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...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 a big commercial animal...
...produce better sound than the best LPs; it also costs three or four times as much. Quite another matter is stereophonic tape, which channels the sound into two tracks and plays it back over two speakers, giving an illusion of depth and space. Victor started to produce prerecorded stereo tapes three years ago. Two dozen other outfits are also in the business, and other big guns of the industry are gradually warming to the idea. Westminster has been marketing stereo tapes for a year and a half, and both Mercury and Angel are announcing their first stereo releases. Most...
...Expensive? If stereo is in for a boom, the industry is not agreed on when it will happen or how big it will be. Some experts see tapes sweeping disks out of the market in five years; some believe that disks will always account for the bulk of the industry's sales. Victor Chief Recording Engineer William Miltenburg argues that disks will stay necessary for popular music, if nothing else, because record buyers will be unwilling to pay stereo prices for the one-shot pop hits. This raises the question of how far stereo prices can be cut. Today...
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...
...executives really expect wives to conform to any stereo. typed image. Said Joseph E. Adams, vice president of White Motor Co.: "Consider the nation's top executives. How many of them would have been hired if wives had been a factor in the selection? Some men need a psychiatrist at home who will listen to their problems. Others need frivolous wives to distract them. Some need wives who are prominent in civic activities, some not. You can't type a wife...