls. cause they are reproduced by separate So, with these stereophones you'll By sealing out all outside noise, and drivers within the headphones. have massive movements from the bass separating the woofers and tweeters, 2 -WAY ENGINEERING BREAKTHROUGH driver without any interference with thethese stereophones will provide un- Koss has patented a piezoelectric bi- highs. And, there's more. equalled musical brilliance. SAME OLD DOG, BRAND NEW SUB WOOFER 1599 Thunderin* Subwoofer Man's best friend meets the audiophile's best friend at an eart shaking bone jarring new price. Now you can add the impact of a 15" subwoofer to any stereo system for just 9990, By Drew Kaplan A puppy may be man's best friend. Woof, Woof. . .But, now I've got a new friend you can add on to your stereo sys- tem. It doesn't need to be taken on walks, washed or fed. But,it makes a great cocktail table for you when you're being fed. And, oh what a woof it has. GREAT SOUND FOR EVERYONE It's called a subwoofer. And, normally itis the beloved pet of only the most ardent audiophiles. It's not generally understood that it can be used with virtually any speaker system in any stereo. And, in addition to substantially increasing and perfecting the bass response, it has a significant impact on the mid -range clarity too.

Before I tell you exactly how mar- velous your stereo will sound when you connect this subwoofer to it, there are two things you should know. First, you'll be getting your new friend at a phenomenal price. DAK has sold over 10,000 of Cerwin-Vega's 12" sub - woofers. They had a retail price of $332, but we sold them for $16450. Second, your new friend comes com- plete with a paid up health insurance policy in the form of a 2 year limited warranty from its father, BSR. movements required to reproduce the wires from your two standard 8 ohm By the way, the puppy sitting on top of very low 'requencies. stereo speaker systems to the output the subwoofer is the same puppy I used But, it would do a lousy job of repro- terminals on the subwoofer. They receive with Cerwin-Vega's, but wait till you hear ducing mid -range, which is why, cost the exact signal that they did before what's under him now. You'll have BSR's aside, manufacturers don't put big voice except that everything from 120hz down 15" massive infusion of explosive bass, coils in n Drmal 10" or 12" woofers. is routed only to the subwoofer. added to your system for just $9990. To make the massive movements ac- Placement of your regular speakers is But don't be misled. BSR bass is clean curate, this woofer has a very large mag- just as critical as usual for stereo imag- and tight; never sloppy or overpower- netic structure. This magnetic structure ing, but the subwoofer can be placed ing. It adds a feeling of depth and full- also makes the subwoofer system ex- anywnere because low frequency mater- ness to your music that you simply can't tremely efficient. (The sensitivity is 91.5 ial is totally non -directional. get with two or 3 -way speaker systems. db at 1 watt at 1 meter.) The subwoofer makes a perfect cock- HERE'S WHAT IT DOES So, whether you have two or three- tail or end table. Its rich wood -tone ap- Basically, the problem with most speak- way speaker systems, with 8", 10" 12" pearance matches any decor. It is 241/2" er systems is that the bass overpowers or even 1 5" woofers, you'll find the sonic long, 161/4" high and 20" wide. the system. In a 3 -way system, a woofer improvements staggering. TRY AUDIOPHILE'S BEST FRIEND may be crossed over at about 800hz. You'll hear and feel the awesome effect RISK FREE And, in a 2 -way system as high as 3000hz. of thunder rumbling through lour home. The fullness, richness and depth is So, the woofer must handle move- You'll hear a depth and dramatic fullness awe inspiring. Wait till you connect this ments of up to an inch at frequencies to your music that won't be heavy but subwoofer to your system and experience below about 80hz, while at the samewill thrill you with its massive strength. truly massive force from your music. time attempting to reproduce the very If you aren't 100% satisfied, simply fine vibration type movements of the return it to DAK in its original box within mid -range frequencies. 30 days for a courteous refund. It is this difference in movements that To order BSR's Thundering Subwoofer causes both the bass to be weak or not with its dramatic 15" Dual Wound Voice precise, and the mid -range to become Coil Subwoofer risk free with your credit muddy (intermodulation distortion). card, call toll free, or send your check for Even the best 3 -way systems fall prey DAK's breakthrough price of just $9990 to these problems. And, it's why a sub - ($14 P&H). Or. No. 4514. CA res add tax. woofer can do so much for your mid- You can't replace the love and soft- range clarity as well as your bass. ness of a warm puppy. But, wait till you PROBLEM SOLVED experience the richness and depth this BSR's subwoofer has a specially en- subwoofer will add to your bass and the gineered crossover network that sends clarity you'll hear in your mid -range. frequencies above 120hz to your regular speakers and reproduces just the mam- Here's 'floor'. eye view' of the subwoofer You'd feel end hear been no alive. you'll think it ie. moth movement frequencies from 120 DAKINDUSTRIES hz down to 22hz with a special floor fir- EASY HOOKUP 70 NC. ing dual wound super subwoofer. It's easy to connect. Simply run the Call Toll Free For Credit Card Orders Only 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week If you have downstairs neighbors, this right and left speaker wires from your 14100-325-0800 subwoofer isn't for you. The woofer is a amplifies to the input terminals of the For Toll Free Information, Call 8AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST very special hybrid. It has a mammoth subwoofer. It works with any system Technical Information. . _1-800-272-3200 one and one half inch voice coil which from 20 to 150 watts per channel. Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 allows the speaker to make the very large Then, you simply connect the speaker 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 VANTAGE®

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it has an open, uncluttered front ADC MODEL 16/2R panel. Its principal controls are two large, rectangular pushbuttons, COMPACT DISC PLAYER which are clearly and unambiguous- lylabeled STOP/OPEN and PLAY/ Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories PAUSE. The 1 -inch -square controls fortrack -skipping andfast -scan ONG recognized as a major prices. ADC alsopromotes the modes are logically identified as source of phono cartridges players' transport ruggedness, track- SKIP, REV, and FF, with the usual and equalizers, ADC ex- ing ability, advanced error-detec- arrows to show direction-no cryp- tended its product line into tion/correction circuitry, and resist- tic or confusing nomenclature here. the digital age in1984, when it ance to shock. There are smaller buttons for dis- began making compact disc players. The ADC 16/2R, the latest in the playing the time remaining on the Partially engineered by dbx, the line, provides all the basic operating disc, setting the player to repeat the players have been especially notable features required of a CD player, current track or the entire disc, and for their simplicity and moderate but unlike many of today's players controlling memory functions.

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The ADC 16/2R can be pro- cent at -10 dB, and 0.019 percent over most of the audio range, fell off grammed to play sixteen tracks in at -20 dB. The -20 -dB reading slightly below 50 Hz, to -0.6 dB at any order, during a pause or stop or included a number of low-level spu- 20 Hz, and had a peak of about 0.5 while a disc is playing, in a simple rious (nonharmonic) signals. dB at 16,000 Hz. process using the ENTER/SET and The slew time of the laser tracking SKIP buttons. Any single entry or all mechanism was 4 to5seconds, entries can be deleted with the The ADC Model 16 I 2R is slightly slower than some others we CLEAR/ALL CLEAR button. a good, moderately have tested but still quite satisfacto- The only other front -panel feature priced, "no -frills" ry. It made a perfect transition be- of the 16/2R is a power button. The tween two adjacent tracks unsepa- rear apron contains two audio out- compact disc player. rated by a silent interval. The cali- put jacks. The ADC 16/2R, which is Moreover, it is easy to use. brated defects on the Philips TS5A finished in black with contrasting RIV".31,1%,:.0(4511,03i=rt./14..-Pri.^. :VW test disc could be played at their white markings, measures 17 inches maximum levels with no signs in wide,117/8inches deep, and Ps The A -weighted noise level was mistracking. The 16/2R was fairly inches high. It weighs 10 pounds. - 98.8 dB referred to 0 dB, and the sensitive to impact on its case, how- The player is supplied with a very dynamic range (the THD + noise ever; it mistracked with moderate compact wireless remote control, level of a -60 dB signal, referred to finger tapping on the top or side. measuring only 43/4 inches long, 214 the output from a 0 -dB signal) was inches wide, and 5/8 inch thick; it 89.7 dB. Channel separation de- Comments duplicates all of the front -panel con- creased from 93 dB at 1,000 Hz to The ADC 16/2R is a good exam- trols except the power switch. Price: 68 dB at 20,000 Hz. The player's ple of a moderately priced, relative- $250. ADC, Dept. SR, 71 Chapel square -wave response confirmed its ly "no -frills" CD player that de- St., Newton, MA 02195. use of analog low-pass filters, and livers excellent sound quality with the phase shift between channels, enough operating flexibility to satis- Lab Tests which increased from about 4 de- fy most people. Moreover, it is easy The output signal level of the grees at 1,000 Hz to 81 degrees at to use. We found nothing in the ADC 16/2R from a 1,000 -Hz 0 -dB 20,000 Hz, showed thatits two character of its sound to distinguish track of a test record was 1.95 volts channels shared a single D/A con- it, for better or worse, from a host of into a standard EIA load of 10,000 verter by multiplexing. The con- other CD players, most of them ohms in parallel with a 1,000-pico- verter had a slight nonlinearity at more expensive. farad capacitor. The two channels very low signal levels,its output Of course, it is not the equal of hadidenticaloutputs. The har- being low by about 1.5 dB at -90 to many of the others in its range of monic distortion at 1,000 Hz was - 100 dB. The player's frequency operating features. Some of those 0.0018 percent at 0 dB, 0.004 per- response, which was extremely flat the 16/2R does not have may be important to certain people and of no interest to others. Among the FEATURES ones that come to mind are phrase - 4144,7. 77:4", r." ,FCX...."IIMPILS1411RIFIRnrCrIZI- V7-47 repeat capability, direct access to (or Sixteen -bitD/Aconverter O Initial display of total number of at least identification of) indexed multiplexed between channels tracks and disc playing time portions of a disc, elaborate pro- Three -spot laser pickup O Display of current track number gramming systems such as random Programming for up to sixteen and elapsed time on track, tracks in any order switchable to show remaining play, a headphone output, volume

Track skipping and fast search time on disc control, external timer control, and in either direction; audio muted O Wireless remote control for all direct access to numbered tracks. during search front -panel functions except On the other hand, most of these Repeat of any track or entire power disc featuresincreasecost but never have a commensurate effect on sound quality. If you just want a LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS good, functional CD player,the 16/2Rshouldbeasatisfactory Maximum output level: 1.95 volts Maximum phase shift(from 20 to Total harmonic distortionat 20,000 Hz): 81 degrees at choice. Its impact resistance is not 1,000 Hz: 0.0018% referred to 20,000 Hz ideal, but that should be no problem 0 dB, 0.004% referred to -10 Cueing time: 4to 5 seconds if your floors are reasonably free of dB, 0.019% referred to -20 dB Cueing accuracy: A vibration. We would expect the Signal-to-noise ratio(A -weighted): Impact resistance:top, C+, sides, ADC 16/2R to have a special appeal 98.8 dB C+ to people who prefer simplicity to a Dynamic range:89.7 dB Defect tracking:tracked maximum Channel separation: 93dB at defect levels on Philips TS5 test dazzling display of colored lights or 1,000 Hz, 68 dB at 20,000 Hz disc a panel full of controls. This is a Frequency response: +0.5dB, product that appears to have been -0.6 dB from 20 to 20,000 Hz designed with their needs in mind. Circle 144 on reader service card

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tridge and the preamplifier stage. TheLOADjack is apparently con- PERREAUX SM3 PREAMPLIFIER nected across the phono-preamplifi- er input so that the input termina- Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories tionfor a moving -coilcartridge, which is usually meant to be termi- To the best of my knowledge 1114 -inch high rack -mounting panel na:ed in a resistor of about 100 Perreaux is the only New withstandardmountingholes. ohms, can be reduced from the nor- Zealand hi-fi manufacturer Overall, its chassis measures 167* mal 47,000 ohms to any desired val- whose products are sold in inches wide, 13 inches deep, and ue by plugging a suitable shunt the United States. The Perreaux about 248 inches high including its resistance into theLOADjack. The product line is aimed at the "high - rubber feet. load resistance for a moving -mag- end" audiophile, and each of the The gold-plated phono jacks on net cartridge can be reduced in a company's components-power the rear apron include the main out- similar manner if desired, and the amplifiers, preamplifiers, andFM puts, tape in and tape out, theAUX/ load capacitance can also be in- tuners-isdesignedandcon- CDand tuner inputs, and three sets creased (from the standard 100 pi- structed with the utmost attention of phono inputs, marked mks (mov- cofarads) by plugging the necessary to detail and the highest -quality ma- ing magnet), MC (moving coil), and capacitance into the MC input jack. terials. The SM3 stereo preamplifier LOAD.Since there is only one phono According to the manual, suitable exemplifies the Perreaux approach. selector position, it is clear that the plug-in components can be ob- The SM3 is a "minimalist" de- preamplifier can be used with one tained from Perreaux dealers. sign, eschewing all forms of inten- or the other type of cartridge but not The phono section of the SM3 tional signal modification. It has no both, at least not with full front - uses passive RIAA equalization, filters or tone controls; the silver - panel control. with a "flat" amplifier providing the colored panel bears only a pushbut- As we interpret the preliminary necessary gain. AHI/LOswitch on ton power switch and a nearby blue instruction manual furnished with the rear apron, near the phono- pilot light, a balance control, a vol- our sample of the SM3, the only dif- input jacks, changes the phono gain ume control, an input selector, and ference between the two cartridge to suit the type of cartridge used (it a tape source/monitor switch. The inputs is that theMCinput does not does not affect the input termina- low -profile SM3 has a 19 -inch -wide, have a capacitor between the car- tion or equalization).

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The SM3 uses only discrete tran- dB from 45 to 20,000 Hz and down the tuner input was 90 dB at 1,000 sistors (no integrated circuits), low - 0.5 dB at 20 and 50,000 Hz. The Hz and 65 dB at 20,000 Hz, at the loss polypropylene and polycarbon- RIAA phono equalization was near- phono input 60 dB at 1,000 Hz. ate capacitors in the signal paths, ly as flat, +0.05 dB, -0.15 dB from and a power-MOSFET output stage. 30 to 20,000 Hz and -0.6 dB at 20 Comments Its AUX/CD input is attenuated, pre- Hz. The (unadjusted) phono-input Measuring the performance of the sumably to match the higher output termination measured 50,000 ohms Perreaux SM3 was almost as diffi- of a CD player to that of a typical in parallel with 115 pF. cult and painstaking a task as meas- tuner. The main line amplifier has a The clipping output of the SM3 uring that of a CD player. Obvious- high maximum output capability, was an astounding 28 volts at 1,000 ly, its designers spared no effort to driving a rated load of 10,000 ohms Hz, a higher value than we can achieve the greatest possible refine- or higher. The circuits are assem- recall ever before measuring from a ments, and, as often happens with bled on a single large printed board preamplifier. The distortion, again high -end audio products, there is with gold-plated conductors, and through the tuner input, was be- probably a considerable amount of the other side of the board, except tween 0.0014 and 0.002 percent for "overkill" in the design. Still, much where components are mounted, is outputs between 1 and 20 volts at of it may be justified on the plausi- covered with what appears to be 1,000 Hz. At 10,000 Hz distortion ble ground that even if each minute gold-plated conductingfoil.The varied between 0.0023 and 0.0028 improvement cannot be heard by power supply is unusually robust percent. The A -weighted noise level itself, the total effect of many such for a preamplifier, from its shielded (referred to a 0.5 -volt output) was improvements may make an audi- toroid transformer to its more than -92 dB for a high-levelinput, ble difference. 56,000 microfarads of filter capaci- -81.2 dB for phono with LO gain, At any rate, the SM3 is a hand- tance.Price:$1,795.Perreaux, and -85.5 dB for phono with HI some preamplifier, matching the Dept. SR, 4701 Hudson Dr., Stow, gain. The sensitivity for a 0.5 -volt style of other Perreaux products and OH 44224. reference output was 41 millivolts presenting a straightforward appear- (mV) for the tuner input,1 1 1 mV ance that should not faze even the Lab Tests for AUX/CD, 0.63 mV for phono least technically minded user. The All tests were made with the Per- (10), and 0.082 mV for phono (HI). controls have a smooth, positive ac- reaux SM3 driving an EIA standard The phono overload with LO gain tion that fairly shouts quality. As far load of 10,000 ohms in parallel with was between 136 and 765 mV over as we could determine, that impres- a 1,000-picofarad (pF) capacitor. Its the 20- to 20,000 -Hz range, and sion is no illusion. frequencyresponse,throughthe with HI gain it was between 14.5 and It is also worth mentioning that tuner input, was flat within ± 0.05 98 mV. The channel separation at the preliminary instruction manual, though without pictures on glossy FEATURES paper, is more informative and de- tailed in its explanations than most O All discrete transistors O Center-detented balance control "finished" manualsIhave seen. O Heavily filtered power supply O Inputs for tuner, auxiliary/CD, The meanings of the various specifi- O Toroid power transformer phono, and tape deck cations and the applicable test con- High-grade, low -loss capacitors O Tape -monitoring loop ditions are set forth with a clarity in signal path and 56,400 AF of O Separate inputs for MM and MC filter capacitors phono cartridges with adjustable thatispractically unique in my O Passive RIAA equalizer resistance and capacitance, experience.

Power-moseET output stage with HI/LO gain switch But what aboutits"sound"? high output capability Turn -on and turn-off time delay Those people who find unique sonic O Gold-plated input/output jacks to prevent audible switching properties in different preamplifiers Detented volume control transients will have to listen to the SM3 for themselves. It certainly did not add LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS or subtract any significant property to or from any program I could pass Frequency response through A -weighted noise (referred to a through it. I find it hard to imagine high-level input (EIA standard 0.5 -volt output): tuner, -92 dB: how it could be otherwise. load): +0, -0.5 dB from 20 to phono LO gain), -81.2 dB; 50,000 Hz phono(HIgain), -85.5 dB Although the Perreaux SM3 is Voltage output at clipping: 28 Input -overload level: phono (Lo hardly inexpensive,itdoes offer volts at 1,000 Hz gain), 136 to 435 mV, commensurate value to someone Harmonic distortion 1,THD + noise depending on frequency;_ phono who wishes merely to select and at 1,000 Hz): 0.0088% at 0.1 (HI gain), 14.5 to 67 mV, control the volume of a particular volt, 0.0016% at 1 volt, 0.0014% depending on frequency at 20 volts Phono-input impedance: 50,000 program source and pass it on to the Sensitivity (for a 0.5 -volt output): ohms and 115 picofarads power amplifier without change tuner, 41 mV; aux/CD, 111 (adjustable, see text) (such as noise or distortion). That is mV; phono (10 gain), 0.63 mV: RIAA phono-equalization error: what an ideal preamplifier should phono (HI gain), 0.082 mV +0.05, -0.6 dB from 20 to do, and it is what this one does. 20,000 Hz Circle 145 on reader service card

76STEREO lirvirm NOVEMBER 1987 THE CURRENT STATE OF T HE STATE OF THE ART.

The new NAD Monitor Series Rack handles CD player combines the latest in state-of-the-art technology are optional equipment. with an assortment of elegantly useful features you won't find on any other machine. To review the latest developments in compact disc technology, all you have to do is look at the new 5300 Monitor Series CD player from NAD. You'll find eleven regulated power supplies, four times oversampling, a three -beam laser pickup, 95 point digital filtering, dual 16 -bit digital -to -analog converters ... all the rightnumbers in all the right places. But like many things in this non -digital world we live in, numbers are only part of the story. As with all our Monitor Series components, we've designed the 5300 to deliver the best possible audible performance under real -life circumstances. To do that we combined leading -edge technology and an assortment of "human engineering" features you won't find on any other machine. The process took over three years, and involved a thousand thoughtful, careful and (we think) correct design decisions.

A very few examples .. . The 5300 uses an accurate three -beam laser pickup and operates with four times oversampling and full 16 -bit precision. A ninety-five point digital filtering system suppresses spurious sidebands, resulting in complete freedom from filter coloration. Separate transformer windings are used to power the digital and analog sections of the 5300. Every supply is individually controlled, resulting in a total of eleven separately regulated power supplies (seven positive, four negative). Two ultra high performance 16 -bit digital -to -analog converters are used to completely eliminate inter -channel phase error. TWo disc error displays indicate the occurrence of correctable and non -correctable errors on your compact discs. This system allows users to evaluate technically flawed discs. A unique processing circuit that controls the dynamic range is included for those times when you want to listen to compact discs as background music. The same circuit reduces the IMOdistortion caused by tape saturation when making cassette copies of CDs. Many albums 1hat have been re -issued on CD have a harsh, sterile sound. The 5300 has a special circuit that boosts the subdued ambience information in these recordings, thus producing a richer, easier, more three-dimensional sound. Most wireless remotes control volume with an electronic system that adds audible noise to the music. The 5:500's high-performance remote actually controls a small motor that changes MEPthe volume, without adding noise. In short, what makes the 5300 CD player unique

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Price: $320 a pair. Jamo, Dept. SR, 425 Huehl Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062. Lab Tests The room response of the Jamo Compact 120 speakers was general- ly smooth. Their output level de- creased smoothly with frequency, dropping 5 dB between 300 and 10,000 Hz. There were the usual minor irregularities in the averaged response curve from the two speak- ers, but none of them deviated by more than a couple of decibels from a straight line joining the two end frequencies. The woofer's response, measured separately at the cone and the port and combined after correction for their relative diameters, peaked at 120 Hz and fell off at 6 dB per octave below and above that fre- quency. It leveled off at about 400 Hz, splicing smoothly to the room curve. The maximum output in the resulting composite frequency re- sponse was at 120 Hz, where it was about 5 dB higher than the level of the adjacent midrange portion of the curve. Overall, the system re- sponse varied ± 6 dB from 26 to 19,000 Hz. JAMO COMPACT 120 SPEAKER The minimum system impedance Julian Hirsch, Hirsch -Houck Laboratories was 6 ohms at 200 Hz, and its max- imum of 21 ohms occurred at 1,500 Hz. The impedance averaged be- JAMO'S Compactseriesof model name derivesfromthe tween 6 and 8 ohms, and it never speakers is intended for appli- speaker's rated power -handling abil- reached the 4 -ohm minimum of the cations where a large or dis- ity -120 watts into its nominal 4- to publishedrating.The measured tinctive -lookingloudspeaker 8 -ohm impedance. The system's sensitivity was 92 dBSPL,as rated. might seem intrusive or clash sensitivity is rated as 92 dB sound - When we drove the speaker with with the room decor. Although the pressure level (sm..) at 1 meter with a 2.25 volts (equivalent to a 90 -dB Compact series will probably not 1 -watt input.Its rated frequency SPLin our sensitivity test), the bass appeal to ardent audiophiles (and it range is 38 to 20,000 Hz, with an distortion measured 1.4 to 1.9 per- was not intended to do so), the unspecified variation. cent from 100 Hz down to 80 Hz speakers give a considerable meas- The speaker's wooden cabinet is and rose smoothly with decreasing ure of sound quality for their size 161/2 inches high, 101/4 inches wide, frequency to only 4 percent at 40 Hz and price. and 81/4 inches deep. Each speaker and 6.2 percent at 30 Hz. These fig- At present, there are four models weighs 14 pounds, 5 ounces. The ures were obtained fromclose- in the Jamo Compact series, from molded -plastic front panel is barely miked measurements at the port, the subminiature Compact 50 to the large enough to contain the three which radiates most of the speaker's bookshelf -size Compact 120. The drivers. The two cones are protected output below 100 Hz. Compact 120 is a three-way system by fixedperforated -metalgrilles, Quasi-anechoicFFFfrequency -re- whose 8 -inch woofer operates in a and the tweeter diaphragm is lo- sponse measurements showed that ported enclosure. The first cross- cated out of harm's way at the the speaker's horizontal coverage over, at 1,200 Hz, is to a 5 -inch cone throat of its horn, more than an was somewhat restricted. Frequen- driver, and at 5,000 Hz there is a inch behind the panel. The woofer cy -response curves made on -axis second crossover to a 1 -inch dome port is on the rear of the cabinet, and 45 degrees off -axis diverged tweeter. The tweeter is loaded by a which also has fittings to adapt it for above 500 Hz and were 6 to 10 dB shortexponential hornwhose wall mounting. The Compact 120 is apart over most of the audio range mouth is 3 inches in diameter. The available in a black or white finish. on one side of the speaker's axis, but

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only between 3,000 and 6,000 Hz on In spite of the resonances, the anoccasionaltendencytoward the other side. The tweeter and mid- Compact 120 had generally good hardness, or a somewhat "forward" range driver are placed side by side, group -delay characteristics. Except and strident sound in the treble and which virtually insures some can- for narrow deviations at 8,000 and uppermidrange.Tonecontrols cellation effects in the horizontal 18,000 Hz, the group delay was con- were not very effective in correcting plane as well as the observed off - stant within 0.4 millisecond from for this effect. These experiences, axis asymmetry. 360 to 22,000 Hz. A separate low - before we had made any measure- The axial response showed nar- frequency measurement showed a ments on the speakers, led us to row peaks of 5 or 6 dB at approxi- delay variation of 6 or 7 millisec- expect a peaked, or emphasized, tre- mately 5,000 and 8,000 Hz. At some onds from 100 to 1,000 Hz. ble response. Our measurements, angles there were deep cancella- The speaker was able to handle however, showed quite the opposite tions, or combinations of holes and large pulse -power inputs without characteristic. peaks,atthesefrequencies, and distortion or damage. At 100 Hz, Some of those measurements sug- most of the time there was a hole at the woofer emitted a slight rattle at gested a possible explanation for 8,000 Hz. Since these effects oc- 220 watts into its 9 -ohm imped- thisseeming inconsistency. The curred only in a few narrow fre- ance. At 1,000 Hz the amplifier combination ofseveral reso- quency bands and at specific angles, clipped at 500 watts into 14.5 ohms nances-and, perhaps, the skewed they did not show up in the room with no sign of distortion from the polar pattern-appears to give these response, which measures essential- midrange driver, and at 10,000 Hz speakerstheirdistinctivesound ly the total output of the speaker in the tweeter absorbed 825 watts (into character. Also, much of our later many directions. its 8 -ohm impedance) without diffi- listening was done with the speakers A three-dimensional or "water- culty before the amplifier clipped. on pedestals, several feet from a fall" plot of the speaker's response, wall. Although such a placement is displayingtheinterrelationsof Comments usually beneficial (and frequently time,frequency, and amplitude, The Jamo Compact 120 had a required) for speakers of this size, it clearly showed four distinct reso- surprisingly good subjective bass re- did not improve the sound or imag- nances-at approximately5,000, sponse.Initiallywe placedthe ing qualities of the Compact 120's. 8,000,14,000, and 18,000 Hz- speakers against a wall ("bookshelf" In fact, it seemed to emphasize their mounting), treble hardness, possibly because onds after being excited. Although pected a slightly "thin" sound be- the lower frequencies are not aug- none of these resonances were evi- cause of their size, the overall bal- mented in a free-standing installa- dent in the room -response measure- ance was good. The speakers were tion compared with wall or shelf ments, and the two highest ones obviously much moresensitive mounting. would probably not be excited by than the others in our listening An illustrated Jamo brochure de- most program material or be audi- array at the time. Our early impres- scribingtheCompactspeakers ble to most people, they were real sion was of a rather good, listenable leaves no doubt that they are meant and, we think, accounted for much sound that seemed consistent with for shelf or wall mounting, although of what we heard from the Compact the size of the speakers. they should probably be at least a 120 system. More extended listening revealed couple of inches from the wall for the bass port to function properly. It is also plain from our experience, as well as the manufacturer's litera- ture, that the speakers are not aimed POST at the typical hi-fi enthusiast but at a much broader market. Their very AMPLIFIERS high sensitivity, small size, and at- tractive styling should make them a logical choice for improving the sound of TV sets, for example, as Ll well as for less demanding audio 00 applications. While their sound is not the equal of many high -quality speakers, itis unquestionably su- perior to that of the mass -market "hi-fi"units soldin department stores. Furthermore, as we verified when listening to CD's having ex- ceptionaldynamicrange,these speakers can handle very large pro- gram peaks without audible com- pression or distortion. "Now what?" Circle 146 on reader service card

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enon's FDA -6600 is a mono power amplifier rated for 250 watts continuous rms into 8 111ohms from 20 to 20.000 Hz with no more than 0.02 percent THD. Circuit features include Denon's proprietary Dual Super Non NFB ircuitry. which has a rated slew rate of ± 500 volts per microsecond. To prevent input -cable losses if the amp is located next to the speaker, balanced Cannon XLR connectors are provided. Price: $700 each.

lass AA design is available from Technics in the SE -A100 power amplifier (left, $1,600) and SU- A200 control amplifier ($1,150). The power amp provides up to 170 watts per channel (8 ohms, 20 to 20,000 Hz) and has an oxygen -free - copper bus ground andLC-OFCwir- ing. The versatile preamp offers twelve gold-plated inputs for full au- dio/video system control.

11he MX -10000 Limited Centen- nial Edition power amplifier from Yamaha weighs in excess of 94 pounds and costs $7,000. But for the money and moving strain you get 250 watts per chan- nel into 8 ohms or 1,200 watts per channel of dynamic power into 1 ohm, Class A operation, and a rated S/N of 132 dB.

88 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 amplifier. It features a newly de- signed Hyperbolic Conversion Class A operation circuit that pro- vides pure Class A power without switching and without for all power domains and intoall loads from zero to infinity. There's also a new direct error -correctionampli- fier said to cancel out any nonlin- earity in the speaker relays or out- put coils. The dbx BX1 amplifier is a high - current design that supplies up to 800 watts per channel into 2 ohms and can be configured by the user to drive two, three, or four channels. Its load -invariant frequency -re- sponse rating of 20 to20,000 Hz I Voltage Interface Gate -Dynamic he a/d/s/ P.44 power amplifier is ± 0.05 dB and its noiserating of rated for 150 watts per channel into -123 dB (into 8 ohms, two chan- Linear Drive circuit highlights Ken wood's 125 -watt Basic MID 8 ohms from 20 to 20,000 Hz with nels driven, A -weighted) also setit less than 0.02 percent THD. and it is .1. power amp ($410). Thecircuit apart from most homeamplifiers. -induced bridgeable for mono use. It is expected is said to reduce power -supply and so is the Other outstanding power amplifiers distortion and to increase the amp's to retail for about $1,000. are available from a/d/s/,Sound - power -supply capacity.The matching matching CC4 preamplifier/tuner craftsmen, Hafler, Pioneer, Tech- Basic CI preamp retails for $240. shown above it. nics, Kenwood, Onkyo, Perreaux, Nakamichi, and many more. Total Control Digital technologyhasfinally en- tered the world of preamplifiers, with notable introductions from Denon andSony.Sony's TA- E77ESD has three inputs for direct digital connections with CD players, digital audio tape (DAT) decks, and PCM processors using 32-, 44.1-, or 48 -kHz sampling rates. Its dual 16 -bit, quadruple-oversam- pling digital -to -analog (D/A) con- verters are said to eliminate phase distortions. Somewhat more con- ventional but technically intriguing nevertheless,Soundstream'sC-1 00 0 audio/video preamp is a dual -mono Class A design with a wireless re- mote that can control morethan 350 programmable functionsfrom virtually any component. The high -end gurus at Audio Re- search Corporation delighted the audio world with their new SP9 preamplifier, which employs just two vacuum tubes, for lowermain- tenance costs, and has a down-to- earth price of just $1,695-quite a step from the company'sfamous kdcom has brought a stylish newlook to the world of (and magnificent) SP1 Ipreamp, separates by introducing anoptional white finish for which lists for $4,900. Other strides its products. Shown here are the 100 -watt perChan- and the GTP- inpreamplifier design are being _ nel GF.4-545 power amplifier ($525) made by such manufacturers as Bry- 500 preamplifier/tuner ($575), whichhas a wireless re- ston, Counterpoint, Luxman,Me- mote control and both Ac- and pc-coupled outputs. ridian, and SAE. A leader in a new breed of quasi -

STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 89 he Acoustic Research P -I0power amplifier ($800) boasts massive transient power reserves, with IHF dynamic power ratings of 1.200 watts per channel into 2 ohms, 800 watts into 4 ohms, and 400 watts into 8 ohms. The match- ing C-06 preamp ($360) hasa rated frequency response of 13 to 50,000 Hz ±3 dB.

Mnkyo's highly regarded Integrase- ries of components includes the 165 -watt M-504 amplifier ($800), with dual -mono construction and Linear Switching to preventcrossover notch and switching distortion, and the P-304 preamplifier ($500), which features a dual recording selectorand can handle up to seven inputs.

cIntosh makes the bold claim that because its amplifiersrun cool, more than 80 percent of those produced since 1949are still in service today. The MC7270 provides up to 270 watts per chan- nel, both channels operating,into 1, 2, 4, or 8 ohms. Price: $2,295.

90 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 ":73:076.' oundcraftsmen's Pro -Power Four power amplifier is rated to de- liver 205 watts per channel into 8 ohms from 20 to 20,000 Hz ...V PC., ...MI with less than 0.05 percent 7'HD. It features MOSFET amplification stages. Price: $749.

ilailer's XL -280 power amplifier ($600) is rated for 145 watts per channel into 8 ohms and fea- tures a new Excelinear circuit with twelve output MOSFET's. The Hailer DH -110 preamplifier shown in front retails for $450.

The signal -processing geniuses at dbx rocked the audio world with the announcement of a full line of high -end components. Shown, from top, are the TX -1 tuner ($600), the CX1 audio/video preamplifier ($1,500), and the unusual BX1 pow- er amplifier ($2,500), which can be switched to drive either two, three, or four channels.

STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 91 separate, the preamplifier/tuner, is Adcom's GTP-500, which com- binesahighlyflexiblecontrol preamplifier with a quartz -synthesis AM/FMtuner.Whilethisgoes againstthe pure -separatesap- proach, it is well worth considera- tion if you have limited space. Radio Waves Harnessing the airwaves isbe- coming a simpler task thanks to advances in tuner technology. For example, Harman Kardon's new Ci- tation Twenty -Three (see test report on page 25) offers a unique, patent- ed Active Tracking High Selectivity circuit that is claimed to deliver two aspects of FM performance that were previously considered mutually ex- clusive: high selectivity and high fidelity in both mono and stereo. The Active Tracking system uses a phase -locked -loop (PLL) circuit to driveahigh-speed,voltage -con- trolled oscillator so that it accurate- ly follows the broadcast signal. This careful control of the tracking range is said to make the oscillator vir- tually immune to strong broadcasts on both alternate and adjacent ony's TA-E77ESD digital preampli- he SP9 Hybrid stereo preamplifier channels. Superior tuner separates fier offers three digital input termi- from Audio Research ($1,695) are also available from Accuphase, nals, a built-in D/A converter, a dig- adapts some of the patented hybrid Carver, NAD, NEC, Revox, Sansui, ital processing loop, gold-plated 1tube -transistor technology used in Sumo, and others. contacts, and totally separate audio the company's famous SP11 model to From this brief look at technolog- and video signal paths. Price: $1,100. a simpler, more economical single - chassis unit. The SP9 uses just two ical advances in the new separates, 6DJ8 vacuum tubes. alongwiththeother examples shown anddescribedonthese pages, it should be clear that these components are intriguing and of- ten very affordable. If you use the same careful procedures that you did when buying your current sys- tem-research, listening, and com- parativeshopping-upgradingto separates can be a breeze. But the best thing about upgrad- ing to separates is taking home a new piece and installing it in your system. It will make a noticeable difference. Sometimes the change will be strongly audible, and some- times it will be very subtle. At still other times, you will hear no change atall.Audible changes will not always be for the better-it may be time to re-examine sources, inter- connects, hook-up methods, and source material. On the other hand, a positive change will always take place in terms of your system's flex- ibility and your own pride of owner-

ship. And you can't beat that.

92 SITREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 by Peter W. Mitchell ITHENyou are setting out to er that looks good, is easy to use, Where you live and /shop for a tuner, the first and fits your budget.

' step-aswithanypur- But if your reception conditions how you listen will chase-is to think about how are not ideal, or if you are lucky you will use it. Will you listen enough to be able to listen to a sta- determine which attentively andcriticallyto tion whose wide -range signals push broadcasts, trying to get the best the limits of broadcast technology, tuner specs and sound possible? Or is radio a low - then the effort of selecting the right priority medium for you, less im- tuner can make a big difference in features are most portant than discs or tapes? Will long-term listening pleasure. you, perhaps, use the tuner only as a important for you. source of background music? Analog or Digital? Will the tuner have strong, inter- In "analog" tuners, station selec- ference -free signals to work with? tion is accomplished mechanically, Or are you in a difficult location for usually by turning a knob that radio signals (in the steel -and -con- opens and closes the plates of a vari- crete canyons of a large city, or close able capacitor, and the tuned fre- to an airport, or in a rural valley far quency is indicated by a pointer on from any transmitters)? Will you a "slide -rule" dial (named after the listen only to major local stations, obsolete instrument that preceded or will you also seek out low -power the pocket calculator). At the oppo- college stations and broadcasts from site extreme of technical sophistica- distant towns? Will you use a direc- tion is the "digital" tuner, in which tional outdoor antenna to boost sig- the tuned frequency is synthesized nal strength and to overcome the by means of a quartz -crystal oscilla- disadvantages of your location, or tor and digital counting circuits, are you limited to using a simple and the frequency is displayed in indoor antenna? illuminated digits. Frequencies of If you use radio for background favorite stations can be stored in music, if you don't live within reach memory for instant pushbutton re- of one of the handful ofFMstations call. (By the way, the phrase "digital that offer both superlative program- tuner" is really a misnomer since ming and consistently fine sound, the signal being tuned,AMorFM,is and if you have a rotatable roof still analog; the digital circuits are antenna or intend to listen only to used only to select the tuned fre- strong local stations, then selecting quency. True digital radio is not far a tuner is easy. Tuners that are fed away, however.) strong and interference -free signals Analog tuning is simple and inex- usually exhibit fairly small differ- pensive, and it allows easy fine-tun- ences in reception and sound quali- ing to optimize reception of closely ty, so you may as well choose a tun- spaced stations. Its principal disad-

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vantage is that a miscalibrated tun- shows,therearetwoquieting ing meter or careless tuning by a curves, one for mono and the other user may increase distortion. for stereo, since a stereo signal must Digital tuning has become more be ten to twenty times stronger to popular because of its precision, the achieve comparable quieting. convenience of pushbutton presets How much quieting do you need? for favorite stations, and its suitabil- That depends on the dynamic range ity for remote control. The principal of the music. If you are listening to drawback of digital tuning is the Top -40 rock that is being played ioneer's F-91 possibility that noise from the digi- from a cartridge tape and being tuner ($550) tal circuits may contaminate the au- compressed by the station to a con- has two exclu- dio signal; designers must pay spe- stantly high volume level, 40 dB of sive processing cial attention to internal shielding quieting may be ample. But if you circuits: the Ac- and filtering. are listening to a wide -range station tive Real -Time Between these two classes are tun- playing a CD of the quiet final notes Tracking System and ers that may look digital, with a of the Mahler Ninth, you need all the Direct Digital De- numeric display, but employ non - the quieting you can get. coder Type III. The digital tuning methods. Varactor The often -quoted IHF sensitivity tracking system'sIF filter actively follows tuning, for example, is neither me- figure for tuners, usually less than the broadcast signal chanical nor digital; changes in a DC 11.2 dBf (2.0 AV at 300 ohms), is for lower distortion voltage alter the capacitance of va- only for mono and corresponds to a and higher selectivity, ractor diodes, thus changing the - 30 -dB level of total harmonic dis- and the decoder con- tuned frequency, and presets can be tortion plus noise (THD N), which verts theIFsignal to provided for favorite stations. corresponds to 3.2 percent distor- digital form to reduce tion with a fully modulated FM sig- degradation at later Sensitivity nal-a signal you wouldn't enjoy stages. Sensitivity ratings are often ex- listening to for very long. If you are pressed in microvolts (millionths of comparing tuners, the best figure to avolt); the lower the number the compare is that for 50 -dB quieting better. But antennas and lead-in ca- in stereo, since it corresponds to a bles can have either of two charac- typicalreal -world listening situa- teristicimpedances,75or300 tion. At 50 -dB quieting the tuner's ohms, and the microvolt (AV) rating hiss is only 0.3 percent of the sound will be doubled or halved depend- you hear, and in a good tuner that ing on the impedance used for the will be obtained with no more than measurement. To avoid this confu- 37 dBf of signal (39 AV at 300 sion, a rating scale is coming into ohms). The lower the number, the use that expresses signal levels in better. dBf (decibels relative to 1 femto- How strong a signal do you need watt, or a million -billionth of a to obtain the tuner's advertised sig-

10 watt), independent of impedance. If nal-to-noise ratio (the maximum PARDICKY/S/300 vnS one tuner is rated at 1.8 /AV with a quieting that the tuner can deliver)? 300 -ohm impedance while a second As the FM quieting graph shows, in tuner is rated at 0.9 AV (impedance stereo it takes several hundred mi- FM OUIEING CUWES unspecified), odds are that the latter crovolts (55 to 60 dBf), which is reading was obtained with a 75 -ohm why the signal-to-noise ratio of a impedance and both tuners have tuner is usually measured at 65 dBf the same real sensitivity. The dBf (1,000 AV at 300 ohms). High-per- STE1110 rating (10.3 in both cases) would formance tuners that achieve S/N confirm this. figures in the 80 -dB range (better But FM reception is not a simple than any FM station can broadcast) 10 20 30 40 SC 00 >0 SO go/no-go proposition. A tuner's ef- do so only with thousands of micro- FMquieting curves fective sensitivity is expressed not volts of input signal. show how noise levels by a single number but by a "quiet- go down as the ing" curve: The stronger the signal, How Much Signal? strength of the input the quieter the background hiss. Ac- How do these numbers compare signal increases. tually, as the accompanying graph with the signals you actually receive

94 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 from the stations you listen to? In a TV such multipath (multiple -path) nutshell, the signal depends on your reception causes ghost images, but location, your antenna's design and in FM it produces noise, distortion, height, and on the power that the and impaired stereo imaging. stations transmit. The best treatment for multipath The most important factor is dis- is a highly directional antenna that tance. FM signal strengths follow an can be aimed to enhance the direct inverse -square law: Move ten times signal and reject reflections arriving farther away and signal strength from other directions; roof -mount- drops by a factor of 100. A listener ing places the antenna above many roton's Model three miles from a transmitter may reflecting objects. Indoors, a rabbit - 440 digital tun- receive 10,000 microvolts of signal, ears antenna is better than a limp er features while a listener 30 miles away must ribbon -wire dipole because it can be Scholz noise -re- make do with 100 microvolts. The rotated to tune out multipath. duction circuits, second factor is your antenna. A Two specifications indicate how presets for twelveAM highly directional outdoor antenna well a tuner may resist multipath orFMstations, and may pull in ten times as much signal interference. The "AM rejection," easy -to -use controls. Specifications include as the ribbon -wire dipole that came originally a measure of a tuner's a stereo 50 -dB quiet- with your tuner. The higher the immunity to static (lightning, car ing sensitivity of 33.2 antenna is mounted, the better, up ignitions), also tells you how well dBf and a stereo sig- to 100 feet or so; a listener on the the tuner ignores the amplitude nal-to-noise ratio of top floor of a high-rise apartment modulation caused by interfering 70 dB. Suggested re- complex may receive a signal ten reflections. A rating of 60 dB is tail price is $250. times stronger than his neighbor in good; 70 dB is excellent. The "cap- a one-story house. Finally, while ture ratio" indicates the tuner's skill major commercial FM stations typi- at locking onto one signal and ignor- cally transmit 50 kilowatts of effec- ing others (including reflections) at tive radiated power, many college the same frequency. The smaller the stations operate with 5 kilowatts. number, the better. Taking all these factors together, an outdoor antenna on the roof of a Selectivity and Fidelity high-rise condo a half -mile from a "Selectivity" refers to a tuner's major station could overload your ability to pull in a weak station tuner with a million microvolts of without interference from stronger signal. But if your favorite station is stations at slightly higher or lower 60 miles away, you may be receiv- frequencies.You needn'tworry ing 30µV (or only 3µV with a poor about selectivity if you listen only to antenna). In the "normal" suburban the major stations in your town, situation, using a dipole antenna to because they are normally spaced at receive a major commercial station least 0.8 MHz apart. But if you want ten miles away (or a roof antenna to to pick up a small college station at pull in a college station), a signal 90.5, sandwiched between strong strength of several hundred micro- stations at 90.1 and 90.9, you need volts is typical, not far from the 65- good selectivity. And if you live in dBf signal used in the test lab for central New Jersey and want to lis- measuring tuner specifications. ten to signals from both Philadel- phia and New York, you may need The Multipath Problem good selectivity to separate them. For some FM listeners the main Selectivity is not free, however. problem is not too little signal but Sharp filter circuits not only cost too many versions of the signal. Ide- money but also involve compro- ally FM should travel in a straight mises in performance. This is be- line from the transmitter to your cause frequency -modulation broad- antenna, but oftenit bounces off casting produces "sidebands" at fre- buildings, hills, airplanes, and other quencies above and below the sta- objects, presenting your tuner with tion's center frequency. Filters that a clutter instead of a clean signal. In alter the phase and strength of these

STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 198795 sidebands will affect capture ratio, Specs for Special Situations distortion, and stereo separation. A designer can reduce these ef- Since the same parts and subas- fects by using more elaborate "lin- semblies (IC's, ceramic filters, and ear -phase" filters, but if you really tuning modules) are available to all need sharp selectivity the practical tuner manufacturers, the different answer isto buy a tuner with brands of tuners are much more switchable bandwidth-narrow for consistent in performance than they when you need to pull in a difficult were a generation ago. One result is nkyo's Integra station, wide to get the best sound that many of the numbers in tuner OOmT-4087 tuner from well -separated stations. Some specifications have no relationship page) auto- designers go further by adding cir- to audible performance in normal matically switches cuits that switch the filter band- use. Total harmonic distortion, for sensitivity, blend- width automatically according to example, is adequately low in all ing, IF bandwidth, the amount of adjacent -station in- modern tuners; if you hear a differ- and stereo/mono terference present in the signal. ence in sound, it isn't likely to be mode for optimum re- Conventional ception. Price: $400. selectivitymea- because of theTHDspec. The Nakamichi ST -7 surements express the tuner's abili- But some of the specs become tuner (facing page) ty to suppress interference from sig- important in special situations. For features Schotz noise nals in the "alternate" channel, 0.4 example, the "image rejection" fig- reduction, sixteen MHz away from the tuned frequen- ure indicates how well the tuner will presents, and indica- cy. A rating of 60 dB is good; 80 dB keep tower -to -pilot conversations tors that show signal is excellent. A spec may also be giv- out of your music if you live next to strength and multi - en for the "adjacent" channel, 0.2 an airport, while the "IF rejection" path effects. Price: MHz away; at this close spacing, number indicates the tuner's im- $275. selectivity figures above 10 dB are munity to interference from other unusual except in the narrow -band FMtuners operating nearby. The mode. "SCArejection" indicates a tuner's

THE ANTENNA PROBLEM

THE best tuner in the world is only El A basic "rabbit -ears" indoorTV twice as sensitive as an average antenna without auxiliary coils or tun- tuner. A properly aimed roof antenna ing switches. Electrically this is just can make a much larger difference, another dipole (similar to the ribbon - pulling in a signal ten times as strong wire antenna) with elements made of as a ribbon -wire dipole. Before you in- solid metal, but it is easy to rotate. vest in a high-performance tuner, con- 0 A more elaborate rabbit -ears in- sider spending $50 to $100 on a direc- doorTVantenna with a tuning switch. tional high -gain roof antenna, installedThis type of antenna doesnothave as high as you can safely manage. greater sensitivity than the simpler People who want high -qualityFM rabbit -ears units, so if your 13roblem is sound badly enough to invest in a that the signals you want to receive high-priced tuner are usually the first are weak and noisy, this won't help. to install a large roof antenna, while But in cities and high-rise buildings low-cost tuners are often used with thewhere signals are strong but are con- simple ribbon -wire antenna that taminated with reflected "multipath" comes in the box. Logically, it ought signals, the tuning switch may reduce to be the other way around. With a the interference. simple indoor antenna, you may need 0 An electrically tuned indoor an- a high -end tuner's elaborate interfer- tenna, such as the Parsec or Technics ence -rejection and dynamic noise -re- Wing. Again, such antennas may not duction circuits to achieve satisfactory provide an advantage over the sim- sound, but with a roof antenna that plest type of rabbit -ears unit for pull- pulls in a strong, clean signal, even a ing in weak signals. But where strong budget tuner may sound splendid. signals are contaminated, the aiming The options for betterFMreception, and tuning controls can reject interfer- in order of increasing cost, are: ence and yield cleaner reception.

96 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 These noise -reduction techniques are especially useful for apartment dwellers without a roof antenna. The FMX systemisa noise - reduction system that promises to extend the reach of FM by making stereo nearly as quiet as mono. It employs a second subcarrier whose L -R signal is compressed at the suppression of interference (buzzes Noise Reduction transmitter and re -expanded to nor- and high-pitched burbling sounds) mal in the tuner. Although FMX from the subsidiary signals that sta- An FM stereo broadcast consists was announced nearly two years tions use for private broadcasts to of a monophonic "plus" signal (left ago, implementation was delayed commercial customers-sending channelplusrightchannel,or by the closing of the CBS Technolo- background music to stores, stock- L+ R) and an ultrasonic subcarrier gy Center, where the circuit was market data to computers, and pag- containing an L -R stereo "differ- developed, and by multipath prob- ing signals to beepers. Since the ence" signal. After decoding, the lems in early demonstrations. Co - rules governing SCA transmissions two signals are combined at equal inventor Emil Torick has reportedly were liberalized three years ago, this levels to produce the individual L solved the multipath noise problem, type of interferenceis becoming and R outputs. Most of the back- and FMX-decoding IC's are ready more prevalent, increasing the im- ground noise in FM stereo is in the for production. Should you wait portance of good SCA rejection in L -R portion of the signal, as is and buy an FMX-ready tuner? That the tuner. The higher the number much of the distortion caused by will depend on how many stations the better. multipath reception. Consequently, adopt FMX encoding. Some of the features in tuner cir- many tuners have circuits that re- cuits have become so commonplace duce the level of the noisy L-R sig- In -Store Testing that they no longer serve to distin- nal, giving up stereo separation to Few hi-fi stores are set up to per- guish one tuner from another. For suppress the noise. The simplest mit accurate comparisons of FM instance,dual -gateMOSFET's are versions of this idea are just high - tuner performance. In addition to used in most modern tuners be- blendcircuits.Moreelaborate theusualcomparisonproblems cause they operate linearly over a methods, such as the Schotz dy- (matching volume levels to insure wide range of signal strengths, and namic noise -reduction circuit, vary that one tuner won't sound better most stereo decoders contain a PLL the blend to retain a subjectively just because it is louder, for exam- (phase -locked loop) that synchro- normal stereo image, while Carver's ple), it is difficult to insure that all nizes the decoder with the broadcast system employs a time -delay circuit of the tuners being compared are signal to insure consistently wide to restore the spatial ambience lost getting an identical input signal. stereo separation. when the L -R signal is suppressed. They must all be fed from the same master antenna, through a matched splitter, using 75 -ohm coaxial cable. (If they are connected using 300 - ohm ribbon wire, each length of rib- bon wire acts as an additional an- An outdoor antenna. A roof - ters (7 feet) from other antennas, verti- tenna, confusing the comparison.) mounted antenna has three fundamen- cally and horizontally. If transmitters As a practical matter,in-store tal advantages. Its large size pulls in a of the stations you listen to are located comparisons should focus on over- stronger signal, while its directional in different directions (more than 60 pattern provides effective rejection of degrees apart), the antenna should be all sound quality, features, and ease multipath reflections arriving from mounted on a rotor. ExcellentFMan- of use. If you want your new tuner other directions. Its location on a roof tennas are made by Jerrold, Finco, to cope with a special problem- or tall mast places it above many Wineguard, and Archer (Radio Shack). pulling in a weak station or resisting sources of interference-passing cars For help with purchasing and installa- a bad multipath situation-the only and buses, other buildings, etc. Final- tion, see a Tv antenna specialist. effective test is to arrange a trial ly, the strength of received Fm signals Connect the antenna with either 75 - purchase, take the tuner home, con- is proportional to the height of the an- ohm coaxial cable or a 300 -ohm shielded lead-in cable to minimize in- nect it to your antenna, and try it. tenna above the ground. neglect"ergonom- If you already have an outdoor tele- terference and to preserve strong sig- And don't vision antenna, you may get good re- nals during years of weathering. If you ics"-user friendliness. Are all the sults by using a splitter to extract FM install an outdoor antenna yourself, displays readable over a broad an- signals from it. However, manyTVan- observe these important cautions: gle? Do the controls behave logical- tennas are deliberately made weak at - Do not mount the antenna close to ly? Can you tune stations easily FMfrequencies in order to minimize electric power lines. Plan the installa- using pushbuttons, or would you potential interference with Channel 6. tion so that the antenna mast cannot rather have a round knob? (Several (Trying to extractFMsignals from an fall into contact with power lines, ei- companies make digital tuners with apartment building's master antenna ther while you are installing it or later. tuning knobs.) Are there enough usually yields poor results because -Include a lightning arrester in the presets? Do you want remote con- these systems often haveFM"traps.") installation to protect both yourself The best choice is a directionalFM - and the tuner circuit from potential trol? With some careful shopping only antenna, mounted high above danger during electrical storms. and a little bit of luck you'll find a ground and separated by at least 2 me- -P. W.M. tuner that is a pleasure to use as well

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STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 198797 WHEN singer Patty floored me. It was like, 'God, look Loveless left her at what she's doin' to 'em!' That's adopted North Caro- the first time I knew I really wanted lina for Nashville in to get up on stage and sing." Patty 1985, she knew it was her last shot The following year, at age twelve, at pursuing a recording career. Two Patty made her professional singing previous attempts at breaking into debut ("I got paid five bucks") at a the big time had fallen flat as a Ten- small hall in Louisville. A year later nessee hoecake. On top of it, her she started writing songs, in part as husband was pressuring her to have a retreat from the city kids who a child. made fun of her rural ways. "I cried my eyes out," says the All of that is fairly routine for a petite, blond singer. "I told him, young, aspiring performer, but from `Please, just give me one more here on the Loveless story turns year.' " If she still didn't get a record unique. In 1971, at the age of four- contract, she'd settle down and ei- teen, Patty and her older brother, ther become a housewife or go back Roger, with whom she often sang, to school. traveled to Nashville to seek their Today, two years later, Loveless is fortune. Armed with thirty original one of the most promising names in songs, she walked into Porter Wag- country music's "new traditional- oner's office and asked him for help. ism," the wave of musicians return- Impressed with what heheard, ingtothe"old-time"country Wagoner made a master recording sounds. With her first MCA album, of one of the tunes, Sounds of Lone- "Patty Loveless"-containing the liness, a song that showed up on A PROMISING NAME IN COUNTRY already proved singles Lonely Days, Loveless's MCA albumsixteen MUSIC'S NEW TRADITIONALISM Lonely Nights, Wicked Ways, and I years later. Wagoner also helped Did-the thirty -year -old singer Patty and her brother with bookings proves herself a worthy challenger and introduced them to his "girl to Reba McEntire's hold as "the singer," Dolly Parton. only true country -styled new -gener- "Dolly was just so warm and ation female vocalist." friendly, and we became really good Some, in fact, see Loveless as a friends," Loveless says. "We ran throwback to the "girl singers" of around together a lot. She used to old, when every popular country - say, 'Keep up your writing.' And music road show featured a female then when I was back in Louisville vocalist: Loretta Lynn with the Wil- and she and Porter would pass burn Brothers, for example, and through, they'd stop and call my Dolly Parton with Porter Wagoner. house and say, 'Come over and eat If so, Loveless received her training withus.'It was sort of like a first hand. dream." Like Loretta Lynn, Loveleis was a Loveless did keep up her writ- genuine coal miner's daughter. Born ing-and her singing. In 1974, she Patty Ramey, she spent her early and her brother opened a package years in the tiny Appalachian com- show for country -music stalwarts munity of Belcher Holler, Ken- Bill Anderson, Jan Howard, and the tucky, near the town of Pikeville Wilburn Brothers in Louisville. Pat- (birthplace of fellow new tradition- ty, who had already written I Did, a alist Dwight Yoakam). With eight tune in the classic country vein, was children in the house and a father seventeen. who suffered from black -lung and "Loretta [Lynn] had left them to heart disease ("We weren't 'dirt go out on her own," says Loveless, poor,' but before Daddy got black - who has since been told that Lynn is lung benefits, we lived off of Social a distant cousin, "and I think they Security"), the family moved to were looking for someone to replace Louisville when Patty was ten. She her. When I was singing my solo, had started singing at the age of Doyle [Wilburn] pulled [his broth- four, whenever her mother had er] Teddy out to hear me. After- company over, but things turned wards, Doyle came up and started serious when, at eleven, she accom- talking to me about how long I'd panied her older sister, Dottie, an been in music and asked if I was a amateur singer, to Fort Knox, Ken- writer.I told him I was, but that tucky, for a USO show. Porter was trying to help me. Doyle "When Dottie sang in front of all asked me to come by his office any- thoseArmyboys,"remembers way." Loveless,sittingin anofficeat Three weeks later, she drove to BY ALANNA NASH MCA Records in Nashville, "it just Nashville with her songs. When I called my brother Rog- er and told him Ifelt like my life had come back together. I said, 'I feel like it's where I be- long.' " With her brother act- ingashermanager, Lovelessreturnedto Nashville in 1985 and made a five -song demo. MCA's vice-president of artistsandrepertoire, Tony Brown, who co - produced her LP with Emory Gordy, Jr., signedthe new artist within weeks, and Acuff -Rose produced a publishing contract. But professionalgainhas alsobroughtpersonal loss-Loveless and her husband were divorced early this year. Loveless's debutal- bum has been praised both for its passion and production-traditional instrumentation backed by the heavy beat of rockmusic-andthe easy way she alternates ballads,Texas dance - hallmusic,uptempo shuffles, and, with Some Blue Moons Ago, writ- ten by Steve Earle and guitarist Richard Ben- Doyle Wilburn heard I Did, "he They balanced the usual strip joints nett,contemporary country -rock. went crazy," Loveless remembers. and dives with occasional dates Her "wild and wounded" delivery Like her friend Dolly Parton, she with Pure Prairie League and Hank of After All, the song of a spurned moved to Nashville the day after Williams, Jr. mistress, has drawn comparisons she graduated from high school. She Patty Loveless might have re- with Emmylou Harris, and her subsequently signed a publishing mained an obscure club performer strong vocal quality invites compar- contract with the Wilburns' Sure had her life not taken a turn for the ison with Patsy Cline. Loveless has Fire Music ("Porter seemed kind of worse-a severe bout with drugs also inherited Cline's gay -male fol- hurt, even though I wasn't signed to and alcohol, aggravated by the late - lowing. In one West Coast club, his company"), and she looked for- night hours, an over -protective fam- Loveless reports, the clientele sings ward to appearing on the Wilburns' ily, and the death of her father in along en masse when the jukebox tours and popular syndicated televi- 1979. "I was taking a lot of uppers plays the torchy I Did, a song of sion show. and downers, and it was nothing for dejected love. The upshot of it all, however, was me to finish a fifth of straight bour- Although Loveless is soft-spoken, that after a number of road dates, bon in a day," she admits. "From with a quiet humility to her man- the singers mutually agreed that about 1978 to1982,Iwas just ner, she admits to a vaulting ambi- Patty was simply too young for the destroying myself. I looked twenty tion. With a qualifier. rigors of professional singing. By years older than I really was. Final- "Somebody says, 'You're heading this time, she had fallen in love with ly, I took ahold of myself and said, to be a star.' And I say, 'But that's theWilburns'drummer,Terry I'm notlettingthis happen to not really what I want to be.' Some Love/ace. (She changed the name, me.' " people want to put you into a glam- which she says the family always The final catalyst for change came orous role. I just want to be known pronounced "Loveless," to avoid in 1984, when Loveless got a call for my music, have people appre- confusion with Linda Lovelace. the asking her to do a club date. "It was ciate me for what I'm doing, and former pornographic film star.) The for country, not rock-and-roll," she know that it makes people feel good two moved to North Carolina, mar- recalls. "It really felt good, and the inside." Country's newest "girl sing- ried, formed a band, and hit the aud .ence went nuts over it-listen- er" breaks into a smile. "I get off on club circuit playing rock-and-roll. ing .2nd dancing. Next thing I knew, that kind of thing." STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 198799

PUTTING TOGETHER AN AUDIO NETWORK FOR GOOD, CLEAN SOUND THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE

NE rainy March evening several years ago, I inadvertently bought almost a thousand feet of wire. It was attached to a house my wife and I had fallen in love with, and as we were admiring the window casements and asking 0 what we hoped were pertinent questions about the plumbing, the owner casually mentioned that he had had the whole place wired for audio. We bought the house, of course, and one of my projects was to find out just how it had been wired- there were bits of zipcord protruding from holes in every room, but nothing was labeled. Even the former owner had no idea what was connected to what; a nephew had strung the wires, but since he had failed to provide any indication as to where any of them came from or went, the system had never been used. Like many households, ours has audio of some sort in several rooms. There's a full-blown system in the living room, complete with CD player, open -reel tape deck, turntables of several varieties, and a range of mostly use- less signal processors. The family room houses an audio/video setup, while an old receiver and a pair of speakers in the bedroom serve as a clock radio, thanks to a handy little electronic timer. And occasionally we lis- ten to a boombnx on the patio when we want to drive our neighbors crazy. These are all independent systems, with different functions, and normally we use only one at a time. There are occasions, however, when it is useful to tie all of them together. Some of our parties tend to meander from room to room, inside and outside, for instance, and the idea of having musical consistency has some BY IANG. MASTERS appeal (particularly as our house's other parts of the house were as with a flat, line -level signal fed from seventy -five -year -old acoustic isola- much as 100 feet; runs of that length the central system, so that it could tion is not very efficient-the vari- require much heavier cable than be selected and adjusted on the ous systems tend to compete when had been installed. spot. playing simultaneously). Even when An even bigger drawback to driv- One way to do this would be to we're alone, the idea of occasionally ing all the speakers from a central replace the existing wiring with bal- piping music from a CD or tape in amplifier, however, is that such an anced, shielded cable that simply the living room to the patio or the arrangement offers no opportunity took a flat, line -level signal from the family room is attractive, especially to control the sound at the remote main preamplifier (from a tape - since a network already exists. locations. Speakers vary in efficien- monitor output, for instance) and cy and balance, rooms vary in size fed it to the other systems. This, Using What's There and acoustic characteristics, and lis- however, would involve afairly Obviously the original purpose of teners have different preferences, so heavy investment in high -quality all that wire was to feed a number of it is essential to be able to set both cable and possibly matching trans- extension speakers from a central level and tone controlsin each formers, and it would not necessari- amplifier, as16 -gauge lamp cord room, independent of the settings of ly guarantee success-the opportu-

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hadbeenusedthroughoutthe the main system. The ability to nities for interference, hum, and house. That would certainly be the switch the distributed signal off is line losses, particularly at high fre- simplest method of distributing the useful as well. quencies, would be very great with sound, but there are good reasons N any event, we would so much cable. not to do it that way. normallycontinueto At any rate, I was unwilling to rip One major danger is that hooking use each system inde- my walls apart to replace wiring that a bunch of speakers together in pendently, feeding mu- was already there, so I decided to parallel could result in an overall sic from the living room devise a system in which the less - impedance low enough to damage only on rare occasions. than -ideal nature of my built-in ca- all but a very few amplifiers. Four It would be possible in ble would not matter, but which 8 -ohm speakers, for example, would each location to switch the speakers would still deliver a clean signal, at present a nominal 2 -ohm load to the from the local amplifier to the cen- an appropriate level, to each remote amplifier, and the actual impedance tral one, but that seemed to be an location. In the process, I thought I would probably be much lower at inconvenient way to go about it, might be able to economize by em- some frequencies. Anyway, even if and it would also result in different ploying some old audio equipment my amplifier were stable enough to total impedances depending on how that had been gz.thering dust for handle such a load, the wiresI many pairs of speakers were con- years. As it turned out, the total cost inherited were definitely unsuitable. nected at any one time. The alterna- of the systemIcame up with, In some cases, the distances from tive was somehow to present the excluding the wire and the attached the main system to the outlets in inputs of each remote amplifier house, was something like $20.

