In the meantime:
Muscle of Love was issued in quad on SACD already, you mean you missed it?
Just got a Warner Music Experience "Think You Are Ready" email with new stuff coming - and I actually jumped on it thinking that maybe, just maybe there would be a blurb about Quadio discs and the titles. Do I think I am ready???? I've never been so sure of something in my life.
But no, nothing there about quad Alice, Sab, Purple at all.
It's ok, I have been waiting for these on modern disc for 25 years, what's another 21 days right? And especially if I get a couple of my top choice picks, all will be forgiven.
These discs are going to sound really great, even better than Chicago and the Doobies discs did because they are better recording / mix jobs imo.
I have commented on why I like Alice's B$B in quad as well as the Machine Head US Warner quad mix, but I have not commented on Paranoid in this thread. I think that the quad mix lifts a veil off the master tapes (listen to the metal work on drum kit), like a better mixing console and record deck was used over the UK stereo mix. All songs have this improved fidelity. But the title song from this album has some ping-pong reverb effect that is just a tad distracting, and makes it the only track on the quad album that does not imo improve over the stereo "hit" mix of the song. Not a biggie to me as the rest of Paranoid is a revelation or will be in four-channel quad coming from a nicely preserved Warner Brothers master.
I am hoping that the new transfers and mastering of these tapes retains this clarity and bit of "air" I have grown to like on these classic heavyweight rockers, and they don't try and tone that down to sound like the stereo mixes. These are different animals, and all the better for that. They are meant to sound big and spacious with more crystal clarity and not dark and heavy like they sometimes are in stereo iterations.
I know I'm rambling on and on about this potential titles but I can't help it. I have had nothing to drink and no medical puffs, and am just going to ride out this quite difficult period sober. I think I can make it, and the only time I start to think otherwise is when Seals and Crofts and James Taylor get mentioned here, and I then start to feel real paranoia.
Well I'd hope that I'm not spreading "negative crap" that makes you crazy. I'm full of hopefulness and excitement. And I appreciate getting to know in advance from FR that things are looking good for the program, and like I said 21 more days is not a big deal in the larger picture.
Well I'd hope that I'm not spreading "negative crap" that makes you crazy. I'm full of hopefulness and excitement. And I appreciate getting to know in advance from FR that things are looking good for the program, and like I said 21 more days is not a big deal in the larger picture.
I'm going to stay with the positive thoughts that all eight of the planned releases will be (based on the previous titles from the Quadio line) real exceptional choices of artist merit, notable recording and production qualities, and quad mixes that are uniquely different yet impressive.
I will say that Rhino should get all the orders processed a week in advance and have their invoices / shipping labels all printed out and ready to go and not leave it all to the last min. I worked for a record label doing the web orders for three years, and it can get pretty rough going for some weeks when you have exclusives, and you are deep in the weeds with orders. No really.
That's exactly why I make it a point now not to announce anything before it's actually completed and ready and SURE to come out.
I’d be fine with them too, much later on. I feel a little like time is running out.Some of us would love to have these
Completely missed it, yes. I blinked when I couldn’t afford Audio Fidelity’s releases of LITD, Killer, and School’s Out in the early 2010s. Next thing I know, I’d missed years of SACD releases like B$B and MOL, plus the Chicago Quadio set. Oh, if only I hadn’t prioritized having a family above owning high fidelity music.
But for the CD-4 logo at the top left corner, yes... two copies into my shopping basket, click next, and continue shopping...
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Many people have rips of several Q4 Warner quads, all of which have issues. I have the CD stereo versions; plus I had the LP's way back when. I'm sure that there is nothing people would like better than to send those squirrelly rips into cyber trash. And I will be carting off my CD's to a church rummage sale. Warner quads: If they cost money, I will buy them (even if one is Alice Cooper.
Understood, AR. ACG isn’t for everyone. That group and that album hold a special place for me because it reminds me of my older brother who brought it home and played it endlessly, but also because, even at 7 years old, it became the first entire album that I loved start to finish. I rediscovered ACG in my teens, and learned all their songs on guitar and bass, so the mascara runs thick, especially between B$B and me. 
I don't doubt it, but what issues are you referring to with a rip of a CD-4 LP? Or are you thinking about the rough decodes from these?Many people have rips of several Q4 Warner quads, all of which have issues. I have the CD stereo versions; plus I had the LP's way back when. I'm sure that there is nothing people would like better than to send those squirrelly rips into cyber trash. And I will be carting off my CD's to a church rummage sale. Warner quads: If they cost money, I will buy them (even if one is Alice Cooper.
