Our English Synopsis
1. Audio Culture
(Editorial notes)
One of our gravest dilemmas, just like with other Hi-Fi publikations,
is the need of having good quality sets for reference. However, if the
basis for comparison is an overly expensive set we lose touch with the
present day unsophisticated Hungarian market. We regard our
reference set performing a dual funktion. It does not only measures
against but it measures with, and the most accurately at that.
Recently we have invited all those Hungarian engineers and amateurs
for a contest who are trying to design good quality phono preamps. (If
a worthy construction is found we will recommend it for local
manufacturing.) Therefore we have to provide the "instrument" which is
fool proof. Temporarily we have chosen an unusually expensive
cartridge, the Ortofon MC3O with a T-30 trunsformer. For comparison
it would be too demanding in Hungary, but again, we use it not to
measure against but rather as an instrument of measurement.
2. Soundservice
3. The 100 year old Stereo
4. Digital Revolution
The time has come to publish a professional survey of the
universally adopted digital studio technology rather than the usual
press and commercial treatment. Author of our article is the chief
engineer of HUNGAROTON.
5. The Nimbus Triangle
Even more puzzling than the Bermuda Triangle. An identical
performance of Beethoven's Hammerklavier has hit the market in three
separate records issued by the British Nimbus label. One of them is
direct cut, the second is digital while the third originates from
analogue tape recording. The records are not identified as such,
consequently we were able to examine the sound without any
prejudice. The label will subsequently provide the clue by telex.
(Nimbus supplied the records on the recommendations of Mr. John
Crabbe, Editor of HFNRR; we would like to express our thanks to both
of them.)
6. Recording Sheet
Reviews, criticism.
7. Screenplay
("From the mike to the recordshop")
How long does it take for the concert recording to appear in the
shops? The record taped at the gala opening of the HUNGAROTON Record
Week -a Bartók concert by Zoltán Kocsis and Dezső Ránki- has reached
the market in three days.
8. Funkausstellung '81
Picture report of the electronics fair in West-Berlin.
9. Taperecorder Ltd.
Cassette recorders continue to remain inferior to reel-to-reel sets
primarily due to their lack of tape guidance mechanism.
10. The Yellow Brick Road
(Press digest)
HiFi Stereophonie, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, L'Audiophile.
11. Siva's Child
(Micro Seiki DQX-1000)
Gods and semigods have more arms than mortals do. Siva for instance
has four. A similar cult personality is the three armed Micro Seiki
DQX-1000. In the Far-Eastern mythology she is sitting on the side of
the gods deciding on the fate of styli. (Our test tries to decide if
this special recordplayer is any better than ours, using identical
Hadcock arm and Ortofon MClO cartridge. The answer: just on the
contrary...)
12. The Bextréne Generation
Test of the Audax BEX 40 speaker kit and the KEF B110/T27 - with
special consideration for the raw material used in the woofers:
Bextréne.
13. Cartridges From The Vicinity
Hungary does not manufacture High Fidelity phonograph cartridges but
(using a slightly antiquated definition) in the territory of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy AKG is producing them. Examining the
latest series: P l0ED, P l5MD and P25MD.
14. Tape Test
Finally we are ready to publish our hundred mile long (reel-to-reel)
tape test on Agfa, Akai, BASF, Maxell, ORWO, Polimer, Sony and TDK
products.
15. The blue Orion
16. Introducing
Two stereo cassette decks (Technics RS-M215 and Akai CS-M3), two
recordplayers (Panasonic SL-H401 and Tesla NC 450) plus a domestic
phono preamp.
