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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several million Americans currently own woofers, tweeters, featherweight pickups, three-position rumble filters and other strong magic for hearing music as it really sounds. Recently the hard-core hi-fiers. have been tuning their ears to even newer vibrations-the sounds of stereophonic tape. The record industry, with a fortune invested in disks, is sidling up to stereo tapes with the nervous caution of a man who fears he may be feeding the puppy that will bite him. The industry goes on with the feeding, though, because there is a possibility that the pup will grow up into...
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...
...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...
Currently the Hi-Lo's are looking high and low for new material, are even experimenting with arrangements of classical music. "There is no reason," says Arranger Puerling, "why four voices can't do Air on the G String by Bach. It's not sacrilegious...
...Sound. Although they are the most polished neo-barbershop group going, none of the Hi-Lo's has had much professional training. Bass Puerling and Baritone Bob Strasen grew up together in Milwaukee, went to Los Angeles looking for a break in show business. There they teamed up with Tenors Burroughs and Bob Morse, who were appearing with a local band. They started practicing five hours a day, soon decided that they were getting good enough to sell their act. The group considered and rejected a dozen names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally hit on the Hi...