I think that’s the one he had although my memory might be getting suggested by that listing
--FT Sent from iFōn > On Dec 23, 2022, at 7:31 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
