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...the extra enhancement of regular stereo disks...
Interesting - SQ decoding in the jukebox used for stereo enhancement/fake surround sound.
I wonder if there was any logic system in the jukebox SQ decoder?
Kirk Bayne
...the extra enhancement of regular stereo disks...
Interesting - SQ decoding in the jukebox used for stereo enhancement/fake surround sound.
I wonder if there was any logic system in the jukebox SQ decoder?
Kirk Bayne
I remember seeing at least one of the Quad jukeboxes in the 70s. I can remember in one place they used 4 speakers around a fairly large bar/nightclub and it created a large, full-filing music experience. But it was no discrete surround sound spectacular. It was upmixing stereo due to not enough Quad singles. But it was way better than just hearing it in the jukebox, or just two speakers. Again, a mismatch between hardware manufacturers and music industry not being on the same page, even if there were multiple Quad systems. When it did play Quad it worked fairly good, and everyone could tell the difference from stereo.
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May 4, 1974
'Summit' Meet
To Report On 'Q'
LONDON-
RCA Records, the
WEA group of labels, National/ Panasonic and JVC/Nivico- have invited a bevy of record industry executives from around the world to attend a special quadrasonic progress report session May 9 at the Dorchester Hotel.
The gathering is timed to coincide with IMICS and the Dorchester is only a few blocks from the Grosvenor House where IMIC takes place.
The quadrasonic report will entail several meetings during the day and cover significant discrete developments as well as plans for the future.
Hugo Montenegro will demonstrate how quadrasonic sound works, using cuts from several of his RCA LP's. Montenegro will explain how he arranges music for the 4-channel medium.
Irwin Tarr of Panasonic in New York is coordinating the meeting.
And on behalf of the quadrasonic discrete group, Ken Glancy, RCA Records president, sent out special invitations to key record executives last week.
In effect, the meeting will be a summit meeting, since most of the major names in discrete quadrasonic will be there, including Vic Goh of JVC/Nivico; Claude Nobs of WEA International in Montreux, Switzerland; Glancy: Dave Heneberry and John Pudwell of RCA Records, New York; Tarr of National/Panasonic, New York and John Eagle of JME Associates in Los Angeles, a liaison firm for the major quadrasonic exponents.
Though not a part of the progress report sessions, RCA Records will conduct a special luncheon for the press on May 9 to announce new details in regards to RCA's quadrasonic drive.
'Summit' Meet
To Report On 'Q'
LONDON-
RCA Records, the
WEA group of labels, National/ Panasonic and JVC/Nivico- have invited a bevy of record industry executives from around the world to attend a special quadrasonic progress report session May 9 at the Dorchester Hotel.
The gathering is timed to coincide with IMICS and the Dorchester is only a few blocks from the Grosvenor House where IMIC takes place.
The quadrasonic report will entail several meetings during the day and cover significant discrete developments as well as plans for the future.
Hugo Montenegro will demonstrate how quadrasonic sound works, using cuts from several of his RCA LP's. Montenegro will explain how he arranges music for the 4-channel medium.
Irwin Tarr of Panasonic in New York is coordinating the meeting.
And on behalf of the quadrasonic discrete group, Ken Glancy, RCA Records president, sent out special invitations to key record executives last week.
In effect, the meeting will be a summit meeting, since most of the major names in discrete quadrasonic will be there, including Vic Goh of JVC/Nivico; Claude Nobs of WEA International in Montreux, Switzerland; Glancy: Dave Heneberry and John Pudwell of RCA Records, New York; Tarr of National/Panasonic, New York and John Eagle of JME Associates in Los Angeles, a liaison firm for the major quadrasonic exponents.
Though not a part of the progress report sessions, RCA Records will conduct a special luncheon for the press on May 9 to announce new details in regards to RCA's quadrasonic drive.
September 8, 1973
RCA Issues 'Q' Disks
As Double Inventory
NEW YORK-
RCA Records has announced that it will release future product in both stereo and four-channel sound. Current market conditions were cited as reason for the move.
