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...Cook's market remains mostly "audiophiles," who shiver in ecstasy over a tingling triangle while hardly noticing whether the music is a symphony or a psalm. But the number of listeners who look for realism in recorded sound is multiplying every day. Last year, hi-fi fans bought 100,000 Cook...
...laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom-no trouble laying it down." Last week ex-Lounger Bernstein was busy building a brick walk for his backyard, a wall bookcase, and planning a handsome new cabinet for the hi-fi set he had just bought...
...less stable type, whose main qualifications are strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe in taxis), FI (financially insecure), HD (heavy drinker) and AW (awful bore) were generally scratched...
...Powell Septet (Vanguard LP). A classical label gives jazz the hi-fi treatment, with first-rate results. Seven top jazzmen play as if for themselves, turn out some of today's finest group improvisations. Notable for a long (7 min.), brooding I Must Have That Man, featuring Buck Clayton's trumpet...
Percussion in a nearly pristine state, but not nearly so frightening as it might seem from the line-up of instruments (partial roster: three bass drums, seven timpani, three xylophones, a glockenspiel, a gunshot machine and five pebble-filled cocktail shakers). Especially designed for hi-fi fans, but one number (Happy Little Woodpile) has pop possibilities...