Sci-Fi Comes To Hi-Fi

January, 1980

The Avalon of audio aficionados is a room whose acoustic properties and apparent size can be changed to provide an optimum environment for the music played (or recorded). In this room, there are loudspeakers without diaphragms, tape recorders with a dynamic range at least as wide as that of live music and record players that operate with no friction of a stylus against a disc groove.Fifteen years ago, such desiderata would have been considered more in the realm of sci-fi than of hi-fi. Today, so...