Best friend in high school had a dad who was a very successful law practice. Their house had the requisite “conversation pit’ of the time. He had a Pioneer quad system professionally installed around the “pit”.
He lived close to school so we would often go over there at lunch and listed to the few things that were released in quad, the one I can recall was “Victim of Love” by the Eagles. It was a bit of a gimmick. Sounded cool, but I don’t think it was practical. On a related note, I saw a quadrophonic Pioneer receiver on FBM today, the one that had the “oscilloscope” display to “tune” the system. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/640855280582333/ -D > On Dec 23, 2022, at 7:07 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > A buddy in my dorm had some money I think in a trust after his dad died, and > he was in the Natural Guard too so made some $$ from that. He was always > upgrading his hifi system. > > Quadrophonic came out and he bought a system. Some huge receiver putting out > a couple hundred watts, a quad turntable, and 4 Heil Air Motion Transformer > speakers which were pretty huge. All this in like a 10x12 dorm room. > > The speakers were truncated pyramids with the woofer in the bottom then this > vertical omnidirectional speaker in the top. > > It was “surround” sound at the time and certain albums were remastered for > the four channel aspect. It sounded really cool but after awhile was kinda > tedious. The room was too small to really get the full effect but he got > married and moved into a campus apartment that had a larger living room and > it was marginally better. > > I think the fad passed but he hung onto the system for quite some time. There > were never too many quad recordings but it played stereo quite well and there > was some “simulate” setting. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
