Listening to now (In Surround!) - Volume 1

Gandarva - Beaver & Krause QS
Lotus - Santana SQ
Machine Head - Deep Purple UK SQ
Black Unity - Pharoah Sanders QS
Hand Made - Passport German CD-4
Space Is the Place - Sun Ra QS
Eage Hard - Frankie Goes to Hollywood UK SACD 5.1
Annie SQ CD
Sequencer - Synergy QS CD
Say You Will - Fleetwood Mac DVD-A
Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps - SQ
Back to Back - Brecker Bros CD-4
Electronic Music - Columbia/Princeton CD-4
Steal Your Face - Grateful Dead QS

Hiromi-spiral sacd mc
Whats New- dvd-a (boot)
Doors-dvd-a (boot)

Magenta - Chameleon (DVD - Dullby)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - SQ*Final DVD-A - thanks OD
Gentle Giant - Free Hand (with RF, RS channels flipped @
Gentle Giant - Interview (DVD DTS)
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (DVD-A)

Jack the Toad - Savoy Brown Q8
Road Food - Guess Who CD-4 Jon put the bee in my bonnet to play the first two.
Surf's Up - Beach Boys
Tommy (soundtrack) QS
4 Butterflies - Subotnik SQ
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack CD-4
Serenade - Neil Diamond SQ
Never Get Out of these Blues Alive - John Lee Hooker QS
Alone Again (so what else is new?) - Ray Gonoff Q8
That organ thing that people will pay $400+ for - Ol' Ernest Power Biggs SACD 5.1
Papa John Creach Q8
Beethoven 7 - Barenboim/Berliner staatskapelle - DVD-A
Aqualung - Gerald Bostock Blu-Ray Quad mix
Orleans Live DTS-CD
Louis Armstrong Hot Fives & Sevens - not really Quad, he just plays so damn well, you'd swear it was

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top Q8
Crazy Eyes - Poco DTS CD
Paul Horn in Concert Q8
Conkeesterdor - Maynard Ferguson SQ
Monster Concert SQ
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP DVD-A
Eat a Peach - Allmen SACD 5.1
Hair CD-4
You Don't Mess Around with Jim Croce QS

Am I the only one listening to music in surround?

Chicago Guitar - Ron Steele Q8
I Got a Name - Jim Croce QS
Shock Treatment - Edgar Winter SQ
Flesh on Flesh - Al DiMeola SACD 5.1
Like Minds - Burton, Corea, Metheny, Hayes & Holland SACD 5.1
DeLIVErin' - Poco SQ
Pure Getz - Stan Getz SACD 5.1
Telemann: Tafelmusik - Floralegium SACD 5.1
Up - Shania Twain SACD 5.1
Toulouse Street - Doobie Brothers CD-4
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper DVD-A

I couldn't find a "Not Listening to now (In Surround)" so I thought I might post here. I've never heard the quad mix of Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. Any comments as to good or bad? I love the stereo album and play it quite a bit. I would love to hear a good (or bad for that matter) quad mix of the title track but especially Do Your Thing. I think that Do Your Thing is IH at his best

Shaft is one of the more rare SQ's, considering how popular the album was. Sadly, the SACD, which I also own is only 2ch. The Quad mix is pretty good. Pretty agressive mix. The wah-wah guitar at the start of the title track is mixed like the bass on the O'Jays Ship Ahoy (SACD 5.1/SQ/Q8) album. It fires from all four speakers, one at a time. Gimmicky, but way cool and probably how I'd mix it. The high end is my only complaint. It is somewhat shrill and astringent. It is not on the 2ch SACD or CD. If you dig this album, I recommend you seek it out. I've never heard the Q8's on this one. The jacket on the SQ is the stereo jacket with red SQ stickers that wrap around the spine and front cover. The other IH albums and the Staple Singers also utilize the stickers. I believe all the Stax Quads do. Joy, Tough Guys and Sahara Tahoe are also out in SQ/Q8. I have SQ's of Tahoe and Joy, as well as Q8's of Joy & Tough Guys. Tahoe is a double and has the two doors that open on the front cover. Too bad they didn't mix Black Moses for Quad.

