Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
new RADIO SETS
APPEAL TO EYE
TonaI Refinements, as Well
as Cabinet Work, Are
Featured.

Radioland turns its eyes and ears 10
Atlantic City this week 10 learn whas
is new in radio.
Eye and ear appeal" II preliminary
reports from the trade are to be be-
lieved, will represent about the only
advance in radio sets and equipment
that will be demonstrated to the $4,000
or more dealers who will go to Atlantic
City from all parts of the country TO
attend the 1880 annual trade show Of
the Radio Manufacturers Association.
Even these appeals may hardly be
perceptible to the average purchaser of
a radio, so that the general public Is
again assured that nothing revolution
airy Is in prospect to render present
sets obsolete overnight. For it Is always
with some apprehension that the public
regards trade shows with all their bale
lyhoo about the new and the won.
derful.
Many Offer New Sets.
Far from fearing that some radical
invention will suddenly make new de.
mands on their pocketbookS, owners
and prospective owners of radio sets
this year have an opportunity again to
view trade offerings diSpaSsionately and
in the light of their true values. 1t 10
more reliable and more stable radio
industry that will foregather in Atlantic
City TO view the years developments,
discuss new trends, survey possible mar
kets and place orders.
What the dealers will see in Atlantic
City will be what they will offer to the
buying public during the rest of this
year. Many of the manufacturers dis.
tVafN Nf
sets; many other displays will simply
contain what has already been placed
on the market.
Tone quality will be relied upon 10
attract buyers among those seeking 70
replace old sets and among the persons
who have not yet availed themselves OF
the opportunity of owning sets. Tone
quality is something nebulouS and din.
cult of appreciation by the layman,
but the improvements will be there in
many sets. More apparent will be the
new furniture designs in which the
industry has shown a progressive adj
vance each year.
The tonal refinements will be demon.
strated by the use of solicitors and adj
justers, which are expected to reveal to
the average man how much more true
the reproduction can be made. Your
home Is the studio" Is one slogan
which reveals how the manufactures
has tried TO make his new models az
authentic and lifelike as possible.
Technical changes have been few, but
the advance toward perfection in the
reproduction of speech and music by
loud speakers has been a sincere effort
on the part of set makers and 1t has
borne fruit.
TeIevision Is Featured.
More and more teleyision eulripn1ent
will be offered for the reception of the
relatively crude experimental pictures
and motion pictures now being broad
cast every night. But the ultimate In
television Is still far OF, and no tele.
vision set that will render audible sets
obsolete is In immediate prospect from
any source.
-phonograph combinations win
be more common than ever, with the
price ranges lowering considerably In
| fact, prices in all sets are tending down.
| ward, at least with the manufacturers
who have solved the problem of mass
production. One of the features of the
Atlantic City show will be an increase
in the number of sets employing re-
mote control tuning, whereby thin
cable can be strung to any portion OF
home for tuning and controlling the
volume of a set.
That 10000 dealers will attend is not
mere trade talk The annual radio
trade show, usually held first in New
York and then in Chicago, attracts
dealers from every corner OF the land:
This year they will come in special
trains from such cities as New York,
Chicago, st. Louis, Minneapolis, De-
troit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston, Attain
ia, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San
Francisco. About 200 manufacturers
have engaged $4,000 feet Of space for
their exhibits-the largest in radio his
tory-in addition to special show rooms
in the leading hotels.