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It's the gawd-damn 4.0 red sticker that just confused stereo only audiophiles. They could not read further and figure out if the fucking disc would play in their players, and so they avoided the disc all-together. Yeah right.
I think that the Billy Joel and Labelle titles were two obvious missteps. Both wonderful displays of 70s quad mixing, high quality recordings, strong material, but titles the current market has little interest in. I bought them both because I wanted to know if I was missing something.
So yes, maybe AF needs to go away from quad for a while and wait until the right title has become available. But I would gauge the market by past releases. If Doors, Sly, Mahavishnu, Alice, Full Sail, and Secret Treaties are not doing well for AF, then yeah, Doobies, Lightfoot, and Jim Croce are not going to either right.
What's MORE disturbing is the complete absence of ANY newer MAINSTREAM titles in QUAD. The younger generation has NO affinity for 70's and 80's rock/pop titles other than the obvious: Beatles, Stones, Led Zep and 'regurgiating' those 'ancient' rock/pop relics, even in Surround, have little enticement for them to invest $30 in titles which have no relevance.
With over 7.5+ billion people crammed into this world of ours, it's astounding that only a mere handful, in hindsight, are involved in hearing those 'chestnuts' in stereo......much less QUAD. We are, in reality, a VERY VERY minute niche market and to expect the reissue companies or majors to hear our [muted] demands is probably expecting way too much.
As the old saying goes: MONEY talks.......BULLSHIT walks! Most unfortunate, but TRUE!
When reissue companies CANNOT even sell 10K copies WORLDWIDE....one has to start putting things in proper perspective!