FEBRUARY, 1971 60c 70' FORECAST WASHINGTON/ BALTIMORE EDITION 111 ss Y`' ` r' i THE FM LISTENING GUIDE ,`' ,, , N - ~O. I I ,wirr.!++ -...r.. 4:,°` I -.... ._,,...._. ....w -_ .:i i 1r,1C +:i--i- i__a.wre,.-_ Y^ W LOUDSPEAKER DESIGN CORPORATION INVITES ONE AND ALL TO 0 ME J TO OUR AUTHORIZED EZEKIEL SHOWS There are at least 763 places not suited for the evaluation of high fidelity speakers. They include sub- way stations, airports, and crowded hotel rooms. Since we do not display our speakers under any of these conditions, we cordially invite you to pick your audio show favorites, and then compare them to the Ezekiel Loudspeakers under rigid showroom conditions. Any of our authorized dealers will give you the Ezekiel show. Compare clarity, definition, balance, and transient response. You'll see why we feel the Ezekiel speakers are "The Most Accurate Reproducers Available." Ezekiel Show Dealers: McGuire's Audio - 6929 Arlington Road, Bethesda, Maryland 657-3336 Audio Specialists - 230 W. Broad Street, Falls Church, Virginia 532-1023 Wheaton Plaza Hi Fi - Wheaton Plaza, Wheaton, Maryland 949-2355 Stereo Corner - 19126 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg, Md. ____ 948-1175 Audio Specialists - 1605 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. ____ 667-7480 Sight & Sound - Campus Hills Shopping Center, Bel Air, Maryland 734-7783 Fred Burke Says: After 14 Years Why is Audio Center Still Number 1957 - Audio Center opens for busi- ness late in year. 1958 - Audio Center was told they would not last six months in business, however, they ended up first year in the black! 1959 - Audio Center became a leading dealer in its second year of operation! 1960 - Audio Center became Fisher's largest single store dealer in entire Washington area. 1961 - Audio Center ran an advertisement which was so successful that Home Furnishings Daily, a respected national pub- lication, came to Washington to interview Mr. Burke. 1962 - Audio Center, growing faster and faster, re- models, and doubles size of show- rooms! 1963 - Audio Center's growth is recognized by audio industry. Fea- ture articles on this unique dealership appear in trade publications as an ex- ample for other dealers all over the country to follow. 1964 - Audio Center sets a national sales record over previous year in three major brands. 1965 - Audio Center is cited by JBL as one of their top ten dealers in United States. 1966 - Audio Center doesn't rest on its laurels, and is again honored by JBL as one of their top ten dealers nationally! 1967 - Audio Center is honored as largest single store dealer on east coast by KLH. Audio Center singled out by a leading national audio magazine as top fea- tured dealer. 1968 - Audio Center again is tapped by KLH as largest single store dealer on east coast! Ever expanding, Audio Center diversifies into fast rising infant Video industry; forms Professional Products Co. 1969 - Audio Center is singled out as largest full line Sony dealer on east coast. 1970 - Audio Center, again honored as largest full line Sony dealer on east coast, also honored as largest Sony Video dealer in United States. 1971 - Audio Center, first to offer double your money back during a Washington's Birth- day Sale if undersold, launches a George Washington's Birthday Sale in its fourteenth year of service to the public featuring some of the lowest prices ever offered on name brand merchandise! AUDIO N _ R Home of the world's finest sound reproducing equipment Suburban Maryland's oldest and largest component High Fidelity Dealer 4962 Fairmont Ave. OL. 6-5100 Bethesda, Md. Daily 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Sat. 'tí1 7 P.M. P.S.: Audio Center was recently honored as the longest continuous advertiser in Forecast FM! FORECAST FM 3 THE NEW FORECAST Tandberg 6000X THE FM LISTENING GUIDE FEBRUARY, 1971 / VOL. 7 / NO. 12 STEREO DECK 6 Surround Sound Show 8 Previewing the Show 32 Service Directory 34 Guide to the Show 38 FM News 40 Calendar of the Arts 42 Subject Index 46 Broadway Spotlight 46 Opera Box 46 The Spoken Word Our Cover - "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", 48 Week at a Glance featuring the unique "Kiss Me Again", "Thine Alone" and "Sweetheart" 56 Listening Guide Crossfield Design are just a few of the songs that brought fame to the 95 Composer Index The 6000X challenges the most precise 'prince of the operetta'. professional instruments that sell for $1,100 or Victor Herbert was born in 97 Scanning the Dial more. At 331 ips, this new stereo deck surpasses Dublin, February 1, 1859. the 7/ ips performance of our world famous, He played the cello in high fidelity top rated Model 64) It offers the truest leading European orchestras even at 33'4 