The radio with no voice of its own A GOOD violin may have a tone ot its own_~but not a good radio: Though it is the very voice of music, in itself a radio set is a scientific, not a musical, instrument: Note by note, tone for tone, it must re-create in your drawing room the precise pattern of the sound-waves that leave the violin's strings or the singer' $ throat: It must take away nothing and it must add nothing least of all its Own tone: So when people hear a Columbus radio mirroring the lyric beauty of a singer' $ voice and say "What beau- tiful tone; they really mean "What unusual fidelity:' Columbus radio engineers are responsible for that_ for they perfected the Electronic Ear, that safeguard of fidelity shared by no other radio_ Such progress results from the Columbus policy of directing its whole resources _~research; design, pro- duction- exclusively into the field of radio and sound equipment: From this specialisation comes the know- ledge to build a great radio like Columbus: COLUMBUS RA D / 0 A TRIUMPH 0F EECTRONCS
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 314, 29 June 1945, Unnumbered Page
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182Unnumbered Page Advertisement 1 New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 314, 29 June 1945, Unnumbered Page
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