So I've owned this for a while but hadn't played it as it is QS (I think - it's ABC) and the only decoder I have available is the neural decoder on my Denon AVR receiver. That has worked great for SQ but everyone has said you need to use Dolby PLII to get QS decoded, and that hasn't worked for me. On a whim I turned on neural for the Klemmer album - and was promptly blown out of the water. Live, free form jazz. First track, the sax plays solo through an echo unit. Not only is it prominent in the rear channels, it's actually the main line loud and clear from the rears and the echo in the front! I was almost jumping for joy! Then I tried my Jim Croce 'Photographs and Memories' LP and found the piano and the background singers isolated in the rear speakers (bg singers were actually right rear only). I will no longer automatically bypass the QS items I stumble upon at garage sales and thrift stores - a new world has opened!
(BTW, I hear all you purists saying I need to use a true QS and/or SQ decoder to hear what the real mix is, and I don't disagree. But in the meantime, I am hearing discrete output using only what I've got, and that's pretty dang sweet for a cheapskate like myself. Probably a few of us out there but we don't usually admit to it.)
(BTW, I hear all you purists saying I need to use a true QS and/or SQ decoder to hear what the real mix is, and I don't disagree. But in the meantime, I am hearing discrete output using only what I've got, and that's pretty dang sweet for a cheapskate like myself. Probably a few of us out there but we don't usually admit to it.)