Chase Quad LP on Pandora

[aquadad]

Chasing a fantasy into the river of no return...

 

[sjcorne]

Very cool!

Spotify also shows the quad jacket and appears to be SQ-encoded. It's very obvious if it's actually SQ or not based on the beginning of track 1 "Open Up Wide".

 

[Jerfo]

Very cool!

Spotify also shows the quad jacket and appears to be SQ-encoded. It's very obvious if it's actually SQ or not based on the beginning of track 1 "Open Up Wide".

I did a software decode of the Spotify version of "Open Up Wide" last year and it decodes perfectly with the trumpet-round-the-speakers intro.

 

[surround.sound.enthusiast]

Greetings Aquadad, I think it's been quite a while since we've heard from you!

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

Wow, I'm feeling kinda dumb now. I've always assumed that matrix encoding like SQ would be hopelessly mangled by the perceptual (i.e. lossy) coding algorithms used by streaming services such as Spotify. Not so?