Good news! A satisfying surround experience can be had with some Plain Jane stereo sources!QS makes a lot of plain old stereo mixes sound cool. I've thought this before with a couple of things and been mistaken.
Good news! A satisfying surround experience can be had with some Plain Jane stereo sources!QS makes a lot of plain old stereo mixes sound cool. I've thought this before with a couple of things and been mistaken.
not completely unlike hitting the "wide" switch on an old boom box.Good news! A satisfying surround experience can be had with some Plain Jane stereo sources!
Of the various matrix H and SQ things you listed, none have ever surfaced. I've spent considerable time looking for them on Queen collector and sharing sites and there's nothing. There are a number of other bootlegs that various people claim are in SQ, but there is zero evidence and they neither decode nicely nor have any signs of phase encoding in Audacity or similar.So anyway this begs the question , was there ever any quad for Queen ?
To make the most of it, you need the cartridge with as wide stereo separation as possible, and azimuth should be perfectly adjusted, you can use the SQ rear channels for that, the more azimuth gets perfectly dialed in the more of the rear channel stuff appears from stereo records. It makes a huge difference, from almost nothing to almost quad.Good news! A satisfying surround experience can be had with some Plain Jane stereo sources!
Of the various matrix H and SQ things you listed, none have ever surfaced. I've spent considerable time looking for them on Queen collector and sharing sites and there's nothing. There are a number of other bootlegs that various people claim are in SQ, but there is zero evidence and they neither decode nicely nor have any signs of phase encoding in Audacity or similar.
Quite unlike it actually.not completely unlike hitting the "wide" switch on an old boom box.
Queen II is not a stealth QS encode. Remember that QS is both a matrix decoder and a synthesiser capable of turning plain stereo into quad. What's happening is the synthesiser function is working well on Queen II. Given how heavily multi tracked parts of the album are it probably has plenty of phase information to work with.So cool! Great surround mix hidden there!
Hm.... I'm not sure about that. Have you checked out the Oldfield link? The Boxed set telling it is in surround sounds less surround-ish than the 3 mentioned albums (where QE2 is not at all)Queen II is not a stealth QS encode. Remember that QS is both a matrix decoder and a synthesiser capable of turning plain stereo into quad. What's happening is the synthesiser function is working well on Queen II. Given how heavily multi tracked parts of the album are it probably has plenty of phase information to work with.
I've listened to the album through the Surround Master, and while it does sound very good, I'm not convinced it was encoded. Decoders designed for the "Regular Matrix" standard, which includes QS, can do amazing things with plain vanilla stereo recordings, depending on the amount of out-of-phase information is present. SQ decoders can't do anywhere near as well in synthesizing quad from stereo.Queen II is not a stealth QS encode. Remember that QS is both a matrix decoder and a synthesiser capable of turning plain stereo into quad. What's happening is the synthesiser function is working well on Queen II. Given how heavily multi tracked parts of the album are it probably has plenty of phase information to work with.
Queen II is not a stealth QS encode. Remember that QS is both a matrix decoder and a synthesiser capable of turning plain stereo into quad. What's happening is the synthesiser function is working well on Queen II. Given how heavily multi tracked parts of the album are it probably has plenty of phase information to work with.
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