Word: hi-fi
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...chance that the shop owners are city slickers who have cunningly disguised themselves as hick storekeepers in shawls or wide suspenders. London Antique Dealer George Knapp sells Americans a lot of Victorian pianos. "Preferably minus the works," he says. "Americans like to make them into bars, or put a hi-fi inside...
...throughout the U.S., the center of attention these days is a monstrous new machine called Scopitone. It is a cross between a jukebox and TV. For 250 a throw, Scopitone projects any one of 36 musical movies on a 26-in. screen, flooding the premises with delirious color and hi-fi scooby-ooby-doo for three whole minutes. It makes a sobering combination...
...other durables, along with an increase in money paid out for services. Now the shift toward nondurables is being accompanied by a rise in comfort-making durables or services: air-conditioner sales are up 40% this summer; people are spending more for summer camps and club memberships, pianos and hi-fi sets, and there is a young-mothers' move toward daytime baby sitters while they shop...
...their size, the power-pushing cylinders are first cousins of the fragile vacuum tubes that glow in TV and hi-fi sets. But for all their futuristic appearance, they are a long reach into the past. They deal in electricity that always flows in the same direction-the same direct current that Thomas Alva Edison used in 1882 when he built his first primitive power system in downtown New York...
While a few audio purists might quibble over the fidelity of some of the vintage vinyls, the quality is more than satisfactory for the average listener. For the man with a new hi-fi rig who is looking to build the nucleus of a good standard record library without having to hock his children, the 200-plus selections available in cut-rate classics are just the answer...