just for quick illustrative purposes, i'll add that when i first heard a vintage Quad (sometime in the v.early 2000's idk when exactly) i didn't actually know it was Quad at first but at the time i was like "eh?? wtf is this?" and thought it was a load of old balls, especially compared to the AC-3 stuff i had on LaserDisc up until that point. the Rears were too loud, there was stuff happening back there that seemed out of place, i don't know, it all felt unnatural and out of whack and i thought "well if this is Surround Music you can count me out, its shit!"
then i got the Queen DVD-A
and boom!
it showed me straight away how hugely different one Surround Music presentation could be from another (i wasn't even thinking in terms like "mix" and had absolutely no idea about mix differences at that point) and well that spurred me on to try more DVD-A's (in DVD-V only to begin with) and then went back and got 1 or 2 DTS CDs when i got DTS decoding. soon i was finding all sorts of variety in how Surround was approached for Music by different artists, labels, types of Music and well, here we are!
now he's Nigel Godrich big shot Producer and i'm totally Nigel No-one but still, you get the point.. if i'd only ever heard that one Quad mix that i absolutely hated 20+ years ago (i can't even remember what it was now!
) i wouldn't be here boring your brains out now!!
so, erm.. count yourselves seriously unlucky that some of us are so persistent and don't give up at the first hurdle like Nigel bloody Godrich, ok!!!
