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Upward Mobility: From 2 Channels to Surround

Submitted by Len Porcano on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 09:33

Upward Mobility: From 2 Channels to Surround

Apr 29, 2007

When the brief flowering of quadraphonics began in the early 1970s, I was still at school. As a nascent but impecunious audiophile, I therefore had a ringside seat at the audio industry's first attempt to go multichannel—and, even for the disinterested onlooker, it wasn't a pretty spectacle.

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Listening #52 Page 2

Submitted by Len Porcano on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 09:31

Listening #52 Page 2

"Men must eat, though angels be their guests." —William Laird, "Träumerei at Ostendorff's"

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Listening #52

Submitted by Len Porcano on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 09:31

Listening #52

Apr 29, 2007

"Men must eat, though angels be their guests." —William Laird, "Träumerei at Ostendorff's"

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The Fifth Element #41 Special Walter Pater Memorial "Burn With a Jet-Like Flame" Award

Submitted by Len Porcano on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 09:23

The Fifth Element #41 Special Walter Pater Memorial "Burn With a Jet-Like Flame" Award

I have not seen Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and I am not likely to. But the phrase cultural learnings of America is a good jumping-off point for an important topic: cultural literacy.