102 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 The Theoretical System along the way. To drop the signal to 'The combination of the receiver's an appropriate level in each remote output stage, the wiring, and the Without really knowing what was location would involve no more load resistors would be a complete hidden behind the walls, I thought it than inserting a small resistor. Also, circuit in itself, capable of deliver- prudent to design a system that because the receiver's output would ing a high -quality signal to each should work rather than to proceed rarely exceed a watt or two, the sys- remotelocation. The nextstep by trial and error and risk damaging tem's performance would not be ad- would be to connect this "house sys- something if I made a mistake. versely affected by the thinness of tem" to the individual remote am- I reasoned that two things were the wires connecting the main sys- plfiers; for that purpose, additional required to coax a high-fidelity sig- tem to the other rooms. In fact, resistance would be needed to drop nal through my zip -cord labyrinth. even smaller -gauge wire could be the few watts produced by the cen- First, the system's impedance had used without ill effects; if I had been tral amplifier to a level acceptable to to be very low to prevent line losses; wiring the system from scratch,I the local system's line inputs. second, the signal level between the probably would have used very thin Connecting a resistor of fairly master system and the remote loca- four -conductor telephone or inter- high value in series with the remote tions had to be high enough to over - com wire, which could have been system's input and then conecting tacked along baseboards under the that combination in parallel with LOADING CIRCUIT molding and poked through small the resistor loading the house sys- holes, making it unnecessary to put tem would have several effects. The cables inside the walls. overall resistance of the attenuation MPLIFIERoutputsec- circuit would be high, which means tionsare designed to that the bulk of the signal coming drive loads of very low from the central amplifier would impedance compared still be absorbed by the load resistor with other circuits in au- (the phrase "path of least resist- dio-microphones,for ance" has real meaning in electrici- instance, will ordinarily ty), and so the overall performance have impedances of 50 to 150 ohms of the distribution system would if long cables are to be used, while not be disturbed. Also, because only speakers may present loads of 4 a small amount of current would ohms or even less. The receiver in pass through the attenuator, it could my projected system would not be be quite small. called upon to drive speakers, of You could perhaps experiment course. instead, at each remote loca- with numerous fixed resistors to tionheavy-dutyload resistors find one with the right value, but would be substituted, with a high using a variable resistor (a "volume enough total wattage rating to ab- control") would not only have the sorbthedistributionamplifier's advantage of cutting the signal to a output (10 wattsin each room manageable level, but would also would be adequate, I decided, al- allow itto be matched to other though higher values would certain- input levels at each location. Noth- ly do no harm). My system would ing is more irritating than having to reach four areas-I added one when adjust an amplifier's level every TO LOCAL AMPLIFIER I discovered more wires there-so I time a different input is selected. chose to use load resistors of 50 The specific rating of such a control ohms each, which would result in a would be fairly arbitrary because it combined resistance of just over 12 could easily be adjusted to an ap- ride any interference or hum (the ohms, a load high enough to make propriate value; when experiment- wires run parallel to power lines in the amplifier happy but low enough ing with my system Iused 100- many places, so hum would be a to keep distortion low and frequen- kilohm wire -wound variable resis- serious possibility), but not so high cy response flat. This value is some- tors because I had several on hand, that it would overload the high-lev- what higher than the 8 ohms the and they worked well. Again, the el inputs of the local amplifiers. receiver is designed to drive, but the impedance mismatch in this circuit The solution was to use a small mismatch would be irrelevant in might be fairly gross, but because it power amplifier to drive the system, this application. While most audio would be upward, it wouldn't mat- and Ipressed an ancient 15 -watt circuits are quite intolerant of driv- ter.If the combination were too receiver into service for this pur- ing impedances that are too low, inefficient, more power from the pose. While that amount of power ones that are too high-"upward distribution amplifier would fix it. would not be enough to drive very mismatches"-simply reduce the many speakers satisfactorily, which efficiency of the circuit. Using an Putting It into Practice is why the unit was retired, it would amplifier the way I envisioned, Several evenings of tinkering as- be more than ample for my pur- however, would make much more sured me that the system should pose; even with the output kept to power available than could ever be work in theory, but I had yet to the lower part of its operating range used, so such inefficiency wouldn't determine where the various wires (to avoid clipping), the signal would really matter; any losses could be sticking out of the walls went to, or be many decibels higher than any overcome simply by turning the whethertheremay havebeen spurious noise likely to be picked up amplifier up a bit. freaks or-worse-short circuits in

STEREO REviEw NOVEMBER 1987 103 them. Because the cables were in the my mnemonic in such casesis controls of which were set to their walls, I had little hope of fixing any "white is right"). flat position. The volume control irregularities I might find. Having done that,Iset out to was set to its minimum so that the The first step in turning my theo- make sure the whole system was in system would in effect be fed si- retical circuit into reality was sim- phase. Some cables had their polari- lence, and the speaker terminals ply to find all the outlets; the noto- ty identified, and some did not, but were connected to the wires leading rious nephew who had installed the even the ones that did might well to the rest of the house. Then I wire had been very thorough, even have contained reversals caused by switched the power on. I connected including such places as the kitchen splices in the walls. At the various each remote amplifier to the system and laundry room as potential lis- remote locations, I arbitrarily chose in turn, with the proper input select- tening areas, as well as providing one conductor of each cable to be ed but the level down. Very gradua- multiple outlets in the major rooms. "hot" and tied a knot in it (mne- ly, I turned the level up and noted Then, once I had located all the monic: "knot is hot"); then I con- any peculiar noises-hum, crackles, wires, I untangled them to make nected the left and right "hot" con- radiointerference. Fortunately, sure there were no visible short cir- ductors together and left the others even with the attenuators turned all cuits and stripped those ends that free. Back at the master system, the way up, I heard no disturbing required it. To identify any shorts using my short-circuit detector on sounds. Finally, with each of the hidden in the walls, I devised a sim- the pairs of cables going to each attenuators set at their approximate ple test. room,Iwas ableto determine middle points and levels turned all Had one been available, I could which were the "hot" leads in each the way down, it came time to feed a have used an ohmmeter for this: A case-of the four conductors lead- real signal through the system. shorted wire would show no resist- ing to a particular remote location, Very gingerly, I advanced the lev- ance, a clear one infinite resistance. only the two "hot" ones would now el on the distribution amplifier a An alternative would have been to pass a signal if attached to the test notch or two, then checked at each use a battery and a flashlight bulb: rig. Again, these were identified by remote location to see what was One batteryterminal would be knots. coming through. Somewhat to my wired to the bulb permanently, the To this point, the setup would in surprise, the signal was virtually other attached to one conductor of theory have been capable of sending perfect. All that was necessary to the cable under test; if the bulb lit different signals to each of the re- balance the whole system was a bit when the other conductor was con- mote systems because they were all of juggling of the central amplifier's nected to it, that would indicate a connected separately to the living level control and the local attenua- short circuit in the cable. room. While this might have some tors.I discovered that an almost In the end, I put together a rig that appeal later, either for me or for a perfect match both used a portable cassette player and a future owner of the house, I decided tonal balance could be achieved by pair of headphones. I made a short that I would rarely use it, so I sim- feeding an FM signal through the extension for the headphones' cable ply connected all the leads for each system and comparing it in each and cut one of the conductors. By channel together, reducing the ca- room to the sound of the local tun- attaching the two severed ends to bles that would be attached to the er, set to the same station. the two conductors of a wire under distribution amplifier to two. Two simple final checks com- test, in an attempt to complete the pleted the setup process. In spite of headphone circuit through the wire Setting It Up the care I had taken to identify all in question, I would be able to find With some assurance that my in- the wires in the system, I might still any short circuits-I would hear herited wires did in fact constitute have transposed right and left chan- sound if there were a short, silence if the basis for a workable system, and nels or wired something out of not. By testing each cable in this that my resuscitated receiver would phase. To make sure left was left manner, I satisfied myself that there drive it satisfactorily, the time came and right was right, I turned the bal- were no shorts. to see if everything worked. ance control on the distribution am- Next, in a single series of tests, I At each remote location,Iin- plifier all the way to the left and identified which wire went where stalled the load resistors and attenu- checked each remote location to in- and made sure none of them had ators, taking care to observe correct sure that sound was being produced breaks along the way. One by one, I polarity throughout. For aesthetic only by the left speaker. For phase, I temporarily shorted each cable at reasons,I mounted these compo- played a mono signal and switched the remote end by twisting its con- nents, plus a pair of phono jacks, in each remote system to mono; if ductors together. When my short- wall plates and connected them to there had been any phase problems, circuit test was repeated, the only the individual systems with a nor- the signal would have canceled out cable that passed a signal was the mal pair of RCA patch cords. Be- almost entirely. shorted one. Each wire was tested in cause the high-level inputs of some Itis almost axiomatic that an this fashion until I had marked the of the remote amplifiers are de- audio system as complicated as this destinations of all of them and had signed to short when not in use-a will initially be riddled with bugs, determined there were no breaks. possible disaster when connected to glitches, and other similarly un- Now I knew which cable in the the output of an amplifier-I fed pleasant things. To my great relief- living room led to which remote the distributed signal leads to suit- and surprise-everything worked location, and I arbitrarily decided ably marked tape -monitor inputs. perfectly right off the bat, which which of each pair would carry the In the living room, I connected encourages me now to tackle the left channel and which the right (I one of the main system's tape -mon- house'sattic -to -cellarvideosys- marked the right -channel lead in itor outputs to a high-level input on tem .. . oh, did I forget to men-

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104 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 1522,NcstuP Camusegancans Gtose 1620 Pa.camar Ai PLITIOUrn Roca 1566 GaExr FIRE OF LONDON 1709 Fast PIANOropir BUILT 1776 DEciartarioN OF InoseENDENCE IBIS Bans OF WATERLOO 1877 Eolsotas PHONOGRAPH 1915P CANAL OPENS 1958 51.E0 INTRODUCED 1500 Da Vegas MoNA LISA 1558 EuzAsem I, Que. Or 1603 FrasT OPERA SUNG Ig trAtv 1636 Hartvarto Ugwersnv FOUNDED 1692 SALEM Win,citprr TRIALS 1740F...arm The Gum. KING OPPauSsek 1793Eu WHITNEY, Corms GIN 1849 CROFORIRA GOLD RUSH 1B83 Mersonmr. Om. OPENS 1948LP RECORD LAUNCHED 1983 C D IMAODUCED STEREO REV IEW'S 1500 1525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 PRESENT CALENDAR OF CLASSICAL EI Thomas Tanis (1505-1585) E Charles Gounod (1818-1893) E Mellor Villa -Lobos (1887-1959) MAJOR MUSICAL STYLES E Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) 0 Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) DLO Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) COMPOSERS Orlandus lassos (1532-15941 El Cesar Franck (1822-1890) E Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) D William Byrd (1543-1623) CI Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) 0 Darius Milhaud (7892-1974) CI Tomas Luis de Victoria (c. 1549-1411) ID Beach Smetana (1824-7884) El D Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) BYWILLIAM LIVINGSTONE El Giovanni Gabrieli (7557-1612) ID Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899) 53 Carl Orff (1895-1982) NOVEMBER 1,87 M John Dowlarid (1562-1626) El Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) E Roger Sessions (1896-1985) he Calendar of Classical Composers along the way to serve as landmarks or guideposts. D El Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) E Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) E E Virgil Thomson (1896- ) provides a framework to show how a The width of the labels of the major stylistic periods indi- OGirolamp Frescobaldi (1583-1643) CLASSIC El Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) E Henry Cowell (1897-1965) particular composer fits into the overall cates their approximate duration. Bear in mind, however, El Heiamch Schutz (1585-1672) El pp Camille Saint -Satins (1835-1921) 2 George Gershwin (1898-1937) scheme of music history. But a creative that exact dates cannot be assigned to the beginning or end M Jean -Baptiste Lolly (1632-1687) E Georges Bizet (1838-1875) E Roy Harris (1898-1979) artist's imagination never fits exactly into of any artistic style and that most of the periods overlap a bit. 2] Marc -Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) E Max Bruch (7838-1920) MCI Francis Poulenc (1899-1%3) POST-MODERN any pigeonhole, and the calendar also A number before the name of each composer refers to M Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707) E Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) 0 0 Aaron Copland (1900- ) shows that classical music is not a series the definitions below, which describe some salient charac- RENAISSANCE Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) E Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) D Kurt Weill (1900-1950) of isolated incidents, but a dynamic continuum that flows teristics of the major styles. Several composers have been CI Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) E Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) El Joaquin Rodrigo (790I- ) onward, always evolving. assigned two numbers because their music does not fit M Henry Purcell (c. 1659-1695) N Antonin Dvoiak (184/-1904) N T William Walton (1902-1983) To help readers keep their bearings while they look at the neatly into one category or the other. A few, such as Camille E Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) E Jules Massenet (1842-1912) 51 D Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) calendar, dates are placed at regular intervals along the top. Saint -Satins, have two numbers because they began work-

E Francois Couperin )0668-1733) ' ID Michael Tipped (1905- ) A few outstanding events in history are also singled out ing in one style but later moved to another. W.L. E Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750) ROMANTIC ( M Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) DEdvard Grieg (1843-1907) E][3 111)rnitriElliottECartherI/aAch S 90k°8-706-1975) E El Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) El Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) fl)1 Olivier Messiaen (1908- ) RENAISSANCE, ROC000,1700-1800. virtuoso composeriperformersStravinsky, who has worked in E CI Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) ['Gabriel Faire (1845-1924) CI al Samuel Barber (1910-1981) 1350-1600. Composers in the Rococo style, such as Paganini and Liszt werea variety of styles, frequently ID (1685-1750) DE Leo's Janacek (1854-1928) N NI William Schuman (1910- -) A major concern at this timean elegant outgrowth of the prominent. °rehearas became allied to dance. Modem nation- CI (1685-1759) ©Ernst Chausson (1855-1899) N Giancarlo Menotti (1911- ) was matching the mood of Baroque, stressed lightness and larger, and operas becamealists include BartOk, Janacek, music to words. Although clarity and rejected polyphony Rodrigo, Ives (and American 171 (1685-1757) - ID Edward Eiger (7857-1934) E John Cage (1912- ) longer, culminating in the E Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) CI Ruggiero Leoneavallo (1858-1979) PA BenjaMin Britten (1913-1976) sacred forms, such as masses and the academic forms of their music dramas of Wagner. neo-Romantics, such as Bar- CI Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) and motets, continued to flour- predecessors. French seeds of ber), and Vaughan Williams and El William Boyce (1710-1779) L,41 Witold Lutoslawski (1913- ) ish, music began to reach a the Rococo, planted early by E Giovanni Battista PetgOlesl (1710.1736) ©Isaac Albeniz (1860.1909) E LATE ROMANTIC, other English symphonists. E, Alberto Ginastera 11916-1983) wider secular audience. Many Lully, began to flower in the 1875-1950. Jazz has influenced many mod- E Gustav Mahler (1860-1910 1:1 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) E ErLeonard Bernstein (1918- ) in the leisuredclassbegan to work of Rameau. The piano Introducing elementsof dark-ern composers, particularly 2 Christoph WiliibnaIdzvon k(17J743-21-787) perform polyphonic vocalbecame the most important ness into their music, BerliozMilhaud and Gershsvin. Mod - Josef Haydn L A T E R 0 Al A N T I C music he the form of madrigals keyboard instrument, and and Chopin were precursors of dance has drawn on music Johann Christian Bach (17351782) E Hugo Wolf (1860-19031 EmGeorgNed.eR.Rocremhb(e19%23(-1918- .1 or instrumental music on viols, the symphony was further later developments in Romanticas different as that of the con- -J Luigi Boccherini 0743-1805) E Edward MacDowell(1861-1908) lutes, or harpsichords. The gal - developed. Bach's sons Johann music, which led to the wal-servative Schuman and the hard and other dance forms Christian and Carl Philipploping, sometimes neurotic "chancey compositions of Cage. E (1756-1791) ID Claude Debussy (1862-1918) I_@ Luciano Berio (1925- ) El Luigi Cherubim (1760-7842) were cultivated by such com- Emanuel are quintessentialsymphonies of Mahler. All DLO Frederick Delius (1862-19341 CI Pierre Boulez 41925- 1 posers as William Byrd. Rococo composers. E, NEO-CLASSIC, C] Lfl (7770-7827) emotional restraint was aban- ©Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) E ®Hans Wearer Henze (1926- ) Giovanni Gabrieli wrote the 1920 -Present. IT E Fernando Sue (1778-1839) doned in Richard Strauss's E RichardStrauss (1864-1949) EC WI Karlheini5Mokhausen (1928- I first sonatas. Music publishing 'M CLASSIC, 1750-1850. operas Salome and Elektra. A desire for balance and a wish IllNiccolh Paganini (1782-1840) 1g1GeorgeCrumb (1929- ) Sonata form determined theNationalism became a strong to impose order on the chaos of 2 Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) IIID 111PaulCaprluNktsIsean65(1-81695-351)930 EliVs. ILzyrefokliPeno.93d6a-cecki )(1933- I shape of chamber composi-force through the music oflife is evident in undercurrents El Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) E Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) )] BAROQUE, 1600-1750. tions, the three -movement con- Dvorak, Smetana, and numer-throughout music history. It can

E Gaeta. Donizetti (1797-1848) D Erik Satie 11866-1925) 1, David Del Tiedki 0937- , A convenient starting point for certo, and the four -movementous Russians. Ballet had its be seen in the work of Lully Ma) El Franz Schubert (1797-1828) the Baroque Era is the invention symphony,,hch were the "classic" period here in theMg the Baroque and in that of of opera initaly, which heralded principal insmunental genres. work of Tchaikovsky. Brahms during the Romantic D Vincenzo Bellini (1801-7835) I Al P I{ F. S S ! , the beginning of monody (and Order and clarity much prized period. In twentieth-century ['Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) 1 ®Ls IIIIIIII,G1,,(19.37- ,.. decline of polyphony) in vocal during this period, arevident IT IMPRESSIONISM, music it comes to the surface CI FelixMendelsohn(1809-1847) S'Arbellrtj"RoPhuns(seTh1608-816991-71)937) I3A John Adana, 41947,-) -.1' - - music. Emphasis on form and in the music of itsgreeatest 1875-1925. in the work of Hindemith, Xl Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) El (1872-1915) . - - decoration is a strong element geniuses, Haydn and Mozart. The pictorial element that is anStravinsky, and Virgil Thom- Robert Schumann (1810-1856) m pi Ralph Varighan-Wffliams 0872 » '..":''',"-).: . of Baroque style. The use ofThe earliest operas of oureasily identifiable aspect ofson, who (at least some of the 'i Franz Liszt amr-188a. continuo was widespread. The standard repertoire were com- Impressionism can E Sergei Rachmariinoff (1873-19431- :' '', . . be tracedtime) have shown Classic 15.) Giuseppe Verdi (18/3-1901) NI T Gustav Hoist (1854-1934)' era reached its musical peaks posed at this time by Gluck and back to works ofLiszt thatrestraint in the content of their LE Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Z Charles Ives (1874-19:(4] when Vivaldi developed the Mozart. describe weather and water.music, lighter texture than the El NJ Arnold Schoenberg 0874-1950 NIODERN Italian violin sonata and con- Harmonic experimentation andRomantics, and a return to cer- mE (1875-1937) certo, Handel popularizedEl ROMANTIC, 1803-1900. a taste for the exotic are othertain Classic forms. opera and oratorio in England, Romantic composers were features of this style. It its C5 Fs1Manuel de Falls (1876-1946) Domenico Scarlatti wrote theprincipally concerned with the greatest fruit in the music of)6 POST-MODERN, E Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) harpsichord sonatas that are the emotional content of music and Debussy, who was closely allied 1950 -Present. Cm -1 N Blochoa801-8819401)959. ) foundation of modern pianoexpressing their own (some- to the Impressionist painting ofThe eclecticism and retrospec- BelaErnest technique, and Johann Sebas- times ecstatic)feelings. A transi- his time. Ravel, who began astive recycling common in the E M Zoltan KodMy (4882-1967) NEO-CLASSIC tian Bach brought to German tional figure, Beethoven came to an Impressionist, became avisual arts can be seen in the PIJ 2 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) church music its most beautiful typify the Romantic tempera- Neo-Classicist. work of contemporary tonal II] Anton Webern (7883-1945) expression. The orchestra took ment. Forms grew both smaller composers like David Del Ire - I.TI Charles Griffes (1884-1920) on a standard shape, andand larger, and Schubert El MODERN, 1900 -Present. did. Op Art and Minimalism in polyphony remained strong in worked in miniature la the Ger- D Edgard Varese (1885-1965) Compositions by the devel-painting have their musical instrumental music. The fugue, man art song (or lied) as well as opers of dodecaphonic andcounterparts in Minimalist E E Alban Berg 11885-/935) French overture, Italian sinfo-in expanded symphonies forserial music are getting a bitcomposers like Reich and Glass. nia, and concerto grosso were large orchestra. Bel canto opera long in the tooth for the termViewing our era from a more popular forms, and Bachflourished in the work of-modern," but that style per-distant perspective, future crit- excelled in all of them. His Rossini, Bellini, and Dontrarti. sists in such recent work as thatics may see unifying traits in the death, along with that of Han- Forms became looser (toneof Boulez. A quite differentwork of the disparate com- del, marked the end of the era. poems, ballades, fantasies), and modern strain is represented byposers of the present. Basic/4ED syS u s LLEWELLYN S After fouryears atthe keyboard ofa *STEREO REVIEW'S. Hewlett Packard,we wereready foraSteinway. COMPOSERSCALENDAR OF CLASSICAL

In 1983, Dr. Godehard Guenther, steel. Strong and non-magnetic, enclosure, even with the room in How good it ultimately President of a/d/s/, issued an it enabled us to produce a motor which the system is played. sounds depends on the box BY WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE injunction to our engineers and quick enough to resolve the finest And we had an advantage: the you put it in. designers. "Guys:' he said, detail, even at the highest volume excellence of our drivers allowed That's why we employed a They work "somebody's got to come up level. And so our research went, us to use idea/crossover points. polymer material filled with an with a new loudspeaker standard. until our drivers were as perfect Using these points, all the funda- Let's make sure its us!" as the laws of physics allow. mental tones of the human voice Understand: he wasn't suggest- The crossover network. can be reproduced by a single thewaythey do he history of Western classical beginning point because earlier Renaissance com- ing our existing loudspeakers You don't see it. You shouldn't driver. With the computer, we weren't good. Rather, he was evaluated countless prototypes of music can be compared to a large posers, such as Ockeghem and Josguin des Prez, are hear it, either. of little more than historical interest to most modern challenging us to address the crossovers. A 4th -order network river system whose various origins lie hidden in distant misty hills. record collectors. Similarly, in choosing which com- shortcomings present even in the When most speaker makers of the Linkwitz-Riley type proved because Modem scholars keep producing posers to include as representatives of important design crossover networks, their the most appropriate. This type very best speakers, ours included. Mardis/, we make our performable editions of older and styles, I haw been guided by the number of each own drivers. Our high primary concern is the interaction alone yields the response that sat- Shortcomings made all the more detion woofirs feature older compositions, but it is still one's currently available recordings and their distri- apparent by the sonic demands of the drivers. VVe were more isfied our requirements for neu- impossible to pinpoint an erect time or place and say bution in the United States. This means that I have C1:11ToOrt's: 11a ss ern- of the compact disc. blies-painstakIngly crafted to ambitious. We sought crossovers trality and realistic imaging On a hat here is where classical music begins. had to leave out such interesting composers as worked frequency response plot, the cross- we that optimize the relationship eliminate coloration. It is difficult to draw sharp boundaries between Giordano, Carlos Chavez, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. What we sought to build were between the drivers and their over points aren't e.ren detectable. tylistic periods. During some periods different styles Obviously, I have also made some choices on the speakers that didn't sound like With its stainless steel coiljormer and In this veritable mountain of in- f music exist side by side in the same way that a tribu- basis of personal taste. a set of drivers stuffed in a box. We finally had the tools to be as critical as we were formation, acoustic truths resided. reVrmeggg': ch:nUen=gde Vatever tary stream sometimes maintains its separate identity The composers calendar on the following pages is theway wedid. Our goal was to create speakers m a larger river long past the point of confluence. not encyclopedic in scope. It is simply an overview in inclined to be. characterized by a stable sound doMer7==d2a0T/TV,=. In attempting a graphic representation of musical chart form, a guide for those who wish to navigate stage, pinpoint imaging and Our first task was to take a long, history I have chosen the year 1500 as an arbitrary with ease among the currents of classical music. sound that seemed to emanate hard look at the limitations inher- from free space. ent in loudspeaker drivers. That it was a tall order. But the technol- required a powerful "microscope." ogy that has resulted-Unisffn'TM And, fortunately, we had one- ...of one voice-is the kind other a high -resolution, super -fast mesaremaaeorym speaker makers will be emulating computer from Hewlett-Packard, supported by a sophisticated for years to come. Fm;71ri;nit' ute M h mathematical program of our The CM7's Oth-order, 2.151/oclave crossover detailed, high frequency response at won etwork. Complex, soppistinktattecOnn- the highestlevels. own devise. ZslAe=at"otrItiCr:s"s=ra :ableimage. extremely high mass compound to Housed in a specially designed lithe drivers aren't flawless, produce the rigid, aurally "invisible" a/d/s/acoustia laboratory, the no amount of camouflaging enclosures of our Compact Monitor computer gave us the ability to will hide the flaws. Series. You'll be amazed by the generate and analyze driver per- weight of these little beauties- formance data with an accuracy, One fact was obvious: the tradi- they're heavy. You'll be floored by thoroughness and detail never tional materials used to construct the sound. attainable before. woofers, tweeters and midranges - creunre + R4 High technology -polypropylene, metal, cellulose To our ears, our new speakers- . o I MHr enclosure materials compounds-were simply the M Series and compact CM n it enableus to make the 0.17 ON and CMS inadequate. So we set about to Series-offer convincing proof that J. discover new ones ideally suited UnisOn technology does indeed f at the molecular level to the jobs define a new era in speaker per- ntgail=rer t they're required to do. formance. All that remains is for el 1 In heCMmeasuesa bass you to take ears of your own to mere 9V, a 5.M..M. For the domes of our tweeters, 7210 loudn one of the dealers listed on page we selected a proprietary co- 4 0 a/d/s/ polymer that's exceedingly rigid, 193 of this issue. yet has superb internal damping # ILLUSTRATED BY MICHELLE Etxxxis fir and freedom from ringing. For the voice coil formers in our Unman is a twlernark Ofnaval amN.15terns, Inc midranges, we adopted stainless a/d/s/ AN INTERVIEW WITH BOB LUDWIG A recording master talks about the new technologies and new possibilities.

BOB Ludwig's ears are a finely tuned pair of an- tennas. If they were kid- napped (earnapped?) the production end of the record industry would undoubtedly suffer severelyuntil the ransom was paid. As one of the chief engineers at Masterdisk, a high-tech Manhattan - based complex where many of to- day's top recordings are mastered, Ludwig has the final say before the die is cut. That Masterdisk is vir- tually wallpapered with gold and platinum records speaks for the az- curacy of Ludwig's ears; some of the more prominent projects Ludwig has recently seen from mixed -down tape to monster -selling finished disc include Bruce Springsteen's "Tu4 nel of Love," U2's "The Joshua by Mark Defy

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Some classical producers have felt disk. As he is fond of saying, "Mas- that the rumble or the lack of bril- tering is the final creative step and Audible Improvements liance was more acceptable than go- the first manufacturing step." Con- But what are the ramifications of ing through that conversion stage to sumers remain largely ignorant of Ludwig's new toy for me and my get rid of it. So a lot of things that the role mastering engineers play, CD player? Will this new breed of the producers have wanted to cor- however, despite the profound eff- recording really sound that much rect, they haven't bothered to cor- fect Ludwig and others like him better than the howling Hendrix CD rect. Now, staying in the digital have on the state of audio art. that's been burning my woofers? domain, there's no reason what- "Yes," Ludwig assured me. "The soever not to do that. The DTC-1 Computerized Mastering fact that you're not going through has a 12 -cycle high-pass filter; you The newly developed technology can roll off everything below 20 Ludwig is using right now is just cycles. We could listen to the tape, beginning to trickle down to the starting very low and moving up to consumer market, and it's opening t's a big deal to a higher crossover point, to deter- up all kinds of possibilities. Take, mine what the lowest frequency was forexample,Masterdisk'snew be able to stay that eliminated the elevator rumble Neve DTC-1 digital transfer con- digital the whole way. without hurting the music." sole, a computerized mastering con- sole that accomplishes the last steps It's been too bad Enter DAT (before pressing) in the first -ever in the past when we'd Besides the Neve DTC-1, there completelydigitalrecord -making have to go into the areothertechnologicalbreak- process. throughs about to turn the audio "This is the first time in the West- analog domain to do world on its ear. DAT (digital audio ern Hemisphere [that] there's been a equalization and tape) is one of them. Ludwig offers console that has a memory tied to an insider's point of view on every- the SMPTE time code," Ludwig level changes." body's favorite topic of debate. told me, running his hand over a "I first heard a DAT machine at sleek, dark, vaguely Darth Vader- the Power Station Studio in New ish machine like a proud father. York City," he recalled. "Now we "There are only two of them in the the digital-to-analog/analog-to-digi- have our own-a Sony 1000.It whole world right now. The equaliz- tal conversions means that there sounds at least as good as a good ers are brand new; these curves have will be less noise. CD player. The first machines are never existed before. They sound "With a lot of pop music, the ar- going to be over a thousand dollars, really good-more phase coherent tistic use of a compressor is really a and they're going to be well de- [than analog]. There's a digital lim- good thing. It brings it more to life, signed. The lab tests that have been iter and compressor, and the con- makes it more like rock-and-roll. done have produced excellent quali- sole has 250 snapshot memories. In And this compressor in the digital ty DAT cassettes with very few other words, every time you do a domain is so much quieter than any errors. mastering change, you record it as a analog compressor that ever exist- "I'm a DAT advocate on non - snapshot of the whole console. It'll ed, there's really no comparison." archival things. For instance, right memorize fades for you, and things But what about that CD of Bach's now, if you put out a promotional like that. They're recorded on Max - Brandenburg Concertos I've grown single on a CD, it's a very expensive ell floppy disks." to love? proposition. We have the fairly lu- Needless to say, the Neve has "Most well-done classical record- dicrous situation of cutting an ana- turned Ludwig's end of the business ings don't need to have a great deal log promotional disc for something upside down. As he put it, "It's a big of equalization or level changes," that a radio station could play off a deal to be able to stay digital the Ludwig acknowledged, "but a lot of CD player. The CD production is whole way. It's been too bad in the times there'll be rumble. For in- still so backed up that it's a costly past when we'd have to go into the stance, there's this famous studio in thing to make a small run of CD's. analog domain to do the equaliza- New York where a lot of classical "DAT is the perfect solution to tion and level changes, and then go recordings are made, and there's this problem. You could make sev- back to digital. This way, we're able rumble from an elevator that they eral hundred copies of a promotion- to do all of those changes and stay always have to edit around. Some- al item in not too great a period of digital. times, their best take happens to time, send it to radio stations, and

114STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 B O B LUDWIG they'd be able to play it in the digital notches are going to be smack on inferior, which couldn't be further domain. Most promotional items the fundamental! from the truth. Most of the major are not going to be played for more "I appreciate record companies pop music that we do is recorded than a few weeks anyway. wanting to protect themselves from both ways, and the selection of "But if it's something that's archi- bootlegging. The companies say which sounds better is an artistic val, CD is the most reliable data - they lose 1.5 billion dollars a year. decision. If, for that particular proj- storage system that we have. It's The tape manufacturers say that the ect, the analog sounds better, ob- very, very durable. The question actual amount of bootleggingis viously that's what they should use, that remains to be answered is how very, very small. if thatisclosertotheartist's reliable a DAT is going to be over a "I'm in no position to know intent. period of time. I've got this great which one of those sources is right. "To have the CD come out and CD of Rubinstein piano recordings, If it is as bad as the record compa- say that [the original master was] made in the early Sixties, and if nies say it is, and by using this copy - made on analog equipment, and there was a question of buying a prevention chip they're suddenly that the resolution on the CD will DAT cassette or a CD of it,I going to be 1.5 billion dollars richer show up 'inferiorities,' or however wouldn't dream of buying a DAT! I every year, then maybe they'll be they word that, is bad. Certainly the couldn't think of a reason in the able to sign more experimental art- consumer has a right to know; it's world why I'd want to buy some- ists every year! That'd be nice, just that the consumer ought to thing that could jam or wear out or y'know?" know that there's nothing wrong be susceptible to problems in the with using an analog tape source for future. And while there'll be fast a pop record." access times on the DAT-you'll be CC Pressed for a bit of crystal -ball able to access any part of the tape ost of the gazing about the future of vinyl, within ten seconds, or something Ludwig hazarded a prediction or like that-it's certainly not the in- major pop two. "Do I see records disappearing stantaneous access you can get with music that we do within the next fifty years? Yeah, a CD. The CD is more convenient but every time we've predicted to use, and it's durable." is recorded both when it was going to be, it ends up Admittedly, CD's are-for the ways, on digital not being that. I think the advent of moment-longer-lasting and a bit and analog tape, and DMM [Direct Metal Mastering] has more user-friendly than DAT's. The helped stave off the LP's demise. DAT's selling point is the fact that it the selection of Private Music, which is a New Age opens the door to digital home which to use is an music label, began by issuing just recording by consumers. This Pan- CD's, but they found that there are dora's box of possibilities has indus- artistic decision." so many people in colleges still buy- try watchdogs up in arms. ing LP's that they had to start put- A proposed solution to the ram- L ting them out." pant CD piracy they predict is the So there is some validity in spin- CBS "Copycode" filter, a double - Appreciating Analog ning those LP's from your college ended copy -prevention system de- Although he doesn't mind joining days, with their nostalgicskips, veloped by the CBS Records Tech- the knock -down -drag -outsover pops, and crackles? nology Center. The elimination of DAT andnotch -filterencoding, "Absolutely!"saidLudwig."I certain frequencies in the original Ludwig has mixed feelings about don't ever foresee getting rid of my recording, in combination with a the old analog -versus -digital chest- turntable. If I listen to an old Robert complementary detector chipin nut. Sure, he'd be the first to agree Johnson or a Blind Willie McTell speciallyoutfittedDAT decks, that "a well-done CD, played back record, I can't imagine what those would make it impossible for any on a good player, is the most accu- guys would sound like on a digital encoded CD's, LP's, or cassettes to rate playback that we have today." recording! Part of the whole vibe of be dubbed. The hitch is that the On the other hand, he suggests, the record is having to kind of listen effects of this encoding process are art cannot live by accuracy alone. through the noise to hear the soulful all too audible, according to some "A lot of pop producers still, for ar- mutterings,y'know? The Bessie experts. Ludwig agrees. tistic reasons, choose to record in Smith records that CBS put out, "I, as well as my wife and other analog form because analog tape is, where they very carefully de -clicked people who were with me the day I in effect, a very soft compressor. them all, were wonderful because tested an encoded CD, could defi- That is a valid tool to use on some they still have that sound of the nitely hear the notch filter. The sys- pop music. There's no hard line Twenties in them. What [Marshall] tem is predicated on everybody be- here. Some stuff definitely sounds McLuhan said, that the medium is ing tuned to A=440. Look at this better digital, and some stuff defi- the message, is so true. Bessie Smith project I did yesterday, where out of nitely sounds better analog. just wouldn't have the same vibe if ten tunes, five were slightly varisped "I know a lot of producers who you heard her with a 96 -dB signal- one way or another [sped up or highly resent those comments that to-noise ratio in modern digital." slowed down] so that they weren't some record companies put on Which is just another way of say- in the A =440 tuning any more. CD's, implying that because it was ing that there's still room for a little God knows that some of those done from an analog source it's soul in this digital world, Bessie.

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120 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBF.R 1987 Thebedmom has a view of the Pacific Ocean on one side, a wall of mirrors reflecting it on the other, and a window on the world through a 35 -inch Mitsubishi TV set flanked by KEF speakers.

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STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 121 OPEN REEL RECORDING

Two decades ago there were 822CX is still a jewel in my system, They show thatapurposere- no cassette decks, and au- dropped out a few years back, as did mains-and will continue to re- diophiles would have dis- Akai and Pioneer. And only recent- main-for the open -reelformat. missed the very idea of digi- ly Tandberg ceased production of But understanding why so many tal recording as delirium. An open - its grand old TD -20A SE. open -reel decks are gone will per- reel tape deck-rather, a "profes- There are still open -reel decks be- haps give perspective to why others sional" open -reel deck-was the ing made, however. -Revox is survive. hallmark of the truly advanced au- still with us, and Teac continues to Professional open -reel machines diophile system. manufacture open -reel machines, as became a reality shortly after World Many of today's audiophiles have does Technics, with its smooth "iso- War II, when John Mullin (later of never used an open -reel deck and loop" drive system. From the pro- Ampex) reassembled two pirated would not even recognize many of fessionalside,selling mostly to German Magnetophon recorders. the names familiar to those who small studios yet still affordable by (Sir Thomas Beecham had recorded lived through hi-fi's recording ado- many audiophiles, Tascam, Uher, on such a machine in 1936.) The lescence:Berlant,Presto,Bogen, , Sony, and Otarire- 3M company was persuaded to Viking, Webcor, Pentron, Ferro - main, joined by an outstanding new make a suitable tape for the format, graph, Magnecord, and others. Year entry from Fostex with excellent and Bing Crosby "made" the me- by year the list of manufacturers of editing facilities. dium when he put his nationally open -reelaudiophiledeckshas These machines are more than syndicated radio program on tape grown a bit shorter. Crown, whose substanceformid-lifenostalgia. in 1948.

