I worked for Dick Schaak before I went to Pacific. I also sold to Team, Schaak and Sound World. I still have cassette dubs of their commercials, including some side-splitting outtakes from Pacific. Yes, it was Sound World in Apache Mall.
What was this thread about again?
Linda
What was this thread about again?
Linda
I wonder if there is a time limit for hijacking?
As far as a center channel, I have never understood the need for one since I have never had a problem understanding dialog in a movie with my quad system. None at all.
I believe a center channel was originally proposed and implemented because of the tendency in early stereo days of having two speaker systems spaced wide apart in corners, no? Then I could see the possibility of "phantom center" maybe not working sufficiently.
I will relate my first quad experience and it was more conventional compared to Linda's ingenius approach.
My then girlfriend and I (we later married) hitched a ride over here to Rochester (we lived in Austin at the time) during the day (and during school - my advanced math teacher used to let me skip on a Friday afternoon sometimes as long as I kept my grades up) sometime in early 1971 and we ended up at Apache Mall. The stereo store would have been one of three. Sound World, Schaak Electronics, or Team Electronics. I'm pretty sure it was Sound World and they actually had a pretty nice quad setup with 4 Advents and some pretty good electronics and actually in the sound room instead of out on the floor.
Anyway, when I sat in the middle of those 4 speakers and they played some RTR tapes they had, that was it. From then on, "quadraphonic" was a magical word to me.
Doug