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...record boom go on? Indefinitely, according to the industry's hopeful calculations. The prospect of new technical developments promises to open the market wider than ever. There are now some 40 stereophonic tape labels; Westrex and London Records in the U.S. have announced the development of single-stylus stereo disk systems...
...stereo tape is still expensive (as much as $18.95 for a recording of Brahms's First Symphony, v. $3.98 for the same symphony on LP). A better prospect for a new revolution in recordings : sound-plus-picture. Engineers are now working on a disk that will be keyed to a picture to be played on a television screen. The audiophile will see Harry Belafonte singing at the Waldorf as he listens to him, will watch the great operas unfold onstage as the music pours from his phonograph...
...Color TV. The world's first closed-circuit color-stereo TV system was announced by General Electric. After providing sets for scientists to use in watching radioactive processes, G.E. hopes to develop other markets, such as projecting sales conferences, conducting switching operations in railroad yards and control systems in automated factories...
...Good? Whatever happens to the cost of stereo tapes, the price of a stereo rig-inevitably including two amplifiers and two speakers-is always likely to be higher than that of a conventional monaural setup. A stereo rig can easily run into many hundreds of dollars, but for the less well-heeled tape fan, manufacturers are pushing portable models in the $200-$300 bracket...
...come a long way. Early tapes sometimes had a solo singer's voice volleying from one speaker to the other like a hopped-up tennis ball. That exaggerated effect (due to incorrect microphone placement during the recording session) is now gone. Few who have heard really good stereo will ever be satisfied with anything else. As a demonstration of just how fi stereo has become, a team of acoustical engineers put concealed speakers on the stage of San Francisco's Opera House. The San Francisco Symphony went through the motions of playing while the engineers...