One of the most fea- ture -packed open -reel machines left on the market, the $1,800 Technics RS-1506US features an isolated - loop, three -motor, di- rect -drive transport sys- tem; four heads; quartz phase -locked servo con- trol; pitch control; and full -lc logic control for electronic braking, quick -play, and trans- port functions. Other professional features in- clude three speeds (15, 71/2, and 344 ips), a real- time tape counter, and special editing functions such as cue control, a reversing roller, and "mix" recording so you can combine micro- phone and line inputs. At 15 ips, the rated fre- quency response is 30 to 30,000 Hz ±3 dB.

122 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 There's life in the old format yet. by Craig Stark

But studio recorders, then as now, them. Achieving that near -equiva- I say "theoretical" in these cases were too costly for all but a few of lent quality, however, has been a because another factor, equaliza- the many passionate music lovers Herculean task. tion, must be considered. As tape who brought about the hi-fi revolu- Theadvantagesofopen -reel speed is lowered it becomes much tion of the Fifties and Sixties. With decks are definitely audible. The more difficult to record and repro- few exceptions,the "home" or, width of a recorded track on a cas- duce the upper end of the audio sometimes, the "semi-professional" sette deck is 0.021 inch; a quarter - spectrum successfully. If a frequen- open -reel machines generally avail- track open -reelmachine uses a cy response up to 20,000 Hz (or able were pale copies of the profes- 0.041 -inch track, and a half-track even near that) is required at tape sional product. open -reel deck has a track width of speeds below 71/2 ips, large amounts The convenience of the new cas- 0.082. For each doubling of width, of treble boost must be used, direct- sette format and the genuine diffi- the net gain in signal-to-noise ratio ly in recording and indirectly in culty many people experienced in (s/N) is 3 dB. The effect of higher playback. But a treble boost during threading and handling open -reel speeds is also important. From FM recording can easily cause high -fre- tapes on big, bulky machines were inches per second (ips), the cassette quency tape saturation, and during obviously important factors in the speed, to open -reel's 33/4 ips is a the- playback it can increase hiss. So the decline of open -reel home record- oretical 3 -dB difference inS/N,and original advantage of open -reel tape ing. If cassettes could offer very the higher open -reel speeds of 71/2 widths and speeds was even greater nearly equivalent sound quality, and 15 ips theoretically afford 6 - than the theoretical minimum of 3 most people would obviously prefer and 9 -dB improvements. dB for each doubling.

The Fostex E-2 ($3,000) exemplifies the kind of open -reel deck for which there is a con- tinuing need. A 15- or 71/2-ips, half-track stereo deck with a frequency response extending to 26,000 Hz at 15 ips, it features pitch control, three -channel profession- al vu meters, and a rated signal-to-noise ra- tio of 70 dB. The E-2 also includes facilities for synchronizing two separately recorded tracks.

S II RI 0 REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 123 It was one man, Etsuro Nakami- recording session can lay down sev- chi, and one machine, the Nakami- eral takes of a section, and if you're chi 1000 (it took its model number using an open -reel machine, you from its price) that, in 1973, forced can splice together the error -free even the most skeptical and uncom- parts, coming up with a single flaw- promising audiophile recordist of less recorded "performance." the day to admit that a cassette deck Good tape editing, of course, is an could truly be a high-fidelity com- art, but what it demands mechani- ponent. Once this had been proved, cally is the ability to rock the tape the floodgates of competition soon back and forth across the playback opened and others could come in head to find the exact locations of with their own advances, which are recorded segments to be marked so familiar to us today. and replaced. This procedure is sim- ply impractical with a cassette deck, The Place for Open -Reel where the best you can do is to rere- Nevertheless, there stillis, and cord whole sections of music or sep- will continue to be, a place for the arate selections with gaps between open -reel audiophile recorder. The them large enough to be found eas- most obvious such place would ily on the cassette. And every gener- seem to be as replacements for aging ation of rerecording lowers the open -reel decks so the owners can sound quality. continue to play old but treasured A perennial home and studio The future of open -reel audio- tapes. For most people in this situa- favorite, the Revox B77 MKII phile recording is principally depen- tion, however, I think buying a new ($2,450) can be configured with any dent on those for whom tape and open -reel deck would be a mistake. two consecutive running speeds live sound are directly connected. A good cassette dub of most old between 0.938 and 15 ips. The deck's rated frequency response at 15 ips is This includes more than recording open -reel tapes will not only be eas- 30 to 22,000 Hz +2, -3 dB. the local organist's recitals or edit- ier to handle but will almost always ing together an audibly flawless ga- add no significant degradation to rage -band performance from a se- the original. Bear in mind that few ries of takes. It also includes such old homemade tapes are sonically tical events-like the onset sound of things as putting together sound ef- close to what we would call "high apianohammerstrikingthe fects for a stage production. If thun- fidelity" today. string-are made up of high fre- derclaps must be synchronized with I would make an exception to this quencies, though they may not be on-stage dialogue, you have to be general rule for tapes of live music perceived as such. And it is in the able to put together timed sections recorded with great care on top- ability to capture high -amplitude of tape, separated by leaders for qualityequipment,tapesthat high frequencies that the limitations visibility, and to cue up and play sounded considerably better when of the cassette, and the correspond- sequences with an accuracy that you they were new than most commer- ing advantages of open -reel,are would never be able to achieve us- cial LP's-and probably still do. I most obvious. ing cassettes. have a large number of such half- Live recording, unless it is done Editing, live recording, and the- track stereo "master" tapes, and not in a studio, also involves an attempt ater work are not, of course, appeal- even my superb Nakamichi ZX-9 to capture a combination of the ing to more than a small minority of reference deck with metal cassettes sound directly generated by the in- audiophiles-though these people can make indistinguishable dubs of strument(s) andthereverberant tend to be fanatical about quality them. The copies certainly sound sound contributed by the hall. In- standards.Can open -reel,then, wonderful, but they are audibly variably, this requires placing mi- withstand the upcoming challenge copies. crophones farther from the per- of digital audio tape (DAT), which Open -reel is the natural medium formers than is customary in studio promises genuine CD quality on a for live recording, in part because in recording, which, in turn, requires cartridge that will hold 2 hours of live performances the tape ishit some sacrifice in the signal-to-noise music in less than half the space of a with the untamed edges-the mo- ratio obtainable on the master tape. standard audio cassette? For mentary"onsettransients"-of Open -reel tapes can stand this often straightforward recording purposes, notes. The first few milliseconds of significant loss better than cassettes where no editing (or only editing on a sound require many times more can. the scale available with cassettes) is amplifier power to be reproduced required, DAT will unquestionably than the steady portion of the note The Art of Editing render open -reel obsolete. But until does, as advocates of "superpower" The greatest advantage of open- digital editing devices become eco- amplifiers have long contended. reelrecording,however,isthe nomical enough for nonprofessional These first few milliseconds gener- format'seditingcapability. A users, my guess is that the open -reel ate the overtone structure that lets flubbed note that may cause only a format will continue to survive to you distinguish between a flute and momentary wince during the live serve those who don't just dub, but a cornet, for example. performance takes on much greater who themselves contribute to the Since frequency and time are re- significance on a tape played many success of a musical performance or ciprocally related, short-term acous- times. But the musician(s) ina recording. El

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-NE,c, Home Electronics (U.S.A.), Inc., 1255 Michael Drive, Wood Dale, IL 60191 interchangeable,ON pop radio today, the music where of the an songs artist arewith often an off nearly -center Standing."followingsomethingaapproach bigI interviewed star standswiththe I was release heavy her out.aiming last Butofairplay. her summerfor Suzanne secondall "Having my during VegaA&Mlife," a a nevershehit album,world wasn'ttold set tour "Solitudeme out when to be intude,"U.S.Australia, BYbroadcast and Luka, Canada.ELIZAL3ETH New musicrides Zealand, Meanwhile, highblocksVega's on and alongthe tour, parts thecharts with ending hitof COS7E_LL Europesingleand nextis fromoften as month, well "Soli-featured as will the take her to Japan, Left of Center, which she contributed to the soundtrack of last year's popular movie Pretty in Pink, and Marlene on the Wall, a hit from her 1985 debut album, "Su- zanne Vega." Critic Steve Simels hailed Vega's "spectacular debut" in these pages, calling her "a younger, cooler Joni Mitchell for the Eighties," and she received a STEREO REVIEW Record of the Year Award a few months lat- er. With two internationally suc- cessful albums on a major label, four videos on MTV, and a couple of hit singles, the twenty -eight -year - old Vega has come a long way from being "the freshest and clearest new voice on the New York folk music scene," as the New York Times described her in 1984. She seems a little taken aback by her success- "It'ssurprising when I'm recog- nized in airports," she said. - EGA recalls that her ca- reer took off very casual- ly.The turning point came in 1983 when she met Ron Fierstein and Steve Addabbo, who be- came her managers and advised her to get a record deal. "At that point I was thinking more like Roun- der or Flying Fish," she said. But Fierstein and Ad- dabbo went after the major labels anyway. "Steve took a tape and worked it around, and I think he had the impression that there were some people who were interested, but they were afraid of it because it was a folk album. Then I started to get really expecting Top 10 hits from "I wasn't someone like some good reviews, and we ended me. They turned me downtwice up with A&M. I thought, well,if we before they signed me. They knew Madonna, who went can go for it, why not?" what they were getting. And A&M Vega said she did not see herself has a reputation for really sticking as fitting the mold of pop stardom. by people, like Joan Armatrading, after being a big star. "I wasn't someone like Madonna, who has had twelve or thirteen who calculatedly went after being a albums without a Top 10 hit." She's cheerful, she's big star. She's cheerful, she's bright, Having a Top 10 record like Luka she's energetic, she shows a lot of can even be a nuisance, Vegasaid. skin in her videos. I felt like I was "It's meant that I've spent more bright, she shows a doing the exact opposite thing." She time promoting and talking about did admit, however, that doing Left what I do and I spend less time lot of skin in her of Center for Pretty in Pink was doing it." something of a calculated move to- Despite all that has already hap- feltI was ward commercial success. "And it pened in her career and all the pub- videos. I went nowhere on the charts," she lic exposure, Vega doesn't think she said. "I figured, 'Well, I've done my has changed very much. "Ifeel doing the exact one pop tune, now I'll go back to there's a part of me that's extremely doing what I like.' " private no matter how many inter- opposite thing." She doesn't expect pressure from views I do. I don't feel like I've giv- her managers or A&M to keep put- en myself away or that I'm overex- ting out Top 10 hits. "I get very posed." And, since she rarely writes stubborn under pressure like that, about herself, her songs don't reveal and my record company was not that private side. She does consider

128S'ITREO REVIEW NOVEMBER 1987 them personal, however. "I think I to shape the mood of her songs and "Instead of covering write about subjects that mean a lot give them emotional weight. Mean- to people," she said. ing is important to her. The music Vega's lyrics are very contempo- in Luka comes across as very spir- everything myself, rary, often about the darker side of ited, almost triumphant. "I really everyday life. They are shadowy, did not want it to be about a boy I can just say to the solitary,andimageprovoking, sitting on the stoop feeling sorry for which may be why Philip Glass himself," Vega said. "What I tried chose her to provide lyrics for two to do was take a tone that was mat- band, 'Why don't you tracks on "Songs of Liquid Days." ter of fact. So I used major chords, Reviewing "Solitude Standing" and when I had the band play it,I guys see what you here in August's "Best Recordings didn't want them to sort of wimp of the Month," Mark Peel described out.I wanted them to play really can come up with?' Vega's lyrics as "real poetry, not just hard." street poetry or pop -music poetry." The music behind Luka and a lot Cracking, from her first album, is of the other songs in her second But Istill decide about a woman walking in a park in album is more rock oriented than the dead of winter who is emotion- most of her first album, in which an whether it says what ally falling apart as the ice cracks acoustic guitar served as the mu- under her feet. In Ironbound/Fancy sicalbase and studio musicians Poultry from "Solitude Standing," played back-up. Vega now works I want it to say." she describes a Portuguese woman with her own full-time band, and its on her way to a poultry market who members helped write some of the is passing a school yard: "Kids will music in "Solitude Standing." Steve grow like weeds on a fence/She says Addabbo said that although the fo- they look for the light/They try to cus isstill on Vega, the arrange- make sense/They come up through ments rely on the band a little more, thecracks/Likegrassonthe and as a result the songs in the sec- tracks. . . ." ond album have a "stronger feel to Her songs seem to work in the them" than the ones in the first. same way she does, Vega said. Vega said that her songwriting has "Even with myself it's hard to tell changed aswell."Ithinkitis what I'm feeling sometimes.It's becoming more streamlined, more more like I have to deduce it. For abstract, and more condensed. And example, if I'm hungry I think to I think it's becoming more melodic. myself, 'Oh, my stomach is growl- I'm more likely to change a melody ing, I'm feeling sort of lightheaded, now, whereas before I would just therefore I must be hungry.' It's not take whatever came out naturally." like, 'Give me that hamburger.' It's Working with a band, Vega said, an assessment of facts." relieves some of the pressure she 'though Vega has taken vo- previously felt trying to do every- cal lessons, her voice has a thing."Instead of coveringthe direct,untrainedquality. rhythm and the bass and everything "I've always disliked a lot of myself, I can just say, 'Look, I'm vibrato," she said, "so I've having trouble with this bridge. always kept it out of my Why don'tyou guys justfool voice.Andthepeople around with it and see what you can whose voices I really love come up with?' But I'm still the edi- tendtobeclearand tor of the piece. I still have to decide straight, like Astrud Gil- whether I like it or whether it says berto, Lou Reed, or Lotte what I want it to say." Lenya. All of those have After Vega finishes up her tour in pure voices that sort of December, she plans to start work- just spring out of their ing on a third album. "I'd like to mouths-almost like speaking keep mixing elements and mixing voices." different styles. To begin the last A straightforward singing style album a cappella with Tom's Diner makes the characters in her songs was a lot of fun for me, and I'd like more believable, she feels. In Luka, to keep on that kind of a trend." for instance, the protagonist is an However she mixes elements and abused boy. "I can sing Luka con- styles on her next album, though, vincingly," shesaid,"becauseI we can be pretty sure it will say what don't sound like a twenty -eight - Suzanne Vega wants it to say. "If year -old woman. I sound like some- they want to play me on the radio, thing else, something pure." I'll be happy for that," she said. Vega puts great emphasis on mak- "But I'm not going to change my

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Digital Window Maker Imagine scanning 4 channels on -screen at once, or watching a movie and TV at the same time. Add freeze framing of live TV. Then add staggering picture quality and phenomenal effects. Plus, forget complicated timer programming. By Drew Kaplan the VCR will be programmed. your normal TV's remote. It's awesome. Forget any conception DIGITAL MAGIC There's also 'Strobe' which breaks of what a VCR, or for that fact, your TV can The frequency synthesized tuning really the incoming picture on TV or tape into a do. Magnavox's new Digital Stereo 4 captures superb reception. The 4 head series of moving stills.It's great for head VHS HQ VCR will revolutionize HQ deck uses digital tracking to digitally studying the action. your conception of video, period! match this deck to the recorded tape. And, you can break the screen into 4 It's much more than just the finest It even matches the HiFi track so you',I windows, each showing a still of the VCR I've ever used. With its TV and video always experience the incredible 20- ongoing action. When you pick up the digital effects, you'll use it all the time. 20,000hz frequency response and 80db awesome remote control for Magnavox's Even its regular VCR features are mind plus, signal to noise ratio of VHS HiFi. digital system, you'll thrill to your new- boggling. For example, it tunes in up to But, it's the awesome remote control found video experiences. 155 stereo cable or antenna channelsand the digital capabilities which this without programming or presetting them. deck gives you that make it thrilling to USE. Just touch 'Auto Find' and this VCR WIZARDRY IN YOUR CONTROL 25 24 will automatically find and memorize all Stop the action digitally on tape or on active channels on all bands, instantly. live TV. You'll see still frame clarity and And, its digital fine tuning will give new stability that's awesome. When you're meaning to the concept of fine tuning. watching a live ball game, just touch P1 Programming is another normal fea- still, and you can freeze a baseball as it ture for VCRs. But you won't have to fuss crosses the plate. with complicated controls at the deck for Then you can add picture in picture recording up to 8 events over 3 weeks. which lets you watch the continuing Look at the LCD window on the remote action while you study the still picture. and you'll see I've selected program 1 for Friday at 7:52pm to record for 2 hours and 45 minutes on channel 24. DOES IT ALL Everything, from one touch timed re- cord to the time remaining to be recor- ded on a video cassette, is included.

Space limits the description, but I haven't found a single feature that I've ELL Is212:qsli4 ever seen on any other deck that isn't included or enhanced on this new deck. ,ANNEL It's backed by Magnavox's standard limited warranty. NMI ocey, INN THE POWER OF VIDEO WINDOWS STANI IE. RISK FREE When you're playing back a tape, you I simply can't put down the remote Mill [111.1 TRANS I a can also press Still and get the same control. It's given me a whole new view digital still frame. Plus you can add in- of TV and video recording. It's amazing. 0 0 credible digital fine slow motion. If you're not 100% thrilled and frankly You'll have infinite control of the speed knocked off your feet by the picture quality of the slow motion playback. There's and the unbelievable (until now) control, even slow motion tracking on the remote simply return it in its original box within for totally noise free action. 30 days to DAK for a courteous refund. Of course, there's picture in picture so To order Magnavox's new Stereo VHS you can monitor TV while you watch 3 HiFi 4 Head Digital VCR with HQ and tape, and a button shifts the small win- Automatically Set 155 Channel Fre- dow with the full screen. quency Synthesized Tuning, Digital Still, TV WONDER Digital Double Fine Slow, TV Still, Pic- Imagine that you're watching channel ture in Picture, Strobe, Channel Search 2. Touch 'Channel Search' and the screen and much more risk free with your credit MAGNAVOX will break into 4 windows. You'll see stil card, call toll free or send your check for images of channels 3, 4, and 5 as well as DAK's breakthrough price of just $999 a live image of channel 6. What a wonder- ($19 PEtH). Order No. 4869. CA add tax. Just sit down with your 1V guide. ful way to keep track of all your options. It's not just an improvement in VCRs. When you've entered everything you The volume is controlled from the You'll be experiencing an incredible new want to record, just touch transmit and remote so you really can forget about era in all your video viewing. Sound Barrier Streaker You'll streak through the heavens of disbelief the first time you put on the earphones or connect this AC/DC program- mable CD player to yourstereo systemAt home or away, your music will explode with 5hz to 20,000hz life. Everything is included for just $1699°. fry Drew Kaplan There's no warning. There's no record noise, no tape hiss. Vibrant but finely detailed music just explodes from your earphones and stereo system. Citizen's 3 -Beam Laser Servo CD is as at home, plugged into our stereo system (AC and patch cord included), as it is on the move with you (battery case, shoulder strap and earphones included). The sound is like a shock wave rever- berating through your home. It's like the blazing flash and violence released by a lightning bolt as it streaks to the earth. This is the experience you can expect when you first hear digital audio sound. Forget any experience you've ever had before with stereo. CD audio is an awe- some advance that dwarfs the switch we made years ago from 78s to LPs. Imagine listening to music with a fre- quency response from 5hz to 20,000hz. And, flutter and wow is "unmeasurable". The sound quality, and yes, the sonic violence will thrill you. I've spent over namic range is simply the difference in than an awesome price. It's backed by 15 years on the test bench and in the sound level (volume) between the soft- Citizen's standard limited warranty. studios, and the only equal I've heard toest and loudest recorded sounds. A SONIC SOUND STREAKER this sound is 'live sound'. CD gives you a 90db dynamic range, RISK FREE And, live sound doesn't mean the sound which is roughly equivalent to the dif- Experience music with a thrilling fre- you hear at a concert where you are sim- ference between absolute silence and quency response and sonic range. Plus, ply listening to the auditorium's PA sys- standing next to a jet engine. you'll' be thrilled by the hiss and back- tem. Live sound means sitting right in Your music will be dramatically more ground noise you won't hear. the middle of the orchestra. exciting. You won't have to carefully If /ou're not 100% satisfied, simply I know, I'm a cellist. And, there's just compare CD to conventional sound. From return it to DAK within 30 days in its no sound experience like the sound we the very first note, you'll be in shock. original box for a courteous refund. hear in 'the pit'. ROARING ON To order Citizen's Top Of The Line BUT WHY A PORTABLE? This Japanese made, 3 -beam, laser Portable and Home AC/DC Compact Disc Forget conventional audio compon- servo system with heavy sampling, sup- Player with 16 program capability, com- ents. CD players are computers. There's plies superb sound. Plus, it's loaded. plete with Battery Case, Strap, AC adap- no reason a portable can't be 100% equal You can select up to 16 tracks in any tor, Earphones, and Stereo System Cable to a 'sit -on -the -shelf' CD. It uses theorder you like. There's even a repeat risk tree with your credit card, call toll same heavy over -sampling. It uses the pad. So, you can repeat selected tracks free, or send your check for DAK's Sound same type of 16 bit linear digital to analog or the entire disc, forever. Streaking price of just $169" ($4 PEtH). converters. And, it could be smaller if it Just touch a pad and you can skip to Order No. 4703. CA res add tax. didn't have to accommodate the CD disc. Since CDs are new, a portable lets you make the most out of your collection. You can simply plug it into different stereos in different rooms, or take it with you wherever you go. It's just 5" X 5" X 11/4". And It comes complete with all the accessories you will need (pictured to the right). Just program up to 16 selections and pre- pare for a sonic adventure.

the next track during play, or repeat the It may strain my credibility to describe track you are listening to. any device, let alone a portable that I'm An LCD display shows you the trackoffering for only $1699°, as providing that is playing, the elapsed time, or the sound many times better than anything total time of the disc. you've ever heard before. But, use DAK's To use it on the move, just drop 4 AA risk free trial to experience this bigger NO SOUND AT ALL batteries into its included battery pack, than life sound for yourself. CD gives you a signal to noise ratio ofslide in the CD, put the shoulder strap Arid, CDs are really tough. Take them 90db. There is, for all intents and pur- over your shoulder and the earphones with you and enjoy dramatically alive poses, absolutely no hiss, no scratch, into your ears, for a sonic odyssey. sound virtually anywhere you go. and best of all, no surface noise. Installation at home consists of sim- You've got to experience the silence ply plugging the included patch cord DAKINDUSTRIES Call Toll Free For Credit Card Orders Only during very quiet passages to compre- into any 'Aux' input in your stereo sys- 24 Hours A Day 7 Dsys A Week hend the sonic adventure of the music. tem and plugging in the AC adaptor. 14100425-0800 It's as if your stereo wasn't even on, and Whether this programmable CD be- For Tol' Free Informanor. . Call 6AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST then suddenly, a thunderclap explodes! comes a permanent part of your stereo Techlical Information.. .1-800-272-3200 Conventional records and tapes have system or moves with you, or both, you'll Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 a dynamic range of perhaps 50 db. Dy- enjoy awesome sound at incredibly less 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304

BSR's Endangered Colossus Prepare for bone jarring bass and dramatically clear highs from these newly developed 15"3 -way 5 speaker systems that nearly missed their chance to charm an audiophile's ear. BSR moved its dbx and ADC divisions into one facility and these speakers almost became orphans. So now, they're yours at a close-out price. By Drew Kaplan low clean bass. They have matched 25mm voice coils, It's a shame. But, it's also a great oppor- Its magnetic structure weighs a thun- also Drotected by ferro-fluid and polyamid- tunity to get a pair of 15" audiophile dering 48 ounces. But that's not all. The imid to 200° centigrade. They are driven loudspeakers with the newest in stereo magnetic field is developed by the rare by powerful barium ferrite magnetic fields. imaging at a market -breaking price. earth metal Strontium for state of the art NOT QUITE FINISHED YET Imagine a precisely matched mirror massive but flawlessly controlled bass. To prevent phase shift and cancella- image pair of top -of -the -line BSR speak- A 38mm voice coil with a 200° cen- tion, two totally separate crossover net- ers that can effortlessly recreate the cata- tigrade temperature capacity, will handle works are employed in these speakers. clysmic impact of a full orchestral cre- the most demanding digital or analog re- All frequencies below 800 hz are di- scendo at full volume and yet offer flaw- cordings. And, a new super rigid cabinet rected to the 1 5" woofer. The front sys- lessly subtle sound detail to 21,500hz. design virtually eliminates coloration due tern routes frequencies above 800hz to You'll thrill to thunderous bass all the to uncontrolled cabinet resonance. the 8" mid -range to take full advantage way down to 26hz. Incredibly rich, full, At low volume, the bass will fill in and of its superb reproduction capabilities. vibrant sound at low volume will explode envelop you. At high volume, your room, Frequencies above 3400hz are routed with life as you increase the volume. your walls and your neighbors will shake. to the horn tweeter. But before we examine the front speak- (Not for apartment dwellers please.) The top mounted system routes only er complement, the twin overlapping frequencies above 1 200hz to the 5" poly- crossovers and the top mounted sonic propylene ambiance mid -range driver, placement and ambiance speakers, let's and trequencies above 3400hz are routed see why they were almost orphaned. to the top sonic placement tweeter. You see, BSR, the half billion dollar There are level controls for both the electronics giant, is the parent company top and front mounted speakers so that of two of the best names in up -scale you can voice the speakers to match audio, dbx and ADC. your musical taste and environment. Last year dbx developed a new multi - Ncte: Only the top tweeters are moun- thousand dollar speaker system called ted at the the edges. The front mounted the Soundfield One which lets you sit tweeters are conventionally mounted virtually anywhere in your room and have for acoustical symmetry. full stereo imaging and terrific sound. Each speaker is fuse protected for up BSR decided to consolidate ADC and to 200 watts peak, 150 watts continuous dbx into one building (still 2 companies) power. You can operate these super ef- and put all its speaker efforts into dbx. ficient speakers with as little as 20 watts. POOR JACK AND OH WHAT A PRETTY FACE Well, while dbx's engineers were off MATCH ED PAIRS The speaker systems are 30" tall, 191/4" designing their multi -thousand dollar The mid -range and high end of BSR's wide and 101/2" deep. Their lovely oak masterpieces, BSR's Senior Acoustical speakers are truly unique. Front moun- wood -grain appearance is enhanced by Engineer (he had been Fisher's Chief ted 8" polypropylene mid -range drivers the dark removable grill cloths that beau- Engineer for 10 years during its top end provide rich sound while top mounted tiful y contrast with the rich wood -grain component stereo days), was designing 5" polypropylene mid -range drivers pro- tones. They're a statement of audio ele- BSR's radically new speaker line. vide an open, lifelike ambiance. gance when placed in any room. They're The revolutionary top of the line1 5" Front mounted exponential horn tweet- backed by BSR's 2 year limited warranty. stereo imaging pair pictured above will let ers provide awesome brilliance to 21,500 A COLOSSAL DREAM COMES TRUE you enjoy superb stereo imaging without hz, while top mounted tweeters enhance RISK FREE sitting directly in front of your speakers. separation because they are mounted to You'll hear depth of sound at low levels But unfortunately, in the consolida- the outside edge of each speaker. that was previously unobtainable. And tion move, BSR's speakers went by the So, this system has a specific left and yes, when you crank up the volume, your wayside, and so did Jack. a specific right speaker. You'll find wide, mus c will explode with realism and drama. Enter DAK. After a few fearful nego- but interactive separation that will vastly Try these speakers in your own sys- tiations and considering the engineer- widen your ideal listening area. tem Then compare them at any Hi-Fi ing costs BSR had already expended, they The imagery will give the illusion of Store with any pair of speakers up to agreed to make the speakers just for DAK. musicians actually playing in front of $1000. If they don't beat all the competi- Because there's virtually no BSR over- you. Your music will take on a three di- tion hands down, simply return them to head left on these speakers, and the mensional quality. You'll enjoy superb DAK in their original boxes within 30 R&D was all but complete, we've gotten stereo imagery regardless of each speak- days for a courteous refund. these speakers for virtually the compo- er's specific placement in your room. T3 order your matched pair of BSR nent costs plus a little BSR labor. MORE SPECIFICS top -of -the -line 1 5" 3 -way 5 speaker sys- And don't worry about Jack. BSR had The exponential horn tweeters, both tems with unique stereo imaging risk him finish the engineering (they really in front and on the top of these systems, free with your credit card, call toll free or are great people) and they'll pay him a employ 25mm rigid phenol diaphragms send your check for DAK's market -break- royalty on each speaker we sell. Besides, for stability and accurate response. ing price of just $299 for the MATCHED by the time you read this, Jack is sure to Polyamid-imid binders and ferro-fluid PAIR plus $34 for Postage and Han- be snapped up as the Chief Engineer atcoolant allow for a 300% increase in dling. Order No. 4868. CA res add tax. another esoteric audio company. heat dissipation so you can drive the It s a dream system for an audiophile. WHAT'S STEREO IMAGING? voice coils up to 200° centigrade. Sonically pure, thunderously powerful, Stereo imagery is the logical separa- Now, the mid -range. Both the 8" front these BSR speakers will make your future tion and interaction between channels. firing and the 5" top firing polypropylene listening years an on -going fabulous, if It's the successful creation of a panoram- drivers reproduce the mid -range fre- not earthshaking experience. ic wall or stage of music rather than the quencies like no ordinary speakers. INDUSTRIES confined, easily located 2 speaker sound. It's amazing that so many speaker DA INC. Call Toll Free For Credo, Card Orders Only IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE THAT COUNTS manufacturers simply slap in 5" paper 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week Imagine the full thunder of a kettle mid -ranges to reproduce what's really I-800-325-0800 drum, or the pluck of a string bass being the major portion of the sound spectrum. For TrII Free Information, Call 6AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST

explosively recreated in your living room. BSR's 8" and 5" polypropylene mid- Technical I nformation. . . .1-800-272 -3200 BSR's 1 5" sub -bass acoustic suspension ranges are rigid, exacting drivers that Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 driver will revolutionize your concept of deliver incredibly pure uncolored sound. 8200 Remmet Ave., CanogaPark,CA91304 Explosive Automation Your stereo system's sound will explode with life and you'll thrill to the ultimate in automation. Imagine6 discs played in any order you choose, or totally randomly. Imagine computer timed dubbing. And, wait tillyou see DAK's price. By Drew Kaplan on the remote and the player itself. sound level (volume) between the soft- It's shocking. From the awesome dig- You can select any of the 6 discs. You est and loudest recorded sounds. ital sound produced by this 16 bit, 3 - can randomly select tracks. You can en CD gives you a 96db dynamic range, beam laser pick up system to its 6 disc ter all programming, Random Play, Pro which is roughly equivalent to the dif- capability, this new multi -disc CD player grammed Play or Repeat Play. Wow! ference between absolute silence and will explode any perception of sound You can even enter the dubbing mode standing next to a jet engine. quality and automation you've ever had.for timed cassette record and you can Your music will be dramatically more Before we explore the sound you'll bring up any of the displays, including exciting. You won't have to carefully hear with a 5hz to 20,000hz frequency Selection, Track Time and Total Time. compare CD to conventional sound. From response, 96db signal to noise ratio and You can control Play, Pause, Stop, the very first note, you'll be in shock. It's 96 db dynamic range, let's look at auto- High Speed Search, Next and Previous as if the the world was just created and you mation like you've never seen before. Track, and virtually any function that I've are listening to newly born, virgin sound. AWESOME CAPABILITIES ever seen on a CD. But, don't forget to Imagine listening to music with a fre- OK, it plays 6 discs automatically. quency response from 5hz to 20,000hz That's pretty impressive. +0.5db -1db. Wow! Imagine sound so You can program up to 32 pure that harmonic distortion is just choices (including complete 0.004%. And, if you're into zeros, flutter discs) to play in any order. and wow is "unmeasurable". Well, that's impressive, THE TRUTH ABOUT but it's more than the rest, This is the finest CD player I've ever not different. used. But, honestly, any good $1 50 CD But this is. This CD player sounds perfect. The specs are so far can randomly choose selec- beyond human hearing that, short of the tions from 1) a single disc, cheap unknowns that may be badly as- 2) from the 32 selections sembled, all CDs will knock your socks off. you have chosen, or 3) from The chief advantage of this remark- all 6 discs. able machine is its superb construction Now you can enjoy your which should give you years of superb favorite music without fa- entertainment, and it's incredible ability tigue. Now you won't know which song to manipulate 6 discs to let you enjoy is coming next. But you'll still have total add a 6 behind each of these controls. your music like never before. control of the randomized songs. BUT IT'S THE SOUND There's no question in my mind that But there's more. If you want to copy CD gives you a signal to noise ratio of this incredible new Sharp CD has found songs onto cassettes, not only do you 96db. There is absolutely no hiss, no a permanent home in my system. It's have complete programmability, this in- scratch, and best of all, no surface noise backed by Sharp's limited warranty. credible machine even pauses at the EXPLOSIVE AUTOMATION end of each side of your cassette. RISK FREE Since it knows how long each song is, Wait till you experience the sound. at 45 minutes (half a 90 minute cas- Wait till you record cassettes automati- sette), this machine will pause. So, you'll cally. And, wait till you hear your favorite never have to calculate which songs will songs randomly played for you. It's all an fit on a cassette again. incredibly thrilling experience. So, for an hour, an evening or a lifetime If you're not 100% thrilled, simply re- of music, this machine will never stop. turn it in its original box to OAK within EVERY IDEA INCLUDED 30 days for a courteous refund. OK, you've got 6 discs loaded, the To order your Multi -Play Sharp 6 CD memory programmed but you want to Player with 3 -Beam Laser Pick Up Sys- listen to another disc. Well, there's no tem, Heavy Sampling, Random Play, 32 problem. 5 of the discs fit into an instant- Program Selected Play, Automatic Timed ly removable changeable magazine. The Dubbing Capability and MORE, risk free 6th disc is held in a conventional tray. with your credit card, call toll free, or So, you can change the 6th disc at will send your check for DAK's market break- without ever losing your programming. ing price of just $349 ($8 P&H). Order OUTER SPACE No. 4841. CA res add tax. No expense was spared in the design It's smarter than most computers. It and manufacture of this 'beyond the top sounds better than a symphony orches- of the line' player from Sharp. tra producing a full crescendo, and DAK's Everything you'll want to do is accom- Conventional records and tapes have price should shake up the industry. Wait plished by pushing direct action but- a dynamic range of perhaps 50db. Dy- till you experience all that this superb tons. And, every function is duplicated namic range is simply the difference in 'feat of engineering' has to offer. AUTO REVERSH

