Interesting.. I thought Mark Anderson said that that CD was QS encoded?
Glad I never got the CD after all, the QS LP I bought the other week is a thing of great beauty, physically and sonically.
(and before anyone asks, it's a thick one!!)
What's the Latest MATRIX LP/CD Added to Your Pile? SQ, QS, RM, EV
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Interesting.. I thought Mark Anderson said that that CD was QS encoded?
Glad I never got the CD after all, the QS LP I bought the other week is a thing of great beauty, physically and sonically.
(and before anyone asks, it's a thick one!!)
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Doesn't any Quad stay in one place anymore..?
If it did it would be mono.
A very good quad mix on this REO disc and imho better musically than their first quad disc.
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Thanks to learned QQers for the comments about this CD. My understanding was that this is the QS encoded version, it's the first edition CD. If it is encoded it wasn't deliberate and the CD liner notes mention nothing other than AAD. Using the final track 'Back To California' as a reference, both decode the same, arguably more precisely on the CD. I do realize that yes, the SM QS side is the side to synthesize quad (this is my setting for anything non-quad) but it all sounds way to deliberate and close to the quad QS encoded record. It was bought based on this version's inclusion into the 'Rumors' section of Mark Anderson's website. There are a number of QS decodes of this CD that out there in homebrew land as well. Either way, it is either is a remarkable job by the SM (which does happen on some material, it is that good!) or it's a transfer of the same master they used for the QS Version all those years ago.
Perhaps anyone else with both could confirm?
The CD I have:
The QS LP I have:
Ick! Mono! :yikes It's contagious!
Chicago VI (SQ LP).
Mirror Image - Blood, Sweat & Tears (SQ LP).
I think it should be fairly simple to know if this or any recording is QS/RM.
Record a copy through to a mono source.
Then compare that recording with the one you have.
QS/RM (and related matrices) are not compatible with MONO.This means they do not fold down to mono without "signal loss", such as some vocals, or instrumental passage ie keys, guitar and so on.
So if you notice some loss.....it's encoded.
If you notice no loss.....it's stereo.
For SQ or MATRIX H or HJ this will not work.They are pretty much compatible with mono.
inquadwetrust
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Rufus - Rufusized Featuring Chaka Khan (QS LP). This is my new favorite; great record, great sleeve, great sound and a great quad mix. This makes me as happy as Chaka in the gatefold photo. Clean as a whistle, this sounds so good I could of almost sworn it felt like Friday night. Tight and bright, this one has it all. But hey, ABC; Columbia are on the phone and they'd like to ask for their golden quad frame back.
inquadwetrust
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Thanks Fizzy; that sounds like solid advice. Would that work with bouncing a stereo wav into a mono wav via Audition? Ripping the CD as opposed to playing it out and recording it in realtime?
Ah! That's when Quad stays in one place (anymore),..! :ugham:
I never realised they'd released a quad album, I'll have to hunt that one down!
What a pretty picture.. no wonder they stuck a drawing of a gorgeous girl on the cover of their "This Time We Mean It" LP..
Both REO Speedwagon Quads seem pretty hard to find outside of the States..
Couple of things here:
When MCA took over the ABC labels, they pretty much blew out the Command Quadraphonic album stock to cutouts. Since the first two Steely Dans were actually pressed multiple times (two cover variations, two label variations) there were more that were ready to sell that instead went right to the cutout distributer. That's why you're apt to see more of the later type of label variety in the cutouts of all of the ABC albums, while the first issue labels are mostly found without cut out markings.
Not quite. The Japanese Carole King "Music" LP is QS, not CD-4. "Tapestry" is CD-4, "Fantasy" is CD-4, but "Music" is QS. I have all three. I posted a picture of the "Music" label and QS sticker in an older QQ thread you can find at the following link:
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...g-Music-on-vinyl&p=89610&viewfull=1#post89610
When MCA took over the ABC labels, they pretty much blew out the Command Quadraphonic album stock to cutouts. Since the first two Steely Dans were actually pressed multiple times (two cover variations, two label variations) there were more that were ready to sell that instead went right to the cutout distributer. That's why you're apt to see more of the later type of label variety in the cutouts of all of the ABC albums, while the first issue labels are mostly found without cut out markings.
Not quite. The Japanese Carole King "Music" LP is QS, not CD-4. "Tapestry" is CD-4, "Fantasy" is CD-4, but "Music" is QS. I have all three. I posted a picture of the "Music" label and QS sticker in an older QQ thread you can find at the following link:
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...g-Music-on-vinyl&p=89610&viewfull=1#post89610
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