What's the Latest MATRIX LP/CD Added to Your Pile? SQ, QS, RM, EV

[Soundfield]

I don’t buy LPs from eBay very often but this still sealed box set was super cheap and arrived in perfect condition in just two days:

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

More SQ matrix to my pile..

( CBS. SQ ECPH 135M -Sergio Mendes 7 bRAZIL`77 Live :2 LP set )-
( CBS. SQ SOAC 101 -The Concert Of The Century :2 LP set )-
( CBS. SQ SOLB -Japanese Music )-
( EMI. Capital SQ S-37000 -The Baroque Connection )-

 

[bigbillquad]

More from the above.....

 

[bigbillquad]

More QS Matrx for my pile..

( Toshiba. EMI QS LF-91006 -Yomi-Kyo Pops III )-
( Vangaurd. QS 4R-5003 -Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 In F Minor )-
( Ex Libris. QS EL 16669 -Sonaten Fur. Orgel :2 LP set )-
( AB Europafilm. QS EFG-LM-7369 -Lars Samuelson Dance-Party )-
( King. QS 455 -Japanese Light Music :7" ep )-
( Project3. QS 4R-21 -Golden Movie Hit/ Enoch Light & The Light BRIGADE )-
( King. QS 4K-5 -V.A. Singing )-

 

[bigbillquad]

More from above....

 

[Soundfield]

Since Fizzy mentioned the Pye label QS discs a few weeks back I've been looking for interesting releases from them and have just taken delivery of this one (although it turns out to have been a licenced re-issue of a French disc):

There don't seem to have ben many Quad era recordings of the Vaughn Williams symphonies, which is a shame, but I got hold of this one recently:

The remainder of this week's deliveries are all still sealed copies - including two opera box sets:
Andriana Lecouvreur:

Macbeth:

and finally this rather strikingly packaged Tchaikovsky 4 from Leonard Bernstein to complement BBQ's Stokowski version:

 

[Quad Linda]

Bill, you never cease to amaze!

I NEED to get that Sergio Mendes. I do have the purple SQ Carnival.

For a while in the mid-70's, CBS (US Columbia) had a classical offering on SQ every month or two at a special price $2.99. I bought Tchaikowski 4 and like it.

 

[Soundfield]

I started the week by getting this still sealed opera by Puccini. One of those later CBS one's where they'd stopped mentioning on the artwork that it was quad! “Edgar” is not a work that seems to be recorded much, and I’ve never seen it performed. I’m probably about to find out why (!)…

and also.....

The other acquisitions were of rather more mainstream repertoire, namely-
Handel Organ Concertos
It’s another of those EMI releases with a multitude of identities across the packaging and the discs (this one has the marks of EMI/HMV (both in English & German)/ Electrola/Musica Prae Classica & Pathe Marconi):

Haydn String Quartets:

and also....

 

[Soundfield]

... this Eurodisc of a selection of Mozart string pieces:

 

[Soundfield]

Now here’s an interesting one I’ve just received:

This box set of a live recording of Bruckner’s Mass & Te Deum was made, according to the accompanying booklet, as follows-

The German text reads “This record album contains the live recording of the concert of the 5th December 1976 in the Tonhalle Zurich. The Zurich Tonhalle Society attaches great importance to the fact that the recording was made after two orchestral rehearsals” Not quite sure if they are pointing this out because they feel that after two rehearsals this is a really fine performance or because they are apologising that since there were only two rehearsals this is not a good performance!!

What is even stranger is that although the recording was made by Swiss company Phonoag AG, the box, the booklet and the records themselves carry no record company branding whatsoever!

Although it does not say so anywhere, I can only assume that this was a private / non-commercial recording (maybe by the Tonhalle Society?). This would seem to tie in with the inscription on the label that shows that this was a pressing limited to 1,000 discs-

However it came to be made, it's good to have another live concert quad recording in the collection and it doesn't look as though these discs have ever been played.