Stealth Bomber Plus The Pentagon may pay billions for the new Stealth Bomber that flies automatically and is invisible to enemy radar. But, you can have Teac's Stealth Reversing Automated Cassette Deck with dbx that can even record the full 105db dynamic range of CDs at an incredible breakthrough price. Stealth's invisible. Enemy radar can't You'll make perfect recordings on both possible recording need. see it. And, it's the newest electronic sides of your cassettes without stop- Dolby C will give you a 70db signal to marvel to come off the drawing board. ping. This deck automatically records in noise ratio. There are Left/Right Mike Now, you may be thinking that there's both directions. And, when you use the inputs as well as a headphone output. not much in common between a Stealth linear input level controls and sensitive And, look at this: There's an output Bomber and an auto reversing recording peak reading LED VU meters, you'll easily level control that lets you perfectly match and playing cassette deck. make flawless recordings. the output of this deck to the other com- After all, a Stealth Bomber sure can't WRONG WAY CORRIGAN ponents in your system. fly backward. But wait before you decide. This autopilot can take you backwards, Plus, you can control the headphone This automated, auto reverse deck forwards or around the world again. You volume. This is the type of added extra has a 'radar avoidance system' called can play and record in both directions. attention to detail and quality that makes dbx. No, it's not an MX missile. And finally, without even worrying Teac decks stand out from the pack. Stealth Bomber is invisible to radar, wait about refueling, you can have your music You'll have a conservative frequency till you hear how 'invisible' tape hiss will totally uninterrupted. response of 30-17,000hz with Cr02 and become to your ears with this dbx deck. You can play either side of the cassette Metal, and 30-16,000hz with normal RADAR AVOIDANCE PLUS or repeat the entire cassette, over andbias tapes. It's a top quality deck. And, The sound quality, and yes, the sonic over again for continuous music. This is it's backed by Teac's limited warranty. violence will thrill you. The only equal to the feature that gives you a day, or an TRY REVERSING STEALTH this sound is 'live sound'. evening of uninterrupted music. RISK FREE There is absolutely no hiss, no scratch, Now you only need to get up to change Set your tape counter at 000. Record and best of all, no surface noise. cassettes when you feel like it, not when some blank tape with no input and without You've got to experience the silence the cassette ends. It's the best way tonoise reduction. At 020, switch in the during very quiet passages to compre- enjoy your music, your way. Dolby B. At 040 switch in Dolby C. At hend the sonic adventure of the music. BUT IT'S THE dbx 060, switch in dbx. Then play it back. Conventional records and tapes have While dbx is the ultimate noise reduc- You're sure to be astounded. It's a a dynamic range of perhaps 50db. Dy- tion system, complete with its vibrant great deck for a lot of reasons. But dbx namic range is very simply the difference 105db dynamic range, this deck also lets makes it phenomenal. If you aren't 100% in sound level (volume) between the you record and play with Dolby B and C. satisfied, simply return it within 30 days softest and loudest recorded sounds. But, you just can't get the full -range in Its original box to DAK for a refund. CDs and dbx can give you 105db of dynamic hiss free response across the To order your Teac Stealth Auto Reverse dynamic range, which is roughly equiv- entire frequency range without dbx. Cassette Deck with Dolby B, Dolby C and alent to the difference between absolute dbx risk free with your credit card, call silence and standing next to a jet engine. tol, free, or send your check for DAK's Of course it has other 'radar avoidance' No Noise Reduction blockbuster price of just $149" ($7 in the form of Dolby B Et C, but dbx does PaH). Order No. 4737. CA res add tax. much more than noise reduction. e, The Stealth Bomber isstill on the When you record using dbx, this deck c drawing board. And don't forget, it still A gives you a 90db signal to noise ratios won't fly backwards. But, you can get and an amazing 105db dynamic range. your own Stealth Deck and be ready to This is one of the few decks that can record CDs, live music or just fabulous copy the brilliant impact of CD discs. sounding copies of records. AUTOMATIC PILOT PLUS Of course, the bomber may be able to The Stealth similarity doesn't end at SW 1 fly around the planet in the picture above, 'radar avoidance'. While the Bomber con- Frequency (Hd but the deck can only make it ring with This graph st. pplied by dbx clearly shows Jut how good record- trols are still top secret, I can tell you a ing with dbx can be. You can easily Nut the day and night dif thrilling music. lot about this deck's controls. fersince for yourself The test is described in the next column. OAKINDUSTRIES From the first button you touch, you'll The graph above says it all. dbx will INC. give you cassette recordings that are vir- Cell Toll Free For Credit Card Orders Only appreciate this deck's superb stability. A 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week precise DC servo controlled motor drives tually free from surface noise across the 1-800-325-01100 the dual capstans for low flutter and wow. entire frequency range, not just the highs For "oll Free Information, Call 6AM-5PM Monday -Friday PST With record mute, you'll have clean Plus, you'll have the incredible vib- Technical Information 1-800-272-3200 intros and exits to your recordings. And, rance of 105db dynamic range. With Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 what recordings you'll get! this deck, you're ready for CD or any 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 Beardroid Phone Now you can own a robot creature that moves and talks just like you'd see at an amusement park.Get ready to interact with a Beardroid at home, at the office, or whenever you talk on the phone. By Drew Kaplan Forget cute. Forget cuddly. While this is certainly the cutest most cuddly bear phone I've ever seen, DAK was chosen to introduce him, not because he's cute, but because of the sophisticated tech- nology that makes him robotic. Yes, he's a hands free speakerphone. And, his new, advanced speakerphone capabilities rival his robotics. But, before we explore why he can sound better than an industrial office speakerphone, let's see why he's so much more than a 'talking bear phone'. VOICE ANIMATED First a warning. If you're a really ser- ious person, this animated phone isn't for you. Oh, not because the sound or features aren't perfect, because they are. But frankly, he's really distracting. I simply can't carry on a serious busi- ness conversation with an animated talk- ing bear. Let me tell you why. When you're on the phone, you can talk and the Beardroid simply listens. But, whatever the person at the other end of the line says is lip -synced by Bear- droid. His mouth 'mouths' each syllable of each word as it's spoken to you. Just imagine sitting in your corporate boardroom, negotiating a big deal while this bear's muzzle 'mouths' out the words. Frankly, whoever you're listening to looks hysterically funny. And they look funny, but sound great in your den, kitchen, bedroom (hands free is great) or office. you roam around the room while you talk actual conversation. (By the way, the K.C. Beardroid (we call him K.C.) on the phone, he's loaded with features. phone he's talking on isn't included.) doesn't just open and close his mouth. By the way, you won't want to roam He's 14" tall, sitting, and he's poweied Both his mouth and eye movements are too far. K.C. is soft and cuddly, and very by 4 D cell batteries (not included). He synchronized to the voice coming over plush. He is really happy sitting in your simply plugs into any standard modular the line. He can chew gum. He can yawn. lap while you talk on the phone or when phone jack. There's a Hi/Lo/Off ringer: He can 'mouth' each word as it's spoken. you just want a 'warm fuzzy' to hold. He's backed by TeleConcepts stan- K.C.'s movements appear so accurate You'll have Tone/Pulse switching, True dard limited warranty. (They have a K.C. to me that I'd love to have someone who Hold, so you can pick up your call in Health Care Clinic, really.) can read lips try him out. another room, and Last Number Redial. ANIMATE YOUR CONVERSATIONS And, as I said above, if you think you BUT IT'S THE ROBOTICS RISK FREE can carry on a serious conversation while K.C. reacts to the exact sounds com- I don't market cute. I'm a technology this adorable bear 'mouths' the incoming ing over the phone line, and his mouth junkie. But I don't carry non-productive words, you're in for a real challenge. moves in reaction to the pronunciation gadgets. K.C. Beardroid is a superb speak- erphone with all the extras. And, everyone at DAK is lined up outside my office try- ing to steal my sample (I love this bear). If you're not 100% enchanted with K.C.'s antics or with his superb sound quality, simply reject him ( he may cry), and return him within 30 days in his original home (box) to DAK for a refund. To snuggle up to (order) your Tele- Concepts K.C. Beardroid Phone with An- imated Mouth/Muzzle and Eyes, and superb full featured Hands Free speaker- phone risk free with your credit card, call toll free or send your check for just 6129' ($6 P&H). Order No. 4497. But, you won't be in for a challenge based on volume and frequency. An AC adaptor for K.C. is just $9" ($1 understanding or talking on this remark- So, his movement is totally different P8+1). Order No. 4824. CA res add tax. able phone. It's made by TeleConcepts, for the word 'Hello' than for the word Talking about a 'conversation piece', a company well respected for its indus- 'Good Bear', and so on throughout the K.C. will make every phone call an event. trial telecommunication products. entire English Language. As a matter of The truth is that the speakerphone fact, K.C. is so smart that we've had him PRICE SLASHED developed for Beardroid is so advancedspeaking in 4 foreign languages. But, I that it's going to be used in their indus- don't think his French is very good. NOW JUST $9990 trial phones. It's lightning fast simplex, I wish I could show you a video of his Use Order No. 4497. Plus ($6 PEtH) so there's no echo and no delay. 'cuteness' in action, but look above in Everyone who sees K.C. in person And, in addition to his incomparable the main picture and you can see a multi- wants one. I'm thrilled to have negotiated hands free speakerphone which will let ple exposure side view of his mouth in a superb new price. What a gift! Voices from The Other Side Now you can get the Russian side direct from Russia. Tune in on Afghanistan. Or get the latest from Libya. Get it in English or native languages, all for OAK's breakthrough price of just $49'. Wow! Drew Kaplan It's awesome. Tune in the world's ideas from where they come. Listen to the Russians talking about America (yuk). Hear the Canadian side of trade dis- putes. And, get the local views from vir- tually every country in the world. This new 10 band miracle radio pulls in Short Wave stations from all over the world. Within 5 minutes of opening the box, I had listened to Radio Moscow in English and Radio Cuba in Spanish. There are countless broadcasts in doz- ens of languages. So,if you speak a foreign language, now you can enjoy broadcasts in almost any language. But, don't worry. Virtually all stations broadcast in English for many hours a day. And in addition, you'll have AM and FM stereo (stereophones are included). This one pocket sized radio will pro- vide an almost endless number of radio broadcasts from all over the world, for you to enjoy and learn from. It's really exciting to hear England's views of what's happening in America and also, what's happening in Europe. at the turn of a knob. And it's only pos- dial with all 10 bands. Switch to any band The English have a very cosmopolitan sible because, by bouncing off the outer and turn the dial. A tuning LED shows view of the world and I've really been atmosphere layer, called the F- layer when you have a station tuned in. That's enjoying their commentaries. stations can broadcast around the curve all there is to listening to Short Wave.

I can't say I've enjoyed some of the of the earth. So, you don't receive Short For FM stereo and AM, tuning is iden- broadcasts I've heard from some non - Wave as a straight signal, you receive a tical. But, there's a Stereo LED as well. friendly countries. signal reflected from space. It operates on 3 AA batteries (not

But, other than the total frustration I The F -layer is located between 130 to included) or a 4.5V DC adaptor (not in- feel 300 miles above the earth, depending cluded). It's made by Emerson people, it's almost addicting to listen to upon the time of day or night, the season ed by their limited warranty. these would be world conquerors. and the latitude of the earth. VOICES FROM THE WORLD WHAT SHORT WAVE IS Also, a Short Wave broadcast may RISK FREE You'll enjoy some of the best sound- make several 'hops' between the earth Frcm South Africa to Singapore to ing FM stereo you've ever heard from and atmosphere before it's received. East Germany or Egypt, you'll get a new this remarkable radio. Its circuitry is ex- Frankly, you'll find the quality of the perspective of the cultures of the world. tremely advanced. And, you'll receive broadcasts will vary. Sometimes they'll Plus, you'll be entertained by the world's great sounding AM as well. be crystal clear, and other times the music when you tune in on Short Wave. But, it's the 8 bands of shortwave thatvolume will vary as you listen. Of course, in time of world crisis (God make this 63/4" X 3%2" X 13/4" radio re- So, if you want FM stereo quality all forbid), short wave has all the details. ceiver really unique. You'll use its built- the time, the Short Wave medium isn't Gone are the days when it took a room in, rich sounding speaker or the included for you. But, you'll miss out on some of full of equipment to receive these in- stereophones to tune in the world. the most exciting broadcasts. credible broadcasts. Now you'll have Short Waves have the remarkable Short Waves can literally travel around the world's information in the palm of property of being able to cover great dis- the world giving you access to broad- your 'land. tances by using an invisible layer in the casts from almost any country. If you're not 100% satisfied, simply upper atmosphere to 'bounce' radio sig- ALL THE VIEWS return it in its original box within 30 days nals back and forth to reach the earth. Imagine the thrill of sitting in your liv- to DAK for a courteous refund. This wave -range (10-100 meter wave- ing room and listening to a live broad- To order Emerson's 10 Band Short length) is therefore highly significant for cast from Moscow. Imagine hearing the Wave, AM, and FM Stereo Radio com- all sorts of telecommunications in widely Argentinian view of the Falklands War. plete with Stereophones, Carrying Strap separated locations, such as: Aeronauti- During the Chernobyl affair you would and Soft Carrying Case risk free with cal, Maritime, National Broadcasting, have heard broadcasts from all the neigh- your credit card, call toll free or send Amateur and Commercial Traffic. boring countries. your check for DAK's world breaking With this receiver you can pick up a When you hear the news that the Rus- price of just $49" ($3 PErH). Order No. great number of transmissions over dis- sians don't like our arms proposals, wait 4839. CA res add tax. tances that cover thousands of miles. till you hear what they are saying. You'll I tuned in fascinating stations within This world-wide reception is especial- gain insights into the mentality of all the minutes. But, we'll include a booklet that ly fascinating for those of us who are cultures of the world. will help you find specific stations in interested in other cultures, in straight - From South America, to Africa to Eur- specific countries all over the world. from -the -source news, in learning lan- ope, you'll listen to broadcasts as easily You'll be amazed at the incredible guages, exotic music, world affairs as as you listen to AM radio. weali h of information and entertain- viewed from angles of other cultures, Of course, the quality won't always be ment that can be yours for just $4990. and for those living abroad who want to perfect, but there's nothing complicated keep in contact with their home country, to tuning in to short wave. DAK I"'NC".'"'" in their own language or in English. Call Toll Free Fur Credit Card Orders Only 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week There are about 850 Short Wave radio EV BC 1-800-325-0800 transmitters designed for international For Toll Free Information Call SAM-5PM MondayFriday PST operation, and another 600 for regional Technical Information.. _1-800-272-3200 or local use. Any Cther Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 Only Short Wave gives you the world There's a large easy to read vertical 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 FLASHWe've been lucky enough to get another production run of this incredible equalizer at the same $149 close-out price! a

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Don't leave out the realism of a thunder clap, or the excite- just fade away into the 'murk'. mid -range. You can boost trumpets at ment of a full cymbal crash. An equalizer isn't some magical device 300 to 500hz or a clarinet at 1000hz. You'll hear string basses and other that manufactures sounds that don't ex- You can boost or cut any part of the fre- deep low instruments emerge from bass ist. Most of the frequencies that will quency spectrum a full t 15db. (that will sound murky by comparison), make your music really vibrant, are actual- TAPE DECK HEAVEN with such clarity and such definition that ly already recorded in your music. You can push a button and transfer all you'll feel you can almost touch each You'll be able to prove this with a fewthe equalization power to the inputs of instrument. simple tests we'll try when we discuss two tape decks. Now you can pre -equalize This astoundingly distinct yet power- the Spectrum Analyzer. your cassettes as you record them and ful bass adds such a full bodied warm You see, certain frequencies are sim- get all the dramatically enhanced sound feeling to your music, you'll feel as if ply not reproduced with as much volume recorded right on your cassettes. you've been lovingly wrapped in a warm as are the mid -range frequencies which This is an especially great feature when soft blanket on a cold winter's night. stretch from about 800hz to 2,000hz. you play your cassettes on bass -starved But don't take my word for the sound An equalizer simply lets you establish portables or high -end starved car stereos. quality improvement. With the Pink Noise accurate control of all frequencies to fit Generator, Calibrated Electret Condenser your equipment, your recordings, your Mike and the 220 Element Spectrum An- taste, and your listening environment. alyzer, you can instantly measure each TOTAL MUSICAL CONTROL and every improvement you make. And, what a job it can do. It's totally Plus, there's more. A subsonic filter unlike bass and treble controls which effectively adds the equivalent of manysimply boost everything from the mid- SIMPLY PLUG IT IN watts onto the power of your amplifier. range down for bass, or everything up Use your tape monitor circuit, but don't Plus, with its provision for two sepa- for treble. You can boost the low -bass at lose it. Now your one tape monitor cir- rate tape decks including two way dub- 31.5hz, 63hz and/or 125hz to animate cuit lets you connect two tape decks. bing, you'll have much more than just specific areas or instruments. Just plug the equalizer into the tape greatly improved sound. And, when you boost the part of the 'in' and 'out' jacks on your receiver or You can count on great sound from bass you like, you don't disturb the mid- preamp. We even supply the cables. this top of the line Equalizer/Analyzer. It range frequencies and make your favorite As you listen to your records, FM or has a frequency response from 5hz to singer sound like he has a sore throat. any 'Aux', any time you push the tape 100,000hz1db. And, it has an incred- The high frequencies really deter- monitor switch on your receiver you'll ible 100db signal to noise ratio. mine the clarity and brilliance of your hear your music jump to life. BSR, the ADC equalizer people, make music. The problem is that highs are The output from your receiver is always this super Equalizer/Analyzer and back very directional. Wherever you move in fed directly to your tape deck(s) for re- it with a 2 year standard limited warran- your listening room, you'll find a big dif- cording, and with the touch of a button, ty. Our $149 close-out price is just a ference in high end response, as you'll you can choose to send equalized or non - fraction of its true $379 retail value. see when we test the Analyzer. equalized signal to your deck(s). FIRST THE EQUALIZER No recording engineer or equipment When you want to listen to a tape YOUR STEREO'S HIDDEN SOUNDS manufacturer can even begin to control deck, just select which tape deck you Your stereo can sound incredibly bet- your listening environment. want, turn the switch on the equalizer, $149 CLOSE-OUT

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and your tape deck will work exactly as microphone (included). Either way, you'll ADC model before they shut it down. it did before. Except, now you can listen have a quick, easy and accurate way to They had already paid for all the tool- with or without equalization. evaluate the total sound of your system. ing, all the research and design, so we Look at this. You can dub tapes from HOW TO TEST were able to buy these for less than half deck 1 to deck 2, or from deck 2 to deck SPEAKERS, EQUIPMENT AND TAPE the normal price, for cold hard cash. 1 with or without equalization. Testing your speakers in your listen- THE FINAL FACTS THE SUBSONIC FILTER ing room is the really crucial test. Simply There are 20 slide controls, each with Much of the power drawn from yourplace the calibrated microphone where a bright LED to clearly show its position. amplifer is used to drive your woofers. you normally sit to listen to your stereo. Each control will add or subtract up to When you drive the amplifier too hard, it 15db. (That's a 30db range!) clips and you end up with distortion. There are separate sound detonation A subsonic filter removes a lot of non- slide controls for each channel at 31.5 hz, musical material you can't hear that exists 63 hz, 125 hz, 250hz, 500hz, 1,000 hz, below 20hz. So, it relieves your amplifier 2000 hz, 4000 hz, 8000 hz, and 16,000 hz. of a lot of work. It doesn't actually create BSR backs this top of the line Graphic more watts (Please, no letters from my At the end of an 18 foot cord is the ear of the system. Equalizer/Spectrum Analyzer with a 2 'technical' friends) for your amplifier. Just clip the mike wherever you sit and test your room. year standard limited warranty. It is 17%" But, it's like turning off the air con- Turn on the Pink Noise. You can switch wide, 3Y2" tall and 8%" deep. ditioning in your car. It saves you using to Left Channel, Right Channel or both. MAKE YOUR MUSIC EXPLODE about 7hp of what you have. And there- There's a meter range button, a sen- RISK FREE fore, you'll have more watts for clean sitivity control, and even a switch that It's startling. Music so vibrant with life powerful sounding music. lets you freeze the meter. you'll swear it's 3 dimensional. Sculp- THE SPECTRUM ANALYZER Just sit down at the equalizer. Start ture your music any way you want itIf Now you can scientifically analyze with one channel. You'll see all 10 octave you're not 100% satisfied for any reason, your stereo listening room and test your bands on the meter. Just slide the cor- simply return it to DAK within 30 days in equipment by using BSR's Real Time responding controls to increase or de- its original box for a courteous refund. Frequency Spectrum Analyzer. crease any area that needs help. To order your BSR EQ3000 Smart Plus, you'll see your music not as a You have now set up your system to Sound Detonator 10 Band Graphic Equal- single level on a VU meter, but as aits maximum capability. But as you'll izer with Real Time Spectrum Analyzer kaleidoscopic parade of 10 individual see, location is very important Move the and Calibrated Mike, with Subsonic Filter 20 element VU meters. microphone 5 feet to the left or right and Two Way Tape Dubbing risk free Each is tuned to a specific octave of Then turn on the Pink Noise and check with your credit card, call toll free, or the sound spectrum. An eleventh 20 ele- the Spectrum Analyzer. Now you can send your check, not for the $379 retail ment meter averages all levels. see why the specifications that come value. Don't even send the $227.97 dealer The effect is awesome. You can visual- with your system are only a starting point cost. 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The Day The Earth Shook You can set off seismographs with the enormous power of this 300 watt (150 X 2) audiophile integrated amplifier and digital tuner, or reproduce the sound of a pin dropping, flawlessly, at a really earthshaking price! By Drew Kaplan that causes clicks, pops and static in 3)the signal strength. If you tape a lot off The excitement is back. After 5 years traditional controls. Just touch the bar FM as I do, this synthesized tuner's capa- of boring 20 to 50 watt per channel non- to raise or lower the volume. bility to lock in stations is remarkable. dramatic sounding amplifiers, Scott is You'll have individual buttons to choose BUT IT'S THE POWER igniting your music again! between Tape, Phono, Video, CD or Tun- Sensitive LED power meters display Of course, with the avalanche of CDs er inputs. And an Icon you can see from 0.01 to 200 watts of power. But, you being sold, Scott doesn't have mucheven across the room, lights to showwon't have to see the output power to choice. High power and super fast slewwhat you've chosen. experience its awesome effects. rates are needed just to keep up. And, you'll want to Whether you have a CD or not, more So, Scott has attacked distortion and know what's selected, power doesn't mean louder. It means dynamic restriction at its source with because you'll control cleaner, unconstricted sound that is trans - these new, top of the line, components. power, up/down vol- parent and literally exploding with life. With CDs your sound can go from Odb ume, and mute plus, With 150 watts per channel, your soft to 90db instantly. And, while CDs can select Phono, Tunerlistening will gain depth and fullness. even make an old tube amplifier sound (AM or FM with 8 Pre- And, your loud levels will not suffer clip - terrific, wait till you hear them through sets each), CD, Video/ ping and dynamic restriction. Of course, this enormously powerful amplifier. Aux, or Tape Monitor you may be restricted by your neighbors,

In fact, wait till you hear any source , from the included in- but that's not Scott's problem. material open up and become free and frared remote control. CHECK THE SPECS vibrant with new life. - Now you can sit back Scott was a household name in the But, before we explore the nuts and and switch stations or inputs, or adjust 60s while I was growing up. Let's see bolts of Scott's 300 watt (150 watts pervolume whenever the phone rings. how they've grown up too. channel from 20hz to 20,000hz with no QUARTZ -LOCK TUNING The frequency response of this amp more than 0.009% THD) amplifier, let's It's Scott's new top of the line tuner. stretches from 10hz to 60,000hz. It has look at the special extras. And, as you'd expect, you're going to get a 90db signal to noise ratio. And the SCULPTURE YOUR SOUND great AM and FM stereo reception. equalizer can alter the frequency re - There's a built in 7 band graphic equal- Tuning is controlled by an advanced sponse by:10db at 63hz, 160hz, 400hz, izer. With an equalizer, you can bring quartz PLL (Phase Locked Loop) digital 1000hz, 2500 hz, 6300hz and 16,000hz. crashing cymbals to life or energize the synthesizer tuning system. The system It's backed by Scott's limited warranty. sound of a string bass without destroy- compensates for any change, assuring MAKE THE EARTH MOVE ing any of the mid -range. you of a crystal clear, stable signal. RISK FREE With the aid of this equalizer, you In addition to the 16 presets (8 AM Awesome power will make your music won't just hear a string bass, you'll feel and 8FM), you can 'Scan' stations manu- throb with life. Now you can enjoy the it.It will become a living, breathing, ally, or you can automatically seek the true impact of CDs and make any music resonant part of the music. There's so next broadcasting station. you listen to, a thrilling experience. much life, you'll be amazed. There's a Mute/Stereo/Mono button If you're not 100% satisfied, simply And, you'll thrill to the impact of a which effectively mutes out weak sta- return it in its original box to DAK within cymbal crash or the gentle nuance of tions and noise. You can defeat Mute/ 30 days for a courteous refund. brushes on a snare drum. With the clean Stereo and lock in on even the weakest To order Scott's Top Of The Line 150 power of this amp and the ability tostations in Mono if you wish. Watt Per Channel Integrated Amplifier 'detonate' the high and low frequencies, I've always found that AM tuners in and Tuner with 7 Band Equalizer risk you'll simply be thrilled by your music. receivers weren't very good. Well, Scott free with your credit card, call toll free, MORE CONTROLS has improved AM reception. or send your check for DAK's break - With this 150 watt per channel inte- First, the power supply for this sep- through price of just $399 ($14 P&H). grated amp, you can operate 2 pairs of arate tuner is actually in the integrated Order No. 4885. CA res add tax. stereo speakers with power to spare. amplifier. Although the tuner is a separ- 150 watts per channel of pure power And speaking of power, there's a Bass ate component, only low, non -interfering and a quartz locked digital tuner will Boost which adds 9.5db at 50hz. voltage is supplied to the tuner. make your future years of music listen - There's an electronic volume control LEDs show when a station is 1)'Iock- ing an on going fabulous, if not earth - which isn't subject to mechanical aging ed in', 2)broadcasting in Stereo, and shaking, experience. Digital Thrill Maker For your stereo system (it plugs in), or for anywhere you go, now you can have thrilling digital sound. Plus, it's fully pro- grammable (great for recording cassettes) and you'll enjoy Cassettes, AM and FM stereo, at a breakthrough price. By Drew Kaplan and FM stereo tuners is breathtaking. or back to the last. In fact, you can skip to It's a thrill a minute. CDs simply re- You'll have the same equalization, am- any song you want, whenever you want. produce the best sound I've ever heard. plification and superb speaker systems It's 22" leng, 6%2" tall and 51/2" deep. It And, I'm building a great collection. to reproduce your cassette recordings operates from AC (cord included), or D Between the great classical music and and your favorite AM and FM broadcasts. cell batteries. It's backed by Crown's all the 50s and 60s recordings that are Of course, you can make incredible standard limited warranty. now coming out on CDs (finally at decent sounding recordings directly from the MAGNIFICENT MUSIC prices), I'm really buying a lot of them. CD, and the AM or FM Stereo tuners. RISK FREE Of course, I'm still listening to my Plus, there's a built-in condenser mike. About the only thing that proves this cassettes and AM and FM stereo with And look at this. There's a CD output. is a portable is its handle. When you this new Crown music center, but frank- So, if you don't have a CD in your main hear the sound, especially in your stereo ly, cassettes made from records or off stereo system, now you can use this as a system, you won't believe it's a portable. FM simply don't have the sonic drama component CD when you're home and a If you're not 100% awed by the incred- and impact that CDs deliver. portable when you're out. ible sound quality, simply return it to DAK If you're like me, you already own lots Plus, if you have a stereo system inwithin 30 days in its original box for a of great albums. And, you've probably your den, bedroom or office, just plug in courteous refund. been listening to them for years. its included cable and you can use this To order Crown's Portable Music Cen-

Well, I saw no reason to buy a CD if I CD portable as a fully programmable CD ter with 16 Random Access Program Ca - already owned the album. Besides, they deck for any system you own. debility, and 3 Beam Laser CD Player, just started re-releasing albums on CD.

Well, was Iwrong. The first time I compared a CD release to an album re- 111111 lease, the sound knocked my socks off. RE PE4' PROGRAM SHOULDNT HAVE BEEN SURPRISED SKIP-- Well, I should have known that the dif- ference would be staggering because the masters for the albums were recorded at 15 inches per second on 2" tape. So, buy a CD of one of your favorite albums and compare the difference. I You'll be able to use this system wher- superb Cassette Deck, AM/FM Stereo think you'll be as awed as I have been. ever you want great sounding music from Tuners plus Graphic Equalizer and Stereo VERY DEMANDING CDs, Cassettes, or AM/FM Stereo. System Connecting Cable risk free with To adequately reproduce the capabil- CD MAGIC your credit card, call toll free, or send ities of a CD without a full size stereo Prepare for an incredible 16-20,000hz your check for DAK's market breaking system isn't easy. But, Crown's powerfulaudio experience. 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Before we look at the actual features Important Note: Now you can effort- Call Toll Free For Credlt Card Orders Only of the CD, there's something you should 24 Hours A Day 7 Days A Week lessly record cassettes with just the songs 1-11100-325-01100 know. Because of the demanding require- you want in just the order you want them For Toll Free Information, Call 6AM-5PM Monday-Frodey PST ments that Crown had to meet to repro- with this new programmable deck. Wow! Technical Information.. _1-800-272-3200 duce CDs, the sound quality you're going If you're listening to a song, you can Any Other Inquiries 1-800-423-2866 to hear from the cassette deck and AM have it start over again or skip to the next 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304 Instant You, Digitally Forget complicated answering machines. Forget worn out announcement tapes. Now you can simply toucha button and record your voice digitally on computer RAM. It's an incredibly easy to use breakthrough, for just $4990. 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to contain some of by Christie Barter "the most significant & Steve Simels recordings ever produced," including the first by the Car- ter Family and Jimmie Rodg- TIMEwas when the phrase ers, the two -record set of thir- "the New Dylan" had ty-six songs is available only wide currency in the music by mail order from the foun- 0 business. According to con - dation. Send a check or mon- ey orderfor$14.98,plus $2.25 to cover postage and - handling, to Country Music Foundation Records at 4 Mu- N sic Square East,Nashville, TN 37203. 0

NEof the hottest acts on 0the concert circuit these days is the Kronos Quartet, Megadeth: what's in a name? which has been called the Fab Four of classical music. By way they play it have wonthis month, and an hour-long the looks of their current tour them enthusiastic responses televisiondocumentaryis schedule, they should be play- from critics as well. just waiting for an airdate. ing a concert hall near you The first Kronos album for sometime between now and Nonesuch enteredBillboard's YOU don't expectirony the end of May. The quartet's classicalchart well over a from a heavy-metal informal stage manner and year ago and at presstime was band, but there is some in the post -punk dress code have stillholding on; thelatest, strange case of popular Los Omar: Creedence of the monthcharmed hundreds of fans "White Man Sleeps," is a Top Angeles headbangers Mega- who might otherwisestay 10 hit. The quartet was the deth. Seems the boys were hit servative estimates, the tag away from chamber music al- subject of a CBSSunday withalawsuitovertheir has been attached to upwards together. The music they play Morningsegment and an in- name, to which another L.A. of seventy singer/ -almost entirely twentieth- terviewonthenetwork's band claimed a prior right (al- over the years. These days, century, ranging from Bartok Nightwatchprogram in Sep- thoughtheyspelledtheir however, you're likely to hear to Terry Riley and Ornette tember, a guest appearance namewiththe missing "a" in a certain kind of roots -con-Coleman-and the forthright on Sesame Street is coming "death").Fortunately,the scious band tagged "the New suit was settled in the a -less Creedence," especially since Kronos Quartet: chamber music for the charts band's favor in time for Capi- that band's erstwhile leader, tol Records to release its lat- John Fogerty, seems to have est assault on your eardrums run out of gas. next month. This month's batch of New But where's the irony? Sim- Creedences includes the ply that neither of the Mega - Brandos, whose first album bands was aware thatthe on Relativityispretty hot name was first used, back in stuff, and Columbia's Omar 1974, for the fictional heavy- and the Howlers (the coolest metal band featured inthe name since Sam the Sham & National Lampoon's"Lem- thePharaohs), whom we mings" stage show. Stars of caught at a recent show in thatlittleMegadeath were Manhattan.Playingsongs Chevy Chase and John Belu- from their first album, "Hard shi, who, in retrospect, were Times in the Land of Plenty," only slightly funnier than the Omar (Van Dyke) and his current name -holders. 0 cronies sounded impressively Creedence-like in their potent SOMEof the biggest names mixture of political protest in classical music have and blues -rock authority. We donated their services to Mu- don't know whether they also sic for Life, a concert being have Creedence's Top 40 hit - given at Carnegie Hall on making flair, but both album November 8 to benefit the and concert indicate this is a GayMen'sHealthCrisis band to watch. 0 (GMHC),whichprovides support services for people OUNTRY MUSICFounda- with AIDS. Leonard Bern- %ow tion Records has released stein and James Levine are an album called "The Bristol sharing the musical planning Sessions," after the eastern of the event, which will fea- Tennessee hill town where ture such artists as Leontyne they took place in 1927. Said Price, Marilyn Horne, Yo -Yo

