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...introduction. The new IBM Model 25, for example, which sells for a suggested list price of $1,695 with a color monitor, boasts five to eight times the memory of a PCjr, a larger, easier-to-use keyboard and greatly improved graphics. On the same day IBM added a high-end $13,995 model to its much touted Personal System/2 series, the line of office gear introduced in April to replace...
...Zandt had helped produce three of Springsteen's hottest-selling albums. Tunes he wrote for the Jukes and Gary "U.S." Bonds, like Daddy's Come Home, showed high-end gifts for songwriting, even though he insists, "I hate all ballads, including my own." Still, it was impossible to flourish on his own and hang in with the gang. "I felt," he says, "a more urgent necessity pulling me. Like, 'Hey, it's time to find out if you got something else to contribute here on this planet.' " Men Without Women, his first Little Steven album, released...
...focusing on the mid- to high-end ofwomen's ready-wear fashion. We want to be known asa fashion center, and we're being selective aboutwho we bring in," Moore says...
Analog defenders contend that there is nothing wrong with LPs that cannot be cured by a $1,000 Linn Sondek turntable, a $1,200 tone arm and an $850 rosewood cartridge, among other so-called high-end components. But it seems unlikely that the ordinary music lover will want to shell out $10,000 or more to experience the hidden delights of LPs. Despite their imperfections, CDs have overwhelming advantages. The sound is clear and bright. There is no surface noise, no turntable rumble, no pitch fluctuation. Says Leonard Feldman, who runs an audio laboratory on New York's Long...
Without gainsaying the emotional appeal of LPs, it is clear that CDs are here to stay. Good-quality players are available for $350 to $500, and the price of the discs has fallen from an average $20 to around $14. High-end enthusiasts are likely to be the last holdouts in a war that has already been lost. "CDs may not be perfect," says Feldman. "But they are the best thing to come along since Edison invented the phonograph...