MMCH 1986 FIRST TEST! RADICAL NEW BOSE SPEAKER 21(9A5NAjg T' 111 Ii111111111 11111 1111111111111111111111 IN MIONENEENNIMIENE 11011111101.1111 111111ENIIMIIIMPINIUMI 111 In NE EMI IL.. __A 1111' on IIIRIELM M NMI IIIII MN V MI -- III NMI I. NMI MEI 1E1 MIL V MI 111 IIIL. NM 1E1 UM 41M MI IINI E 11111 EMI 1E1 MEM ME UI IN RI II 11 M NE EMI 11111 MI MEN ME mummiummummummmummmemommumEL -- _411_ __1111 JEN Iit MEI MEM AUDIO VIDEO TEST REPORT; MUSIC EMENIMMIEEMENEMENNEMINEMENIMMEMEMENNEMII COPING WITH THE AUDIO -VIDEO EXPLOSION... LEGALLY 6 LAB TESTS: TECHNICS A/V RE DENON A/V CONTROL CENTER KENWOOD AND PANASONIC CAR STEREO AND MORE MITSUBISHI DRIVES THE FUTURE. Digital Compact Disc technology is the We've taken the proven features of most significar t bre,a4hrough s nce three genera -ions of Mitsubishi home car audio was conceived. Converitiona CD's and incorporated them into our recording and playback rrethods s mpy Car Dompac- Disc Player. 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Todcy OISC .1.AvER 7!4Cti' ST0p/ 41- aec REPEAT SRScc044 SCAN 1141FP Mir rid -.,4, 111 E F'RC LOup MIL Nips 2 3 4 FM 5 SCAN MEM SEEK STEP .MITSUBISHI DIAMOND COLLECTION' MOBILE ELECTRONICS GROUP 1986 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC SALES AMERICAINC 799 N, Circle Mount Prospect, IL 60056 (312) 298-9223 5886 Woodbine Avenue Markham, Ontano L3R5G1 (416) 475-7728 HIGH FIDELITY Volume 36 Number 3 March 1986 TEST REPOR TS 25 Bose N2loudspeaker 31 DenonAVG500 audio -video control center 34 TechnicsSA -460 audio -video receiver 37 Harman KardonTD -292 cassette deck 39 Kenwood K LC -999car tuner/tape deck 42 Panasonic (*Q-E(V,111.:l.car receiver/tape deck AUDIO & VIDEO 45 Coming to You in Stereo by Leslie B. Tyler Miami Vice has viewers hearing double, but the road to MIS was anything but fast -paced. 48 Happy Hookups by Robert Angus Thinking of summoning a TV Genie or a Video Magician? Beware the FCC's hex. MUSIC Classical 54 The Czar of Soviet Music by Joel W. Spiegelman An exclusive interview with Tikhon Khrennikov 56 The CD Spread by Robert E. Benson, Irving Kolodin, and Bill Zakariasen For Schiffians: Andrds on piano, Heinrich on cello. For Jovians: Mozart symphony, Hoist suite. 58 Notes from Underground by Mint Andris Varga A salute to Salieri and other news from Hungaroton Popular/Backbeat TTTT 65 Country's Future Days by John Morthland "New traditionalists" can't re-create an era, but their popularity has spurred interest in reissues. -T- DEPARTMENTS 2 Publisher's PageThe Government Connection 54 4 Letters 8 CurrentsMostly mobile audio 18 Crosstalk Cable unready; DBX-I vs. DBX-II 21 Basically SpeakingFeedback-the untold story 22 Bits & PiecesLoose ends in the Compact Disc standard 53 MedleyLily Tomlin on Broadway; Denon builds a classical repertory. 59 Classical Reviews 61 Critics' Choice 68 Popular Reviews 74 Jazz Reviews 80 Advertising Index 80 Reader -Action Page Cover Design: Michael 0Delevante . Delevante. Jr His. f rot rut ri556 0018 1455 ,,,Mkshed monthly at 825 lrh Ave . New York. N Y 10019. by ABC Consumer Magatures, Insa Mown of ABC Putantong. Incand a substdory of Cover Photos: David Hedoich n Coo/rapt y' 1986 by ABC CM51.101.1 Mat:pones. t o The desqn and con tent: ION ,veered Or ealtst KJI4 and muss am be rontodt44,10 any.. and at orgjoronur mining in tern Alsthot,r1 as mr nut erase mail I, the Post -Mice Department. Ottawa, and to paYme. of P.41.94 to New Ynek, N Y , ' r , Send submnpoons. mourns,. and address changes to Htmi TIMMY On the Cover lt.r hnics SA 460 audio inw u S A and Posses:tons 413 95 . 5 Noon AVC 500 au PO Box 11 Iowa 50340 Change of address Cow. address label horn last moue and allow five weeks lot change to be enter cane elf, 1,,,POST MASTER: Saul diMp of imlims to MGM MR 1,, 4'(Ibm. 10159 Di, Mom, IA 50340 HIGHf10ElITY PUBUSHER'S PAGE Publisher/Editorial Director William Tynan by William Tynan Editor Michael Riggs Editor. MUSICAL AMERICA Shirley Fleming Art Director Michael 0. Delevante Managing Editor Kathleen Green Associate Editors Mildred Camacho, Ken Richardson Copy Editor Patricia Reilly Administrative Assistant Darleen D. Edwards The Government Connection TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT Technical Editor I ,avid Ranada Late last year, while President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gor- Consulting Technical Editors F:dward J. Foster, bachev were meeting in Geneva to discuss global issues, a summit on issues Robert Long Contributing Editor. Jay C. Taylor of import to the music world was taking place