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Ma, Luciano Pavarotti, Mur- there's an element GRACENOTES. Arecent ray Perahia, and Samuel Ra- of consistency in our USA Today poll asking mey, many of whom will be lives, however small. fifty celebrities to name their performing together for the But there's some potential- favorite Elvis Presley song first time. lyshocking news for Ra- produced some interesting re- Deutsche Grammophon is mones fans: The band has a sults. The praises of Hound expected to record Music for brand-new drummer, ex- Dog were sung by Don John- Life for worldwide distribu- Blondie legend Clem Burke. son and Paul Newman, and tion, producing added reve- Burke is a gifted, flashy tech- Don't Be Cruel was the tune nues for GMHC, and radio nician ,7eminiscent of the late of choice for Burt Reynolds station WNCN-FM in New Keith Moon, and it's hard to and Dolly Parton. But by far York City is taping the con- imagine how his pyrotechnics themostastute response cert for syndication through can be adapted to the Ra- came from TV star/astron- the Concert Music Broadcast Ramey, mones' more, er, minimalist omer Carl Sagan, who said, Network for airplay over the Cook: a switch style. You'll be able to check "I can't make up my mind Thanksgiving weekend, No- it out for yourself, as the band vember 26-29. 0 larlydiversebackgrounds. is hitting the road. We also Contralto Maureen Forrester wonder whether Burke will HERE'S a switch-a re- and tenor David Rendall hail change his last name like the cording of a Broadway from the world of concert rest of the boys. Clem Ra- revivalthat does notstar musk and opera, and Sarah mone? Hmm . . . . 0 opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa. Brightman, who is Mrs. An- Just now arriving in stores drew Lloyd Webber. has built SOMETIMES it's tough be - her career on starring in her ing a sex symbol. Just ask husband's hits. The Carousel Chris Isaak, the neo-rocka- orchestra is the Royal Phil- billy rocker whose two criti- harmonic, conducted by cally acclaimed albums on Broadway's Paul Gemignani. the Warner Bros. label The producer is Thomas Z. ("Chris Isaak" is the most re- Shepard, head of MCA Clas- cent) have failed to burn up sics and an undisputed mas- the charts. The problem, we ter when it comes to record- suspect, is that people don't ing a Broadway musical. 0 take good-looking musicians seriously unless they're \Whit- AND they said punk ney Houston, which is clearly wouldn't last. Believe it unfair. or not, punk's founding fa- We caught Isaak's act re- thers, the Ramones (their new cently at a New York club, Isaak: looking good Sire album, "Half Way to and we can report that he's Sanity,"is justout), have the genuine article: a spell- betweenLittleSisterand now been together for elev- binding singer, an ace song- (Marie's the Name) His Lat- en-count 'em, eleven- writer. and the leader of one est Flame. . . . I.R.S. Rec- years. And, yes, they're still ofthe bestrock-and-roll ords is reissuing the first two wearing those artfully ripped bandsinAmerica.Ifhe dB's albums, previously bluejeans,singingabout passes through your town, available only as British im- Bernstein: Music for Life teenage lobotomies, and gen- miss him at your peril. And ports. Now let's hope I.R.S. erally carrying on like the petition Warner Bros. to re- does the same for the band's around the country is a new kind of adolescent reprobates lease his moody update of the debut American LP, 1984's recording, on MCA Classics, you see hanging around local Yardbirds' Heart Full of Soul "Like This," briefly available of Rodgers and Hammer - pizzerias. Niceto know as a single. 0 on Albert Grossman's Bears- stein's Carousel in which the ville label before its demise. leading roles of Julie and Bil- Ramones: an element of consistency . . . How about the following ly are sung by Barbara Cook graffitoglimpsednearthe and Samuel Ramey. newlyrenovatedCarnegie Cook, who began her career Hall? "Q: How does Rocky on Broadway, has known the callhis mother? A: Yo -Yo role ofJulie since the late Fif- Ma." . . . Most audacious ties, when she appeared in a cover band of the year: New major revival of Carousel at York underground fave the New York City Center. Pussy Galore, which recently Ramey, of course, is an opera remadeallof theRolling singer, but he's not the first Stones' two -recordmaster- celebrated operatic bass or piece, "Exile on Main Street." bass -baritone to sing a ro- This could signal a fascinat- mantic lead written by Rod- ing trend. Think of the possi- gers and Hammerstein-Ezio bilities-Ozzy Osborne redo- Pinza starred in the original ing the Carpenters' greatest cast of South Pacific. hits,perhaps,or Weather The other featured artists in Report cutting the first Ra- the new Carousel have simi- mones album? 0

STEREO REVIEW NOVEM BE R1987 145 You get out of our new Sherwood S -2770R CP digital remote -control receiver what you put into it. Like your TV audio. Your VCR audio and video.lbur compact disc player. Your turntable. Your tape deck Your everything. All in stereo. At 74 watts per channel. The S -2770R CP even has the ability to synthesize stereo from monaural sources, such as normal broadcast and cable TV Add an extra pair of speakers in the back of your entertainment mom and turn it into a theater. The S -2770R CP can decode rear channel information present in most stereo sound and video programs. Video tapes of movies you buy or rent are made from films originally shown in theaters, where rear channel sound is all part of the experience. The S -2770R CP lets you recreate that surround -sound experience right in your own home. You also get full video dubbing capability through permanent rear panel connections, or through conveniently located jacks on the front for those occasions you need a second VCR There's more: The wireless remote to control all of your components from across the room. A quartz digital AM/FM tuner with 16 presets. A digitally controlled seven -band graphic equalizer/spectrum analyzer with five different EQ memory settings. Auto/manual scan tuning. Loudness and sub -bass EQ. -20dB mute function. An LED signal -strength indicator. All so you can put everything you've got (or intend to get) into it, except a lot of money. Just ask any of the dealers listed below. They'll prove to you that Sherwood stops at nothing to give you better, more enjoyable, 0 Sherwood live -performance sound - whatever you're listening to - at a surprisingly affordable price. LIVE PERFORMANCE SOUND'

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Stereo Review's critics choose the outstanding current releases ROSANNE CASH GETS BACK To BASICS

FOR thelasttwenty-seven years, music lovers in Louis- ville, Kentucky, have quenchedtheirthirstfor hard -to -findand out -of -printal- bums at King's Record Shop, a di- lapidated, enticing hole -in -the -wall nestled smack in the middle of the city's seedy blue -movie and girly- show district. Operated by Gene King,thefriendly,sideburned brother of Country Music Hall of Famer Pee Wee King, the store is a magical "Twilight Zone" of an es- tablishment, a place where, judging from the window displays and most of the inventory, time called it quits somewhere around 1965.Itis a place where country, rock, pop, and jazz coexist without even so much as a whimper. Those styles also peacefully coex- ist in the work of singer Rosanne Cash. The daughter of country leg- Rosanne Cash: a stunning mix of the traditional and the progressive end Johnny Cash, she grew up with one eye on the beehive hairdos of toring" to be found in the whole The musicians who appeared on her hillbilly relatives and the other production. In perhaps her most Cash'searlierrecords-notably on the latest trends inthe pop straightforward and unmannered Hank DeVito (who shot the album's underground. With the help of her performance on record, Cash again cover photo), Albert Lee, Emory husband/producer Rodney Crowell, offers a stunning mix of traditional Gordy, Jr., Richard Bennett, Tony Cash successfully integrated those and progressive country, ballad, and Brown, Larrie Londin, and Rose- influences in her first three Colum- biting rock. Far more sober than her mary Butler-have all gone on to bia albums, later turning her back previous album, "King's Record different things in the years since on country for the driving rock and Shop" rips intovitalveins and Cash started to carve out her niche. pop of "Rhythm and Romance," arteries of emotion, from the viscer- But even as they helped to define her hit -laden LP of 1985. al nakedness of The Real Me, an- For her latest, "King's Record other chapter in the saga of her Shop," however, Cash wanted a "come here, go away" relationship smaller sound-without synthesiz- with Crowell,toher slant -eyed, ers, less layered, recorded with a bluesy, and definitive interpretation JU. minimum of overdubs. In short, she of Crowell's side of the story, I Sag wanted a back -to -basics production Don't Have to Crawl. In between are approach, or, as she says, "a real the kind of left -field gems Cash simple, guitar -framed record ... to somehow always manages to find: try to make the sound get close to Benmont Tench's pleading Why the real person." Don't You Quit Leaving Me Alone, And the cover art, a shot of Cash John Kilzer's dark and episodic superimposed onahand -tinted Green, Yellow and Red, and Eliza t # photograph of Gene King's store- Gilkyson'scall -to -actionagainst front, is about the only bit of "doc- wife -battering, Rosie Strike Back. 111111111KLAimeTh-44

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her style-and along withit, an Mind; The Real Me; Somewhere Some- in Vienna and Berlin by Riccardo important subgenre of popular mu- time: Runaway Train; Tennessee Flat Chailly, Riccardo Muti, and Carlo sic-she and Crowell have replaced Top Box; I Don't Have to Crawl; Green, Maria Giulini. In Giulini's new re- them with players whose passion Yellow and Red; Why Don't You Quit cording of the Bruckner Seventh, as equals her own, particularly Steuart Leaving Me Alone.COLUMBIA FC in his earlier one of the Eighth and Smith, with his knife -wielding gui- 40777, C) FCT 40777, CK 40777 (39 min). Muti's of the Fourth, the conductor tar, and Vince Santoro and Eddie has transmuted the towering Alpine Bayers, who key up the crispest grandeurs of late Bruckner to a drums in town. It is, after all, a New GIULINI'S more verdant Tuscan landscape-a Era in Nashville, one that for Cash, very interesting idea, and not at all a at least, means wedding the tension ELEGANT bad one for those listeners who may of newness and uncertainty with the BRUCKNER find the composer's transcendental security of tradition. Thisis,in strivings rather too insistent and effect, what it means to step through overextended. the door of "King's Record Shop." UT so many years ago, the Giulini and the Vienna Philhar- As anyone who has been there can Bruckner symphonies monic approach the Seventh, over tell you, it is an unforgettable trip. were regarded as the ex- theyearsthe most popular of Alanna Nash clusive preserve of Aus- Bruckner's symphonies, in a pas- trian, German, and Dutch conduc- sionately lyrical vein. The element ROSANNE CASH: King'sRecord tors, though Toscanini did perform of dramatic insistence in the score is Shop. Rosanne Cash (vocals);Patty Smyth, Steve Winwood, Rodney Crow- the Fourth and Seventh with the toned down, and everything seems ell,Vince Gill (background vocals); New York Philharmonic inthe to flow organically. The requisite Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar); Steuart Thirties. Now we find other Italian tempo shifts in the first movement, Smith (electric guitar); other musicians. conductors turning to the work of withits ever -remarkable opening Rosie Strike Back: The Way We Make a the Austrian master, with record- melody, assume a heretofore unsus- Broken Heart: If You Change Your ings made between 1985 and 1987 pected elegance in Giulini's hands. The celebrated adagio is broadly set forth, complete with the textually debatable cymbal crash at the cli- max,andtheViennaPhilhar- monic's Wagner tubas in the vale- dictory for the Master of Bayreuth are especially noteworthy.

A passionately lyrical performance in which the dramatic insistence is toned down and everything seems toflow organically.

In its initial pages, the scherzo does not convey the usual rustic Austrian atmosphere but that of a pastoral dance heard at a distance, though the focus becomes more de- fined as the music progresses. As in the first movement, Giulini tones down the insistent elements of the finale, keeping its legato aspects in the foreground. The lovely subsid- iary theme has never in my memory been treated with such subtlety of dynamics and coloration, and the sound from Vienna's Musikverein- saalis as full-bodied as anyone could wish. As mostseasonedcollectors know, there are plenty of top -class Carlo Maria Giulini: an Italianate perspective on Bruckner recordings of Bruckner's E Major

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A set of dusty, twilight rhythms and scorching guitar combining the country music of parched cinderblock and sweating: beer bottles with the hard rock of a fist fight waiting to happen.

the one song in "After Dark" he didn't write-I Want Your World to Turn. This gussied-up number lacks the forthrightness and canny eye for detail that mark the rest of the album. Backed by a rhythm section in perfect sync and the boiling gui- tar fills of Marshall Rohner, Larri- va's burning vocals and hard -edged songwriting make this one of the most powerful rock albums of the year. Mark Peel CRUZADOS: After Dark. Tito Larriva (lead vocals, guitar); Marshall Rohner (lead guitar, vocals); Chalo Quintana (drums); Tony Marsico (bass, vocals). Cruzados: Marshall Rohner, (halo Quintana, Tony Marisco, Tito Larriva Small Town Love; Bed of Lies; Roadof Truth; Last Ride; Time for Waiting; Young and on Fire; Summer's Come, Symphony, but anyone who fancies incandescence, heat lightning on a Summer's Gone; I Want Your World to an Italianate perspective on the summer night. Cruzados combine Turn; Chains of Freedom; Blue Sofa Austrian composer could hardly the country music of parched cin- (Still a Fool). ARISTAAL 8439, © AC make a better choice than this one derblock and sweating beer bottles 8439, 0 ARCD 8439 (38 min). by Giulini. David Hall with the hard rock of a fist fight waiting to happen. BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7, in E Tito Larriva's songs twang, rum- BRAHMS WITH Major. Vienna Philharmonic Orches- ble, and slog, but they never jerk or WARMTH, WIT, tra, Carlo Maria Giulini cond.DEUT- jump. You wonder how a guy this SCHE GRAMMOPHON0 419 627-1, 0 young can have experienced so AND FANTASY 419 627-4, 0 419 627-2 (68 min). much truth and heartache. In Blue Sofa, he's caught between an affair with an older woman and the purer R!CHARD GOODE'Sperfor- CRUZADOS: love he has for his young girl mances of Schubert and BELIEVABLE friend-a purity that doesn't pre- Beethovensonatashave vent him from leaving her to watch demonstrated that he is un- COUNTRY ROCK TV alone on a Friday night while he commonly secure and communica- indulges himself. Bed of Lies cap- tive in the sort of music that is more tures the shattering compromise be- substance thanglitter.His new /FTex-Mex weren't the flavor of tween an unfaithful woman and her Brahms collection on Nonesuch the month, "After Dark," the alcoholic lover in bed. Small Town provides further assurance of the new Cruzados album, probably Love is a poignant song about look- sort of response such material con- wouldn't have been made- ing back on a first love: how time tinues to draw from him. The pro- and rock would be the poorer for it. erases the heartache, but also the gram is a convenient one for collec- It's a set of dusty, twilight rhythms promise, and how many things sup- tors who like to have these pieces and scorching guitar-now a blister- plant love as we grow older. grouped as Brahms published them: ing noonday sun, now a low, far-off As a lyricist, Larriva is both poet- the eight capriccios and intermezzos

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Will Tell; I Can't Get Nothin'; You're Gone; Someday Girl; and seven others (eight others on cassette). MIRROR 12, © MC -12. Performance: Stylized Recording: Good Apart from having one of the coolest names in rock history, the Chesterfield Kings are a somewhat problematic little group. What they do, extremely well, is re-create the look and sound of every American garage band that sprang up in the wake of the British Invasion in the Sixties, from half -remembered one -hit wonders like the Shadows of Knight or the Chocolate Watch Band to certifiable obscurities that never made it past one performance at a teen club in Kenosha, Wisconsin. As you might imagine, this is an enterprise that verges perilously close to camp, but, to the Kings' credit, they reproduce this stuff-every wheezy harmonica lick and Brian Jones haircut-with utter seriousness and a scholar's attention to detail. In "Don't Open Til Doomsday," they include, among their own authentic -sounding originals, not only an utterly obscure mid -Sixties Ray Davies song but one that T -Bone Burnett wrote about fifteen years before he got semi -famous. Points for mimicry aside,there's something vaguely off-putting about the whole business. This is not like reviving the Delta blues or rockabilly. The groups the Kings are taking their cues from were, for the most part, inferior copies of British acts already a genera- tion removed from their American sources. There's a reason the Shadows of Knight or the Chocolate Watch Band never became household names: They weren't all that good, which makes the Kings' apparent obsession with them Natalie Cole: more than a touch of class that much more puzzling. I mean, an occasional cover version is one thing, Nelson (background vocals); additional of Campbell's biggest hits and steered but trying to base an entire career on vocal andinstrumentalaccompani- him through an honest, though some- "Nuggets" -era restorations is just plain ment. I'm a One Woman Man; The what sophisticated country record. To weird. On the other hand, better this Hand That Rocks the Cradle; For Sure, besure, Bowen wasn't taking any than, say, a disco revival, and if you For Certain, Forever, For Always; I chances-Emmylou Harris, Steve War- remember the Sixties at all, you might Have You; Leavin's Not the Only Way iner, Willie Nelson, and Lee Green- get a kick out of the Kings' dead -on evo- to Go; and five others. MCA MCA - wood drop in for duets and background cation of groups that probably played 42009, 0 MCAC-42009, MCAD- warbling-but he needn't have worried. your local high school. S.S. 42009 (35 min). Songs such as Ted Harris's The Hand Performance: Back to basics That Rocks the Cradle (which proudly NATALIE COLE: Everlasting. Natalie Recording: Very good suggests there ought to be a Hall of Cole (vocals); vocal and instrumental Fame for Mothers) and Jimmy Webb's accompaniment.Everlasting;Jump Through the ups and downs of a spec- two offerings, For Sure, For Certain, Start; The Urge to Merge; Split Deci- tacular,yetcheckeredcareer, Glen Forever, For Always and Still Within the sion; When I Fall in Love; and five oth- Campbell has consistently redeemed Sound of My Voice, pave the way ers. MANHATTAN ST -53051, 4XT- himself on records with a remarkably toward a varied, true -grit set. In short, 53051, CDP-53051 (54 min). elastic and expressive singing voice, a this is a congenial half-hour of contem- formidable command of the guitar, and porary country music that should put Performance: Aglow again an uncanny sense of song selection. Campbell back in strong. A.N. Recording: Excellent After something of a hiatus, Campbell There is more than a touch of class in is back with a high -profile record that ROSANNE CASH: King'sRecord Natalie Cole's new album. Recapturing proves that the old skills are still in fine Shop (see Best of the Month, page the luster of earlier years, before her working order, and that the world has 147) career faltered, Cole moves confidently finally caught up to his ideas about the through an assortment of songs that natural wedding of country and pop. At THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS: Don't reflect the range of her musical person- the same time, however, producer Jim- Open Til Doomsday. The Chesterfield ality,fromthedeliciouslybrazen my Bowen has stripped away the layers Kings (vocals and instrumentals). Self- bounce of Bruce Springsteen's Pink Ca- of strings that bravely bolstered many ish Little Girl; I'll Go; Everywhere; Time dillac to the enduring ballad When I

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And she's in OET 40769, © EK 40769 (49 min). therearestillnew horizons to be explored in popular music. P.C. good voice, with energy to spare. Performance: Intoxicating Among the composers who have con- Recording: Very good tributed well -crafted songs to this pro- A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS: The Best gram are Burt Bacharach and Carole With imagination, solid musicianship, of. ... A Flock of Seagulls (vocalsand Bayer Sager (the pensively sweet Split and a touch of daring, Gloria Estefan instrumentals). I Ran; Space Age Love Decision and In My Reality), but Cole's and Miami Sound Machine have fash- Song; Telecommunication; The More own gifts as a composer are apparent in ioned an exciting new sound. Founded You Live, The More You Love; Night- the brightly buoyant More Than the on Latin salsa and the rich musical tra- mares; Wishing (If I Had a Photograph Stars. Also appealing are the dance ditions of their native Cuba, it's embel- of You); and four others. JtvE/RCA tunes, Everlasting and The Urge to lished with electronic effects and the 1034-1-J, © 1034-4-J. Merge, and the bluesy I'm the One, but tuneful trappings of contemporary pop- Performance: Sublimely silly Pink Cadillac is the knockout. P.G. ular music. Recording: Terrific "Let It Loose" opens, however, with CRUZADOS: After Dark (see Best of what turns out to be the most conven- You may recall these guys, who were the Month, page 152) tional selection, a pleasant but unre- briefly big at the beginning of the MTV markable dance tune called Betcha Say era and are presumably now toiling at DUANE EDDY. Duane Eddy (guitar); That. The album only gradually reveals, the Eighties equivalent of a car wash, Paul McCartney (bass); Ry Cooder, in succeeding numbers, what Estefan primarily because of lead singer Mike George Harrison, James Burton, Steve and the band really have to offer. The Score, who had the silliest haircut ever Cropper, Jeff Lynne (guitar); other mu- titlesongeruptswith pulsating to emerge from the British New Wave. sicians.Kickin'Asphalt;Rockestra rhythms, peppery Latinesque vocal - The band posed as space-age visionaries Theme; Theme for Something Really instrumental exchanges, and a swagger- who were, as Dorothy Parker put it, Important; Spies; Blue City; and five ing saxophone solo by guest Clarence deeply superficial, and at the time no- others.CAPITOL. ST -12567, 4ST- Clemons. Latin meets funk a little later body seemed to notice that they were, at 12567, © CDP-12567 (41 min). on in Give It Up and the uptempo Sur- heart, utterly traditional: a pop singles render. machine in the tradition of ELO, Abba, Performance: Great fun The second side is truly dazzling. In or Steve Miller. Recording: Very good Love Toy, basic salsa is transformed as This new Flock of Seagulls collection Duane Eddy, as one of rock's original Estefan interweaves her kittenish vocals makesthatstancefairlyexplicit. guitar heroes, was, let's face it, a man with the group's bop -like chants against There's one hummable, danceable tune with a gimmick. To wit: When con- a backdrop of irresistible percussion after another, each high gloss and utter- fronted with a melody, he'd invariably and incisive Latin jazz -piano commen- ly winning. Call it disposable, callit play it, single -note style, on the bass tary by another guest artist, Paquito New Wave nostalgia, but there's some- strings, then drench the whole thing in Hechevarria. This incendiary mix is fol- thing oddly touching about the inno- reverb and tremolo, hence his nick- lowed by the lyrical beauty of I Want cence of this music, just as there's some- name, Mr. Twangy Guitar. Gimmick or You So Bad, which couples synthesized thing oddly touching about the inno- not, Eddy's style has been widely imi- instrumentaleffectswithEstefan's cence of a Buddy Holly song. And if you tated over the years, and now, after a throbbing vocals. think that's a ridiculous comparison, surprise hit in 1986 (a resuscitation of Gloria Estefanis not just another then listen to this album's standout the old Peter Gunn theme with the Art singing pretty face. She is a formidable track, Wishing. A gorgeous, hypnotic of Noise), the originator is back. vocalist, and she helped write half the love song that you can drift away on for Not surprisingly, the gimmick still songs here along with her co-founders hours, it's every bit as moving as Well works, but I was unprepared for just of Miami Sound Machine, Emilio Este - All Right or True Love Ways and, how much fun the new album is. The despite all the synthesizers and special most immediately grabby thing here is a effects, every bit as simple and direct. Paul McCartney -produced revamp of As bands with those peculiar gifts are the Rockestra Theme, which sounds as increasingly rare as the Eighties wind if McCartney wrote it with Eddy in down, I can't recommend this album mind, but there are also some nice too highly, haircut or no haircut.S.S. bluesy tracks helmed by Ry Cooder, some wonderful Jeff Lynne productions VINCE GILL: The Way Back Home. that recallhis work with Dave Ed- Vince Gill (vocals, guitar, mandolin, munds, and a couple of Art of Noise dobro, banjo); Rosanne Cash, Rodney contributions that are aseffectively Crowell, Andrew Gold, Emmylou Har- creepy and futuristic as ever. Nothing ris, Bonnie Raitt, Sweethearts of the very profound is going on here, to be Rodeo (background vocals); additional sure, and anyone who likes contempo- vocal and instrumentalaccompani- rary guitarists like Steve Vai may won- ment. Everybody's Sweetheart; Cinder- der what all the fuss is about, but this is ella; Let's Do Something; Losing Your as nuttily entertaining an album as I've Love; Something's Missing; and four heard all year. Try it. S.S. others. RCA 5923-1-R8, © 5923-4-R8, © 5923-2 (34 min). GLORIA ESTEFAN AND MIAMI Performance: Almost there SOUND MACHINE: Let It Loose. Recording: Snappy Gloria Estefan (vocals); Emilio Estefan, Jr., Rafael Padilla (percussion); Enrique In his two previous albums, hotshot Garcia (drums); Jim Trompeter, Clay singer/ and instrumentalist Ostwald(keyboards);JorgeCasas Vince Gill has sounded like a slave to (bass); John De Farria (guitar); Randy his influences, notably Rodney Crowell, Barlow, Teddy Mulet (trumpet); Ed Rosanne Cash, and Emmylou Harris. Calle(saxophone);othermusicians. In his third album, however, Gill crafts Betcha Say That; Let It Loose; Can't Duane Eddy: nuttily entertaining his songs as if he might be trying to find

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He's an impressive enough player, especially on the blues turns, but the real plus is that the playing helps propel him out of the Crowell -imitator mode and into something genuinely worth pursuing. Cinderella,for example, is a sort of New Wave, hillbilly/bluegrass cut pointing in a direction that could take Gill to real stardom. As itis, "The Way Back Home" amountstoasampler of varying styles-all winning and enormously en- gaging-that Gill is still trying on. One of them, one day, may also furnish a The Grateful Dead: a gently rueful sense)1 I(ss sense of identity. A.N. GRATEFUL DEAD:Inthe Dark. wistful but funnyTouch of Greyand the all but defuse the hip dance -funk ar- Grateful Dead (vocals and instrumen- Band -likeBlack Muddy River,the sing- rangements in "Here We Are," a lively tals).Touch of Grey; Hell in a Bucket; ingisdownright soulful(incredible if formulaic dance record thatwill When Push Comes to Shove; West L.A. when you consider the adenoidal hor- remind you of Howard Jones, Wham, Fadeaway;and three others. ARISTA rors the Dead have previously served Flock of Seagulls-just about every AL -8452, CO AC -8452, ARCD-8452 up), and the slightly chaotic instrumen- synth -pop outfit except Wang Chung. (41 min). tal work actually makes you glad, in this There's a nice groove to much of this era of electronic, anal -retentive studio record, but when a band sounds as if it's Performance:Surprising perfectionists, that the Dead really are fronted by Tom Jones's dentist,it's Recording:Good stoned -outex -hippiespretendingto hard to stay in the mood. M.P. Life,my grandfather used to say, is like rock. Whatever you think of these guys, tuna fish: You either likeit or you this is clearly the most surprising album HIGHWAY 101. Highway 101 (vocals, don't. Undoubtedly the old coot would of the year: thefirst Grateful Dead instrumentals); vocal and instrumental have said the same thing about the record you don't have to be a Deadhead accompaniment.Whiskey, If You Were Grateful Dead if he had been a rock fan, to enjoy. S.S. aWoman; Bridge AcrossForever: because this is the ultimate cult band: Somewhere Tonight; Good Goodbye; You either connect with them or you HEROES:Here We Are.Heroes (vo- Are You Still Mine;and five others. don't. cals and instrumentals); vocal and in- WARNER BROS. 25608-1, C) 25608-4, That is why, as a non -Deadhead of strumental accompaniment.Driftaway; 25608-2 (33 min). long standing, I'm so astonished by "In Here We Are; Let Me In; Riverside; Performance:Hit bound the Dark." Although it sounds no differ- Dance Your Blues Away;and five oth- Recording:Okay ent from the way the Dead have always ers. RCA 5908-1-R, © 5908-4-R, © sounded-like a bunch of stoned -out 5908-2-R (41 min). At first glance Highway 101 looks like ex -hippies pretending to rock-it's as your average Hollywood hillbilly band Performance:Funky sent out from Central Casting. You attractive and even moving as any Recording:Good album in memory. Perhaps the Dead is know the type. The outfits are too per- a band that actually needed to get old. Heroes is led by Darren Costin, former- fect. especially lead singer Paulette Carl - Certainly their we've -seen -it -all stance ly the drummer for Wang Chung. Yeah, son's, the hair is too carefully coiffed is more convincing now that they're all I thought Wang Chung's drummer was (this is theguyswe're talking about), middle-aged, especially since there's a a machine, too. Actually Costinsings and Carlson's dictionis suspiciously gently rueful sense of loss reflected in like a machine. His vocals bob up and Southern for a singer reared in Minne- the music now rather than their old down like a couple of while the sota Then you read the press kit, and "That's Karma!" equivocations. perky party music slaps away in the your worst fears are confirmed. The Whatever accounts for the change, background. Costin's stiff delivery, cou- male members of the band, all veterans the album unequivocably works. There pled with a heavy timbre, suggest a of the Los Angeles music scene, have are some splendid songs, such as the graduate of the Toastmaster's Club and SAG cards and movie credits to boot.

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Mission Electronics Corp. of America 5985 Atlantic Drive, Unit 6, Mississauga, Ontario L4W 1S4 Phone: (416) 673-3777 collection of simple, accessible tunes and -white cover photo, defiantly sludgy and five others. A&M SP -5152, © CS - that Lloyd sings with complete convic- recorded sound, and one-minute/one- 5152, 0 CD -5152 (37 min). tion and decorates with lyrical, incisive, chord songs about beating up brats with andbeautifullythought-outguitar baseball bats clearly signaled the end of Performance: Goin' for it work. Lloyd's playing may lack Ver- Western Civilization as we knew it. Recording: Good laine's barbed-wire intensity and angu- In 1987, of course, the Ramones are It takes a little time to figure out what lar dissonace, but itis touched with more like . . .well, just another rock Britain's Phil Saatchi is up to. As close something quite a bit rarer-genuine band, though one a tad more primitive as I can tell, he mixes the passionate grace. than, say, Starship. vocal angst of Sixties rhythm-and-blues In short, "Real Time" is a very fine Their latest effort, "Half Way to San- with a myriad of instrumental ap- album, one that in a better world would ity" (who's kidding who?), contains the proaches, molding a flexible style that be receiving a massive promotional usualRamonespleasures-anarchic satisfies more often than not. At times push by a much larger . Pick he aims for the arid arrogance of, say, to click: a dramatic, almost soulful read- Big Country, but more often he comes ing of the usually more ethereal Misty across like Daryl Hall, especially on Eyes. S.S. Love Is a Mission, or Paul Young, who springs to mind on the title cut and on WILLIE NELSON: Island in the Sea. Poor Man's Paradise. Producer Pete Willie Nelson (vocals, guitar); vocal and Smith, who did the honors on Sting's instrumental accompaniment. Island in "The Dream of the Blue Turtles," sur- the Sea; Little Things; Nobody There rounds Saatchi with a generally smooth but Me; Cold November Wind; All in the cushion of sound, sneaking in a humble Name of Love; and five others. COLUM- harmonica when needed. Saatchi writes BIA FC 40487, © FCT 40487, © CK his lyrics with an eye toward exploring 40487 (38 min). dank, grimy corners and crafting intelli- Performance: Masterly gent hooks that harpoon theheart, Recording: Very good much in the style of Simply Red. Yet in an odd way, for a man who lends him- When Longfellow wrote that all things self to so many comparisons, he has a come to those who wait, he must have drive, an intensity, and a mark all his been thinking of Willie Nelson's "Is- own. Keep your eye on this guy.A.N. land in the Sea." In his twenty-ninth Columbia album Nelson starts out with : - a flaccid title tune and doesn't give The Best of Split Enz. Split Enz (vocals much hope for improvement by the sec- and instrumentals). I Got You; Hard Act ond track. But on the third,Little to Follow; Six Months in a Leaky Boat; Things, where a man telephones his ex- What's the Matter with You; One Step wife to fill her in on the comings and Ahead; I See Red; ; goings of their children and friends, the History Never Repeats; and three others. record starts to home in on the truth A&M SP -3289, CS -3289, © CD -3289 and beauty that motivate an artist like (39 min). Nelson. In a low-key performance that demonstrates the power in studied sim- Performance: Archival plicity, he goes on to examine the pain Recording: Okay of love and starting over in Nobody Phil Saatchi: vocal angst If you only know Split Enz by way of There but Me, for which Bruce Hornsby , this compilation is and the Range add distinctive backing, rants ( Weasel Face, Worm Man), tips of worth picking up. There were two incar- the sensitive Women Who Love Too the hat to Brian Wilson (Go Lil Camaro nations of Split Enz, actually. The first, Much, and All in the Name of Love, a Go), and sophomoric humor (I Lost My from 1974 to 1977, was an avant-garde bluesy, unsettling murder tale from the Mind)-but there are a couple of new band that didn't realize they'd missed pen of Booker T. Jones and Will Jen- wrinkles. Most startling, Joey Ramone's the psychedelic revolution by a few nings. Despite the slow start-and a voice has deepened with the years, and years.They sportedwild,primary rendition of Tom Paxton's venerable his endearing nasal whine has mutated colorsandrecordedforChrysalis Last Thing on My Mind that doesn't into a creepy bullfrog baritone. At times ("Mental Notes" and "Dizrhythmia" exactly cry to be done-it's obvious he sounds like Mick Jagger doing his were two excellent releases from this that Nelson is simply a master of song imitation of an eighty -year -old share- era). The Enz then underwent a slight interpretation and delivery, with the cropper. And for sheer chutzpah, it's attitude adjustment when founder Tim best phrasing this side of 01' Blue Eyes. hard to top the singer's claim in I'm Not Finn's brother Neil signed on in the late And that, you'll probably agree, is worth Jesus; has anyone seriously thought 1970's. This second band was less ec- waiting for. A.N. otherwise? centric and decidedly more commercial The rest of "Half Way to Sanity," and pop -oriented, and this is the one THE RAMONES: Half Way to Sanity. except the surprisingly psychedelic Gar- represented on "History Never Re- The Ramones (vocals and instrumen- den of Serenity, is the usual head -bang- peats." tals). I Want to Live; Bop Till You Drop; ing stuff, rendered with almost classic The selections display the group's fa- Garden of Serenity; Weasel Face; Go Lil precision by a band that appears to be cile songwriting, clever word play, and Camaro Go; and seven others. SIRE hanging on to its adolescence with sin- the determinedly lighthearted approach 25641-1. gle-mindness enough to make the Beach that probably doomed it. My only quar- Boys look mature. S.S. rel is that "," Split Performance: The usual Enz's last U.S. album, is underrepre- Recording: Very good PHIL SAATCHI: Wheel of Fortune. sented with just one song, Message to It's hard to remember now, but way Phil Saatchi (vocals, guitar, keyboards, My Girl. That's understandable, back in 1976, when the Ramones' first drum programs); vocal and instrumen- though-the U.S. public stayed away album came out, these guys were actual- tal accompaniment. Little in Love; King from it in droves. learned his ly viewed as threatening. Yes, in those of Another Country; Build a Bridge; lesson. He grew tougher and more con- heady days the album's grainy black - Love Is a Mission; Wheel of Fortune; frontationalwithCrowdedHouse.