At the same time, RCA announced immediate release of its next 15 Quadradiscs. That release brings the total number of RCA discrete disks to 39 titles.
The double inventory will now tag Quadradisc releases at $6.98.
RCA president Rocco Laginestra stated that too many dealers had been isolating product in four-chan-nel bins, with the results detrimental to stereo sales, a problem now eliminated by the double inventory. Laginestra also stated that RCA was unwilling to "penalize the stereo buyer by increasing the cost of a compatible stereo-four channel record."
The new release features four-channel titles by David Clayton-Thomas, Hugo Montenegro, The Guess Who, Perry Como, Charley Pride, Jerry Reed, the Original
Broadway cast of "Hair," Danny Davis, the Friends of Distinction, Dolly Parton, Harry Nilsson, Jefferson Airplane, and Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
RCA Issues 'Q' Disks
As Double Inventory
NEW YORK-
RCA Records has announced that it will release future product in both stereo and four-channel sound. Current market conditions were cited as reason for the move.
At the same time, RCA announced immediate release of its next 15 Quadradiscs. That release brings the total number of RCA discrete disks to 39 titles.
The double inventory will now tag Quadradisc releases at $6.98.
RCA president Rocco Laginestra stated that too many dealers had been isolating product in four-chan-nel bins, with the results detrimental to stereo sales, a problem now eliminated by the double inventory. Laginestra also stated that RCA was unwilling to "penalize the stereo buyer by increasing the cost of a compatible stereo-four channel record."
The new release features four-channel titles by David Clayton-Thomas, Hugo Montenegro, The Guess Who, Perry Como, Charley Pride, Jerry Reed, the Original
Broadway cast of "Hair," Danny Davis, the Friends of Distinction, Dolly Parton, Harry Nilsson, Jefferson Airplane, and Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
August 4, 1973
WEA Group's
'Q' Sampler
BY CLAUDE HALL
LOS ANGELES
The WEA Group of labels is teaming up on a quadrasonic sampler album that will feature nine artists from the Warner Bros., Elektra and Atlantic labels. Jac Holzman, president of Elektra Records and head of the groups' quadrasonic committee, said that the pressing of the sampler will be massive ... "as many as the public wants a lot."
Keitz Holman of Elektra and Mark Myerson of Atlantic are currently putting the album together, slated for around Aug. 15.
There are no plans to retail the label at this point. If necessary, WEA might put a $1-2 price tag on it or give it away, or the labels may put out two sampler records and charge for one of them.
The first album is intended as a demonstration sampler only and will also feature tones so that discrete CD-4 unit owners can tune their demodulators for maximum separation, "In other words, the album will be an educational tool." Holzman said.
Among those artists featured on the LP will be the Jay Giles Band, the Doobie Bros., Carly Simon, and probably Aretha Franklin.
WEA Group's
'Q' Sampler
BY CLAUDE HALL
LOS ANGELES
The WEA Group of labels is teaming up on a quadrasonic sampler album that will feature nine artists from the Warner Bros., Elektra and Atlantic labels. Jac Holzman, president of Elektra Records and head of the groups' quadrasonic committee, said that the pressing of the sampler will be massive ... "as many as the public wants a lot."
Keitz Holman of Elektra and Mark Myerson of Atlantic are currently putting the album together, slated for around Aug. 15.
There are no plans to retail the label at this point. If necessary, WEA might put a $1-2 price tag on it or give it away, or the labels may put out two sampler records and charge for one of them.
The first album is intended as a demonstration sampler only and will also feature tones so that discrete CD-4 unit owners can tune their demodulators for maximum separation, "In other words, the album will be an educational tool." Holzman said.
Among those artists featured on the LP will be the Jay Giles Band, the Doobie Bros., Carly Simon, and probably Aretha Franklin.
September 29, 1973
Audio Devices Slates
'Q' Disk-Making Plant
WINCHESTER, Va.
