What are your thoughts on the "Edsels" of the audio history?


It is a human normal to seek the best, and the world of the high end audio fan is full of that history.  But what about some of the dead-ends/failures?

How about Quadraphonic, Perfect Sound Forever, 8-track tapes, SQ and others in your thoughts/memory? 





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mahlher:

The first Quad LP's I listened to were by Jeff Beck and Santana.

I was in Hawaii @ the time and they had LP's from the Japanese market (in stores) which were yet to be available on the mainland.

One that I recall was an LP by "The Climax Blues Band" that a friend who owned a record store could not get until almost a year later.

The best "not true Quadrophic" setup I heard was maybe 4 years later (75/76) using a B&O black box (tiny little thing) and a pair of cheap single driver speakers which were once "winged" to a vintage R2R deck.

The B&O setup was much subtler/less distractive than the true Quad systems I'd heard (just added a sense of increased space to the sound).

DeKay