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 ...

Jefferson Starship’s classic 1970s albums return in quadraphonic surround on Rhino’s Quadio Blu-rays. Do these vintage four-channel mixes still fly today? In the mid 1970s, the original founding ...

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 ...

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 ...

The energy of Quadraphonic's live performances was what band members wanted to capture in their first CD, Live on Earth. Although the band has been recording studio demos for the past four years, the ...

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 ...

Hear and Now: “Dismal failure" may be the kindest way to describe quad. To music fans for whom even cassette tapes are a quaint throwback, here's a real obscurity: Quadraphonic sound systems were an ...

A form of stereophonic or multi-channel reproduction in which the sound source is spread around the listener by the use of four tracks or channels in recording or transmission and the use of four (or ...