Music: Same Old Phonographs

Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its own products are concerned, there will be no such radical changes. Said RCA Victor: "In our opinion, nothing now contemplated in the laboratories or in use commercially at present shows any signs of offering such flexibility, tonal fidelity and simplicity, at low cost, as do the conventional disc and phonograph."

The other members of the recording industry's "big three" (Columbia,...

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