It's time to rearrange your speakers—quadraphonic sound is back. Well, at least in one instance. A new LP documenting a live performance by electronic musician Suzanne Ciani is being released as a ...

Stellar four-channel music series rescues lost multi-channel mixes from the dawn of surround sound. Despite quadraphonic sound’s commercial failure—hampered by competing vinyl formats and unreliable 8 ...

The circuit was designed using a four channel amplifier to produce quadraphonic sound: right front, left front, right rear, and left rear Quadraphonic – a sound production term wherein it uses four ...

Quadraphonic sound was perhaps the first serious attempt to bring surround sound to home audio systems. The format was introduced in the 1970s and worked by adding two extra sound channels to the left ...

Quadraphonic is back. And it sounds even better. For readers of more tender years let me explain that quadraphonic was the first surround sound system that got a major shove from manufacturers and ...

Now you can hear War’s iconic hit “Low Rider” in 4-channel, quadraphonic sound via Rhino’s new Quadio series Blu-ray Disc releases. This is the second Rhino Quadio release I’ve reviewed from legendary ...

The Gadgets: Panasonic’s SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, “In the real world, sound comes from ...

When Austin band …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead began experimenting with the quadraphonic format to mix its eleventh album, XI: Bleed Here Now, members Conrad Keely and Jason Reece ...

Stereo is well over 50 years old, so why has the public rejected every music-surround format to come down the pike? Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio ...

Although surround sound has made its mark in the music technology industry, most listeners still partake of their music in two-channel stereo. Surround sound may be a vital part of the cinematic ...