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4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

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4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by bugzapper » Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:11 pm

So whatever happened to this sound craze from the 70s. I remember going to a William's Magnavox store out on Plainfield in Grand Rapids to check this out. They had a really small room there where you could stand in the middle and listen to their demo of a motorcycle circling the room. The only radio station that I recall using that technology was WGRD FM. I do have a 4 channel 8-track player/recorder I picked up somewhere along the line but I'm not sure if it still works.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by Deleted User 15506 » Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:42 pm

I remember when W4 106fm was Quad. I still have a few W4 Quad 106fm t-shirts.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by bugzapper » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:35 pm

Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:42 pm
I remember when W4 106fm was Quad. I still have a few W4 Quad 106fm t-shirts.
Was that in the Detriot area?



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by Deleted User 15506 » Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:32 pm

bugzapper wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:35 pm
Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:42 pm
I remember when W4 106fm was Quad. I still have a few W4 Quad 106fm t-shirts.
Was that in the Detriot area?
Yes, W4 was a Detroit original. The studio was located on Jefferson Ave. 2930 East Jefferson to be exact, I know that place well.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by bugzapper » Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:37 pm

Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:32 pm
bugzapper wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:35 pm
Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:42 pm
I remember when W4 106fm was Quad. I still have a few W4 Quad 106fm t-shirts.
Was that in the Detriot area?
Yes, W4 was a Detroit original. The studio was located on Jefferson Ave. 2930 East Jefferson to be exact, I know that place well.
Since I'm not in the business and have always lived near Grand Rapids, I had to look up the history of W4....quite a story! I should have counted the number of program changes.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by Deleted User 15506 » Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:54 am

bugzapper wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:37 pm
Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:32 pm
bugzapper wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:35 pm
Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:42 pm
I remember when W4 106fm was Quad. I still have a few W4 Quad 106fm t-shirts.
Was that in the Detriot area?
Yes, W4 was a Detroit original. The studio was located on Jefferson Ave. 2930 East Jefferson to be exact, I know that place well.
Since I'm not in the business and have always lived near Grand Rapids, I had to look up the history of W4....quite a story! I should have counted the number of program changes.
Today that building is now used by, The Cannabis Counsel and a group of doctors for medical marijuana. The best years of W4 106.7 were, when Gordon Mc Lendon owned the station.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by SolarMax » Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:48 pm

Skip wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:54 am
The best years of W4 106.7 were, when Gordon Mc Lendon owned the station.
Before McLendon and WWWW, 106.7 was WDTM, into the late 1960s.
WDTM offered an eclectic programming mix, with classical, jazz, spoken word and anything else they could find a host for. Each of its shows were kind of "free form" within themselves. It was a commercial station, but I think they also solicited direct listener support. I do remember Joe McClurg as one of the hosts, mostly on weekends. WDTM deserves a fan site somewhere, but I've yet to see one and I haven't found any air checks.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by Deleted User 15506 » Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:07 pm

SolarMax wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:48 pm
Skip wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:54 am
The best years of W4 106.7 were, when Gordon Mc Lendon owned the station.
Before McLendon and WWWW, 106.7 was WDTM, into the late 1960s.
WDTM offered an eclectic programming mix, with classical, jazz, spoken word and anything else they could find a host for. Each of its shows were kind of "free form" within themselves. It was a commercial station, but I think they also solicited direct listener support. I do remember Joe McClurg as one of the hosts, mostly on weekends. WDTM deserves a fan site somewhere, but I've yet to see one and I haven't found any air checks.
You may want to look up Don Schuster. Don was at W4 when they were an Oldies type station in 1969 or 1970, he might have some pre-W4 history info. I think Don is still in the Detroit area.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by Realist » Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:29 pm

I remember riding in my mom’s cousins mid 1970’s Thunderbird having a quadraphonic stereo system. She put a 8 track in and the sound range and dynamics were amazing. You could hear specific different instruments in one speaker clearly



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by WOHO » Thu May 20, 2021 2:10 pm

I thought it was very appropriate that one of the few Quadraphonic stations in the country was WWWW W-4 (4-channel) in Detroit. Had a Toledo DJ friend with a quad system to decode it. Used to be on the cover of the 1972 Lafayette Radio Electronics Catalog IIRC. Also, had 3 competing Quad LP formats, SQ, QS and RCA-CD4 which had a subcarrier rather than a matrix decoding system? However, the easiest Quad route was 4-track reel to reel decks and 8 track players that truly had 8 tracks: two Programs of 4 channels each. It really was a design ahead of it's time as it was close to the Dolby Surround from the VHS days, but more discrete as it was more 4.0 than 3.1 when I heard it. Wonder W4 was quad when Howie Stern was there and they did the format flip?



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by Ed Joseph » Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:53 pm

I know there were some experiments using C-QuAM to pass Quad audio way back when, and it evidently worked.


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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by WOHO » Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:34 am

Ed Joseph, let me check with Mr. Motorola and see if he can run some QUAD testing audio over WION next time he's doing an overnight tune-up?



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by ChrisWL1980 » Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:28 pm

WIQB in Ann Arbor (now the current W4) was "QuadRock 103" around 1975-76.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by EdWalker » Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:56 pm

Deleted User 15506 wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:32 pm
bugzapper wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:35 pm
Skip wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:42 pm
I remember when W4 106fm was Quad. I still have a few W4 Quad 106fm t-shirts.
Was that in the Detriot area?
Yes, W4 was a Detroit original. The studio was located on Jefferson Ave. 2930 East Jefferson to be exact, I know that place well.
From a Google Street View of that address, it appears the STL tower/antenna is still there.



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Re: 4 Channel, Quadraphonic Sound

Post by k8jd » Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:56 pm

I still wonder about the early stereo esperimants where one chan of audio went over aN AM station and simulcast other channel on an affiliated FM transmitter . I actually saw a few receivers that had dual tuners set up to do the reception of AM/FM Stereo sound.



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