in Moscow. Joel W. Spiegel- MUSIC DEPARTMENT man, a professor of composition at Sarah Lawrence College, was meeting Classical Music Editor Theodore W. Libbey. Jr. Popular Music Editor Georgia Christgau with Tikhon Khrennikov, who-as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet, as a Assistant Kim Parker -Dumont member of the Central Committee of the Communist party, and, last but Contributing Editors Vince Aletti, Robert E. Benson, Pamela Bloom, R. D. Darrell, Francis Davis, not least, as a composer and pianist and as chairman of the Union of Soviet Rev. Thomas L Dixon, Steve Futterman, Edward Greenfield, Thomas Hathaway, Paul Hume, Composers for the past 38 years-has actively shaped his country's musical Joyce Millman, Paul Moor, John Morthland, Jeff Nesin, Thomas W. Russell III, RI Smith, David Patrick Stearns, policy. In the exclusive, wide-ranging interview featured in our CLASSICAL Terry Teachout, Noah Andre Trudeau, Richard C. Walls, Music section this month, seventy -two -year -old Khrennikov gives his ac- .lames N'ierzhicki, John S. Wilson ART count of the censuring of Shostakovich and Prokofiev under Stalin, opines DEPARTMENT Design Consultant Robert V. Delevante, Jr. about the trends being followed by the Soviet Union's leading composers, Assistant Art Director Susan Watts Technical Art Roy Lindstrom and reveals himself to be an affable, energetic musician who still has the PRODUCTION strength and skill to perform his own piano concertos in public. As he tells Director of Production Angelo Puleo Advertising Production Manager Janet Cermak Spiegelman in "The Czar of Soviet Music," "A good Soviet composer can Associate Production Editor Jonathan Teaser Editorial Production (Special Interest) Paula Ration create a stir in any part of the globe." Atex System Manager Karim Walsh Asher No matter where you are in the world, the government seems to havea CIRCULATION Vice -President, Circulation Steven I. Rosenbaum hand in communications. In the United States, the Federal Communications Vice -President, Newsstand Sales/Cansumer Magazines Commission is one such body, and its actions and inactions have profoundly National Sales Manager/Newsstand Michael Gerardo Circulation Director/Subscriptions Lorraine Vizzio affected what can and cannot be communicated over the air. Two specific Circulation Subscription Staff Mary Beth Colucei, Barbara Donlon, William Johnson. Janice Raiford, cases are examined this month. In "Happy Hookups," Robert Angus inves- John Rand. Andrde Rittenhouse Customer Service Mary L,osi tigates what happened when the FCC stepped in and shut the dooron some innovative "high-tech hookup" equipment. As Angus recounts it, the wire- ADC CONSUMER MAGAZINES, INC. James A. Casella. President less devices-actually miniature TV transmitters-were prospering untila Steven I. Rosenbaum, Vice -President, Circulation Steve Vetter, VicePresident, Finance manufacturer and an inventor asked the FCC to issue production andoper- ation guidelines. Leslie B. Tyler, in "Coming to You in Stereo," illuminates ONE OF THE ABC. PUILISHING COMPANIES Robert G. Burton, President the long and twisted trail that finally led to the adoption of a single broad- IMO Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10019 casting standard for multichannel television sound. Tyler focuseson how a Hock hailer HwM F1.115 Mum., Masi. :oublished monthly by ARC relatively simple concept can escalate into a project involving the govern- Inc and a subside, of ,sJiC Consumer Magazines. Inc ment and dozens of the world's top electronics experts, all to ensure the Math.. Audit Boo., EII0ott11.111.11,I I,,en in Reader's Guide to Peno.cal Lemma. Current and back comes of HitoufgEtihe and HIGH 1,011. Music. AMERICA we wadable on racial,. lion, Untveintv hAmotilms Ann Mini. KO choice of the best technology possible. 48106 %mkt* copies (1973 [awed!) ae wadable hors Flee 8 Howell Woo Photo Da.. Old Mansfield Rd Woo., Ohs 44691 Also in this issue, Technical Editor David Ranada contemplates some ANODISING OFFICES New York ABC Consume, Magazines. Inc. 825 7th Ave .8th Flocs. New Yolk. as -yet -unrealized goals for Compact Disc players, and our technical staff N Y 10019 Tel(212) 265-0360 Itched J Mama. Gump Adverts.) Doer tor. %duel H Goldbetg. [weir) Advertising Manage,. James R McCallum. R4, old Advertising Msnaget. Maw McCamick. Netwoik Advertising Manage. Can puts six more components-including two high-tech car stereo units- dice Leyden. Classdoed Advetbung Manager. Angelo %leo. 0.001 at Pioduction Janet Cenral.