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Some engineers see a possible answer in stereo disks. Several companies have poured money into stereo-disk research; some have developed operating models, but none has announced plans to market one. English Hi-Fi Manufacturer Arnold Sugden now has a single-groove stereo disk that he estimates he can put on the market for about the same cost as an ordinary LP. His disk produces stereo sound with the use of only one needle that vibrates both horizontally and vertically. The major problem for the home user would be to get a steady enough turntable setup to play the record...
...voice volleying from one speaker to the other like a hopped-up tennis ball. That exaggerated effect (due to incorrect microphone placement during the recording session) is now gone. Few who have heard really good stereo will ever be satisfied with anything else. As a demonstration of just how fi stereo has become, a team of acoustical engineers put concealed speakers on the stage of San Francisco's Opera House. The San Francisco Symphony went through the motions of playing while the engineers ran off a stereo tape of The Marriage of Figaro overture. Few in the audience guessed...
...Fi Diamonds. The first diamond-point needles produced by a new, cost-cutting automated process were put on national sale by Walco Products, Inc. Walco will treble output to 3,000,000 needles a year, price them so low that makers of medium-priced hi-fi sets can afford to supply diamond needles as standard equipment. Retail price...
...Yourself. Once inside the U.S. dome, the Poles were confronted with an outlay of consumer goods as inviting as a mirage in Wonderland-the output of 323 different manufacturers. There were hi-fi radios, sewing machines with pretty demonstrators to show how they worked, a whopping big jukebox blaring out the latest in rock 'n' roll, washers, driers, electric ranges, electric can openers, a continuous fashion show with girls modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none...
...General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers and theater stars to entertain...