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...simple binaural playback machine, including twin-headed pickup arm, double amplifiers and speakers, can be assembled for about...
...Berns sprinkles his listeners with inexpensive gimmicks instead of assaulting them with costly productions. Typical is Time Capsule (Thursday, 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), a half-hour potpourri of life in the U.S. It is tape-recorded and filed with the Museum of Natural History, in case anyone wants a playback 100 years from now. This week Berns spent about two hours lining up the guests for his next show: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend...
...Playback. In West Hartford, Conn., self-styled Electronics Student John E. Whitley received a six months' suspended jail sentence for breaking into the West Hartford Congregational Church and stealing a tape recorder, was rearrested several months later after he broke into the West Hartford Congregational Church, stole a tape recorder...
Some models were designed for playing records, others tape. But each depended on a thoroughly binaural system, from pickup on through to home playback. This means two microphones to "hear" the performance, two systems of groovings on the same record (or double-track tape), a double-pronged tone arm, two amplifiers and two speakers. Each circuit carries the same music, but the music is caught in slightly different sonic "perspectives." In a recording of a symphony, for example, the violins will be slightly stronger in the left speaker, the brasses stronger in the right. A listener sitting between should hear...
...phonograph companies find a way to bring the costs of the system down, it will likely remain just a novelty for the well-heeled hifi. Main drawbacks at present: 1) there is no repertory of double-grooved records-only a few specimen recordings, and 2) a home system for playback might cost twice as much as today's equipment...