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bass. to counter the boominess of close pickup, and what Shure describes as a crisp upper register. The internal elec-tronics will accept DC phantom pow-cring (via the stgnal cable) over an un-usually wide rangę—from II to 52 volts DC, thereby encompassing both DIN standards (12 and 48 volts) and a pro-posed 24-volt standard. The SM85 sells For S23l with no cable; with a 25-foot three-pin cable. it sells for $252 as the SM85-CM.

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Along with a fuli linę of pickups that pług directly into standard tonearms. Empire has added what it terms a “refer-ence cartndge,” the 800UFR. Its meas-urements are traceable to the National Bureau of Standards. according to the company, which describes it as a high-end model with ultraflat response and a light-tracking elliptical Stylus. Despite the“high-end" designation, the 800UFR sells for only S150.

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Tamanton States Its Art

In announcing the Homonym loud-speaker system, the Tamanton Sound-works says that it sums up the best in many areas of loudspeaker design for the serious audiophile. The speaker comple-ment includes a 10-inch down-firing polypropylene woofer (which can be driven separately in a biamped system), a coated 8-inch mid-bass driver. verti-cally aligned cone-midrange and dome-tweeter dnvers, plus a ribbon tweeter. The system issupported byoak-veneered sides standing 43 inches high. The Homonym sells for $1,260 per pair. Circie 146 on Reader-Service Card

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Dynamie Acoustics offers a mix-or-match ensemble in the Model 2200 stereo woofer and Model 2602 compact speakers. The latter are designed to op-erate above 60 Hz (so that they can be used without a woofer if necessary) and contain a 5-inch polypropylene driver crossed over at 2.6 kHz to a l-inch soft-dome tweeter. The 2200 has separate 8-inch polypropylene drivers and sensi-tivity Controls for each channel. The combination can be biamped, or a cross-over network built into the woofer cabi-net can be used to feed the entire system from a single stereo amp. The 2200 costs $320; the 2602s, $150 apiece.

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