Just speaking for myself, I didn't loose interest in Quad so much, but
gained interest in newer media (plug other projects that leave a very
small slice of time for music). Pro-Logic II has made passive decoding
moot in many ways, or least in my opinion. On the other hand, I have had
very good luck running newer CDs through the decoder in my Sansui, which
has no steering logic. I'm still hopeful (though I don't know why at this
point) that DVD-A will take off some day, I'm currently getting a DVD
player for my car (no screen, DVD-V only) and am still slowly trying to
phase in DVD-A in place of CD for new purchases, where possible. Just my
2 cents worth, it might be worth checking out quadraphonicquad.com, I
haven't been there in a while, but the forums are usually the best place
for quad discussion.

Dan


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, magnus_ai5 wrote:

> Anyone still following Quad? I noticed most forum's last posts were
> in 2003-2004, so I'm assuming some sort of surround processor for
> video came out and made the topic moot or something. Pity. I have a
> couple of topics that might have been interesting years ago. First,
> is there any real reason why a passive quad adapter couldn't be
> proportioned to the correct parameters for QS/R-matrix? And second,
> isn't it possible to modify early gain-riding or variomatrix boards
> to specifically enhance stereo-to-quad ambience extractors? In
> particular it seems like mating the SQ "Rear Channel Vari-Blend" to
> Regular Matrix would be great for that. Especially now that most
> regular stereo has phasing effects to expand the apparent sound
> source beyond the actual physical location of the speakers.
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