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The event was in 1954, when at the high school I attended, an assembly was presented to the student body demonstrating the newest audio playback inovation, stereophonic sound! I watched as Voice Of The Theater speakers were set on each side of the auditorium stage. A four foot high 19" rack containing 2 Western Electric amplifiers was wheeled in on a cart. An Ampex tape deck was set at center stage with the amplifiers. The program material was largely sound effects, trains, automobile traffic, a ping pong game several spoken conversations and two musical passages, one a pipe organ and the other a large orchestra. I was completly blown away by not only the stereo images but by the different quality of many of the sounds played. It was four years later that I had my first stereo system of many . . . and of much intervening enjoyment! Thank God for student assemblies.