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CIRCLE NO. 11 ON READER SERVICE CARD A Harman InternationalCompany sparked especially by Hank Jones's score the all-important hits. On "Love Marie Vidal gets up to daily, judging light, elegantly swinging piano. Me Like You Used To," however, from this high-energy record. Vidal, for- Roy Hemming Tucker goes to the mat for something merly part of Desmond Child and else-a thoroughly entertaining record. Rouge, is a Cuban -American who says KIRI TE KANAWA: Kiri Sings Gersh- Here, for the first time in years, she her life is fueled by "a yearning need for win. Kiri Te Kanawa (vocals); the New sounds relaxed and in control of the movement." It's safe to say her yearn- PrincessTheaterOrchestra,John project, treating the songs like comfort- ings got satisfied here, in ten songs exec- McGlinn cond.Somebody Loves Me; able old friends. utive -produced by Jimmy Iovine, with Boy Wanted; Things Are Looking Up; Instead of the customary hit -and -fill- a large assortment of producers doing er formula, "Love Me" serves up an the hands-on work. Vidal has also inordinately strong program of high - worked with Stevie Nicks (on "Rock a integrity tunes, from IWon't Take Less Little"), and she's no stranger to evoca- Than Your Love,which packs a sweet, tive, sensual lyrics-she co -wrote most unitarian surprise, toTemporarily Blue, of the songs in this album. But with a which Tucker sings as someone who has synthesizer -and -guitar base, she mainly suffered for love but won't play the fool. keeps things upbeat and swaying. A Things heat up with the randy IWonder couple of years ago, we would have What He's Doing TonightandHeart- called this disco. A.N. breaker,but there is such presence in Tucker's performances that she can sell JOE WALSH: Got Any Gum? Joe the less appealing stuff, too, turningI'll Walsh (guitars, vocals, keyboards); vo- Tennessee You in My Dreamsinto an cal and instrumental accompaniment. affecting nugget and rising above the The Radio Song; Fun; In My Car; Mal- hokiness ofAlien. All in all, this is about ibu; Half of the Time;and five others. as satisfying as commercial country mu- WARNER BROS.25606-1, © 25606-4, sic gets these days. A . N. 25606-2 (41 min). TWISTED SISTER: Love Is for Suck- Performance:Hack work ers. Twisted Sister (vocals and instru- Recording:Okay Tanya Tucker: back on top mentals).Wake Up (The Sleeping "Got Any Gum?" is an example of the Giant); Hot Love; Love Is for Suckers; worst sort of music -business self-indul- Love Walked In; Love Is Here to Stay; I'm So Hot for You; Tonight;and five and ten others. ANGEL 0 DS -47454, © others.ATLANTIC81772-1, © 81772-4, 4DS-47454, CDC -47454 (46 min). 81772-2 (38 min). Performance:'S not so good Performance:Metallic laugh track Recording:'S strangely mixed Recording:Good As much as I have to admire Kiri Te To the uninitiated or unsympathetic, all Kanawa's efforts to stretch her reper- heavy metal sounds pretty much alike. toire to include "crossover" material, But the cognoscenti of crunch know I'm afraid her style is mostly wrong as a otherwise. There are the glamrockers match for John McGlinn's use of the like Motley Crne, the pretty boys like original arrangements of fifteen Gersh- Bon Jovi, and the darker, sinister forces win songs. Despite a beautifulLove like Megadeth and Metallica. Too ugly Walked In(originally for a tenor), and a to vie for the glam set and too tame to delightfullycamped -upBy Strauss, scare anyone, Twisted Sister has carved most of the tracks suffer from Te Kana- out a niche as the court jesters of metal. wa's inability to scale down her operatic Or perhaps the laughing stock. Vocalist tones without resorting to a cloyingly Dee Snider is a parody of a caricature, a nasal sound or to awkwardly clipped threat -to -America's -youth straight from and overemphasized pronunciations. CentralCasting.Hishystericalset - The overly close miking also makes her pieces are backed by the blandly compe- continual scoops for breath all too evi- tent Eddie Ojeda and Jay Jay French, dentanddistracting.Incontrast, whose twin lead guitars boldly go where McGlinn's orchestra and the small cho- virtually every heavy-metal band has rus used on a few tracks sound as if gone before. "Love Is for Suckers" is they're across the hall!Roy Hemming loud,fast, juvenile, and predictable, right down to the obligatory admoni- TANYA TUCKER: Love Me Like You tion to "Play it loud, mutha!" A better Used To. Tanya Tucker (vocals); vocal way to play it is not at all. M.P. and instrumental accompaniment.If It Don't Come Easy; Love Me Like You MARIA VIDAL. Maria Vidal (vocals); Used To; I Won't Take Less Than Your Dweezil Zappa (guitar); vocal and in- Maria Vidal: upbeat Love; Alien; If I Didn't Love You;and strumental accompaniment.The Real fiveothers.CAPITOL.CLT-46870, © Feel; Do Me Right; I Am a Girl in gence and cronyism. Joe Walsh, late of C4T-46870, CDP-46870 (33 min). Spain; House of Love; Soul Love;and the Eagles, wants to do an album. He Performance:On top of things five others. A&M SP6-5160, CS6- doesn't really have any songs, and Recording:Very good 5160, CD6-5160 (37 min). America isn't exactly storming the gates Performance:Slither queen at Warner Bros. demanding a Joe Walsh In her comeback album last year Tanya album. But what the heck, he's a brand Tucker sounded tense, constrained, and Recording:Layered name. There's no budget to record any afraid to step one hemp hair off the Okay, I'll be up front about this. I don't newbands, but Joe Walsh can do a tightrope. In short, she delivered a sol- dance. At least, I haven't for a few years. record if he wants to. id, safe, and not very inspiring collec- It'scertainly been a while since I The title is the only imaginative thing tion of songs, one that still managed to approached the kind of wild abandon about "Got Any Gum?"-usually these

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C 19Ir GNI sessions are called something like "Got lyrics are an acquired taste. But even Tonight.Big Country:Fields of Fire. My Own Thang to Do" or "Alone at though "See How We Are" is a smarter And seven others. A&M SP -3906, 0 Last." Everything else is hack work. album than 99 percent of what's on CS -3906, CD -3906 (55 min). Didn't anybody suggest to Walsh that record racks today, I can't muster much Performance: maybe we don'tneedanother mindless of an appetite for it. Singer/songwriters Variable paean to "your favorite station playing John Doe and Exene Cervenka have Recording:Good your favorite song"? Didn't anyone created a brutal and realistic picture of a Ah yes, another month, another super- point out that, as a guitarist, Joe Walsh parched society, many of their images star charity record, and, like most of might want to play the instrument as if coming from the New York City neigh- them, it's wildly variable in quality. The he had some ideas about it? borhoods where artists, musicians, and weakest effort here is probably from Most important, did anyone asso- the poor cohabit-a landscape of dan- Suzanne Vega. I'm a fan, but I doubt ciated with "Got Any Gum?"really gling pay phones and dingy walk-ups, that even she is particularly thrilled by think it was a good record? My guess is her nervous, out -of -tune performance that no one at Warner Bros. trusted his in Marlene on the Wall.Similarly un- or her own judgment enough to point derwhelming are Rod Stewart's bom- out how awful "Gum" is. Trouble is, bastic runthrough ofSailing(a song he these are the same tin -eared industry has now sung more times than Judy execs who turn down talented new acts Garland didOver the Rainbow),Phil every day. If this were Japan, everyone Collins's inevitable take onIn the Air involved in this disaster would submit Tonight,and Big Country'sFields of resignations. M.P. Fire, ananemic performance even by their less -than -stellar standard. WHOS THAT GIRL.Original -sound- On the plus side, there's an affecting track recording. Madonna:Who's That No One Is to Blameby Howard Jones Girl; Causing a Commotion; The Look and an extremely spiritedMoney for of Love; Can't Stop.Duncan Faure:24 Nothingby Dire Straits. The rest, in- Hours.Club Nouveau:Step by Step. cluding a chaotic Paul McCartney effort And four others. SIRE 1-25611, © 4- with the whole cast joining in, is sort of 25611, 2-25611 (40 min). by the numbers. If you've seen the vid- Performance:Hot and raw it isn't eo version on HBO, you'll really miss Recording:Good the sight of Prince Charles and Lady Di attempting to dance in the aisles.S.S. If nothing else, you have to admire Madonna for the "g" factor: That's STAR TRACKS II. Cincinnati Pops right, guts. First off, it takes guts to walk Orchestra, Erich Kunzel cond. Music around and callyourself Madonna, fromSuperman(Williams);Back to the even if your parents did slap that one on Future(Silvestri);Star Trek I(Gold- you. Second, it takes guts to marry a smith);Star Trek II(Horner);Star Trek sociopath. Third, it takes guts to pose IV(Rosenman);Space Camp(Wil- for girly magazines, and to come out on liams);Cocoon(Horner); and four oth- stage in your skivvies one day and a ers. TELARC CD -80146 (55 min). wedding dress the next. Fourth, it takes Madonna: it takes guts Fun guts to singLike a VirginandPapa, Performance: Recording: Don't Preach,the latter being a hell of a insane panhandlers, and swarms of Excellent record. And fifth, it takes guts to present street kids on the hustle. It's tough to There's some surprisingly impressive yourself as a "persona" when every- argue with the dreary American dream music here, surprising because most of thing else you do suggests you're really served up in the album's title track: it is so proudly derivative. Unlike the trash. "There are seven kinds of Coke, five Starship Enterprise, these composers Alas, there is nothing gutsy about hundred kinds of cigarettes. This free- boldly go whereeverybodyhas gone Madonna's performance on the sound- dom of choice in the U.S.A. drives before. So we find lots of ersatz Richard track ofWho's That Girl, a moviein everybody crazy." Strauss from John Williams, ersatz Pro- which the singer goes to great lengths to Even when they sing about them- kofiev from Jerry Goldsmith and Wil- prove she is not an actress-something selves, there's a tired, depressed honesty liams, ersatz Copland from Bill Conti, gutsy in itself. Obviously, Madonna is in X's lyrics ("I drive two hundred even ersatz John Williams courtesy of saving her better cinematic perform- miles or more each day/Just so you can James Horner. Much of it is appealing, ances-and all her dance numbers but get a look at us/And figure out if we're however. Particularly grabby: the stun- the fully lobotomized ones that appear worth what you paid)." And there's an ning fanfare for the doomed planet here-for another project. On the other unfinished quality to the rough har- Krypton (Williams), the genuinely exot- hand, Duncan Faure's24 Hoursjogs monies and rambling tunes, a rough- ic battle music forStar Trek'sKlingon along nicely, Club Nouveau'sStep by ness that allows X to communicate baddies (Goldsmith), and an unex- Steppicks up the mood, and Scritti Po- directly and forcefully in live perform- pectedly stirring modernist main title litti'sBest Thing Everdoes keep the toe ance but seems hollow and self-con- forStar Trek IV(Leonard Rosenman). tapping. A.N. scious on record, as if devoting too The performances are uniformly con- much attention to the arrangements or vincing. Erich Kunzel and the Cincin- X:See How We Are.X (vocals and performance would somehow dilute the nati Pops take this stuff every bit as seri- instrumentals).I'm Lost; You; 4th of group's hillbillies -in -the -city authentici- ously as standard concert fare, and Tel - July; In the Time It Takes; Anyone Can ty. "See How We Are" makes better arc has, as usual, gone the extra dis- Fill Your Shoes; See How We Are;and reading than listening. M.P. tance. For James Homer's attractive fiveothers. ELEKTRA 60492-1, 0 EpiloguefromThe Wrath of Khan,the 6049214, 60492-2 (38 min). COLLECTIONS label actually leased Leonard Nimoy's THE PRINCE'S TRUST 10th ANNI- original voiceover from Paramount. Performance:Urban cowboys VERSARY BIRTHDAY PARTY. Dire This may not be imperishable art, but, Recording:Good Straits:Money for Nothing.Midge Ure: in the immortal words of the Under- X's bare -bones, countrified rock, rustic Call of the Wild.Suzanne Vega:Mar- tones, it's never too late to enjoy dumb production values, and dark, intelligent lene on the Wall.Phil Collins:In the Air entertainment. S.S.

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Though the sound is intimate, the range is wide, from the free -form title tune to the wonderfully mellow reading of Sweet Georgia Brown, which gets downright funky. No doubt about it, this is an hour of truly superb modern jazz-despite the wordless vocal that is delivered by Konitz on Penthouse Ser- YESSIR, THAT'S COUNT BASIE enade. C.A. ESTER YOUNG once told me which features a nice stop -time chorus that he had just made some and brings out the best in Basie and his JANIS SIEGEL: At Home. Janis Siegel recordings in which he played stellar cast. The second side is mostly (vocals); Hiram Bullock, Cornell Du- the clarinet. "When will they be laid-back Basie and even better. pree (guitar); David Sanborn (alto sax); released?"Iasked. "I don't know," Finally, there is "Fancy Pants," which Branford Marsalis (tenor, soprano sax); Young replied, "Norman stashes them includes Basie's last big -band studio re- Lew Soloff (trumpet);Richard Tee until he's ready to put them out." Not cordings, made in 1983. Only one of his (piano, organ); Mitchell Forman (syn- long after that, Lester Young died, and a originalsidemen,guitaristFreddie thesizer); Buddy Williams (drums); oth- few years passed before his last clarinet Green, remained, but the sound that er musicians. Trouble Man; Small Day sides finally entered the catalog. sustained the band through three post- Tomorrow; Night Trane; Bob White; Producer Norman Granz has long war decades was intact. From Vienna with Love; Black Coffee, had a habit of recording his artists There are undoubtedly more Basie and three others. ATLANTIC 81748-1, C) whenever a good opportunity comes tapes lingering in Pablo's vault, and 81748-4, © 81748-2 (44 min). along and taking his good time releasing probably in other places as well. Even- Performance: Sizzling the records. Since a recording does not tually they willall be released-the Recording: Loaded generate royalties sitting in a vault, great, the good, and the simply fair. there is some reason to frown on this These three albums cover allthree As a longtime member of Manhattan practice. On the other hand, having too bases. Chris Albertson Transfer, Janis Siegel knows how to many new releases on the market can serve up schmaltz and still hold on to cut into an artist's income because he is COUNT BASIE AND OSCAR PE- her dignity. That's a somewhat schizo- then, in a sense, competing with him- TERSON: Yessir,That's My Baby. phrenic trick, keeping your distance self. So arguments can be made for and Count Basie, Oscar Peterson (piano); while giving yourall.Occasionally, against the practice of sitting on re- JohnHeard(bass);LouisBellson however, Siegel gets off the Transfer corded material. All this comes to mind (drums). Teach Me Tonight: Tea for line and records an album on her own- in connection with the release of three Two; Poor Butterfly; After You've Gone; this is her second, after "Experiment in "new" Count Basie albums on the Pa- Blues for Roy; Blues for C.T.; Yessir, White"-and the results are worth writ- blo label, each one featuring Basie in a That's My Baby; Joe Turner, PABLO ing home about. different instrumental setting and none 2310-923, © 5-2310-923, 2310-923-2 At times, Siegel is reminiscent of An- of them, as far as I can tell, previously (44 min). nie Ross, of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, the Sixties jazz trio and no doubt released. COUNT BASIE: Get Together. Count The earliest recording, "Yessir, That's one of Transfer's main inspirations. But Basie(piano);ClarkTerry,Harry much of the material here gets closer to My Baby," consists of what I presume (trumpet);Eddie to be the remnants of the 1978 Oscar "Sweets"Edison the bone than what Siegel sings with her "Lockjaw" Davis, Budd Johnson (tenor usual partners. Ranging from Johnny Peterson-Basie duet date that two years (guitar); later yielded their "Night Rider" al- saxophone); Freddie Green Mercer to Marvin Gaye, her program is John Clayton(bass); Gus Johnson a grab bag of delights, including the two bum. Clearly, the best material was (drums). Ode to Pres; My Main Men; issued first, but aside from the selec- songs she had a hand in writing, Night Basie's Bag; Swinging on the Cusp; Like Trane and The Cruel Master of My tions marred by use of a chimey electric It Used to Be; Pretty Time (medley). piano, there is still a bit of meat left on Dreams (Malibu), the moody Small PABLO 2310-924, © 5-2310-924,I)) Day Tomorrow, and Bob White, Mer- this bone. 2310-924-2 (44 min). The second, quite different set is "Get cer's swing that puts the song- Together," an octet date. It starts off COUNT BASIE: Fancy Pants. Count bird-and Siegel-to the test. But Sie- with Ode to Pres, briskly played in the Basie and His Orchestra (instrumen- gel, as supple a singer as you'll find any- best Basie small -band tradition, then tals). Put It Right Here; Hi -Five; Sa- where, tosses this off as if she'd been settles into a relaxed and equally char- mantha; Time Stream; By My Side; singing it all her life. That kind of deft acteristic groove with Basie's Bag, and Strike Up the Band; Fancy Pants; Blue charm, and the entrancing backing by ends the first side with a medium -tem- Chip. PABLO 2310-920, © 5-2310-920, such folks as Branford Marsalis and po number, Swinging on the Cusp, 0 2310-920-2 (37 min). David Sanborn, makes for a special album indeed. A.N.

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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, in E - flat Major, Op. 55 ("Eroica"); Coriolan Overture, Op. 62. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,ClaudioAbbadocond. DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 0 419597-1, C) 419 597-4, 419 597-2 (60 min). Performance:Very good Recording:Very good Claudio Abbado takes a lyrical -dramat- ic view of the much -recordedEroica, with emphasis on the lyrical. Except for an unexpected tempo pull-up in the massed -string passage following the fa- mous dissonant chordal climax, there is little in the first movement to raise eye- brows. TheMarcia funebreis distin- guished by exceptionallyfinestring tone from the Vienna Philharmonic musicians, and the scherzo goes at a more than usually moderate pace. Ab- bado saves the real fireworks for the variations -finale, which comes off with great brilliance. The real high point of the disc, how- ever, is a stunningly powerful reading of the greatCoriolanOverture, as stirring a reading as I have heard since the legendaryMengelberg of theearly Cellist Angelica May 1930's. The sound, from a June 1985 concert recording, is spacious, rich, and finely detailed in texture. Were it not DVOIIAK'S CELLO CONCERTO for a mention in the accompanying VIRTUALLYevery eminent cel- grand line, and the touching final pages notes, you'd never know that an au- list has recorded the Dvotak grip the heart without giving way to sen- dience was present. D. H . concerto, but in many respects timentality. the standard remains the leg- May'spreviousrecordingshave BRAHMS: Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76; endary 1937 reading by Pablo Casals mostly been of Baroque music, many in Seven Fantasies, Op. 116; Four Piano with the Czech Philharmonic under collaboration with Gustav Leonhardt, Pieces, Op. 119 (see Best of the Month, George Szell. Now Supraphon has re- but shortly before this Dvotak record- page 152) leased on CD a recording by a little- ing she undertook with Neumann a known Casals student from West Ger- complete recording for Supraphon of BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7, in E many, Angelica May, that has some- the works for cello and orchestra by Major (see Best of the Month, page thing of the old master's touch in terms Bohuslav Martina. From that set the 150) of expansive -intensivephrasing and Sonata da camera,the last work the sheer musicality. She may not have the composer wrote in Europe before flee- DVOttAK: Piano Trio No. 4,in E largeness of tone associated with Casals ing to America in 1941, was chosen as Minor, Op. 90 ("Dumpy"). MEN- or, say, Rostropovich, but as far as I am the CD coupler for the Dvoilk. If it DELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1, in D concerned, she has everything else. lacks the intensity of such works as the Minor, Op. 49. Beaux Arts Trio. PHIL- May's collaborator is Vaclav Neu- Double Concerto for Two String Or- IPS0416 297-1, © 416 297-4, 416 mann, leading the Czech Philharmonic, chestras, Piano, and Timpani, it is effec- 297-2 (61 min). and afterthesolo work the most tive virtuoso fare with a somewhat Neo- impressive aspect of the recording is the Classical Stravinskian opening, an ex- Performance:Polished absolute rightness of the balance be- pressive aria -style slow movement, and Recording:Crystalline tween soloist and orchestra. The cello is a brilliant motoric finale. The perform- The Dvotak E Minor Trio, with its integrated with the orchestral fabric in a ance by all concerned is superb, and the unorthodox format of six varied folk - Brahmsian fashion, as it should be in a recorded sound is again ideal. Highly flavored movements, has long been a work of this scale, and Neumann's con- recommended! David Hall tribution is entirely worthy of compari- son with Szell's partnering of Casals. DVOitAK: Cello Concerto in B Minor, EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS: You hear dozens of lovely woodwind Op. 104. MARTINU: Sonata da cam- details that tend to get lost in recordings era for Cello and Orchestra. Angelica O= DIGITAL -MASTER LP where the soloist is placed front and May (cello); Czech Philharmonic Or- @ TAPE CASSETTE chestra, Viclav Neumann cond. SUPRA- = COMPACT DISC (TIMINGS ARE center. Neumann also, of course, shows PHON/DENON 33C0-1 152 (66 min). TO NEAREST MINUTE) an unerring command of Dvotak's

STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER1987 183 favorite of mine, and I am delighted with the impassioned treatment it gets here. Even the dreamy episodes smol- der, and the fast ones offer all the requi- site fire.I respond less readily to the Mendelssohn work, chiefly because of the rather Schumannesque heaviness of the opening movement, but the ardent slow movement, the fascinatingly ner- vous scherzo, and the brilliant finale put me back in a more Mendelssohnian world. The recorded sound in both cases is bright yet intimate, bringing out the harmonic and linear detail. D.H. FAURE: Requiem, Op. 48. BERN - STEIN: Chichester Psalms. Aled Jones (treble); Stephen Roberts (baritone, in Faure); London Symphony Chorus; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rich- ard Hickox cond. RPO/MCA 0 MCA - 6199, @ MCAC-6199, MCAD-6199 (53 min). Performance:Excellent Recording:First-rate Of the several recordings of the Faure Requiem that have come my way in the last few months, this is quite the most attractive; it is, in fact, one of the most appealing in many years. Richard Hick - ox, the young director of the London Symphony Chorus and associate con- ductor of the London Symphony Or- chestra, does not make the mistake of enshrouding this radiant work in dark- ness or piling on weight in the name of sobriety. His reading is more moving than the self-consciously mystical ones John Eliot Gardiner: a spacious account of Handel's "Pastoral Ode" of Sir Colin Davis and Carlo Maria Giulini because he allows the music to sound on the LP (I have yet to hear the recording. (This is not, however, as the move on. CD) is first-rate in every respect. notes claim, the first complete record- Hickox's overall timing is about thir- Two small flaws in this otherwise ing. That honor goes to the Banchetto ty-five minutes, against Giulini's forty- splendid production are the mislabeling Musicale under the direction of Martin two, and that difference is felt in terms of the Faure as "Op. 84" (Leonard Bur- Pearlman on Arabesque.) of momentum in every one of the kat has it right in his notes, of course) As we have come to expect from per- work's seven sections. There is never a and MCA's failure to provide the He- formances of Handel by the Montever- feeling of undue haste, and there is no brew texts for the Bernstein. R. F. di Choir and English Baroque Soloists lack of weight when called for (as in the conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, the big moments of theSanctusandAgnus HANDEL: L'Allegro, ii Penseroso, ed it pacing is spacious, and the soloists, Dei),but the natural momentum and Moderato ("Pastoral Ode"). Michael chorus, and orchestra are first-rate. The clarity Hickox achieves are very much Ginn, Patrizia Kwella, Jennifer Smith, only drawback here is the diction. Mil- in keeping with the unique character of Marie McLaughlin (soprano); Maldwin ton's verses are jawbreakers with their the work. The clarity especially illu- Davies, Martyn Hill (tenor); Stephen constant use of consonant clusters, and mines both the choral and the orches- Varcoe (bass); Monteverdi Choir; En- singers are apt to be-and, in fact, must tral coloring, and the soloists, too, fit in glish Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gar- be-quite deliberate in order to get much more convincingly than the "star diner cond. ERATO ECD 880752 two everything in. The danger is in treating personalities" who so often get these CD's (114 min). each syllable with such care that the assignments. Stephen Roberts's light flow of the verse bogs down and the line baritone is just what is needed, and Performance:Splendid is lost, which often happens here, espe- Aled Jones sounds a little riper than Recording:Fine cially in the recitatives. Nonetheless, some other trebles who have recorded Set to Milton's two well-known com- this Erato recording is a splendid addi- the"Pie Jesu,"but he is a very reliable panion poems,L'AhegroandH Pense- tion to the Handel catalog. S.L. and tasteful singer. roso,and a third poem, I/Moderatoby These same virtues apply to Jones's Charles Jennens, Handel's "Pastoral KORNGOLD: Sonata for Piano No. 1, performance in the middle movement Ode" is one of his most inventive in D Minor; Sonata for Piano No. Z in of Bernstein'sChichester Psalms.The works, and one of the few pieces of E Major; Sonata for Piano No. 3, in C work is an imaginative and generous music in which he turned to descriptive Major. Matthijs Verschoor (piano). ET- companion piece for the Requiem, ef- writing. Although it is dramatically stat- CETERA0ETC 1042, XTC 1042, 0 fectivelybalancing Fault'sdeep-felt ic,the music isfull of poetic and KTC 1042 (70 min). gentleness with Bernstein's deep-felt ex- musical riches. Performance:Diligent uberance, and Hickox's reading is one Handel himself omitted the third Recording:Very good of the very few I've heard of any of part, and it is frequently left out in mod- Bernstein's works that can be called as ern performances, but John Eliot Gar- Erich Wolfgang Korngold's First Piano persuasive as the composer's own. The diner has quite rightly included it in this Sonata was written in 1908, when the

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CIRCLE NO. 49 ON READER SERVICE CARD evolution Distributed it -,anada by technology a brief tone poem by their father, Wil- nal quintet instrumentation to an octet, ers may feel there is just too much of it. liam Southcombe Lloyd Webber (1914- and in that form the piece served as the You can't help noticing that it takes 1982), who is remembered as director of Dance segment of his staged musical about the same time to perform as the the London College of Music but has Song and Dance. Finally, at Andrew's Strauss masterwork for cello and or- not, until now, had any of his own invitation, David Cullen orchestrated chestra in variation form, Don Quixote, music on records. the work, eliminating the electronic in- which sounds a good deal less dated Andrew Lloyd Webber composed his struments of the "rock band" in favor after nearly a full century than this new Variations (on the last of Paganini's of full symphonic forces while preserv- piece is likely to sound a decade from twenty-four caprices for violin solo) in ing much of the original character of the now. If you liked Andrew Lloyd Web- 1977 in payment of a bet he had made piece. ber's Requiem, though, you will like his with his brother, who wanted some- As recorded here, Variations is inven- Variations.Lorin Maazel makes as thing for himself and a "rock band." A tive, imaginative, and in large measure strong a case for the work, and for Auro- short time later he expanded the origi- engagingly playful, though many listen - ra, as he did for Requiem, and Julian Lloyd Webber plays the solo part with the expected proprietary zeal. R.F. LUTOSLAWSKI: Cello Concerto; Dance Preludes; Concerto for Oboe, Harp, and Chamber Orchestra. Hein- richSchiff (cello);Eduard Brunner 1),,a1 sale (clarinet); Heinz Holliger (oboe); Ursula Holliger (harp); Bavarian Radio Sym- phony Orchestra, Witold Lutoslawski cond.PHILIPS 0416 817-1, C) 416 817- 4, 0 416 817-2 (52 min). Performance: Authoritative Deutsche Grammophon Recording: Very good Witold Lutoslawski is a strong conduc- introduces tor of his own music and has had oppor- tunities to record and rerecord many of his works. This second installment in The Karajan Quartet his new series for Philips brings us his third recording of the remarkable Cello -11111- Mir Concerto he wrote for Mstislav Rostro- %Mares at ma Pothihl Straus, Bon Quixote Boinro Rainiedie emniginih nu lialentpirgel povich in 1970. The other two are not Karin., ItAin Philharmonic Karajan Berlin Philharmonic available here, so the new version with Heinrich Schiff, recorded live in Janu- ary 1986, is especially welcome, and it is I. a first-rate presentation of a most in- triguing work-the most intriguing,I think, in this particular collection. It is surely a far more substantial piece than 413 588-2 GH 419 599-2 GH the double concerto written for Heinz and Ursula Holliger ten years later, a Mozart Requiem en Saar, ( onciirt in S ien, Karajan Sienna Philharnion, iiattli Karajan piece that seems too long for what's in it. The Holligers' earlier recording of it, with Michael Gielen and the Cincinnati Symphony, is still circulating. The new one with the composer conducting gains a little in terms of sonic allure, perhaps, but the two performances are very much alike and equally effective. 419 610-2 GH 419 616-2 GH Between these two major Lutoslawski concertos of recent years, Philips has More Herbert von Karajan placed the less ambitious but decidedly ingratiating Dance Preludes, a ten-min- classic performances ute sequence of folk -flavored material composed in 1955 for solo clarinet with now available on Compact Discs: harp, piano, percussion, and string or- chestra; it makes a charming interlude. Cavalleria Rusticana; Pagliacci; Verismo Intermezzi 419 257-2 GH3 All three works, however you may Verdi Overtures (Aida; Rigoletto; La Traviata; more) 419 622-2 GH respond to them personally, are given Beethoven Marches; Wellington's Victory 419 624-2 GH performances of unique authority and vitality. R.F. Don Giovanni Highlights 419 635-2 GH Haydn "Paris" Symphonies 419 741-2 GH3 MAHLER: Symphony No. 7, in E Mi- Bach St. Matthew Passion 419 789-2 GH3 nor. Frankfurt Radio Symphony' Or- chestra, Eliahu Inbal cond. DENON 0 New recordings also available on LPs and cassettes. 6000-1553/54 two CD's (79 min). Performance: Wholly committed Recording: Very good ©1987 DG PolyGram Records With the "difficult" Seventh Sympho- ny, Eliahu Inbal and the Frankfurt Ra-

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dB PLUS 135 Torbay Road. Markham. Onta-ic.. Canada L3R 1G7 1-416-475-0050 CIRCLE NO 42 ON RE1DEF SEFVICE CARD dio orchestra maintain the high stan- dard set by the previous releases in their distinguished Mahler symphony cycle for Denon. The series needs only the gigantic Eighth and the profoundly ele- giac Ninth to reach completion. (We have heard nothing of any plans for Inbal to record a completed Tenth, either in the Deryck Cooke version or an alternative, but presumably we shall get its adagio, which Mahler finished.) Inbal takes an essentially lyrical, flow- ing approach to the Seventh, something like Claudio Abbado's 1984 reading with theChicagoSymphonyfor Deutsche Grammophon. Listening to Inbal'sperformance, oneisalways aware that this music is truly a "Song of the Night," as the work has often been called. The opening baritone -horn solo, in- toning the so-called "rowing" motive, is especially notable, and the momentum Inbal gives the entire first movement is far more effective than the funeral - march tempo some conductors opt for. Inbal takes the second movement-the firstin the central Nachtmusik trip- tych-at a faster pace than Abbado, who is slow for my taste, or James Levine, on RCA, who has it just right. But Inbal handles the ghostly scherzo, the middle movement, with wonderful attention to instrumental coloration, A JOHN ADAMSSAMPLER particularly in the reprise, and the ser- s composer -in -residence with in his excellent album notes, observes enade movement that rounds out the Athe San Francisco Symphony that as the chairman and the former Nachtmusik is perfection in both mood for several years, John Adams actress turned culture commissar travel and detail, such as the mandolin epi- had several of his works in- back in time they turn into Fred and sode toward the close. The echo effects troduced by that orchestra under Edo Ginger, and "you might imagine the scatteredthroughoutthe symphony de Waart, and some were recorded. De piano part at the end being played by come off superbly within the acoustic Waart is now music director of the Min- Richard Nixon." surround of Frankfurt's Alte Oper audi- nesota Orchestra, but he returned to Following The Chairman Dances is torium. San Francisco last November to record Christian Zeal and Activity, a gentle, Like Levine and Abbado, Inbal gives more of Adams's music for Nonesuch. hymnlike piece with a surprise in the a remarkable clarity and coherence to The product of those sessions is an form of taped portions of electronic the rondo finale, butIstillfind the intriguing collection we might call "A evangelists' sermons. The nature of music short on substance for its length John Adams Sampler," though None- each of the next two pieces, contrasting and complexity. The very end, though, such heads it with the title of the first of (and quite substantial) fanfares called with its tintinnabulating din, has never the five pieces it includes, The Chair- Tromba lontana and Short Ride in a sounded quite as overwhelming as it man Dances. Fast Machine, isaptly indicated by does here. Indeed, all of the plectra! and That first piece is a wild but sweetly their respective titles. Finally, there is bell sounds in the work, such as the dis- humorous little fantasy, related to but, I the expansive Common Tones in Sim- tant cowbells in the second movement, gather, not actually an excerpt from ple Time, a representative and quite fas- lingerinthe memory fromInbal's Adams's opera Nixon in China, which cinating example of characteristic mini- recording. Only one thing is lacking in had its staged premiere in Houston in malist procedure-or, in any event, this realization of Mahler's Seventh, October. The fantastic scene it depicts is characteristic Adams -minimalist tech- and thatis the ultimate measure of described by the composer in his pre- nique.In the superb rendering pre- orchestral virtuosity the Chicago Sym- face to the score: "Madame Mao, alias served here, the effect is hypnotic. phony displays under both Levine and Jiang Ching, has gatecrashed the presi- Everything about this release comes Abbado. But for spirit and conviction, dential banquet. She is seen standing about as close to perfection as one Inbal need bow to no one. D.H. first where she is most in the way of the might imagine: the marvelously persua- waiters. After a few minutes she brings sive performances, the unobtrusively MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer out a box of paper lanterns and hangs vivid recording, and, by no means least, Night's Dream (Complete).Eva Lind them around the hall, then strips down Steinberg's invaluable explications. (soprano);ChristineCairns (mezzo- to a cheongsam, skin-tight from neck to Richard Freed soprano); Vienna Youth Chorus; Vien- ankle and slit up to the hip. She signals na Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Pre - the orchestra to play and begins to JOHN ADAMS: The Chairman Danc- vin cond. PHILIPS0420 161-1, © 420 dance by herself. Mao is becoming es; Christian Zeal and Activity; Tromba 161-4, 420 161-2 (47 min). excited. He steps down from his portrait lontana; Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Performance: Affectionate on the wall and they begin to foxtrot San Common Tones in Simple Time. Recording: Rich together. They are back in Yenan, the Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Edo de night is warm, they are dancing to the Waart cond. NONESUCH 0 79144-1, © MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer gramophone. . . ." Michael Steinberg, 79144-4, 79144-2 (51 min). Night's Dream (Excerpts). Overtures: The Hebrides; The Fair Melusine; Ruy

