What do you use for SQ and Modern multichannel playback?

edbar777 said:

I had a Pioneer 949 which I had set up in my 'lab' for legacy quad playback. It died a few months ago, and I havent' gotten to attempting to fix it yet. In the meantime, I brought a much more modern Kenwood 5.1 receiver up and have that hooked up. Enjoying the DTS of the Chicago Quadio set. What I'd like to to is to be able to play back both the DTS discs and some old SQ stuff. Anyone here have such a setup? I'd rather not need to have 2 receivers or some kludgy type of speaker switch. Run a decoder thru the preamp and send it into a discrete input somehow? ((I suppose that I could use AA to create discs and store the SQ encoded records away))....

Thanks

--Ed

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rustyandi said:

If you look up Surround Master
You will see many QQ,s have used it and are very happy
Both SQ Vinyl and QS decoding

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edbar777 said:

Thanks, I'll take a lok at them !

I have 3 receivers, and only my high end Pioneer has a 4 channel discrete input. Any recommendations on other more reasonably priced ones (new or used)? Since this isn't my main audio setup, I don't need anything too elaborate.

--Ed

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rustyandi said:

Every outboard Decoder that you buy
is about 40 years old they range from very poor to very good and if a chip is gone it is junk
But non are better than the Surround master
I am afraid if you want to hear SQ and QS as it should be it is the best
Cheap decoders poor decoding

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edbar777 said:

Sorry!!!! I wasn't referring to the decoder, but to the receiver. It doesn't look like many have 4 channel discrete inputs that I can send the output of the Surround Master into??

Thanks again,

--Ed

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