"I'm talking 'bout Shaft. Well, we can dig it!"

watsontr said:

I couldn't find a "Not Listening to now (In Surround)" so I thought I might post here. I've never heard the quad mix of Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. Any comments as to good or bad? I love the stereo album and play it quite a bit. I would love to hear a good (or bad for that matter) quad mix of the title track but especially Do Your Thing. I think that Do Your Thing is IH at his best

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"I'm talking 'bout Shaft. Well, we can dig it!"

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I like the preceding two lines culminating in the "Shut your mouth!"

Yes it is just so cool. I remember hearing this for the first time in high school and have loved it ever since. Do your Thing is an excellent bonus to near finish off the album. I don't think there is anything on this album that I don't like. Some of the schmaltzy organ souds are beautiful.

It's such a pity that the SACD didn't include MC as that would have been a perfect disc I expect

Actually listening to Songs for Beginners today. Another one from high school and it never fails to delight me. I like Harvest too but it's unfortunate that After the Goldrush and Everybody Knows This is Nowhere never made it to multichannel. The early seventies was an excellent time for music in general even if lost many of the greats at the start of the decade. I probably like most of the other decades as well that I know music from too!

Synergy - Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra

Monica Mancini, Stevie Wonder, Take 5 - Ultimate Mancini (Concord SACD)
Ray Charles & Count Basie Orchestra - Ray Sings, Basie Swings (Telarc SACD)
Doobie Brothers - Stampede (Warner Bros Quad)
Doobie Brothers - The Captain & Me (Warner Bros Quad)
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices (Warner Bros Quad)
Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street (Warner Bros Quad)
Hugo Montenegro - Love Theme from the Godfather (RCA Victor Quad)

Heat Wave - Ahmad Jamal Q8
Live in London - O' Jays SQ
Walking in Space - Quincy Jones Q8
Country Gentleman - Henry Mancini CD-4
Everything Must Go - Steely Dan DVD-A
Good Stuff - Eric Bibb SACD 5.1
Tchaikovsky 1812 DVD-A
Mingus Moves - Charles Mingus CD-4
Giant Box - Don Sebesky SQ
Mott the Hoople SQ
Split Coconut - Dave Mason SQ
Bellavia - Chuck Mangione CD-4
Elgar: Falstaff - Barenboim SQ
Copland: Billy the Kid/Appalachian Spring - Ormandy/Philadelphia Q8

Strange Beautiful Music - Joe Satriani SACD 5.1
Morrison Hotel - The Doors DVD-A

Fear of Music - Talking Heads DVD-A DualDisc
Be What You Are - Staple Singers SQ
Lazy Afternoon - Barbra Streisand SQ
Melissa - Melissa Manchester CD-4
One Earth Tour - Kodo Japan SACD 5.1
Sahara Tahoe - Isaac Hayes SQ
Venus & Mars - Wings DTS CD
Trick of the Tail - Genesis SACD 5.1
Judith - Judy Collins CD-4 A beautiful person, inside & out. Wish I had a photo of her asking my (then) 8 year old Daughter to sit on the piano bench with her as she played! Pinch me, this CAN'T be happening! Judy, we love you!

ELO - Electric Light Orchestra (Quad Mix) DTS DVD - very discrete surround mix

DVD-A's in the convertible with the top down. I missed driving that car all winter. 70's & 80's in Chicago in March!

Frampton Comes Alive
Chicago II
LA Woman (Perception) - Doors
Love - Quarrymen
Quadro - Zappa
No Sexrets - Carly Simon
Shaman - Santana
Pet Sounds - Carl & the Passions

Hang on to your ego, 'cause I know there's an answer.

Electric Light Orchestra - Electric Light Orchestra DVD DTS

Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Naked - Talking Heads

Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (DVD-A)

Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad (DVD A)