On the following pages you'll find an even dozen audio items that may have escaped your notice. Most are new; a few are not so very new, but certainly deserving of appreciation. They were chosen for their distinctive qualities within a field and those features are noted. The items themselves vary widely in kind and price. You'll find every kind of item represented from an arm to turntables, tuners, a speaker, receiver and even a new record care item. The prices also vary widely (perhaps even crazily) from $22 to over $3,000. Included, too, are several items we hope to report on in depth in the future. We hope you enjoy the selection. Happy browsing!

STRAIGHT ARM ReVox is probably best known in this country for distribution of Willi Studer tape decks. Studer is a master of both audio and design and J've known equipment freaks to do some very strange things after exposure, even for brief periods of time, to his gear. The B790 is a Studer designed turntable and arm combination and it's the arm that deserves special attention. It's a tangential tracking system using an opto-electronics servo drive. IT you're lookingfor a conventional arm, forget it. The cartridge is lowered to and lifted from the disc electronically and moved across the record by a beam of light and an over-head