quadraphonic

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Inside the beautiful church it was a moving, uplifting, sensory, spiritual experience, culminating in the astonishing "Spem in Alium" by Thomas Tallis, with eight choirs all around the church - quadraphonic sound X 2 - wonderful.

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  1. adjective Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.

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  • *** NOTE*** You must play this on a DTS compatible CD player or play the files through a DTS compatible program with at least 4 speakers to get the true quadraphonic image. —  Mininova
  • All Uhbiks do surround processing, up to 8 channels, including typical formats like quadraphonic, 5.1 and 7.1. —  KVR News: Top Stories
  • But for those of you who care -- not you haters -- I recently -- not so innocently -- noticed that certain lovely people were putting up their own homemade DVD-A versions of four channel rips made from 70s quadraphonic 8-tracks, reel to reels and in rare cases, LPs on the various torrent trackers. —  Boing Boing
  • It's a quadraphonic treasure trove out there, I tell you: Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark," and "Hissing of the Summer Lawns." —  Boing Boing
  • Obsessive audiophiles are a relic of the 70's, like AM receivers and quadraphonic sound. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
 

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