Jon , I was looking at the Quadrafile articule and looking at the picture. Is that the same album in the header of the site upper left corner!? Under the "Q" in Quadraphonic Quad !
Yes, it is! That's my copy of Quadraphile>>>
As for DSOTM, it just proves that the illusive British Q8 was made with the discrete master reel that the Quadraphile dude stored in his piano. (Too bad he didn't loan it to Tab!) It is unbelievable to me that Capitol Records would manufacture a Q8 of a landmark album that was recorded with quad in mind and would be the "torch bearer" for the format in the lousy, horribly bland matrix decoded Q8 that they dumped on the public.
Let's face it, the Q8 was the least expensive was to experience purely discrete quad. I wonder how many people bought those cheap Clarion or Juliette or whatever one piece quad systems, then bought DSOTM as their first Q8. It was at the peak of it's long popularity at that time. They popped it in, and went, "huh"? Sure, it's surround, but can you imagine if they popped that thing into those cheap systems, heard the DISCRETE version, and went "WHOA!". Don;t you think they would have sprung for more equipment, more software, etc......
Just another example of the poor job the labels did in the '70s with Q-Fi.
One more observation, if AP created the mix with quad in mind, why is the group so admant against releasing the album in discrete DVD, DVD-A, or SACD?
:-jon