Re: quad looping

["Stephen Goodman" <sgoodman@earthlight.net>]

Javier Miranda V. <gnominus@earthling.net> put forth:

> A friend of mine told me of a quadraphonic radio station here in
California
> in the early Seventies, when quadraphonic records started to come out.  
>He
> told me they put together two different transmitters, each in stereo, of
> course, tuned to the same frequency, and your radio was supposed to mix
and
> match, and you could hear the whole thing in your living room.

We had WQIV briefly in the NYC area as I recall - my Kenwood KX2400 (17W!)
had a quad decoder as an optional add-on box; before I got it, though, the
separation on tapes made from the station was incredible!  There was, at 
one
point, a quad version of Zappa's "Apostrophe" that played especially well,
FZ's voice running round the speakers like mad.  The quad version of
"Autobahn" had the speaker positioning of most car stereos, and some folks
would flinch when the "car sound" came up from behind, then around them.

> Come to think of it, wouldn't it be great that you could have a worldwide
> concert....

Remember if you will that Pink Floyd's been using a more-than-quad system
for years.  Or have they converted to surround, themselves?

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