A four-speaker surround sound system introduced in the 1970s that never caught on, primarily because of the recording technologies available at that time. Quadraphonic sound used two front and two ...

Stellar four-channel music series rescues lost multi-channel mixes from the dawn of surround sound. Despite quadraphonic sound’s commercial failure—hampered by competing vinyl formats and unreliable 8 ...

The circuit was designed using a four channel amplifier to produce quadraphonic sound: right front, left front, right rear, and left rear Quadraphonic – a sound production term wherein it uses four ...

Rhino is reissuing 4 iconic 1970s rock albums in quadraphonic sound. Black Sabbath fans rejoice. Rhino High Fidelity got us very excited earlier this month with two new reissues featuring The Cars and ...

Opening today, August 21, 2021 at The Hammer Museum in L.A. is The Histories (Old Black Joe), a multimedia installation by the artist David Hartt with a quadraphonic orchestral arrangement by our ...

When Austin band …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead began experimenting with the quadraphonic format to mix its eleventh album, XI: Bleed Here Now, members Conrad Keely and Jason Reece ...

Hear and Now: “Dismal failure" may be the kindest way to describe quad. To music fans for whom even cassette tapes are a quaint throwback, here's a real obscurity: Quadraphonic sound systems were an ...

The Gadgets: Panasonic’s SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, “In the real world, sound comes from ...

Reed player Shamek Farrah ranks with the great unrecorded. Two releases on Strata East in the '70s, some for RA, a release in '95. The reissue of this 1978 recording for RA by Quadraphonic Sound ...

ALO will release their next studio album on May 8. Though the album’s exact details have not been announced, the California-based group has confirmed a national tour in support of the project. The run ...