Bill Brent
300 Club - QQ All-Star
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2004
- Messages
- 354
I'm up to week 10 of my LP show - I wanted to (where possible) play LPs that contain material or mixes
that couldn't be found anywhere but on that LP. Considering my life long devotion to quad - this gave me the
opportunity to both expose the 8k (or so) listeners to my regular show - to this passion .and. by playing QS or
SQ records - I'd be keeping faith with the original concept of playing mixes only available on the LP.
Yes, of course, you can get the true quad mixes of, say, Dark Side of the Moon on Q8, or even newer digital
releases. but it's not exactly the same.
Well I wrote all that, to ask you this; When I come to the CD-4 releases - many ARE slightly different from their
stereo counterparts - but being only able to play stereo over the air - any discussion of the quad capabilities
of these LPs would be lost (or confusing).
At least with the phase shifting matrix recordings, headphones offer an interesting illusion of surround sound, and
if the listener can pump the output through a surround system - all the better.
So what to do with CD-4 LPs?
What I tried with my last show was to demodulate the LP, then encode the results using the QS system.
I've rationalized doing this by telling myself - "self; the only way to get the results I'm playing is if you
had the original LP!" - but we can convince ourselves of anything if we try.
My request - what would be your thinking. Play the LP's straight or demod/encode them?
Thanks
that couldn't be found anywhere but on that LP. Considering my life long devotion to quad - this gave me the
opportunity to both expose the 8k (or so) listeners to my regular show - to this passion .and. by playing QS or
SQ records - I'd be keeping faith with the original concept of playing mixes only available on the LP.
Yes, of course, you can get the true quad mixes of, say, Dark Side of the Moon on Q8, or even newer digital
releases. but it's not exactly the same.
Well I wrote all that, to ask you this; When I come to the CD-4 releases - many ARE slightly different from their
stereo counterparts - but being only able to play stereo over the air - any discussion of the quad capabilities
of these LPs would be lost (or confusing).
At least with the phase shifting matrix recordings, headphones offer an interesting illusion of surround sound, and
if the listener can pump the output through a surround system - all the better.
So what to do with CD-4 LPs?
What I tried with my last show was to demodulate the LP, then encode the results using the QS system.
I've rationalized doing this by telling myself - "self; the only way to get the results I'm playing is if you
had the original LP!" - but we can convince ourselves of anything if we try.
My request - what would be your thinking. Play the LP's straight or demod/encode them?
Thanks