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WTB: Jethro Tull- Aqualung quad tape

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chewy

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hi again, this is the other I really really would love to track down- any condition thats playable will be fine- thanks again!
 
Your best option is to look for this boxset

https://www.discogs.com/Jethro-Tull-Aqualung-40th-Anniversary-Adapted-Edition/release/8427017
It will be cheaper than a QR and a bit more for a Q8, not to say that you can have also a 5.1 mix of the entire album plus extra tracks and all the rest:

DISC ONE:
Aqualung: A Steven Wilson stereo remix.

DISC TWO:
Associated 1970 & 1971 recordings:
A Steven Wilson stereo remix (tracks 1-10).
Flat transfer of the original Life Is A Long Song EP (tracks 11-15).

DVD ONE (AUDIO):
Contains:
"Aqualung" remixed in 5.1 surround and presented in DTS 96/24 and AC3 Dolby Digital and 96/24 LPCM stereo.
Associated 1970 & 1971 recordings: seven tracks remixed in 5.1 surround and presented in DTS 96/24 and AC3 Dolby Digital, and 10 remixed in 96/24 LPCM stereo.

DVD TWO (AUDIO & VIDEO):
Contains:
A flat transfer from the original stereo master of the album in 96/24 LPCM stereo.
Original 1974 quad mix as 4.1 presented in DTS 96/24 and AC3 Dolby Digital surround.
A flat transfer from the original stereo master of the EP "Life Is A Long Song" in 96/24 LPCM stereo.
The 1971 "Life Is A Long Song" promotional film with new remixed stereo soundtrack.
 
Your best option is to look for this boxset

https://www.discogs.com/Jethro-Tull-Aqualung-40th-Anniversary-Adapted-Edition/release/8427017
It will be cheaper than a QR and a bit more for a Q8, not to say that you can have also a 5.1 mix of the entire album plus extra tracks and all the rest:

DISC ONE:
Aqualung: A Steven Wilson stereo remix.

DISC TWO:
Associated 1970 & 1971 recordings:
A Steven Wilson stereo remix (tracks 1-10).
Flat transfer of the original Life Is A Long Song EP (tracks 11-15).

DVD ONE (AUDIO):
Contains:
"Aqualung" remixed in 5.1 surround and presented in DTS 96/24 and AC3 Dolby Digital and 96/24 LPCM stereo.
Associated 1970 & 1971 recordings: seven tracks remixed in 5.1 surround and presented in DTS 96/24 and AC3 Dolby Digital, and 10 remixed in 96/24 LPCM stereo.

DVD TWO (AUDIO & VIDEO):
Contains:
A flat transfer from the original stereo master of the album in 96/24 LPCM stereo.
Original 1974 quad mix as 4.1 presented in DTS 96/24 and AC3 Dolby Digital surround.
A flat transfer from the original stereo master of the EP "Life Is A Long Song" in 96/24 LPCM stereo.
The 1971 "Life Is A Long Song" promotional film with new remixed stereo soundtrack.
Great suggestion. I was very surprised how much better the new 5.1 mix was compared to the original 4.0.
 
....but im all hooked up for Quad tape again! Definetly dont have any 5.1 stuff....

Playing digital multichannel is not so complicated and can be done with a quad analog legacy setup.
There are, of course, lot of option ranging from less than 100$ to some big grand.
Another thing that is really important on digital multichannel is that we have seen released many quad mixes that were sitting in the vaults, along with some classic titles remixed in 5.1 (ELP 1, Tarkus, Trilogy, BSS; Jethro Tull all albums up to Too Old...). Plenty of information on this forum, dig it and you will find some BIG surprise.

Said that, if you need suggestion on how to add a quad digital source to your analog quad setup, and you have a quad input on your system, just ask and we'll help you.
 
but dawg the same problems i face w/ CDs ill face w/ 5.1- like compression and loudness wars!!! a 5.1 really has never been on my table. I just set up a sweet deck and i'm souping it up by connecting it to more powerful good speakers. I am going to buy a few of the classic carts id like to find like elp tull and santana. I already have Dark Side and Santana + Alice Coltrane among others!
 
wait are you saying my legacy 4 channel receiver can input a dvd player to output 4 channel? could i download and listen to quad dvd-a's of king biscuit flower hour 4 channel broadcasts that way?
 
wait are you saying my legacy 4 channel receiver can input a dvd player to output 4 channel?

Yes

could i download and listen to quad dvd-a's of king biscuit flower hour 4 channel broadcasts that way?

am not aware of any official KBFH dvd-a.