Audio Devices, Inc., will construct a 26,000-square-foot disk manufacturing plant here in a move designed to capitalize on increasing demands for 4-channel disks and the emergence of the videodisk market, according to Peter Cunha, president.
According to Cunha, the new plant, for which ground will shortly be broken, will be the most modern facility of its kind in the world. It will replace Audio Devices existing facility at Glenbrook, Conn.
The Audio Devices chief executive said that the new plant will incorporate "clean room coating and inspection facilities, fully automated handling equipment and a new proprietary process for insuring absolute flatness and soothness both of the aluminum disk, and lacquer coating which will make it the most modern facility of its kind anywhere.
"These features," said Cunha,
“are necessary as the trend of disk recording has been to pack more and more information into narrower and shallower grooves, thereby making manufacturing tolerances in flatness, smoothness and cleanliness tighter and tighter."
Chief output of the plant will be unrecorded master disks for use in the manufacture of high fidelity sound and video recordings.
Cunha disclosed that some videodisks already in existence utilize virtually the same manufacturing process for which the Audio Devices master disk would be the best choice.
He continued, "For those videodisk applications now in the development stage, we have been working closely with the appropriate companies in order to provide mastering media which will meet their specific requirements." Joseph Kempler, the firm's director of advanced technology projects, heads the research and development of this technology.
Audio Devices, a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, was the first U.S. licensee of Pyral, a French firm which developed the lacquer disk manufacturing process. The company has been in production since 1937. The new plant will begin production within a year.
Audio Devices Slates
'Q' Disk-Making Plant
WINCHESTER, Va.
Audio Devices, Inc., will construct a 26,000-square-foot disk manufacturing plant here in a move designed to capitalize on increasing demands for 4-channel disks and the emergence of the videodisk market, according to Peter Cunha, president.
According to Cunha, the new plant, for which ground will shortly be broken, will be the most modern facility of its kind in the world. It will replace Audio Devices existing facility at Glenbrook, Conn.
The Audio Devices chief executive said that the new plant will incorporate "clean room coating and inspection facilities, fully automated handling equipment and a new proprietary process for insuring absolute flatness and soothness both of the aluminum disk, and lacquer coating which will make it the most modern facility of its kind anywhere.
"These features," said Cunha,
“are necessary as the trend of disk recording has been to pack more and more information into narrower and shallower grooves, thereby making manufacturing tolerances in flatness, smoothness and cleanliness tighter and tighter."
Chief output of the plant will be unrecorded master disks for use in the manufacture of high fidelity sound and video recordings.
Cunha disclosed that some videodisks already in existence utilize virtually the same manufacturing process for which the Audio Devices master disk would be the best choice.
He continued, "For those videodisk applications now in the development stage, we have been working closely with the appropriate companies in order to provide mastering media which will meet their specific requirements." Joseph Kempler, the firm's director of advanced technology projects, heads the research and development of this technology.
Audio Devices, a subsidiary of Capitol Industries, was the first U.S. licensee of Pyral, a French firm which developed the lacquer disk manufacturing process. The company has been in production since 1937. The new plant will begin production within a year.
September 29, 1973
RCA Timing
On 'Q' Disks
NEW YORK-
RCA Records has just released two Quadradiscs, each of which contains at least 28 minutes of program on each side. The timings are being viewed by RCA as significant progress in the timing limitations of discrete
4-channel disks.
Previously, RCA had been able to place only 25 minutes of information on each side.
John Pudwell, director of new product development for RCA, cited the breakthrough as the achievement of a "vital competitive goal," stating that the increased time will assist RCA in reaching many skeptics and promoting a more favorable potential for the discrete record.
The albums include Eugene Ormandy conducting excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker" the Quadradisc version of “Hair.”
RCA Timing
On 'Q' Disks
NEW YORK-
RCA Records has just released two Quadradiscs, each of which contains at least 28 minutes of program on each side. The timings are being viewed by RCA as significant progress in the timing limitations of discrete
4-channel disks.
Previously, RCA had been able to place only 25 minutes of information on each side.
