[vorbis] Quadraphonics

[Anthony Arcieri]

Over the weekend I chanced by the house of a quadraphile friend of mine to
check it his SQ setup.  For those interested, he has a fairly decent
Kenwood linear turntable with what I understand is a rather pricy
cartridge manufactured by some company whose name escapes me, hooked into
a Fosgate Tate II SQ decoder which is likewise hooked into two X10-D
buffers then finally into a Marantz receiver.  The whole system sounds
absolutely wonderful on SQ records, and on non-SQ records the Tate II
decoder has a "wide stereo" mode which makes better use of a quadraphonic
setup using a stereo source than I'd ever heard before.  He also clued me
in on the whole quadraphile SQ vs. CD-4 debate which was discussed here
briefly.

At any rate, he expressed interest in digitally mastering some of his LPs
by first running them through his Fosgate Tate II and the X10-D buffers
first and then on into whatever DAC he would be using, at which point he
asked me how hard it is to sample from a quadraphonic source.

I'm not sure of the answer to this.  Is there any relatively inexpensive
solution for recording from a quadraphonic source?  My only suggestion was
to get two sound cards and write a custom program to sample and properly
interleave the data, at which point questions about what format to store
the output in arise.  I suppose wav would work, but afaik the only utility
which supports quadraphonic WAVs is sox.

So, while it'd be nice to record what people could be hearing if they had
their own Fosgate Tate II (which I've been informed have been selling for
> $1000 on ebay) is there really support for it?  It seems like quite a
hassle to me...

Tony Arcieri

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