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TAPE RECORDER
tirospeed,
dualtrack
When buying any recording
equipment you, as a high fidelity enthusiast,
are interested in its many
technical aspects. Frequency response,
signal -to -noise ratio, flutter and wow
are, certainly, all important. And in
these aspects the FME Tape Recorder
is incomparable in its price class.
Yet, in the truest sense only your ear
can really distinguish the quality of fine
recorded sound. Only your trained touch
can really judge the simple, smooth operation
of a tape recorder. It is for this
reason that Federal, without bold reference
to technical specifications, invites
you, the real jury, to listen to the FME.
Hear for yourself Federal's triumph
in sound. Feel for yourself its quality
construction, its smooth, simple operation.
Playback any tape -either 3% or
7% IPS. Test its single knob control,
its fast forward and rewind, its separate
volume and tone controls and many
other wanted features.
Then look at the price -we're sure
you'll be delightfully surprised.
Only $139.95. Supplied complete with
ceramic microphone, reel of magnetic
tape, take -up reel, power cord and plug.
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FEDERAL MANUFACTURING
AND ENGINEERING CORP.
215 Steuben Street, Brooklyn 5, N. Y.
EXPORT DIVISION: 25 Warren SI., N. Y. 1, N. Y.
(able, SIMONTRI(E NEW YORK oll roder
"cures" are only matters of intelligent
tube changing. Quite often you may
be able to make a remarkable improvement
in your amplifier.
If you can't, and if you either know
or think you may be in trouble, you
need the best professional service you
can find. Home diagnosis and cures
must be sketchy and incomplete. The
nYodern feedback amplifier and preamplifier
are carefully balanced, precise
mechanisms. Their stability, low
distortion, power capacity, and useful
life are dependent on the condition of
the tubes and associated parts inside.
A change in any one of the hundreds
of components may lead to serious
changes in the essential characteristics
for which you may have paid many
hard -earned dollars.
If you are seriously using your high
fidelity amplifier for good music reproduction,
you are urged to have it
thoroughly checked by competent service
personnel, with the proper distortion
measuring devices, at least once a
year. By competent service personnel
is not meant the average corner serviceman,
though no disrespect is
intended to thousands of good and
conscientious radio - servicemen.
By
"competent" is meant someone who
has enough respect for and understanding
of amplifier design, to want to, and
to know how to, restore the original
functioning of your amplifier.
If you have no local audio service
laboratory, this means that - if you
want good quality out of your amplifier
- you should expect to send it
back to the manufacturer once a year.
Don't be fooled by the man who tells
you his is perfect -never changed a
tube. He is probably the same man
who never spent a dime on his car -
until it stopped dead on him on a
lonely road one cold night. Amplifiers
are like automobiles; they must be
serviced. The dream unit you thought
was still putting out 5o watts may be
now somewhat inferior to a new iowatter
straight from the test rack. If
so, you have paid the price for high
power, without enjoying the superbly
clean performance which is its raison
d'être.
UNIQUE
SPEAKER
ENCLOSURE
DEMONSTRATED
TO
MUSICIANS
Stan Kenton,
Tommy Dorsey, Les Brown,
Billy May, Mel Torme,
Pete Rugolo,
Freddy Martin,
June Christy,
Ray Anthony . . .
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Just a partial list of famous
musicians attending the amazing
MUSIKONE demonstration . . .
and an impressed they have given
MUSIKONE permission to use their names in
public announcements. Several months ago audio
engineer Hugh Morgan designed a radically new
cone -type speaker enclosure for use with 8"
speakers. Not satisfied with exhaustive laboratory
tests he insisted on submitting his design to the
ultimate test ... the musicians' ear. The results
of these musician demonstrations were so effective
that without one line of odrertiating, orders have
flooded into the MUSIKONE factory.
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME. MUSIKONE ENCLOSURES
AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AT HIGH FIDELITY
SHOWROOMS
WHAT IS IT?
MUSIKONE is an entirely new type of speaker en.
closure and consisting of a cone 7 feet long, made of
a s ial EASTMAN plastic. The MUSIKONE
enclosure is not attached to the speaker directly.
but speaker and enclosure are separated by a decoupling
pad. The speaker actuates the body of the
MUSIKONE, which then propagates waves which
are never one -quarter out of phase with the waves
propagated by the front or top side of speaker cone.
The result is sound reproduction by a huge plastic
vibrating surface, in effect the MUSIKONE acts as
a gigantic speaker, with excellent, well damped bass
produced right up to the power capacity of the unit.
GUARANTEED SUPERIOR IN PERFORMANCE TO ANY
1" SPEAKER ENCLOSURE
Audio engineers and musicians who have heard the
MUSIKONE demonstration are unanimous in stating
that the sound reproduction is superior to that
of any 8" speaker enclosure, and is, in fact superior
to the response of many I 2" enclosures.
SOLVES PROBLEM OF HIGH FIDELITY LISTENING
IN SMALL APARTMENTS
Due to the unique cone shape of the MUSIKONE
enclosure, it can be easily placed in a small room, is
capable of reproducing all the lows, unlike many
bass reflex and folded horn enclosures in small rooms
MUSIKONE'S ATTRACTIVE SHAPE AND NEUTRAL COLOR
BLEND INTO ANY INTERIOR
Unlike many huge period enclosures, MUSIKONE
is modem and yet not fantastic . . . in design.
PRICE:
$16 50
NET
Due to the efficient design, the MUSI-
KONE enclosure can be purchased in kit
form for a fraction of the cost of other
speaker enclosures of comparable or lesser
quality. Kits can be assembled by anyone
in a few minutes. A deluxe model
with wrought iron stand and fully assembled.
. . . B6950 O
MUSIKONE available at your High
Fidelity dealer or if your dealer cannot
supply you. write to
MUSIKONE COMPANY
LoAg.. t °osIe California
AUGUST 1955
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