... and leaders today! Ask those who know -the experienced professionals and the veteran hi -fi owners -and you'll get answers like these: "Pickering was first to introduce many high fidelity features that bave become accepted standards today." "Pickering bas always been the pace-setter in the race for perfection... "Pickering still sets the goals to which others aspire." There are good reasons for such praise. Every product bearing the Pickering name is precision engineered to give optimum performance. Each individual component is rigidly tested before it reaches the dealer ...subjected to the severest quality control procedures to make sure that every ® component comes up to the high standards expected of Pickering equipment. If you want the best that high fidelity can offer ... if you are willing to invest just a little more to get a lot more listening pleasure, now is the time to ask your dealer for a demonstration with Pickering components. See if you, too, don't bear the difference! PICKERING and company incorporated PICKERING PROFESSIONAL AUDIO COMPONENTS `o¿ de t 4p; w ENcer# Oceanside, L.I.. Sew fork ...Demonstrated and sold by Leading Rodio Ports Distributors everywhere. For the one nearest you and for detailed literature; write Dept. H -8 2 HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE
MAGAZINE FOR MUSIC LISTENERS This Issue. In the many months since last vve carried an article by G. A. Briggs, Yorkshire's contribution to the art of loudspeaker making and mounting, we have had many, many letters from readers asking for more. This we cannot give them, just now. However, we can offer the next best thing, which is an article about Mr. Briggs -and one which will serve to explain, too, why he has no time currently for literary endeavors. He is too busy preparing and presenting lecture- demonstrations, in which high quality sound reproducing equipment is pitted against live performers in concert halls. The latest of these . covered by Robert Marsh on page 31, took place in May at London's new Festival Hall. The Briggs show sold it out (or very nearly) twice in rapid succession. <strong>Com</strong>e to think of it, we can offer, or at least suggest, to Briggs -admirers, something as good or better than a Briggs article-i.e., Briggs, in person. He has arranged to hire Town Hall, in New York City, twice in October, during Audio Fair time, for demonstrations like those in Festival Hall. Enough said? Ah, to be in Bayreuth, now that Wagner's there, to hear Siegfried's horn sound in the world's only horn -loaded auditorium. However, the town couldn't hold us all, so perhaps it is well that some of us are constrained by circumstances to haunts nearer home. And you can acquire some topnotch Wainer lore here, too. In fact, all you need do is page through the record section till you come to -Tames Hinton, Jr.'s fascinating discography of Wagner's later works. CHARLES FOWLER, Publisher JOHN M. CONEY, Editor ROY H. HOOPES, JR., Managing Editor Associate Editors ROY F. ALLISON FRANK R. WRIGHT Rol, LINDSTROM, Art Director Editorial Assistants ì riam D. Manning, Cora R. Hoopes ROLAND GELATT, Neu' York Editor Contributing Editors C. G. BURKE JAMES HINTON, JR. ROBERT CHARLES MARSH MANSFIELD E. PICKETT, Director of Advertising Sales WARREN B. SYER. Business Manager CHRISTINE KORTE, Circulation Manager Branch Offices (Advertising only): New York: Room 600. 6 East 39th Street. Telephone: Murray Bill 5 -6332. Fred C. Michalnve, Eastern Manager: Chicago: John R. Rutherford and Associates, 230 East Ohio St., Chicago, Ill. Telephone: Whitehall 4- 6715: Los Angeles: 1052 West 6th Street. Telephone: Madison 6 -1371. Edward Brand, West Coast Manager. Volume 5 Number 6 Noted with Interest AUTHORitatively Speaking Swap -a- Record Letters As the Editors See It <strong>Aug</strong>ust 1955 Music's Great Dane, by Kurt Stone 28 An appreciation of Carl Nielsen, with discographic overtones. Yorkshireman in Festival Hall, by R. C. Marsh An on -the -spot account of a G. A. Briggs concert- scaled audio demonstration. The Science of Music in Ancient China, by F. A. Kuttner 32 When an acoustical engineering experiment might easily last five centuries! Creeping Distortion and What To Do About It, by Irving M. Fried First aid for shrieks, hums, whistles -and sudden silences. No One's Going To Emancipate Me, by Christopher Faye Sage suggestions by an unreconstructed audiophile. Music Makers, by Roland Gelatt Record Section Records in Review; Dialing your Disks; Building your Record Library; Wagner on Microgroove, Part II, by James Hinton, Jr. Tested in the Home Webster 97 -o Preamp and 97 -to Amplifier; CBC Voltage Regulators; Wilcox -Gay 41: lo Recorder; EdiTall Jr. Tape Splicer; GE Record <strong>Com</strong>pensator /Filter; Rauland Golden Gate Tuner; Snyder 5 -D Indoor Antenna; Argos AD Speaker Enclosures; Fairchild 220 Cartridge; Mohawk Midgetape. The Listener's Bookshelf, by R. D. Darrell Professional Directory Traders' Marketplace Advertising Index 4 IO 14 20 27 ;1 35 37 4r 43-69 High Fidelity Magazine is published monthly by Audiocom. Inc., at Great Barrington, Masa. Telephone: Great Barrington 1300. Editorial publication and circulation offices at: The Publishing House, Great Barrington, Mass. Subscriptions: $6.00 per year in the United States and Canada. Single copies: 50 cents each. Editorial contributions will be welcomed by the editor. l'ayment for articles accepted will he arranged prior to publication. Unsolicited manuscripts should he accompanied by return postage. Entered as second -class matter April 27, 1951, at the post office at Great Barrington, Mass., under the act of March 3, 1579. Additional entry at the post office, Pittsfield, Mass. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. I'rinted in the U. S. A. by the Ben Franklin Press, Pittsfield, Mass. Copyright. 1955 by Audinrom, Inc. The cover design and contents of High Fidelity magazine are fully protected by copyrights and must not be reproduced in any manner. 7t 90 92 93 95 AUGUST 1955 3
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