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ROCKET 88

This year, you, I, and everyone else in this nation who was brought up to spend money will hand over one billion dollars to car stereo salesmen. In exchange, piillions of cars are wired for sound. There are two differences between the radio that comes (as an extra) with your car, and the bi-amped/power boosted/ Dolbied stereo system you install independent of Detroit; differences in price and quality.

July 1, 1979
Richard Robinson

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ROCKET 88

SUPER SOUND ON THE SUPER SLAB

Richard Robinson

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This year, you, I, and everyone else in this nation who was brought up to spend money will hand over one billion dollars to car stereo salesmen. In exchange, piillions of cars are wired for sound.

There are two differences between the radio that comes (as an extra) with your car, and the bi-amped/power boosted/ Dolbied stereo system you install independent of Detroit; differences in price and quality. Car stereo costs three to five times more than a standard car radio; but it sounds better. People like the sound: Detroit has seen a decrease from 60 to 40 percent in the number of new cars sold with radios already installed. An extra million dollars on time-payment cards so mg can improve radio reception accuracy, play a cassette, power amp the program for quality speakers which produce stereoscopic sound as we pound along the asphalt.

Car stereo developed in direct proportion to car

QUESTIONS ASKED BY CAR STEREO BUYERS AFTER SEEING "BEATLEMANIA"

Q. Is a stereo car the same as a car stereo?

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