Get the "oils on the water", goat Island concert. It's probably the best live concert I have viewed
The trouble is that it is hard to walk into the front door of any major CE company......there are no doors. I have lost count of the amount of letters/ emails I have written only to get no reply.
How about CES? Was Involve there?
Just a thought here, as I don’t (yet) have a surround master, but an undecoded CD-4 played through it seems like it would have results much like a stereo disc played through it. Sure, not a true decode, but perhaps a pleasing effect.Hmmm, not sure how a CD-4 LP would decode through a QS decoder, I've never tried it
Not this year. We have been there 2 times but our stand was in the outer "burbs" and frankly we did not have out act together. Logistically it's a $30k to $50k experience just to do it on a small scale. To get a better position and better stand we would need to spend around $100k, and that is just a start.
Yes but I believe the disc makers snuck some form of matrix encode into the stereo mix. I have had many reports of the SM doing nice decodes of CD 4 disc's. Remember at the time one of the major issues was universal compatibility
I'm a madman with a game plan!
I said you had gone nuts!
U absolutely right, kid dynamite!
There is madness in your method
That reminds me! I've been meaning to spin So through the SM! "Don't Give Up," @ar surround !
From my own experience, playing an undemodulated CD-4 record through any matrix decoder would be the same as playing a stereo record through the decoder. CD-4 records don't have a "hidden matrix"; on the other hand, UD-4 records did.
Yes that is what I thought but I have had several reports of really good decode on the CD4 discs. It would have been very simple to sneak a little bit of phase info into the recording Perhaps not the full RM blend of 0.414 but maybe 0.21 as it would easily pass as normal stereo then. Cannot prove it though!
The Alan Parsons Project fooled with phase manipulation on a lot of their stuff. Listen to Eye In The Sky through the Surround Master. It sounds spectacular...not discrete as the 5.1version, but equally pleasing.
Thanks SO much for mentioning the Moody Blues! It's been WAY too long since i spun this stereo SHM-SACD i picked up in Japan several years ago (Long Distance Voyager, indeed!). Not only do the piercing blues of the SM v.2 work nicely with the band's moniker, but the SM v.2 itself makes this release sound, well, . . . AMAZING! Go figure!
