Sony SQR-8750
(1974 - 1976)

Sony's biggest SQ-compatible receiver, the topper that, like all other QUAD units (toppers or not) didn't make it in the end. Sony's smaller Quad units sold better - the public was suspicious, and rightly so.

Hell, why all that fiddling ? SQ, QS compatibility, R-Matrix, Discrete, 2 more speakers to tinker with, cables all over the place and what happens to Frank Sinatra when he's spread over the four corners of my living-room ?
The contemporary images showing how multi-channel was to be enjoyed invariably displayed someone, alone, surrounded at a close range by four loudspeakers.
The word is alone - not a 1970s concept.

The public completely dropped the multichannel drudgery until the mid 1980s. However, if Triphony never gained the popularity of Stereophony, Multichannel-phoney nowadays seems resolutely en route for a major take-over...