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...boss was a lynx-eared noise merchant by the name of Sidney Frey. Audiophiles alert for a vicarious thrill can hear awesome testimony to his demand for accuracy on a forthcoming Audio Fidelity album titled Sound Effects II. During his campaign in Brooklyn, Frey staged six crashes (by sending one wreck at the end of a tow rope hurtling into another), but the calculated carnage was a minor incident in his tireless pursuit of sound. Audio Fidelity's Frey, 40, has already trapped a hurricane (Donna), recommissioned an obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed...
...speakers. Throughout the week, there frequent last minute attempts to someone who could drive a from Logan Airport to the University. One evening, too, just be a panel discussion, the found itself with more invited than it could use--and had to several of them to sit in the audio and listen. Through some quick stitution plays, most of these a chance to participate later forum, and none seemed particularly annoved. Such occurred did not prevent the program running smoothly, on the surface least...
Percussive Vaudeville (Harry Breuer and Orchestra; Audio Fidelity). A sentimental treatment of Gay Nineties songs is mixed with Spike Jonesian horn and whistle exclamations. The "separation of sound" here is greater than that between the far ends of a vaudeville pit. and the effect, while startling, ultimately cancels out the melody...
...band (trombone and banjo). Too young to hear original Dixieland, the brothers listened to the New Orleans greats on records, played on weekends (for $3 a night) in pickup combos, formed their first band while they were still in high school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums, all of them in stereophonic sound, which is ideally suited to the Dukes' brawling style. Are they ever tempted to play their Dixieland cool? "We don't go for that chamber stuff," says Frank. "It isn't jazz...
Although she cannot read music and is so implausibly naive that she describes microphones as "boxes hanging from bent poles," Anna Lou does well-with an audio engineer's help. Harper and a magazine photographer return with her in triumph to New Bethel, Pa., and dredge up material for a cover story. Back in New York, Anna Lou (now Beth Adams) is bathed in fame on a TV show, more fame as singer of the top tune on the charts...