New Home Audio -Video Systems That Do It AM EMBER 19& $1.50 J ICD 06398 THE MAGAZINE OF AUDIO, VIDEC. CLASSICAL MUSIC, AND POPULAF MUST How to Put Pizzazz into Your Car Stereo System Special Pullout -900 New Records from A toZ! The Big Switch to Prerecorded CassettesDoom for LPs? 983 NEW PRODUCT ROUNDUP Hundreds of Exciting New Tape Decks, Speakers, Video Recorders and Cameras, Receivers, Turntables, and More! PLUS Lab Tests on 6 New Stereo Components First VCR from Sansui 08398 .11111IIMIsr-W-WCZNIPM...0 11=111.0=1.-611MC..1k_as. 4C_Isr SAA90High SUPER AVILYN CASSE i Position OITDK Hph Ellas XlissE0 SA -X90 HIGH RESOLUTION Laboratory Standard Cassette Mechanism movimmunnsiniagininniammosi Stevie's cassette is SA -X for all the keys he plays in. f nqvanw When it comes to music, in high bias record- Froespe...111K *Ns Nam levels without distor- Stevie Wonder and TDK ing with sound per- tion or saturation. are perfectionists. 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SA -X's super wide 1 SA -X cassettes .iii.,,,; dynamic range give Stevie a and high MOL new dimensionill .iihandle high signal THE MACHINE FORDK YOUR MACHINE CIRCLE 10 ON READER -SERVICE CARD High VOLUME 32NUMBER 9SEPTEMBER 1982 Fidelity AUDIO CrossTalk by Robert Long Supertweeter response; Poly sleeves for records; More on CX 7 Basically Speakingby Michael Riggs Tonearm talk: antiskating, tangency, effective mass, and resonance 8 *The Autophileby Gary Stock Souping up your car stereo system 10 * New Equipment Reports Bose 601 Series 11 speakers 12 Technics RS-M255X cassette deck19 Adcom XC/van den Hul phono pickup 14 Heath AA -1800 power amp 21 Kenwood KR -90 receiver 18 Cybernet SRC -80 receiver 22 Sound Viewsby Robert Long 24 Faced with the new reality of video, does audio's past have a future? Show and 7 ell *1983 New Products Roundupby Robert Long, Michael Riggs, & William Tynan The marriage of audio and video was the hit of the Consumer Electronics Show 26 VIDEO TODAY & TOMORROW *Hands -On Report: Sansui SV-R5000 video cassette deckby Edward J. Foster A worthy first effort from this audiophile company 38 TubeFoodby Susan Elliott New video programming: cassette, disc, and pay cable 40 Video Q. & A.by Edward J. Foster Satellite TV reception; VHS tape loading; VCR repairs 41 CLASSICAL MUSIC 4utho's Video 38 Bach's "Choruses"-Less Than They Seem? by Joshua Rifkin Evidence suggests that Bach's choruses may have been performed by solo voices 42 Why Do We Need Traviata-or Do We?Reviewed by Kenneth Furie With occasional exceptions, a clutch of recordings is lacking in action 45 * Preview of the Forthcoming Year's Recordings: special pullout section More than 900 titles are listed in our annual survey of upcoming releases 49 Reviews: Horowitz in concert; The Beggar's Opera; Bartok's orchestral works 63 Critics' Choice 64 The Tape Deckby R.D. Darrell 71 Fortepianos .. .and grand pianos of today BACKBEAT/Popular Music Crenshaw Sings Crenshawby Crispin Cioe Traviata: Needed? 