Quad never overcame format wars and the oil crisis/recession of late '73 into '74.
We did get this on on wonderful CD-4 vinyl, but for some reason, it wouldn't demodulate:
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Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line...
Can someone send this to Richard at Music Valet!:banana:
I think the "Crime Of the Century" is that we can't buy these now. :howl If I remember rightly these would have been CD4 LPs - I built an SQ decoder in my 2nd year at Uni in the late 70's so never got these,
Supertramp, Eagle, Doobies, America,..... I've got Jeff Beck, Aerosmith on SACD, Captain & Me on DVD-A, Not Fragile on DTS, and the Floyd on SACD/Blu-Ray.
Crime of the Century was NOT a CD-4 release. My post was a bit sarcastic.
Well, I thought it might mean that some quad was broadcast in major cities, at least. I assumed that if they were broadcasting in SQ or QS that no special equipment was necessary - the stereo FM receives the signal and it can be input to a normal quad decoder.
Do you meant that quad FM never really worked? And here's me thinking that the States had coast to coast quad music 24/7 for the whole of the 70s. Well, I thought it might mean that some quad was broadcast in major cities, at least. I assumed that if they were broadcasting in SQ or QS that no special equipment was necessary - the stereo FM receives the signal and it can be input to a normal quad decoder. However, I know that even FM stereo is in reality quite complicated to achieve mono compatibilty, so maybe things weren't as simple as I thought. I'd imagined that they would just play existing quad LPs, but I noticed talk of QS encoders to make original content.
So "Q" is Quadraphonic, and "IV" is Four for four channel?
-Kristian
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