Hello to Visitors

Welcome!!!!  Glad you found the place.  Quad is groovy. This is the “sticky” page that should always appear first. This is the third niche in the Web this site has appeared at. Past locations disappeared for reasons beyond my control.

I will start with an index to the many separate blog entries that comprise the “whole” that makes up this one among many sites covering quad / quadraphonic / quadrasonic / 4-channel audio etc.

The index below follows the format the blog is based upon; the newest entries appear first and the oldest, the ones written first, appear at the end of the index. This format should not cause confusion.

Deported Radio

Vintage Stereo Restorations

A new-found joy of the 8-track

Links

Peeking at the Past

Stuff I Like From Bygone Days

Q Surround

Update

Quad’s Early Days

SQ

QS aka RM

CD-4

More CD-4

Assorted Stuff

Software

Rare Stuff

Quad 8-track tape Q8s

Stuff and Stuff

Various Stuff

Cai Campbell

Tom Fornof Handy Info

QuadCasting

Several Pages of Quad Bob

Quad Bob

Quad Bob

Quad Jukeboxes

SRS Circle Surround

Several Posts with Steve Wudtke Info

Wudtke Wit & Wisdom

Wudtke Wit & Wisdom

Wudtke Wit & Wisdom

Wudtke Wit & Wisdom

Wudtke Wit & Wisdom

WordPress allows its blog users to view where blog visitors are visiting from.

This is done by the country of origin but no more than that.

Here are where some of our visitors originate:

Country

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Britain
Bulgaria
Canada
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
European Union (not a country but a region but the visit statistics includes the EU)
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Hong Kong (great meal at the China Fleet Club. Yum!!!)
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia (patrolled the seas in the area to run off pirates)
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Iraq
Jersey (likely Great Britain’s island)
Japan  (Great times in the Ginza!!!)
Kazakhstan
Kenya (YAY!!!  Kenya joined the crowd in March, 2014)
Korea  (Chin Hae was a pretty place)
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malta
Mexico  (of the several foreign countries I have been to Mexico is the only place I had to fight off attackers– 3 of them.)
Moldova  (Hello to everybody in your part of the planet!!!)
Mongolia (Genghis Kahn, a mighty warrior of yore!!!)
Morocco
Netherlands (some of my ancestors from there…Vikings!!)
Nepal
New Zealand  (where’s Old Zealand?)
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Singapore (A very modern place with lots of intelligent and industrious folks)
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan (Keelung, Taipei and environs were awesome!!!!)
Tanzania
Thailand (Pattya Beach was groovy!!! It “sticks” in my mind.)
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Viet Nam (up the Saigon River but turned around after the NVA took control of Saigon. A proud brave people and I hope our countries and people will be friends forever!!!)
Zimbabwe

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Feel free to leave a comment, share some information or leave an opinion!!!

I am a resident of the USA with two military tours to several Asian countries bordering the Pacific Ocean with some bordering the South China Sea and some a little bit west of the Pacific Ocean and closer to the Indian Ocean.

I have a commitment to myself to offer my OPINION that the USA federal government does NOT truly represent the USA citizen population.

Deported Radio

Listen LIVE in insane HD 3D Surround Sound.

You must wear headphones or earphones to enjoy surround sound.

We enrich the sound reproduction quality of every song travelling through our servers with additional audio channels so you can enjoy neural sound from a 360° radius perspective.

Our technique enhances the perception of sound spatialization by exploiting sound localization. We enhance a listener’s ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance. We achieve this by using multiple discrete audio channels routed to your headphones or earphones.

I do not have headphones so unable to give a review. Feel free to try the site and leave a review in the comment section below.

A commenter in one of the other posts mentioned the Deported Radio site. I am placing it here in case it is of interest to one or more of you folks.

Vintage Stereo Restorations

Affordable Quality Restoration for your Sansui Classics

We have been restoring early Sansuis for over 4 years now.  We have developed a reputation for quality and amazing sound.  We know these early units inside and out.  We will honestly tell you what we think about restoring your unit, whether it’s worth it, and what you can expect when you get it back.  You can read many reports on our restorations on Audiokarma and Quadraphonic Quad.  We know what we are doing, and we don’t over charge for what we do.

