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600 Club - QQ All-Star
I decided to give this one another listen, through the Tate this time in SQ mode, and I'm convinced that this album is a true encoded quad mix. It has alot of separation especially during the ocean sounds and the full orchestra sounding synthsizer parts. The copy I have is an early pressing on the black Track Records label. According to some articles that I've read, Pete Townsend originally mixed this album for a 4 channel release, but when he heard it was going to be released in QS, he was disappointed so he remixed it as a dynamic stereo mix, and it was never released in quad. Like disappointed as compared to what, that it wasn't going to be released as SQ, or CD-4, or Quad Reel? I think it is more likely that it was in fact released as an unmarked QS and that maybe the more gimmicky aspects of the quad mix were toned down, since it was generally believed that QS had a more blended sound. It just seems ridiculous that an album titled Quadrophenia that was released during the peak of the quadraphonic era, was only available as a stereo mix. It is more likely that it would be taken for granted that it was a quad album and was unmarked so as not to limit it to just QS, that people with SQ systems would buy it too. The mix sounds great in SQ mode. Not having a high end QS decoder, I'd be curious to hear some opinions of this album from some of you folks that have the Variomatrix systems.