John Pudwell, director of new product development for RCA, cited the breakthrough as the achievement of a "vital competitive goal," stating that the increased time will assist RCA in reaching many skeptics and promoting a more favorable potential for the discrete record.
The albums include Eugene Ormandy conducting excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker" the Quadradisc version of “Hair.”
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2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Of course, that quad album had an obvoius mistake in it on “Frankenstein,” when the synthesizer spiraling around the room popped up anout five seconds early.
About the jukeboxes, does anyone have any quad singles? I have one 7” QS demo that I picked up at a trade show, but I don’t remember them being widely available.
I think a few members have some Quad singles. About 10 or 15 years ago, I believe there were some on eBay. They’re out there if one keeps looking.
December 8, 1973
Orbach Rips
‘Q' Pressures
NEW YORK-
Manufacturers of
4-channel equipment have been charged by Gerald Orbach, Sony's national sales manager for high fidelity components, of trying to force the market with product that does not yet reflect a refinement of the quadrasonic technology.
Orbach disclosed that contrary to some industry speculation, audio equipment dealers were not capitulating on the 4-channel issue, but were, with the exception of a very continuing to resist pressures by manufacturers.
Stressing that he had worked with manufacturers of both discrete and matrixed 4-channel equipment, Or-bach said it was his opinion that a matrixed mode of quadrasonic sound was the most realistic approach to 4-channel listening.
However, he added that with the recent development of a full-logic matrix chip only just becoming available on the consumer market—much of the matrixed equipment now available would soon be outmoded.
"The consumer," said Orbach,
"should be made aware of these things, not lured by some high pressure sales campaign into buying some expensive piece of equipment that would become outmoded in a relatively short space of time."
Orbach felt that the consumer should also be made aware of the fact that 4-channel software now available was, at best, meager: and that software producers would continue to release a limited amount of 4-channel titles as long as there existed a lack of standards in the hardware.
The Sony executive did not, however, see low end equipment manufacturers who touted sound enhancer units with four speakers as “some kind of 4-channel" as endangering the growth, or harming the credibility of bona fide quadrasonic equipment manufacturers.
He said the concept of 4-channel could use exposure, and these low end manufacturers, were helping to supply some of this exposure even though their modus operandi was questionable.
Outlining Sony's own plans for a major thrust into the 4-channel mar-ket, Orbach said his company would put an SQ chip adaptor with full logic on the consumer market in January. This would be followed in June with SQ receivers incorporating the full logic chip. The adaptor which will be previewed at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show will carry a list price of $89.50.
Also planned for introduction at the the show are a new speaker line, a rear channel amplifier, and a low. cost integrated tuner/amplifier combination.
Coinciding with the unveiling of Sony's new products at the Winter CES, will be the inauguration of a three-part sales training program on U-Matic videocassettes, designed as part of an overall plan to capture a larger portion of the mass consumer market.
According to Orbach, the program will be made available to mass merchants and their sales staffs through Sony salesmen across the country who will show the ½-hour programs at specially convened meetings.
The programs, according to Orbach, avoid technical specifications which only specially trained engineers and audiophiles understand, and present the message of hi-fi in layman's terms.
Orbach Rips
‘Q' Pressures
NEW YORK-
Manufacturers of
4-channel equipment have been charged by Gerald Orbach, Sony's national sales manager for high fidelity components, of trying to force the market with product that does not yet reflect a refinement of the quadrasonic technology.
Orbach disclosed that contrary to some industry speculation, audio equipment dealers were not capitulating on the 4-channel issue, but were, with the exception of a very continuing to resist pressures by manufacturers.
Stressing that he had worked with manufacturers of both discrete and matrixed 4-channel equipment, Or-bach said it was his opinion that a matrixed mode of quadrasonic sound was the most realistic approach to 4-channel listening.
However, he added that with the recent development of a full-logic matrix chip only just becoming available on the consumer market—much of the matrixed equipment now available would soon be outmoded.
