.Notes T v- NEW Fi`1:!If12`Y- A SPEAKER o SYSTEMS Some speakers and 3 ì speaker systems provide clean, sharp transients MSS -491 SPEAKER SYSTEM at low and low -low fre- IS" Soft Skiver Woofer, 8" quencies. Others are mid- range, Induction Tweeter. very Available in mahogany, wal- linear in response nut or limed oak. 321/x" high, Abroad at low and low -low he- 38%" wide, 21" deep. PRICE quencies. Only the new Mahogany, $379.95; Walnut, $389.95; limed oak, 3389.95' Stromberg- Carlson mul- (Audiophile Nat). tiple speaker systems give you both. LONDON -Thc first Pye -Nixa stereo Low end frequency discs are on the market here, and also response extends at a few brands of stereo playing- equip- least an octave below ment. Pamphonic, working closely that heretofore possible. with Pye, have brought out a cheap The range of our MSS - stereo player to help put the new discs 492 system is 16- 22,000 over. 1 liked a lot more, on first hear- cps; the range of our ing, one Eh'fl have on the stocks. But MSS -49I system is 22- so much of the stereo playing -tackle 18,000 cps. is in prototype stage, and so many of Speaker system reso- the discs so far available show teething nance is lower than the MSS -461 SPEAKER SYSTEM free air cone 8" reld.ronge, T1/2" tweeter. trouble, that everyone is going slowly. unboffled Available in mahogany, oak or Over here, stereo is still more talked resonance of the woof- walnut. 241/," high, 19" wide, about than experienced. ers. Exceptional tran- 10" deep. PRICE: Mahogany, 569.95'; Walnut, oak, $74.95' The best disc I've heard, by a long sient response, linear (Audiophile Net). way, is Angel's forthcoming Elsa /Or- quality and extraordina- trud scene from Act II of Lohengrin, ry low frequency re- with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in radi- sponse ore directly re- ant form, and Christa Ludwig. an ex- lated to a carefully in- traordinarily dramatic Ortrud, thor- tegrated design between oughly justifying Walter Legge's high our woofers and our belief in her. The conductor is another quarter wavelength Acoustical Labyrinthe RW -490 15" Soft Skiver Legge discovery, Heinz Wallberg from Woofer. $99.95. Bremen. The special point about this baffling system. Three - (Audiophile Nell recording is that the soloists are "lo- way crossover networks cated" -Elsa on the stage -right bal- are included. cony of the Kemenate, Ortrud grovel- ing stage- left -and the orchestra runs right across in an unusual disposition. RT -477 Induction Tweeter. Reflecting that at Bayreuth Wagner $49.95. (Aud;ephile Nell used to divide his cellos and basses half on each side of the orchestra, so that the score should rest on a broad - based level support, Legge disposed the Philhan»onia in a similar way. He MSS-492 SPEAKER SYSTEM RW-489 12" Soft Skiver aimed to avoid the "cold nose" effect, Woofer. $49.95 12" Soft Skiver Woofer, 8" (Audiophile Net) that little dead patch in the middle, mid -range, toe 21/2" Twulen. and has certainly succeeded. Also, one Available in cherry or walnut. doesn't get two -dimension sensa- 321/2" high, 333/'" wide, 16,/r" the deep. PRICE: $249.95' (Audio- tion of singers and orchestra strung out phile Ne!1. in a single plane, as if in a frieze, RT- 4762" Tweeter, which mars some opera -in- stereo. For Full Dota On Any And e Nell $9.95 (Audiophile Carlo Maria Giulini, between his All (toms, See Your Dealer Or Write Us Direct. All pricer ore Zone I. magnificent readings of Don Carlos at Covent Garden, worked with the There is nothing finer than o Stromberg -Carlson" Philharmonia to record Schumann's Third Symphony and Manfred, STROMBERG -CARLSON Franck's Symphony and Psyché, and a n DIVISION OF GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION collection of Verdi overtures. Italy's 1419C N. Goodman Street Rochester 3, N. Y. leading serious conductor seems des- 11 F(ocvonic and communication product; for home, in GD tined for very high places. He is mar - durtry and detente; including High Fidelity Consoles; A.: School Sound, Intercom and Public Addrer, Syslemr. ,:- Continued on page 27
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