UHQR LP Mobile Fidelity Dark Side... Question.

[Disclord]

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but I couldn't figure out which one was. (is there a forum for requests?)

Anyway, what I want to know is, does anyone on QQ have a copy of the 6-page fold-open Technical Specifications Manual that came with the signed, limited edition UHQR Box LP release of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon - and if so, could I get a high quality scan of the Technical Specifications Manual? Although it's unrelated to dbx LP's, Mobile Fidelity did issue a few DBX LP's and I want to have as much info as possible on all of Mo-Fi's releases from that time for my website so people can download their own copies. I've never even seen the Technical Specifications Manual before. I have some MCA DiscoVision single-sided 'floppy' LaserDisc test pressings from 1976/77 that MCA put in styrofoam Nautilus Records boxes, but that's as close as I can come to something like the Mo-Fi technical manual that came with all the limited edition boxed UHQR LP releases.
(BTW, the MCA DiscoVision test-pressings play fine on any LD player - except my test pressing of the movie High Planes Drifter is the "edited for television" version - I guess they did that so as not to offend anyone at press showings perhaps?)

So, anyway, if anyone has a copy, could you please, please (begging on bended knee) scan it at 300 to 600 dpi and send it to me? Although I can't pay you for it, if I have articles or tech papers, ad's or reviews you're interested in, I'll gladly trade you for it.

Thank you,
Ty Chamberlain (Disclord)

 

[JonUrban]

Was it included in all of the UHQR's or just the DSOTM?

 

[quadro]

It was Attached to all UHQR issues. I will scan it on Monday and send to you (will come from UHQR of DSOTM).
Regards,
Slavi

 

[ChristopherLees]

since when did MFSL do a dbx encoded lp?...never had one on their catalogues from 1978 onwards..

 

[Disclord]

They released 3 or 4 VOX recordings as dbx LP's (that also happened to be QS Encoded) - Susskind's Holst: The Planets was one of the QS-dbx releases from MoFi.

 

[ChristopherLees]

sorry but nooooooo


MFSL Vinyl....Sir Georg Solti : Holst The Planets (MFSL 1-510, released circa 1979) also as a UHQR MFSL 1-510...(stereo and no dbx)

Susskind's Holst: The Planets on a Mobile fidelity SACD Hybrid stereo/multichannel UDSACD 4005...not available on MFSL vinyl
(and no dbx encoding on the sacd)


Nautilus released some dbx encoded lp's that required a dbx decoder for proper playback but never MFSL

as for the extreme rarity of having both dbx encoded lp's with qs decoding go to

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?8091-DBX-encoded-QS-Quad-record
some titles all vox turnabout...taken from post 16

Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34666 Thomas Schippers Cincinnati Symp. Orch Richard Strauss, Salome, Don Juan, dbx SS-3005.
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34584 Walter Susskind Saint Louis Symp. Orch. Also Sprach Zarathustra, dbx
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34603 S. Skrowaczewski Minnesota Orch. Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe, Ma Mere l'Oye, dbx SS-3013
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34681 Thomas Schippers Cincinnati Symp. Orch Schubert, Symphony (No. 9), "The Great", dbx
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV 34718 Slatkin & Susskind Saint Louis Symp. Orch. A Slavonic Festival, dbx SS3008

 

[jefe1]

I have one of the Turnabout dbx QS titles.

 

[Disclord]

sorry but nooooooo


MFSL Vinyl....Sir Georg Solti : Holst The Planets (MFSL 1-510, released circa 1979) also as a UHQR MFSL 1-510...(stereo and no dbx)

Susskind's Holst: The Planets on a Mobile fidelity SACD Hybrid stereo/multichannel UDSACD 4005...not available on MFSL vinyl
(and no dbx encoding on the sacd)


Nautilus released some dbx encoded lp's that required a dbx decoder for proper playback but never MFSL

as for the extreme rarity of having both dbx encoded lp's with qs decoding go to

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?8091-DBX-encoded-QS-Quad-record
some titles all vox turnabout...taken from post 16

Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34666 Thomas Schippers Cincinnati Symp. Orch Richard Strauss, Salome, Don Juan, dbx SS-3005.
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34584 Walter Susskind Saint Louis Symp. Orch. Also Sprach Zarathustra, dbx
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34603 S. Skrowaczewski Minnesota Orch. Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe, Ma Mere l'Oye, dbx SS-3013
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34681 Thomas Schippers Cincinnati Symp. Orch Schubert, Symphony (No. 9), "The Great", dbx
Turnabout/dbx QS QTV 34718 Slatkin & Susskind Saint Louis Symp. Orch. A Slavonic Festival, dbx SS3008

Ooops, my bad.

I have the Mo-Fi LP of Sir Georg Solti : Holst The Planets MFSL 1-510 here in Plattsburg, as well as Susskind's Turnabout QS release of The Planets at my parents house in Albuquerque along with the Turnabout/dbx QS QTV-S 34584 Walter Susskind Saint Louis Symp. Orch. Also Sprach Zarathustra, in dbx. I've been listening to the CD layer of Susskind's The Planets MoFi SACD a lot lately too (the CD channel layer only because no one has made a DTS-HD BDA of the quad mix layer). Susskind's QS LP was the first version of The Planets I ever heard so it's always been my "definitive version" - I just wish it was a 'quaddy' mix. I also wish Mo-Fi had used the QS mix for the 2 channel SACD layer.

Anyway, I was clearly mistaken that Susskind's QS version of The Planets was released by MoFi in dbx. It somehow became a false memory because I've thought it was released that way for many years now. No wonder I've never seen it on any Mo-Fi LP list!

Susskind's original Turnabout QS LP release of The Planets is one of the most compressed LP's I've ever heard - as the grooves near the inner radius, the dynamic range starts to disappear and the sound gets a super 'pinched' quality... it sounds and the grooves look like an early K-Tel LP - one of those with 22 or more songs - around 45-50 minutes per side - on a single LP. Finally hearing the Mo-Fi SACD, even if it is only the 2 channel CD layer, has been a revelation. And it sounds great played through the Fosgate Tate or even PL-II, DTS Neo:6 and Neural Surround. I think it's ambient enough that all surround decoders can 'get something good' out of it. It sounds good through Circle Surround too.

Thanks for correcting my misinformation on dbx/Mo-Fi QS LP releases.

I've got a large number of dbx LP's (and about 200+ SQ albums) still in Albuquerque that I need to finally bring to Plattsburg. A few of the dbx LP's are on translucent red vinyl, which I'd never seen before.