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

Some more matrix LP`s

( Columbia. QX=QS QP-9013 -Mozart 40 101 Strings )-
( National Technics. QS SD4-1 -4Channel Record :7" )-
( Teichiku. QS MX-4013 -Rock & Latin Percussion Noche Cubana )-
( Teichiku. QS FX-411 Movie Theams )-
( Tam. QS YX-4015 -Sunset Sunrise )-

 

[bigbillquad]

MORE FROM ABOVE...

 

[Soundfield]

Great haul as usual there Bill! I wish I could read Japanese because I'm completely baffled by the diagrams accompanying that QX disc. In particular it seems to show a rather strange speaker layout

and I've no idea what sort of decoder would provide you with those five outputs. Its all Greek to me!

 

[bigbillquad]

Great haul as usual there Bill! I wish I could read Japanese because I'm completely baffled by the diagrams accompanying that QX disc. In particular it seems to show a rather strange speaker layout
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and I've no idea what sort of decoder would provide you with those five outputs. Its all Greek to me!

Hi. Soundfield

I to would like to be able to read Japanese as well, there has not been any English technical information released out side of Japan on these Matrix systems QX -QR -RM there`s a couple more I cant think of hand, but I think for sure that the RM Matrix is QS but for the rest of the matrix they must have a similar formula to QS and that's why QS hard ware does a better job of decoding, than there own original hard ware even though it might not be a correct decode.
We can only speculate what this diamond shape system is but..
The SM and my QS units do a grate job of decoding these systems...

 

[Soundfield]

We can only speculate what this diamond system is but..
The SM and my QS units do a grate job of decoding these systems...

In trying to find out more I stumbled across this posing here on QQ from Mark Anderson from a few years back which shows a QX decoder:
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/japanese-qx-matrix.17512/post-236305
it would seem that QX was basically just a variant of the Hafler-Dynaco diamond system. Doesn't look like anyone other than Denon showed any interest. Amazing that there are LPs surviving from such a rare, short-lived format (and you must have them all!)

 

[bigbillquad]

Thanks Soundfield I missed that link, interesting...

 

[Soundfield]

Was it his anniversary that flushed them out? - I keep coming across Bernstein recordings I hadn't managed to get before, and last week the postman brought me this little pile -
Starting with that Nielsen Symphony No.2 that coincidentally Sjcorne unearthed a couple of weeks back:

plus his version of The Planets that I've long wanted to hear in quad:

and this Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 which I've not seen on sale anywhere before in this still sealed mint condition:

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Hi. Soundfield

I to would like to be able to read Japanese as well, there has not been any English technical information released out side of Japan on these Matrix systems QX -QR -RM there`s a couple more I cant think of hand, but I think for sure that the RM Matrix is QS but for the rest of the matrix they must have a similar formula to QS and that's why QS hard ware does a better job of decoding, than there own original hard ware even though it might not be a correct decode.
We can only speculate what this diamond shape system is but..
The SM and my QS units do a grate job of decoding these systems...

I found this, maybe could be of use. I haven't tried it yet. For iPhones.

 

[fredblue]

Was it his anniversary that flushed them out? - I keep coming across Bernstein recordings I hadn't managed to get before, and last week the postman brought me this little pile -
Starting with that Nielsen Symphony No.2 that coincidentally Sjcorne unearthed a couple of weeks back:
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plus his version of The Planets that I've long wanted to hear in quad:
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and this Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 which I've not seen on sale anywhere before in this still sealed mint condition:
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Larry Keyes does Lenny B! (i spy The Planets & that Tchaikovsky were both mixed in Quad by my hero Larry Keyes, the Nielsen Quad mix appears to be uncredited).. i bet the mix of The Planets on that SQ LP knocks the Sony SACD surround shambles into a cocked hat!

 

[sjcorne]

...plus his version of The Planets that I've long wanted to hear in quad:

Be sure to let us know how this sounds! It's said to be one of CBS' classical "surround spectaculars" with an aggressive quad mix, like the Bartok Concerto. The Q8 popped up last month, but unfortunately I missed it. Maybe someone else here got it?

Hopefully it's on Dutton's radar...