45 A singer's songwriter becomes a singer/songwriter 72 The Postwar Jazz TrumpetReviewed by Don Heckman LPs by Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Clifford Brown 74 Pop Reviews: Joe Cocker; Steve Forbert; David Johansen; Pete Townshend 75 Jazz Reviews: Shirley Horn; Bireli Lagrene 77 * Pop-Pourriby Sam Sutherland Are prerecorded cassettes threatening the dominance of the LP? 82 DEPARTMENTS Letters 2 Advertising Index 82 * Reader -Service Cards for FREE Product Information 61 Postwar Horn 74 * Cover Story -EMI,Letters Goose Steps and All Neo-Nazi, Neo-Schman-who cares! The fact Angel remains that Carmina burana ("Carl Orff: Bun- NIGELofExcellence! gled Fireworks . or Skillful Effects?." Janu- TheStandard ary] is very entertaining music, and that's more than I can say for 99% of the trash being written DIGITAL today. WAGNER PLACIDO DOMINGO When composers stop trying to impress LOHENGRIN Opera Duets '4 Kollo Tomowa-Sintow uma AIDA DON CARLO each other and the critics, then I'll listen. In the e Nimsgem Vejzovic FAUST MEFISTOFELE meantime, more Carminas-goose steps and Ridderbusch Kems TRIO SONATAS. Chorus of IM Deutrhe Open & Berlin R1,115amonoc all! GOLDBERG Karajan Robert Mammarella el% i PERLMAN Stowe, Pa. IVA ZUKERMAN lew SANDERS EDDY Stravinsky's Legacy fr DS -37815 SELX-3829 S-37934 ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER RAVEL THE KOTO CONNECTION RICCARDO MUTI Bolero Alborada del gracioso "POP" CLASSICS FOR KOTOS MOZART: VIOLIN Daphnis et Chloe -suite No 2 Mozart 40' Pachebel Canon CONCERTOS MUTI EMra Madigan & More NO.2 IN D NO.4 IN D 1141 Philadelphia Orchestra PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA DIGITAL Was.. It 1111k D5-37904 DS -37885 S-37930 Circle 59 on Reader -Service Card May I comment on a few points in David Ham- ilton's excellent review of "Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy" in your June issue? I am no less puzzled than Mr. Hamilton as WHILE OTHERS PROMISE.... to why CBS largely ignored the composer's own WE DELIVER! performances of his piano works, including his ORDER 0TOLL FREYORK E 221.8180 recordings with Joseph Szigeti of the transcrip- AUDIO tions (of which many more were made than is New VIDEO HI -Fl Sony generally known). Why, for example, were Stra- MONIER Sx-4 '129 VIDEO RECORDERS 1139 Walkman -- 0111111111111 400 MR 2650 , '..- '979 vinsky's renditions of the Sonata and the Sere- PONSC74 T.TDer. '115 R-2 PK PIR 7650 .... '949 PICA. 959 '139 TVOINICS SA,206 01-I. SONY x5000 'I'' '569 nade omitted, especially since no editions of the 169 Commodore /VC MR 7300 -' '599 '139 PANASONK PV 5500 ' , '991 music are free from serious errors, some of which 199 111 VIC-20 Computer PANASONIC PT 7790- '919 )KINGS ss..128;err 14, SONY 51 2020 SONY T'T TOM TEDOWICS 914I-101 A, '1019 his recordings correct? TWINICS 011. 31 50,1 w 0- .115 r,- PANASONIC Pv 1775 MANN VII NUN E. 448RCA ONLY ONLY 99 Mr. Hamilton's statement that Stravinsky SONY SYR .5 00' , .0- *799 $13995$2299Sj VGT200 .S '499 NW.. 90-2400 1, ,r '124 VIDEO CAMERAS "recorded as a pianist in the Thirties and For- GAG V3 -RM Cas 1299 STEREO -TO -GO COMPUTERS PANASONIC PK 959 , TUC C341 To,E. ,999 ties" needs to be slightly amended. The compos- '11.;; SONY WALKMAN I " 173 AKA ,001 r 59 SONY WALTMAN ' HARDWARE W4e33 5270-1 I. 11119 '9995 '299 $091 VIALW0N4 AT ARI IWO Comp,tvr, LRCMS-9UTorCo3^,' 1 .749 er's first recording, of five numbers from Les '339 Deluxe Cass Sore:, '929 WARR irt.10, '.9 '91 ATAM 410 CrogramReccxaen '79.90 K M -510SIDPM, TOSINBA KTR01 TaLL sir.. 'IN ATARI 610 INN Dove) 1449.90 COLOR T.V. 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