fps (40-18,000Hz you've ever heard, in ±2'hdb). And, it incorporates a completely before finally settling new design for the 70's...fresh, interesting New York City in 1886. His -inviting usel career as a composer spanned 30 years, and Convince yourself. Would you believe... included "Babes in Signal-to-noise ratio at 62db Toyland", "Naughty 70db dynamic range, plus An additional 24db overload protection Marietta", "The Red Mill" Peak reading instruments and nearly 40 others. Herbert was an immensely And would you believe... popular man and used his 4 hyperbolic, mumetal screened, precision - considerable influence to gapped heads He Editor and Publisher Mixing, cueing, source vs. tape monitor, help establish ASCAP. W. MOSTOW sound -on -sound, add -a -track, remote control was also the first American RICHARD Independent mike/ line recording controls composer to write an Technical Editor and stereo mixing original score for a motion WILLIAM A. TYNAN picture. Towards the end Although we hesitate to say that this is the world's of his life, he contributed Arts Editor best tape recorder, we have yet to find its equal! ANNE HUBBARD Try the new 6000X. Record any material at 33'4. revues for the Ziegfield Play it back. Compare with others at 7'/. You'll see Follies. In 1924 he died in Classical Recordings that you now can make professional quality New York. ROBERT E. BENSON recordings. Popular Recordings 1 MATTHEW C. EDWARDS FORECAST FM - Business and Jazz $49900 RALPH DE TOLEDANO Editorial Offices: PAUL ANTHONY 934 Bonifant St., Silver Spring, Md. Cover Artist ANN KAHL 20910. Telephone (301) 588-1800. Log Assistants ELEANOR HEEGER Subscription rate $5.00 per year. Please PAMELA FRESHOUR allow 30 days for processing new FIDELITY subscriptions and change of address. Subscriber Service SOUND Co. Copyright © 1971. Forecast FM, Inc. NANCY WEBB 296-9110 Suite 105 -Ring Bldg. Second-class postage paid FRANCES DUNN 1200 18th Street, N.W. at Washington, D. C. by Washington, D.C. 20036 Forecast FM, Inc., 7410 Birch Av., Wash., D. C. Postmaster send 3579 to Silver Spring office. 4 FORECAST FM The two that couldn't wait. Every so often, an idea just won't wait until its range (or, quite próbably, above it). and way ahead of their time. Don't wait to time has So it come. arrives ahead of schedule. And the FM section has not only high enjoy them at your dealer. Sony Corporation And begins a trend. sensitivity and selectivity (2.2 uV IHF and or America, 47-47 Van Dam Street, Long Island Take the new Sony 6055 receiver, for in- 80dB respectively) but lower noise and better City, New York 11101. stance. It takes direct -coupled circuitry into interference rejection, to help you discover fHF Constant p.wer supply method at 4 ohms a new dimension. Which means there is noth- stations that you've never heard before- ing to come between you and the sound- re-discover stations that were barely listenable. no coupling capacitors, and no interstage before. transformers. You'll discover new flexibility, too, in the Those capacitors and transformers could control functions. Sony's famous two-way cause phase shift or low -end roll -off, or function selector lets you switch quickly to diminish the damping factor at the low fre- the most used sources-or dial conventionally A IA -1- 1(-It quencies where you need it most. to such extras as a front -panel AUX input jack, 1. A' e So, instead we use Darlington -type coupling, or a second phono input. There's a center a complementary -symmetry driver stage, and channel output, too, to fill the hole -in -the - - an output stage that needs no coupling capa- middle in large rooms, or feed mono signals a citor between itself and the speaker because to tape recorders or a remote sound system. 4%, 441 it's supplied with both positive and negative The Sony 6065. $399.50 - rrr q '{á . voltages not just positive and ground). Another "impatient" receiver also featuring ~ The results speak for themselves. The ampli- the new Sony approach to direct coupling, fier section puts. out 255 watts' with less than the 6055 delivers 145 watts. Moderately priced, TWO NEW 0.2% distortion, and a cleaner, purer sound this receiver is a remarkable value at 8299.50. RECEIVERS FROM than you've heard before in the 6065's price So, there they are, months ahead of schedule SONY® See Sony at the Washington Hi Fi Show. the broadcast of so much pleasant, high - A TOTAL -SURROUND SOUND SHOW quality sound into homes, and now even into automobiles and boats. Our Washing- by Teresa Rogers ton Show, incidentally, also gave the pio- surround" sound. Included will be the President neer public demonstrations of FM and first public demonstration of four -channel High Fidelity Music Show, Inc.