(3/28/16 link above not working. Hopefully it will be back. If new link occurs will post it as soon as I learn about it. Please leave any information you have in the comment section further down. Thank you)

A new-found joy of the 8-track

An interesting essay I felt deserved placement here (the link with a teaser).

8-Track Frame of Mind

I like the fact that I’m typing this blog while listening to a quadraphonic recording of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on a cartridge that’s well over 30 years old and still works just fine. Most of all, I love the fact that while we both have a collection of several thousand songs that can fit on a thumb drive, I also have an 8-track player and you probably don’t. So there.

Follow the link and read the rest. Dontcha’ wish that you,too, has a groovy 8-track player? You do? Cool.

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New Stuff to Look At

Hello.  How is everybody doing out there on planet Earth?  Hope that all is well for you and yours.  Sure is a crazy world we live in but let’s hope that the good outweighs the bad.

In the meantime we can keep grooving on the wonders of quadraphonics.  Music can be enjoyed with no need to dabble in what has become ancient technology but there is fun to be had from the searching for quad hard and software… finding a functioning quad receiver or decoder or a quad vinyl record in great condition for a dollar at the thrift store or whatever you mess around with.

If you are lucky you live in an area where the people of the past got into quad but over time sold their stuff where you can find it at a garage, yard or estate sale or maybe there is a used audio equipment retail store or wherever you find used still-working equipment.

Back around 1993 I was reminded about quad when I saw a “Masterworks” quad receiver in a thrift store with a $9.99 price tag. I plugged it in and used the two available speakers to test for output. All channels worked as did the radio. So… the unit followed me home and a different thrift store had two inexpensive speakers to meet the required four and the used record store led to a demonstration quad album with Black Magic Woman as one of the tunes.

Sure, it was a non-logic SQ decoder but if a placed my rotund head in the proper place the “swirl” as the lead guitar flowed around me head lead me onwards to bigger, better and harder-to-find and more expensive stuff.

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Peeking at the Past

Hello!!!  A wonderful human… I assume it was a human… created an awesome Web site where folks can visit and scroll through old Radio Shack catalogs.

Pick the right years and you can look at some quadraphonic equipment and accessories that Radio Shack sold back in the quad days.

 

1939 to 2005 RADIO SHACK GENERAL CATALOG ARCHIVE

 

Have fun!!!!!!!!!

Links

Search engines mostly eliminate the need for a link page but for the convenience of those visiting I will toss a few quad-related sites on this entry.

QuadraphonicQuad   Finest quad-related message board in the galaxy

Tab’s Quad Site     Groovy graphics; a must-see

From Quadraphonic To Good Enough Sound

Quadraphonic.info

Quadraphonic Discography

A Horde of Manuals for you to Download  Grab them before they disappear. A Huge thanks to those who made these available

Lots of great information here  look through the several pages. A Must See site

Vintage Stereo Restorations

Links checked March 10, 2016
May 30, 2016
July 23, 2017

Stuff I Like From Bygone Days

There are some benefits to the continual march of technology.

I remember moving from one shanty to another and carrying those containers full of vinyl LP records and the heavy audio equipment.

That Sansui QRX-9001 felt as if it weighed around 200 pounds!!! The weight and the fear of dropping my beloved audio outputter was off-putting, as those whacky but beloved Brits say.

I sadly sold my once-perfect but became un-perfect 9001 receiver a few years ago and the owner’s manual went with it.

Searching the Web I found a reported weight of fifty pounds for the unit but my rapidly declining memory nudges me that its weight was in the 60 pound range.

I have no idea what the weight is in furlongs, stone or hogsheads.

Anyway, compared to the receiver/amps of today that weigh little in comparison I do not miss having to move the hardware or the software of long ago.

Even a decrepit Old Coot such as I can carry a bunch of music embedded in those fancy CD things.

And my current minimalistic stereo stuff (no quad left in my humble hovel) is very light and easily carried.

Even the speakers found at the thrift store for several hundred dollars less than what they cost new weigh only a few easily-carried pounds each.

There ARE many benefits to today’s modern audio stuff but I sure miss the appearance of the stuff I lusted for back in the 1970s.