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92BuickLeSabre
07/14/09

In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
As noted in an earlier post, I still love my old Sony Quadraphonic system, but it only has the turntable, radio, and audio inputs...no 8 track. And (as said before), I mostly hook my iPod up to it now, so it loses its true purpose.

We did have a sweet little "portable" 8 track player with speakers that popped out of the side. I was crushed a few years back to discover that my parents had stored all of their 8-tracks in the garage, where the Oklahoma summers had melted them into faded plastic cases filled with cooled brown ooze.

The complete collections of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Jim Croce...gone! Gone!
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goochillini
07/14/09

In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
Love this review of the 8-Track GE Receiver. My dad still has his hooked up in his garage, with a working 8-Track player. On the downside he only has two working 8-Tracks; Santana's Abraxas (sp?) and the Hawwaii 5-0 soundtrack. I remember playing with all of the switches and dials when I was little, pretending that it was a radar station, thanx for the throwback guys!
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
07/14/09

@goochillini: Could be worse. he could have Leonard Nimoy's version of Super Tramp stuck in there.

Please tell me someone else got that reference.
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TheCapt
07/14/09

@TheStateOnDVD2Day_GitEmSteveDa...: Unfortunately, I do know. Thanks for that horrible flashback.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
07/14/09

@TheCapt: The Critic wasn't that bad of a show.
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OMG! Ponies!
07/14/09

In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
Sound does not come from literally every direction. As everyone knows, sound only comes from speakers. Marketing brochure FAIL!
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VivianaEmu
07/14/09

In reply to Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
Unless I'm mistaken, Quadrophenia was actually never recorded in quadrophonic sound. Hence, why your dad's copy was in stereo.
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Sticks Calhoun
07/14/09

@VivianaEmu: Sounds like you're close to being right. It was recorded that way, but then mixed down into stero:

Pete Townshend: "The whole conception of Quadrophenia was geared to quadraphonic, but in a creative sort of way. I mean I wanted themes to sort of emerge from corners. So you start to get the sense of the fourness being literally speaker for speaker. And also in the rock parts the musical thing would sort of jell together up to the thunder clap, then everything would turn slowly from quad into mono and you'd have this solid sort of rock mono ... then a thunder clap and back out again. We spent months mixing it and then found out that MCA was using the CBS quad system and ... you might as well forget it. So our engineer remixed it in the same manner that it was mixed in stereo, the same sort of creative approach."

From here: http://www.quadrophenia.net/album/album.html
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