Is this the same Lou Dorren?

[Circular Vibes]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=798974213495203&id=500616049997689

I found this while surfing a few days ago. Now that I can post it, can anyone tell me if it is our beloved Lou?

 

[JonUrban]

As we know now it is. The Beau Brummels were Lou's recording artists and he was very proud of them. He spoke to me of his recent work with them almost every time we spoke.

 

[Circular Vibes]

Thank you Jon for confirming this. May he rest in peace. I guess this puts and end to the ultimate CD4 demodulator and the rest of his projects. I will have to be very careful where I use his record cleaning fluid as there will be no more.

 

[Circular Vibes]

Lou at Wikipedia

I thought I'd post that I found this on the 'net today. He certainly deserves the recognition. I see Mark Anderson's Surround Discography is credited in the references as well. I wonder if any QQ members were involved in the creation of this page.

 

[vinylguy4]

Before Lou's passing, I was browsing in Amoeba records. A guy struck up a conversation and I indicated I was looking for surround and quad recordings. Turns out this guy was doing some promotion for Lou's Beau Brummels releases. He knew all about Lou's CD-4 stuff. He said Lou was a real character (in a good way). Just such a coincidence some stranger knew Lou and picked me to have a conversation with.

 

[timbre4]

Thanks for posting the Wikipedia link; I hadn't seen that page before. I suspect some QQ involvement given the detail level. I recall now that I sold Lou my Harman Kardon 800+ quad receiver about 20 years ago!

 

[surround.sound.enthusiast]

I too had an interesting crossing with another of Lou's former professional associates.

In October I bought a sealed copy of the Soundbird CD-4 Quadradisc Test Record on Ebay. The seller had included a photograph of two Panasonic and Matsushita "Product Specialist CD-4" business cards as part of the auction photos.
When I inquired about them, it turned out they were his old business cards. He was involved in CD-4 for discrete radio broadcasting, and spend a month at Lou's facility learning the technical aspects. I invited him to the forum, and he
did join as BobZ. He was reading various links I passed on to him regarding Lou, and his demodulator project, and discrete FM broadcasting, but hasn't been too active otherwise and we haven't exchanged emails since October.

I wanted to introduce him to the forum, but wanted to let him take his time getting comfortable with all of us, and didn't want to inundate him with enthusiastic questions from everybody. As our emails trailed off, and he didn't attempt
to post much, it slipped my mind to actually introduce him.