"The consumer," said Orbach,
"should be made aware of these things, not lured by some high pressure sales campaign into buying some expensive piece of equipment that would become outmoded in a relatively short space of time."
Orbach felt that the consumer should also be made aware of the fact that 4-channel software now available was, at best, meager: and that software producers would continue to release a limited amount of 4-channel titles as long as there existed a lack of standards in the hardware.
The Sony executive did not, however, see low end equipment manufacturers who touted sound enhancer units with four speakers as “some kind of 4-channel" as endangering the growth, or harming the credibility of bona fide quadrasonic equipment manufacturers.
He said the concept of 4-channel could use exposure, and these low end manufacturers, were helping to supply some of this exposure even though their modus operandi was questionable.
Outlining Sony's own plans for a major thrust into the 4-channel mar-ket, Orbach said his company would put an SQ chip adaptor with full logic on the consumer market in January. This would be followed in June with SQ receivers incorporating the full logic chip. The adaptor which will be previewed at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show will carry a list price of $89.50.
Also planned for introduction at the the show are a new speaker line, a rear channel amplifier, and a low. cost integrated tuner/amplifier combination.
Coinciding with the unveiling of Sony's new products at the Winter CES, will be the inauguration of a three-part sales training program on U-Matic videocassettes, designed as part of an overall plan to capture a larger portion of the mass consumer market.
According to Orbach, the program will be made available to mass merchants and their sales staffs through Sony salesmen across the country who will show the ½-hour programs at specially convened meetings.
The programs, according to Orbach, avoid technical specifications which only specially trained engineers and audiophiles understand, and present the message of hi-fi in layman's terms.
The 4-channel
Anka man.
Paul Anka, already one of the world's most famous popular artists, has released a new record, The Painter on United Artists. Produced with a backup of 30 musicians, this album marks a major step in Anka's career.
In order to further the success of this new record The Painter is produced in QS 4-channel.
of this new record.
This decision was based on the fact that QS gives the finest 4-channel reproduction available today. Only the best 4-channel system is good enough for such an advance into more serious music for Paul Anka.
The Painter, a single inventory record, can be played through mono, stereo or quadraphonic equipment at home. When broadcast, no addtional equipment is necessary. When played in stereo, the listener will hear a wider stereo and when decoded through a QS vario matrix decoder, will get the breathtakingly realistic 4-channel sound as the artist intended it.
If you want to join the 4-channel "news team" contact
QS 4-Channel Stereo QS Are you listening?
NOTE: There is an misspelling in the article. In order to stay accurate, nothing has been changed.
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March 23, 1974
Col 'O' Sales
$6 Mil in 73
BY JIM MELANSON
NEW YORK
CBS Records racked up $6 million in SQ sales in 1973, its first full year of marketing the 4-channel records and tapes, and sharply rising quadrasonic sales curves have led company executives to gear production estimates for a 35 percent increase in 1974.
Bruce Lundvall. vice president of marketing, said that the company's 1973 sales figures represented a 60 percent increase over CBS' 4-channel budgets for the year. He estimated that their SQ sales translated into approximately $13-$14 million in sales at suggested list price.
According to Lundvall, the ratio of 4-channel records sold to tapes sold has run 60 percent disks to 40 percent tapes. Breaking down the musical categories in the CBS quadrasonic catalog, he stated that classical product, the bulk of which is now being released simultaneously in 4-channel and stereo, has sold at a rato of 65 percent records to 35 percent tapes; pop product has sold at 60 percent disks to 40 percent tapes; and country product, reversing the ratio, has moved 60 tapes to every 40 disks. At present, CBS's SQ catalog is comprised of some 160 selections.
Stanley Kavan, vice president of planning and diversification, stated that "roughly two million SQ units have been sold to date." He noted that the impact of quadrasonic product has had a strong effect on the stereo buyer. A recent label research program disclosed that 47 percent of the consumers who purchased quadrasonic product already owned a version of the selection in stereo. The program consisted of tabulating consumer response on post cards inserted in CBS SQ album product.
