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Better than Stereo. Helen Rice, 64, one of the founders of and now the guiding hand behind the A.C.M.P., operates the organization out of her Manhattan apartment. The A.C.M.P. directory includes a large number of noted doctors, professors and diplomats, but the only distinctions A.C.M.P. members care about are their musical rankings: from Pro for professional and A for excellent down to D for "et cetera," which, says Secretary Rice (violin-B) "is a delicate way of saying bad." Each member rates himself according to a detailed questionnaire...
...speakers, he had to compare the wares of a large range of component part companies, shell out as much as $1,500, and spend as long as a week hooking all the parts together. The only alternative was a cheap portable phonograph that sounded as tinny with two stereo speakers as it used to with one, or a medium-priced console that was long on looks but short on fidelity. Now, however, great music is coming in more manageable packages...
...Sour Notes. At last week's annual High Fidelity Music Show at Manhattan's Trade Show Building, there was a raft of compact all-in-one hi-fi units that cost between $200 and $400 and almost never sound a sour note. With two bookshelf-sized stereo speakers and one compact changer-amplifier unit, the new small-fi's can fit almost anywhere, be operated by the wife and the kids, and still give Dad the kind of sound that he yearns...
Though the purists cry "Heresy" many people agree. They argue that the human ear, adaptable instrument that it is, after repeated hearings of a note-perfect performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony in all the glory of living stereo," will never again be satisfied with a fallible human performance. Pianist Glenn Gould has not played a concert in a year and a half because "that way of presenting music is passe. If there is a more viable way to reach audiences, it has to be through recordings. Concerts as they are now known will not outlive the 20th century...
...that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying...