Where does the term "QUAD" come from?

[86yota 10+ year member]

its quakes *****, THAT ISH IS QUAKIN *****

 

[Telegon80 10+ year member]

u boricua?

negatory

 

[Telegon80 10+ year member]

Quad = Wang
First time I seen the term was Bass Mekanik "Quad Maximus"

true. could be something from the Bass cd's

 

[Platestacker45 10+ year member]

Quad = Wang
First time I seen the term was Bass Mekanik "Quad Maximus"

I have a huge quad //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[slick rick 10+ year member]

ever since i can remember dealing with car audio stuff ive always heard the word 'quad' used to describe a system that made music sound really really good. It's usually used in this context:
"yeah i heard jim's system, that shet quads like a mofocka"

HAHA wow...haven't said or heard this term in about 7 years. the definition of "quad" from what I gathered back in the mean streets of FTL (sarcasm) was "the bass could be heard from other cars with clarity". Yes, very stupid, but you didnt have a "system" unless it "quadded".

 

[dspencer24 10+ year member]

so is a system that quads louder then a system that slaps hards???

 

[spoonraker 10+ year member]

We should introduce some ridiculous new term for loud systems and see if we can get it to become popular with the gangsters and hood rats, just to increase their vocabulary a little bit.

From now on everybody refer to loud systems as being "stentorian"

 

[vetkilr 10+ year member]

ever since i can remember dealing with car audio stuff ive always heard the word 'quad' used to describe a system that made music sound really really good. It's usually used in this context:
"yeah i heard jim's system, that shet quads like a mofocka"

I would tell you but its a four prong answer

 

[singlefordrange 10+ year member]

Havent you seen? The new gangster look is still saggy assed jeans but isntead of big assed shirts it is under armor.

and now bullet proof armour...like the vests and such..

 

[Team Maxxsonics 10+ year member]

I'm probably a little older then most in here but here is what I remember:

Quad was short for Quadrophonic.

A lot of albums and tapes were cut in quadrophonic (4 track)

In car audio... Quad goes back to the first cars that had both front and rear speakers.

Then they created Quadrophonic stereos that had a control paddle (sort of like a joy stick) that did left / right balance and front / rear fade.

You could move the paddle around in circles making each speaker play independant from the others as fast as you could move the paddle around in a circle (sounded kind of cool).

In the center position, all four speakers played at the same time.

Kids would get high, drunk, trip... what ever and blast the music and then spin the music around the car from speaker to speaker (kind of trippy itself).

Quad: 4 speakers

Quadrophonic: Control of all 4 speakers independantly.

Here is a link that will explain it better:

http://www.rdrop.com/~dano/tunes/quad.html

 

[Telegon80 10+ year member]

that sounds fun but not as good as quadrangulating or quadrupidus