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We've been at the business of high fidelity for a long time. And still, every so often we ask ourselves, "What's it all about?" For us, it's certainly not about mass production, nor about squeezing products into traditional "price points". What we are about is to find, without qualification, the best way to reproduce music in the home.
Of course we've had our disappointments. We re member a "shelf" unit that couldn't fit on any shelf known to mankind.
But then there have been our triumphs.
We believe the products in this advertisement are the finest expressions of the attitudes that motivate us. They are diverse, but consistent with our commitment to bring the highest quality to every function of music reproduction.
The new Harman/Kardon Rabco ST-7 turntable is an excellent example. It plays a disc in precisely the way the cutting head made the master record. The arm, carried by the remarkable "rolamite" bearing, moves across the disc in a straight line. The result is a cascade of zeroes. Tracking error? Zero. Skating force? Zero. Stylus overhang? Zero. Horizontal friction? Zero. Vertical friction? Zero.
Simply stated, the new ST-7 provides a way of playing music in the home that obsoletes conventional pivoted arm turntables.
Diverse and consistent. The Citation 16 amplifier is a remarkable synthesis of brute force, technological precision and sonic sensitivity: awesome power with flawless performance. When measured by the criteria that together most accurately predict musical results-square wave response, slew rate and rise time-Citation 16 is without peer. The excitement we feel at Harman/Kardon these days is in part due to the reaction from audiophiles who have experienced Citation 16.
Diverse and consistent. The ST-7 and Citation 16 expand the boundaries of state-of-the-art. The resulting new technology is soon incorporated in other products. The new A401 integrated pre-amplifier and power amplifier does not produce the absolute power levels of Citation 16. But its square wave response, slew rate and rise time reveal its genealogy. We can conceive of no better recommendation for the first time "investor" in high fidelity.
Diverse and consistent. As the 430 receiver vies for visual attention on your dealer's shelf, it may seem almost diffident. Don't believe it! For within its graceful contour lies such power as to meet truly demanding dynamic conditions-without compromise of sound quality.
The source of the 430's energy is not the conventional single power supply. It has two discretely separate power supplies-one for each channel. Consequently, no matter how much energy is called for by dynamic music passages, performance of one channel is not affected by the other. The features of the amplifier section (twin power, wide bandwidth, square wave response, phase linearity, instantaneous transient response) and many elements of the tuner and preamplifier sections are inherited from our Citation series of components.
There is simply no comparison between the 430 and other modestly priced receivers. Its performance can be appreciated most by direct comparison with ex pensive individual components. The 430 demonstrates, upon the very first hearing, that quality need not be sacrificed to achieve the economy of size, convenience and price.
Of course you're looking at new high fidelity instruments. But the attitudes with which they were conceived and built are their very essence. We'd like to tell you much more about them—directly--without circled numbers or coupons. Write to us. We'll respond promptly.
Harman/Kardon, 55 Ames Court, Plainview, N.Y. 11803, USA
harman/kardon
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(High Fidelity, Jul. 1975)
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