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Default Quadraphonic vs Surrond Sound

geoff wrote:
On 1/05/2015 4:48 a.m., Scott Dorsey wrote:


However, CD-4 did in fact have a stereo subcarrier containing rear channel
information, which gave you four discrete channels.


CD-4 which (for the benefit of some here of limited knowledge) , had
nothing to do with Compact Discs !


Interestingly there WAS a quadrophonic disc format in the Red Book standard.
I don't think anyone ever implemented it. It would have been much more useful
to put a mono format in there as well, for 148 mono minutes on a disc.
--scott


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