CBS is also alerting its accounts, via newsletters, to the actual unit sales of SQ selections. The move is geared to educate the dealer and/or rack to 4-channel sales potential.
Reviewing some of CBS' major quadrasonic sellers, Kavan said that Santana's "Abraxas" LP has sold over 100,000 units; Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Wa-ter" has sold over 80,000 units; Sly and the Family Stone's "Greatest Hits" has gone past the 75,000 mark; Janis Joplin's "Pearl" has sold over 70,000 units; and Juan Carlos "Switched On Bach" LP has sold over 57,000 units.
CBS is also heavily involved in providing the retailer with SQ marketing tools Lundvall stated that the label has designed its quadrasonic packaging, featuring gold trim on the album cover, to boost consumer recognition; it has urged dealers to create separate quadrasonic areas in the store (preferably up front) to take advantage of in-store traffic; and it has made available two SQ oriented posters for in-store display.
He added that CBS has also made a substantial commitment to SQ consumer print advertising.
As for the future, both executives felt that quadrasonic would eventually replace stereo, as stereo did mono-recording. They stated that the process might take longer, but that it was inevitable. They felt that the role of the quadrasonic single, at present, was not meaningful, adding that the impact of 4-channel singles would hinge on the development of quadrasonic jukebox programming.
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March 23, 1974
Col 'O' Sales
$6 Mil in 73
BY JIM MELANSON
NEW YORK
CBS Records racked up $6 million in SQ sales in 1973, its first full year of marketing the 4-channel records and tapes, and sharply rising quadrasonic sales curves have led company executives to gear production estimates for a 35 percent increase in 1974.
Bruce Lundvall. vice president of marketing, said that the company's 1973 sales figures represented a 60 percent increase over CBS' 4-channel budgets for the year. He estimated that their SQ sales translated into approximately $13-$14 million in sales at suggested list price.
According to Lundvall, the ratio of 4-channel records sold to tapes sold has run 60 percent disks to 40 percent tapes. Breaking down the musical categories in the CBS quadrasonic catalog, he stated that classical product, the bulk of which is now being released simultaneously in 4-channel and stereo, has sold at a rato of 65 percent records to 35 percent tapes; pop product has sold at 60 percent disks to 40 percent tapes; and country product, reversing the ratio, has moved 60 tapes to every 40 disks. At present, CBS's SQ catalog is comprised of some 160 selections.
Stanley Kavan, vice president of planning and diversification, stated that "roughly two million SQ units have been sold to date." He noted that the impact of quadrasonic product has had a strong effect on the stereo buyer. A recent label research program disclosed that 47 percent of the consumers who purchased quadrasonic product already owned a version of the selection in stereo. The program consisted of tabulating consumer response on post cards inserted in CBS SQ album product.
CBS is also alerting its accounts, via newsletters, to the actual unit sales of SQ selections. The move is geared to educate the dealer and/or rack to 4-channel sales potential.
Reviewing some of CBS' major quadrasonic sellers, Kavan said that Santana's "Abraxas" LP has sold over 100,000 units; Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Wa-ter" has sold over 80,000 units; Sly and the Family Stone's "Greatest Hits" has gone past the 75,000 mark; Janis Joplin's "Pearl" has sold over 70,000 units; and Juan Carlos "Switched On Bach" LP has sold over 57,000 units.
CBS is also heavily involved in providing the retailer with SQ marketing tools Lundvall stated that the label has designed its quadrasonic packaging, featuring gold trim on the album cover, to boost consumer recognition; it has urged dealers to create separate quadrasonic areas in the store (preferably up front) to take advantage of in-store traffic; and it has made available two SQ oriented posters for in-store display.
He added that CBS has also made a substantial commitment to SQ consumer print advertising.
As for the future, both executives felt that quadrasonic would eventually replace stereo, as stereo did mono-recording. They stated that the process might take longer, but that it was inevitable. They felt that the role of the quadrasonic single, at present, was not meaningful, adding that the impact of 4-channel singles would hinge on the development of quadrasonic jukebox programming.