You will need one of two pieces of hardware, depending of what kind of route you want to go:

Route 1: disc-based player
Route 2: mediabox-based player.

Route 1 has to fight with different kind of digital multichannel discs, a "universal player" nowadays isn't so easy to find since the market is moving more and more toward Route 2.
Many other can give a better updated advice about universal players, for the Route 2 there are several possible solutions:
A) windows-based pc + mch soundcard
B) linux-based Odroid with Kodi + mch soundcard
C) mac-based stuff, which i don't know.

A setup i have done in several places involve these 2 basic things:
X) old Windows laptop with HDMI out available and Foobar2000 as a player
Y) hdmi 7.1 audio extractor (see link below)

You use the X device to play multichannel files (usually stored in FLAC format) and the Y device to convert from digital to analog and feed the quad amplifier/receiver you have.

The Y device i use is this

https://www.amazon.com/Parts-Expres...xtractor+7.1&qid=1599376023&refresh=1&sr=8-48
and you can see on Amazon that the same device is present with a lot of different brands (see on bottom of post) but the hardware is exactly the same, so grab the cheaper and you're ok. That device is a Denon Professional project (DN-271HE) modified only on the output plug, quality-wise is excellent and can play up to 7.1 channel 24 bit 192K. Plug this into the hdmi port of a laptop without connecting a second monitor on the hdmi-out of the y device, configure it in windows/control panel/sound in order to play 5.1 files without center channel and without sub, play a file with foobar. Done.


Other amazon links:
https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Extrac...tractor+7.1&qid=1599376189&refresh=1&sr=8-167
https://www.amazon.com/Blackbird-7-...tractor+7.1&qid=1599376239&refresh=1&sr=8-196
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Bl...tractor+7.1&qid=1599376263&refresh=1&sr=8-196
https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Extrac...tractor+7.1&qid=1599376310&refresh=1&sr=8-228
https://www.amazon.com/Analog-Surro...mi+audio+extractor+7.1&qid=1599375618&sr=8-81
https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Conv...i+audio+extractor+7.1&qid=1599375683&sr=8-120
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Bl...dmi+audio+extractor+7.1&qid=1599375481&sr=8-4
 
One more thing: the hdmi audio extractor suggested work with any HDMI feed, so it convert from hdmi to analog from a windows pc, from the Odroid/Kodi, or even with a disc player with hdmi-only output.
 
Some years ago, I setup my 1st Generation AppleTV (silver) to act as a DTS 5.1 surround sound server.

I would take DTS 5.1 recordings and use iTunes* to convert it to Apple Lossless and then use iTunes* to sync my selected Apple Lossless 5.1 files to this AppleTV and connect it to my HDTV with HDMI but more importantly use a TOSLINK digital audio cable to connect it to my Samsung Home Theater.

You must be careful with DTS 5.1 files, as they produce loud white noise on untranslated feeds, such as the audio coming out of my HDTV, which I would set down to 0, but the audio coming out of my Samsung would be discrete 5.1.

You can find these original 1st Generation AppleTV boxes (they look like Mac Mini-s) on eBay for $20 to $35 and have either an internal Hard Disk of 40 MB or 160 MB.

I have both the Thick as a Brick and Stand Up albums in my somewhat small collection.

*NOTE: I use a modern version of iTunes in Mac OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra to convert to Apple Lossless, but I reboot into my OS X 10.8.x Mt. Lion partition to use a legacy version of iTunes to recognize and sync into the 1st Generation AppleTV.

Once it is sync'd, I have no need to use Mt. Lion until I obtain new 5.1 content that I want to sync, as the 1st Generation AppleTV has its own hard disk to hold the files.
 
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Great suggestion. I was very surprised how much better the new 5.1 mix was compared to the original 4.0.
I recently scored a Blu Ray standalone version with both the Quad and 5.1 mix. It was the first disc I played to audition the jury-rigged surround system I pieced together as part of a pandemic project. I agree, the 5.1 mix is much better, although the 4.0 wasn't that bad.
 
Hey Chewy (or Chui, as in "Uncle Chui" from Jose Luis and/or Cheech and Chong's "Up In Smoke")...
as a MCH newbie, welcome to one of the most expensive Audio clubs BUT , one of the most friendly... AND influential too...

I suggest you start studying (not just "take a look") at the polls to see what releases are already available in Bluray/DVD-A/DVD-V/SACD as opposed to get overpriced old (and relatively new..as in a few years ) Quad releases to start building your collection...Discogs is usually way better priced than "fleabay"...

AND START SAVING!!!and get ready to get your mind blown away by a lot of the releases
 
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