Hi all,
I new to this forum but so far it has been very helpful to me, reading through various posts has been quite fascinating. I’ve been aware of quadraphonic for many years now (I am now 27) since playing one of my fathers records when I was about 10 years old and noticing the record sleeve had some information about it being in quadraphonic. The record was a CD-4 as I now understand it, but back then I wasn’t aware that there were three competing LP quad formats. I played this record on my father’s stereo (which I now realize was a QS system) and could not hear anything but stereo coming from the four speakers. Turns out he didn’t even know there where three competing formats, guess he must have thought all quadraphonic records were the same. I remember when I asked him about quadraphonic he simply replied “oh it’s no better than stereo”. The only other quad records we had were SQ ones, so playing those on our system would have only produced stereo through four speakers as well.
I came across Tab’s site a couple of years back and found it very interesting, I started to become interested in quadraphonic and the various titles that were released in this format.
I had a few records converted to DTS and was happy with the result. Lately I have been trying to do a few conversions myself with Adobe Audition, the results were ok but there is sill a bit of audio leakage across channels. It could be my cartridge alignment (I am using a AT 440ML cartridge with an Origin Live silver tonearm on a Michell GyroDec SE turntable). I have tried a few different settings in Adobe Auditions center channel extractor but have not found the perfect settings yet, not that I can fully understand some of them anyway, has anyone found the best settings for decoding SQ?
Also I have found copies of Pink Floyd’s three SQ quad albums released on rare limited edition CD’s. I have not received them yet but when I do I will try decoding them with Adobe Audition.
Samuel
I new to this forum but so far it has been very helpful to me, reading through various posts has been quite fascinating. I’ve been aware of quadraphonic for many years now (I am now 27) since playing one of my fathers records when I was about 10 years old and noticing the record sleeve had some information about it being in quadraphonic. The record was a CD-4 as I now understand it, but back then I wasn’t aware that there were three competing LP quad formats. I played this record on my father’s stereo (which I now realize was a QS system) and could not hear anything but stereo coming from the four speakers. Turns out he didn’t even know there where three competing formats, guess he must have thought all quadraphonic records were the same. I remember when I asked him about quadraphonic he simply replied “oh it’s no better than stereo”. The only other quad records we had were SQ ones, so playing those on our system would have only produced stereo through four speakers as well.
I came across Tab’s site a couple of years back and found it very interesting, I started to become interested in quadraphonic and the various titles that were released in this format.
I had a few records converted to DTS and was happy with the result. Lately I have been trying to do a few conversions myself with Adobe Audition, the results were ok but there is sill a bit of audio leakage across channels. It could be my cartridge alignment (I am using a AT 440ML cartridge with an Origin Live silver tonearm on a Michell GyroDec SE turntable). I have tried a few different settings in Adobe Auditions center channel extractor but have not found the perfect settings yet, not that I can fully understand some of them anyway, has anyone found the best settings for decoding SQ?
Also I have found copies of Pink Floyd’s three SQ quad albums released on rare limited edition CD’s. I have not received them yet but when I do I will try decoding them with Adobe Audition.
Samuel