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...with audio-manic items. Frey's firm has sold 4,200,000 records in the past four years, grossed $12 million. Customers for Frey's cacophony are children, camera fans who want authentic background sound for their home movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something to prove to everybody...
...series of case histories some basic principles of Diskmanship. Writes he: "A single record, properly selected and bestowed, can serve to establish beyond question the authority of the giver for a year or longer," and persuade the other fellow that he is hopelessly tin-eared. Some successful Diskmen...
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