TGIF!
Back when cassette tapes really sucked for sound quality and 8-Track tapes sounded way better I bought a stereo. It was the early 1970s and I had not established any credit at all. My dad had to co-sign a loan because I had no credit and was just 16. I had a $1,000 budget to buy a dream system. I read all the magazines and knew all the brands and every electronics store in town.
I could have paid cash for it but I wanted to establish credit so I did the loan. It was a Quadraphonic system. It was awesome hearing 4 discrete channels on album or 8-track. I still have a joystick controller that would let me move the center of the sound around my room. That was fun to play with and useful when I could not sit in the center of my bedroom which was most of the time.
The amp was HUGE. It is much wider than the components of today. The front and rear channels had separate equalizers from each other. 4 Advant speakers and plenty of power.
Here is a PDF of how quadraphonic worked.
http://www.quadraphonic.info/manuals/The_World_of_JVC_4-Channel_Sound.pdf
Here is the unit I bought. I still have it up in the attic.
It would rattle the window of my old bachelor pad.