190 STEREO REVIEW NOVEMBER1987 Bias. Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit cond. LONDON 0 417 541-1, 0 417 541-4, 0 417 541-2 (61 min). Performance: Overtures best Recording: Outstandingly vivid Andre Previn's ten -year -old Midsum- mer Night's Dream recording with the London Symphonyremainshighly competitive in Angel's fine CD transfer. His Viennese remake for Philips offers a little less of the score but still a little more than many recordings reasonably regarded as "complete." Itis, in any event, quite successful on its own terms, which is to say that the great orchestra plays it all very beautifully and Previn's great affection for the wonderful materi- al is never in question. Eva Lind (who, at twenty-two, appears to be Philips's newest "hot property") and Christine Cairns blend adorably in "You spotted snakes," which, like the rest of the vocal material, is sung in the German text that Mendelssohn actuallyset.The Buy Any Sony sound itself is rich and full, with a love- ly bloom on it. The sound London has provided for Compact Disc Player Charles Dutoit's recording has more than a bloom on it. It is outstandingly vivid, and the stunning brass in the and get 3 CDs free: opening of Ruy Blas will surely make this a prime demonstration disc. There Plus a free membership in CBS CD Club. is room for the three unrelated over- Between August 1, 1981 and January 31. non-ling-it will be sruppea automatically If tures in his package because Dutoit 1988, buy any Sony home, car, or portable you prefer an alternate selection-or none does not perform anything like a com- compact disc player and receive 2 CDs at all-mad the response card, always pro- plete Midsummer Night's Dream, only free from the 23 listed below (You pay only vided, by 'he date specified You will have for shipping and handling ) Just mail the at least 10 days to make your decision. If you the overture and the four best-known coupon below, together with a copy of the ever receive any selection without having pieces from the incidental music (the proof of purchase for your Sony Compact had at least 10 days, you may return the scherzo,intermezzo,nocturne,and DiscPlayer. selection at the Club's expense The CDs Wedding March). His Montreal orches- How The Club Works: Every four weeks you order as a member will be billed at tra is every bit as brilliant as Vienna's- (13 times a year), you'll receive the Club's regular Club prices, plus shipping and music magazine. In addition, up to six timeshandling CBS Compact Disc Club reserves perhaps even more so. He propels the a year, you may receive special oilers. for a the right to cancel any membership. You scherzo at a heady pace, in sharp con- total of up to 19 buying opportunities. If you are under no obligation to buy anything, trast to Previn's more expansive ap- want only the Selection -of -the -Month. do and may cancel at any time proach, but without any suggestion of 353920 346643 352948 353771 breathlessness. There is such a sugges- SIMPLY RED ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER WYNTON MAMSALIS CLAUDE BOLLING JEAN - tion in the nocturne and intermezzo- Men and Women Down to the Won Carnaval PIERRE RAMPAL, FLUTE Elektra CBS Eastman Wine Ensemble Bolling' Suite No 2 for Flute never in the phrasing itself, but between Donald Hunsberger. Dir 352245 348318 & Jazz Piano Trio CBS phrases-and the Wedding March is DAVID SANBORN THE POLICE CBS Masterworks rather bland. Overall, this presentation A Change of Heart Every Breath You Take 349324 Warner Bros. The Singles 347955 VARIOUS ARTISTS is a little short on charm and conspicu- AaM 352633 HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: FORE, ously short in terms of omissions, for D. PARTON/L. RONSTADT/ 354449 SOUTH PACIFIC Chrysalis K Te Kanawa. J Carreras. no one, surely, would want to be with- E. HARRIS Trio U2 The Joshua Tree Warner Bros. Island 347492 S. Vaughan. M Patinkin out the Fairies' Song and the exquisite Ambrosian Singers London 346478 GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA 353946 Sym Orch J Tunick. Dir vocal finale. The overtures, though, are MADONNA True Blue In the Digital Mood BRYAN ADAMS Into the Fire Diva, Recorcvng CBSphony Sire carried off with so much eloquence and ABM GRP 354902 346312 charm that I wish Dutoit had simply 342097 346957 FLEETWOOD MAC BILLY JOEL The Bridge Tango in the Night given us all of Mendelssohn's works in Columbia BARBRA STREISAND STEVE WIN WOOD The Broadway Mburn Batt m the MO Lite Warner Bros. this genre on one CD. R. F. 351692 Columbia Island BEASTIE BOYS Licensed to Ill MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1, Del Jam/Columbia Mail this certificate. a copy cf your sales receipt and a shipping fee of $4 00 to. in D Minor, Op. 49 (see DVO(AK) 345777 SONT CBS CD OFFER PO EOX 1129..400 N Fruitridge Ave . Terre Haute. IN 47811 PETER GABRIEL So I have enclosed a copy of proof of pur- Name MOZART: Die Entilihrung aus dem Geffen chase for my Sony CD player. plus the 345751 $4 00 shipping and handling fee Rusi Address-- Serail.EditaGruberova(soprano), PAUL SIMON Graceland my 3 FREE CDs and enroll me in the Konstanze; Kathleen Battle (soprano), Warner Bros. Club under the terms outlined I City understand I have absolutel7 no obli- Blonde; GOsta Winbergh (tenor), Bel- 344721 gation to buy anything ever -and may State Zip monte; Heinz Zednik (tenor), Pedrillo; LIONEL RICHIE cancel at any time Send these 3 CDs: Dancing on the Belem musical interest is. Martti Talvela(bass), Osmin; Will Motown Class.cal Invert CD Insert CD it Quadflieg, Pasha Selim (spoken role). 344622 NOTETHESE(IIMPORTANTCo.crarIER ANITA BAKER Rapture TERMS Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Elektra 1 address A copy 'toot Inst-tt t CD # Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti I must be lated between 355529 t t':8/ and January Jl1188 All cond. LONDON 0 417 402-1 two LP's, C) PHILIP GLASS Dance Piece ,ItalCdte3 must be postmarked by CBS February 28 1988 Vold where ttofttbtte SONY THE LLADLN IN DIGITAL AUDIL, ' by law Otter valid only in contutent,t1 :' A tni ft tw 1987 Sony Corporation of America. Sony and The Leader in Digital Audio Plus $4.00 shipping are trademarks of Sony and handling. V76/JTJ two cassettes, KTC 2013 one CD (74 min, 32 sec). Performance:Good Recording:All right Ronald Brautigam, a Dutch pianist in his early thirties, first came to notice here a few years ago with an attractive recording of works by Beethoven. His playing of Rachmaninoff's twenty-four preludes demonstrates sound musician- ship rather than flash, and he responds sympathetically to the character of each of the respective pieces. Brautigam is clearly not bound by any traditions, nor does he pursue eccentricity for the sake of individuality. His is a somewhat lighter approach than one might expect in this music-as if to suggest that Rachmaninoff's profound Russianness will come through without any boosts from the pianist. It's the sort of play- ing-particularly in such pieces as the G Major and G -flat Major Preludes- that one might expect in, say, the Faure nocturnes; in any event, it suggested to me that he might be right at home in that sort of material. Brautigam is actually pretty much at home in the Rachmaninoff, and the freshness of the well-worn G Minor Pre- lude is bracing. Vladimir Ashkenazy, of course, can give him (and most other )pointsthroughoutthese- quence, and London's two -CD set in which Ashkenazy plays these twenty- four preludes and the Second Sonata is a little firmer of focus even though those recordings were made earlier than Brautigam's, but it is certainly a conve- nience to have all the preludes on a sin- Vladimir Ashkenazy: a convincing, durable approach to Schubert gle well -filled CD. R.F. 417 402-4 two cassettes, 417 402-2 Happily, the same may be said of SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in B -Oat two CD's (124 min). Kathleen Battle, whose singing is simi- Major (D. 960); Fantasy in C Major, Performance:Stylish larly radiant and who plays Blonde for Op. 15 (D. 760, "Wanderer"). Vladimir Recording:Excellent all her saucy pertness. Geosta Winbergh Ashkenazy (piano).LONDON 0417 brings dramatic ardor to Belmonte, a 327-1, © 417 327-4, 417 327-2 (63 I confess that I often find this opera to role that, like Don Ottavio, can easily min). be the least rewarding of Mozart's ma- be no more arresting than a stick of jor ones. The plot situation is stilted, wood. Heinz Zednik brings warmth and Performance:Expansive sonata and the characters are simply paper cut- bounce to the role of Pedrillo, and Recording:Mostly superb outs. But then I hear a performance like Martti Talvela sings with rich -voiced Schubert's final sonata is one of those this one conducted by Georg Solti, and enthusiasm as Osmin, making a cu- big masterworks that lends itself to a my reservations are easily put aside as I riously thankless part far more palata- variety of approaches and perhaps re- succumb to the enchantment of the ble than usual. As the Pasha Selim, the veals all of its secrets to no single inter- score. Mozart many times equaled the distinguished Will Quadflieg sounds a preter.Vladimir Ashkenazy, reliable melodic and instrumental invention of bit mature, but how fortunate we are to and stimulating as always,isvastly Die Entfiihrung aus dem Serail (The have a recorded performance by this satisfying-if not quite the last word. Abduction from the Seraglio),but he beloved and celebrated actor. For direct comparison, there is Alfred rarely surpassed it. The chorus and orchestra sing and Brendel in the same coupling on one of The genesis of this skillfully engi- play with verve, polish, and delicacy Philips's recent Silver Line CD's. Bren- neered recording, according to a note by under Solti, who seems at a new apex of del is more overtly dramatic, but Ash- Soltiinthe accompanying libretto his interpretive powers. As in his other kenazy scores points-for me, any- booklet, was a moving performance of fine recent recordings, he unifies the way-by taking the first -movement re- the"Traurigkeit"aria by Edita Grube- soloists, chorus, and orchestra to pro- peat, which not only gives a better sense rova in a memorial concert for the con- duce a truly integral performance. His of dimension to the piece but also en- ductor Karl 136hm. By the time the Entfiihrung isan exquisite and elegant ables us to hear the passage Schubert recording sessions began, the soprano achievement. R.A. wrote to lead back to the beginning. had decided not to sing Konstanze on Ashkenazy's way withthe music stage any more. What we have here, RACHMANINOFF: Preludein C - might be said to be somewhat less per- then, is her legendary interpretation of sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2; Preludes, sonal than Brendel's, as if he were deter- the role recorded when she was still at Op. 23, Nos. 1-10, and Op. 32, Nos. 1- mined atall costs that Schubert be her vocal height. She sings beautifully- 13. Ronald Brautigam (piano).ETCET- allowed to speak for himself, with no one is tempted to say dazzlingly! ERA 0ETC 2013 two LP's, © XTC 2013 (Continued on page 200)

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I find it a convincing and phen Darlington, who two years ago durable approach-except perhaps in became the latest in the long line of the final movement, which tends to Christ Church Cathedral's choir direc- sound just a little bland compared with tors, a line that began with John Tav- some more highly inflected perform- ernerin1526. Vaughan Williams's ances but which in its own right is Mass in G Minor can trace its roots, in a extremely musical. sense, back to the same period, for it is In the Wandererfantasie Ashkenazy one of the prime results of the compos- does seem to set out to be more dramat- er's productive interest in the music of ic, regarding it perhaps as more of a Thomas Tallis, one of whose actual conventional virtuoso piece. His pro- themes, of course, provided him with gress through this work is as brisk and the basis of his beloved fantasia for driving as it is relaxed and expansive in string orchestra. the sonata, and the greater excitement The luminous quality of the Mass is this generates seems to me to render the here beautifully conveyed in the won- performance that much less durable derful clarity of both the performance than that of the sonata, which promises, and the recording, which manages to and delivers, an altogether deeper level make the most of the cathedral sound of pleasure. without becoming engulfed in it. With While Brendel's coupling is at least the always -welcome Three Shakespeare fifteen years old and stands up well (and Songs, it provides a solid frame for the costs less), Ashkenazy's 1985 recordings Hdkan Hagegard: intimate Schumann mixed bag of five lesser -known sacred sound superb except for a bit of wool- and secular pieces. Valiant for Truth is a ishness in the first movement of the RCA 0 5664-1, © 5664-4, 0 5664-2 (49 1940 setting of an episode of resolute sonata. min). leavetaking told by John Bunyan in The Pilgrim's Progress. The two pieces that SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, in C Performance: Communicative follow it are from the Christmas cantata Major (D. 944, "The Great"). Berlin Recording: Excellent Hodie, completed in 1954; the second Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Baren- This is perhaps the most attractive song verse of No Sad Thoughts was written boim cond. CBS 0 M 42316, © MT recording Hakan Hagegard has made so by Ursula Vaughan Williams. The two 42316, © MK 42316 (62 min). far, and it is a lovely collection. One Psalm settings are the only accompa- might wonder why he limited his cover- nied pieces on the disc, both with organ- Performance: Has its moments age of the Op. 40 group to the four songs ist lain Simcock. There is a trumpet Recording: Good with Andersen texts and did not include part as well, played by Jonathan Free- There's a decidedly greater sense of the finalVerratene Liebe, but since man-Attwood, in the very substantial commitment on the part of Daniel Bar- these four are so infrequently heard setting of the Ninetieth Psalm, and an enboim and the Berlin Philharmonic in (only one seems to be otherwise avail- affecting solo for treble (Timothy Mir - this recording of Schubert's Ninth than able on records now), they are especially fin) in the very brief setting of lines there was in their versions of the com- welcome. from the Thirty-fourth Psalm, com- poser's Third and Fifth Symphonies re- Hagegard's response to the texts as posed for the Queen's Communion in leased by CBS a few months back. well as the music makes every one of the coronation ceremony of 1953. A Refinement is the hallmark of Baren- the twenty songs recorded here a com- fineprogram,handsomelyAccom- boim's reading of the first two move- plete and deeply satisfying experience. plished. R.F ments here, but he gives us a freewheel- His singing is in general less overtly dra- ing treatment of thefirst -movement matic than Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's VERDI: Macbeth. Leo Nucci (bari- coda.I miss any sense of lacerating or Hermann Prey's, and it is lighter in tone), Macbeth; Shirley Verrett (so- intensity at the climax of the slow vocal texture as well, achieving an unla- prano), Lady Macbeth; Samuel Ramey movement, but in terms of lyric feeling, bored intimacy in which each song is (bass), Banquo; Veriano Luchetti (ten- things go beautifully indeed. In the fully characterized on its own terms. or), Macduff; Antonio Barasorda (ten- scherzo, as elsewhere, we get the full This is the sort of communicativeness or), Malcolm; others. Chorus and Or- complement of repeats, and there is that makes such recitals a joy. The voice chestra of Teatro Communale di Bolo- some lovely woodwind work. Only in is in fine shape, Thomas Schuback is gna, Riccardo Chailly cond.LONDON0 the finale do things really begin to fly in the most sympathetic of keyboard part- 417 525-1 two LP's, © 417 525-4 two terms of musical dynamism: the playing ners, the sound is beautifully focused, cassettes, © 417 525-2 two CD's (137 is brilliant all the way. The sound is and the booklet includes an insightful min). good throughout, with a welcome but note by George Jellinek as well as full Performance: Spirited not excessive focus on the woodwind texts and good translations. R.F. Recording: Very true choirs. When it comes right down to picking VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G Not many seasons ago, Macbeth was a a recorded version of the Great C Major Minor; Valiant for Truth; The Blessed novelty on the operatic stage; now it with all repeats,I would still go for Son of God; No Sad Thoughts His Soul ranks among Verdi's most popular Neville Marriner's on Philips, especial- Affright; Lord, Thou Has Been Our works-frequently performed, often re- ly when it becomes available separately Refuge; 0 Taste and See; Three Shake- corded, and considered appropriate fare from his current boxed set of the com- speare Songs. Christ Church Cathedral by prestigious music festivals. It is an plete Schubert symphonies and orches- Choir (Oxford), Stephen Darlington uneven score, marked by "highs" of tral fragments. D. H . cond.NIMBUS0 NI 5083 (53 min). startling musical invention and almost hair-raising dramatic intensity and by SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, Op. 39; Performance: Very good "lows" of rather plodding music and Five Lieder, Op. 40, Nos. 1-4; Stile Recording: Very good near -bathetic action. But the glories of T Hinen, Op. 35, No. 10; Der Schatz- This very welcome program of contrast- Macbeth, which marks the beginning of ber, Op. 45, No. 1; Mit Myrten and ing works by Ralph Vaughan Williams Verdi's middle period and thefirst Rosen, Op. 24, No. 9; Der Kontraban- inaugurates a series for Nimbus that manifestation of his life-long admira- diste, Op. 74, No. 10. Haan Hagegard presumably will include a good deal of tion for Shakespeare, are of a nobler (baritone); Thomas Schuback (piano). French as well as English material. Both conception and are more gripping than

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VOVeNty Stereo Review WORLD'S LARGEST HI-FI MAGAZINE in any of his previous operas, foreshad- tra perform with accuracy and gusto, Verrett occasionally reaches for the owing the dramatic force and sense of heightening the effect of the horrors at higher notes, and not every one is beau- characterization in his ensuing output. hand. The chorus of Witches, for exam- tiful, but she knows the role of Lady Itisa compelling and fascinating ple, singing crisply and making the most Macbeth very well indeed and projects opera. of Verdi's staccato scoring, is downright the text more powerfully than any other The new London recording is particu- eerie. soprano I have heard, with the possible larly satisfying, not only for its high Leo Nucci, singing the title role, is exceptions of Maria Callas and Leonie sonic quality but also for the artistic shown to particularly good advantage. Rysanek. contributions of all concerned. Riccar- If his voice is less velvety than Sherrill Samuel Ramey's voiceisideally do Chailly's conducting istaut and Milnes's was when he recorded the suited to Banquo's sonorous utterances, marked by strong dynamic contrast and opera in 1976, Nucci is more convinc- and he delivers his short but moving rhythmic impulse. Under his leader- ing in evoking the protagonist's terror aria in Act II, Scene 2, with telling ship, the Bolognese chorus and orches- and guilt. By the same token, Shirley effect. Veriano Luchetti and Antonio Barasorda make Macduff and Malcolm effective presences both dramatically and musically, and the remaining mem- bers of the cast are just fine. The recording is ostensibly the sound- --g-YddOecmctd track for a film version of the opera, WHOLESALERS which may well account for the omis- 1160 HAMBURG TPK., WAYNE, N.J. 07470 sion of the ballet music in Act III. Nuc- ci, Verrett, and Barasorda appear in the FOR MORE INFO CALL (201) 838-5808 film as well, while in the other roles CALL TOLL -FREE 800-247-4654 actors replace the singers we hear in the FOR INFORMATION OR ORDERS: recording. Even without the visuals, 1 (800) 444-6300 though, this is a performance with a real sense of immediacy and rare dramatic impact. Recommended. R.A.

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ALABAMA: Greatest Video Hits. Ala- bama (vocals and instrumentals).I'm Not That Way Anymore; Forty Hour Week (For a Livin); The Closer You Get; Dixieland Delight; Feel So Right; and four others. PIONEER PA -87-185 LaserDisc (37 min). Performance:Excellent Recording:Excellent One major rock publication has called Alabama's output "music for the mod- ern dentist." If that was intended as a slap, Alabama's four members needn't worry. They are a big hit with the pub- lic, and their music is quite capable of delightingpeopleandcritics-like me-whoseinterestgenerallyfalls somewhere outside of country music. Alabama's broad appeal is not hard to understand after you've seen this Laser - Disc collection of nine of the group's videos, including some of their hits from 1983 to 1986. In mood and texture, the songs range from toe -tapping treks between Mobile and Motown to syrupy fare that might have come right off Lionel Richie's shelf.Visually, the tracks appear to reflect a variety of film budgets, from low -end -but -well -captured concert foot- age to complex production numbers likeForty Hour Week. Itall adds up to nearly forty minutes of music that's bound to delight current Alabama fans and win over some new ones. LaserDisc HELP! technology adds superb picture clarity THEBeatles' second feature film, many years, but Bruce Botnick, the allthe and stunning digital sound. C.A. Help!,has not worn as well as legendary engineer who did the brash and innovativeA Doors albums, has digitally transferred ALL THAT BACH-A CELEBRA- Hard Day's Night.Some of the the songs (apparently from the same TION. Maureen Forrester, Rosemarie gags are forced, the satirical digs are no masters used for the new compact disc) Landry, Keith Jarrett, Christopher Hog - longer timely, and at times the comic so that for the first time ever the music wood and the Academy of Ancient Mu- goings-on are so over -the -top that the does full stereo justice to what the Bea- sic, the Canadian Brass, the Moe Koff- boys seem, as John Lennon observed tles recorded. The impact is just about man Quintet, other musicians. VAI years later,like extras in their own overwhelming, as if a veil had been 69037 VHS Hi-Fi, 29037 Beta Hi-Fi (50 movie. That allowed, however, it still lifted from the film. Suddenly you're min). has a lot to recommend it-a number of right there with the band. Add in Crite- genuinely funny sequences (Ringo and rion's superb picture quality (the color Performance:Splendid variety the tiger make me giggle even now), a is simply gorgeous, far better than Recording:Good great Swinging London ambience, and, MPI's competing tape versions) and There is hardly a musical idiom that of course, one of the all-time knockouts criticBruceEder'sintelligentliner hasn't been tested on the music of of a score. notes, and what you get is, unquestiona- Johann Sebastian Bach, so it is not sur- Help!also has the inspired direction bly, the definitive Beatles video artifact. prising to find that someone took the of Richard Lester. Watch hisYou're Essential viewing-and listening. Bach Tercentenary in 1985 as a cue to Gonna Lose That Girlsequence, which Louis Meredith assemble anunusualvariety show to this day is still the most beautifully called "All That Bach." I recommend shot and edited look at a band in a THE BEATLES: Help! With the Bea- this Canadian -made release to anyone recording studio, and you'll realize that tles, Victor Spinetti, Eleanor Bron, Roy who appreciates music with a touch of if anybody deserves the credit for in- Kinnear, Leo McKern.Help!; You're humor, which is not to say that the vid- venting rock video, Lester does. Gonna Lose That Girl; You've Got to eo, subtitled "A Celebration," does not For the new Criterion home video- Hide Your Love Away; Ticket to Ride; I have its serious moments. It does, but a disc ofHelp!, alittle something extra Need You; The Night Before; Another casual air prevails from the very begin- has been added: a reworked soundtrack. Girl; Help! (Reprise). CRITERION2004L ning, when contralto Maureen Forrester The film has been shown in mono for videodisc $39.95. and soprano Rosemarie Landry have

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I.... . v w no -la mar 11 %am I IF% lig The Sid and Nancy story was, of course, in many ways a menage a trois, the third party being a mutual heroin addiction. As a result, the last half of the film, as the couple descends into a strung -out rock-and-roll version of The Lower Depths, may be a little too har- rowing for some folks. Others, myself included, might complain that we get little sense of the historical and cultural milieu in which it all takes place, or that the punk supporting charactersare about as unbelievable as the hippies in old American International exploita- tion films. These are niggling criticisms, howev- er, in the face of the film's wicked sense of humor, surprising moments of al- most lyrical tenderness, and, especially, the astonishing performances by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as the princi- UB40: to Russia with reggae, authentic or not pals. Oldman and Webb are not only totallybelievable, but they actually Rhythm; and fourteen others.PIONEER Collins is goofy, Mark Knopfler is bald- make you care for people who, as the PA -87-181 LaserDisc (90 min). ing, so what else is new?-but as super- film makes quite clear, were tragically star indulgences go, it's also pretty en- self-destructive at best and creepy, nar- Performance: Jolly good show tertaining.What'smostimpressive cissistic nonentities at worst. Recording: Very good about itis the core band. Despite the Embassy's picture and sound quality This jingle composer from Brooklyn presence of celebrities like Eric Clapton are first-rate, and the re-created Sex Pis- has come a long way, and you have to and Howard Jones, the concert actually tols songs on the soundtrack, apparent- believe Barry Manilow when he tells his coheres into something approaching a ly featuring guitar work by ex -Pistol audience of fortythousandBritish groove most of the time. Steve Jones, are as close to the genuine youths that the Blenheim Palace con- The individual star turns, of course, item as needed. All in all, this is a genu- cert is the high point of his career. Blen- are wildly variable. Rod Stewart, for ine home -video event, though not one heim Palace, Winston Churchill's an- example, is smarmy even by his own for the squeamish. L.M. cestral home, is currently occupied by overweening standard, but Paul Young, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, generally considered to be a tad inau- UB40: CCCP-The Video Mix. UB40 who attended this 1984 concert. thentic as white -boy soul singers go, (vocals and instrumentals). Orchestral Manilow doesn't have a great voice, comes off here as almost the real thing, Dub; All I Want to Do; Keep On Mov- but he writes the kind of songs people especially in his duet with George Mi- ing; Watchdogs; Tell It Like It Is; Please like, and he is an excellent showman. chael. To see Young and Michael to- Don't Make Me Cry; Johnny Too Bad; The videodisc contains an hour and a gether, in fact, is immediately to com- Don't Blame Me; and five others. A&M half of his performance, backed by a prehend the difference between feeling VC 61715 VHS Hi-Fi, BC 21715 Beta large orchestra (with strings) and a siz- and fashion. The rest of the show, espe- Hi-Fi (60 min). able choir. The choir is spontaneously cially Paul McCartney's runthrough of Performance: Great music augmented by the huge audience when, old Beatles songs, is essentially high- Recording: Excellent heading for an emotional finale, Mani - priced garage rock, charming for its lack low intones Vera Lynn's wartime tear- of pretension against the odds, but there From all accounts, UB40's recent Rus- jerker Well Meet Again. With thou- areacoupleof moments-Prince sian tour was a fairly stormy affair, with sands of lit candles dotting the vast con- Charles and Princess Di trying to rock this left -leaning reggae band coming up cert area and the audience held firmly out in their seats, the look of amazed against the harsh Orwellian realities of in hand, Manilow seems reluctant to let delight on Bryan Adams's face when he pre -Glasnost Soviet life, but very little go. Somehow we understand. This was actually gets to sing harmony with of that is reflected in this video docu- a tremendously successful show, the McCartney-that you'll probably re- mentary. Mostly we see the usual back- kind of event only a few entertainers member for more than fifteen minutes. stage horsing around, shopping sprees can hope to experience. Fortunately for In short, a diverting time waster, im- (there's a nice pseudo-Avedon montage Manilow fans, it is well preserved here, peccably recorded. L.M. of band members trying on fur hats), with digital sound. C.A. and interviews with fans, just as in SID & NANCY. With Gary Oldman about a zillion other tour documenta- THE PRINCE'S TRUST ALL-STAR and Chloe Webb; Joe Strummer, the ries. Fortunately, the main focus is on ROCK CONCERT. Elton John, Paul Pogues. Pray for Rain, other musicians the music, a generous sampling of the McCartney, Eric Clapton, Mark (vocals and instrumentals).EMBASSY band's best material, and while director Knopfler, Howard Jones, Phil Collins, 1309 VHS Hi-Fi and Beta Hi-Fi, 13096 Brian Travers's camera work is routine, others (vocals and instrumentals). Bet- videodisc (1 I l min). the band's performances are uniformly ter Be Good to Me; Tearing Us Apart; splendid. Performance: Harrowing These guys may not be the most au- Your Song; In the Air Tonight; Money Recording: Excellent for Nothing; Every Time You Go Away; thentic reggae act in the world, but they Sailing; and four others. MGM/UA Well, Romeo and Juliet it isn't (or even make awfully seductive noises, and the ML101089 VHS Hi-Fi, Beta Hi-Fi, and John and Yoko), but director Alex Cox's hi-fi sound is similarly excellent. Strict- videodisc (59 min). Sid & Nancy, the more -or -less true story ly on economic grounds, though, you're of the doomed romance between punk probably better off with the audio -only Performance: Busman's holiday rocker Sid Vicious and socialite/groupie equivalent, "CCCP Live,"alsoon Recording: Excellent Nancy Spungeon, is one of the most riv- A&M, in all three formats. Some music This home video is admittedly short on eting and original film biographies in is better heard than seen, even with surprises-Tina Turner is sexy, Phil recent years. pretty pictures of Lenin's Tomb. L.M.

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unless present in obnoxious quanti- volume at the top of the enclo- by Ralph Hodges ties. But when you mix two tones sure-requires considerable length, and come up with several addition- a carefully calculated flare rate, and al tones never present in the input, a large mouth area to approach the and not harmonically related to the deep lows with its superior efficien- input, that's trouble. I call it modu- cy. Some audiophiles have con- lation distortion." verted their basements and garages Modulation distortion, if I under- into bass horns, with stentorian re- standKlipsch'sdescription,re- sults. By these standards, the Klip- ceived much attention a few years schorn is trivially small, but learned ago in its most basic form: Doppler estimates say that it handles itself distortion. The idea was that when a competently down toward 40 Hz. speaker cone is driven back and Furthermore, excursionistightly forth over long excursions by a vig- limited by a back -loading interior orous low frequency, it will warble a woofer chamber, insuring that re- higher frequency that it is simulta- sponse disappears at lower frequen- neously trying to reproduce. Instru- cies instead of becoming freighted ments-and perhaps even the ear- with modulation distortion. will analyze the warble effect as spu- The necessary horn length and rious sideband frequencies. The ex- flare rate are achieved by folding the istence of this type of distortion is horn back upon itself until it blos- unquestioned, but its audibility and soms out to the sides of an irregular objectionableness have beende- pentagonal enclosure with a 90 - bated long and hard. degree back meant to be placed in a Horn loading a driver can achieve room corner. Audiophiles often sus- The Mighty Klipschorn astounding sonic outputs with a pect that the room corner is meant bare minimum of excursion, and to serve as the final flare of the horn, hence a minimum of Doppler dis- but Paul Klipsch makes no such /T was born in 1940, three years tortion. As the name suggests, Klip- claim. He merely utilizes the corner before I was, and eighteen years schorns are horn -loaded speakers. to augment efficiency. later, when Ifirst encountered Paul Klipsch tells the story of an Not many people know what sort it,itoutsized me considera- enthusiast who constructed the in- of drivers are employed in the Klip- bly-and it still does. The very sight tricate folded bass horn of the Klip- schorn. The tweeter and midrange of it alarmed ordinary people, who schorn in Plexiglas to show its oper- are deep behind the grille cloth, and couldn't comprehend how or why a ation. The transparent design was the woofer is entirely buried within mere loudspeaker might be so bul- not commercially feasible, requiring its horn labyrinth. As it happens, ky, imposing, and large. The sound over a thousand man-hours and within the past two years Klipsch of it alarmed them more. I think it's high material costs, but it enabled has acquired some of its major out- accurate to say that, back in the Fif- observers to see the Klipsch woofer side suppliers and brought them in- ties, nothing else could play as loud, moving perhaps a millimeter, peak board. Drivers are not what Klipsch over as wide a bandwidth, as the to peak, as it reproduced a signal of is all about, however. As the man Klipschorn. Paul Klipsch informs about 50 Hz at a level that had a says, "One of our dealers compares me that today's Klipschorn can re- normal cone woofer chugging away drivers to the strings on a violin. He produce the peak levels of the Ar- with 3/4 -inch throws. couldn't care less about the cat from kansas Symphony Orchestra (about To get a horn to function with which the gut was extracted. This is 105 dB, from a recording perspec- uniform response over auseful an exaggeration, but still,in my tive) with three -tenths of a watt "high-fidelity" frequencyrange, mind, the box remains more impor- maximum input. without internal losses, distortions, tant than the driver." Should we care about remarkable and audible structural vibration, is Klipsch makes what amounts to a efficiency now thatkilowatts of a trick few speaker manufacturers full line of home loudspeakers at power are on tap if we want to pay attempt except, occasionally, in the present, but the mammoth Klip- for them? Klipsch says yes. "Loud- middle and highfrequencies. A schorn, sold in quantities of about speaker efficiency is commensurate principal problem is that when a one thousand a year, is a rare find in with loudspeaker quality. Quality is horn is driven outside its proper any dealer's salon. By all means lis- the inverse of distortion. If you dou- bandwidth, all loading benefits ut- ten to it if you can locate one. Not ble the efficiency, you halve the dis- terly disappear, and the response everybody likes the way it sounds, tortion. It's as simple as that." drops more abruptly than it would especially those who can't make What sort of distortion? "Review- with any other type of enclosure room for it. But it is a design that ers test for harmonic distortion, but design. has persisted, essentially un- so what?" asks Klipsch. "Harmon- A bass horn, which is what most changed, since before many of us ics are natural formations of music of the Klipschorn is-its midrange were born-the only such speaker and speech, and relatively harmless and tweeter horns occupy a small design, I might add. 0

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