Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Simon A]

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - SACD

I do also own the Blu-Ray but I like alternating from one to the other depending on what mood I'm in.

 

[Simon A]

The Marvin Gaye Collection - SACD

This is one I enjoy a lot!

One of my biggest wish is for Universal to release the Quad mix of What's Going On on Blu-Ray or at the very least allow a reissue label to do so either on Blu-ray, DVD-A or SACD. Of course my big dream would be to have a Multichannel release of my favourite Marvin Gaye album: Trouble Man.

 

[fredblue]

Listening to now..

The Miracles - Love Crazy

(SQ Quadraphonic thru the Involve Surround Master SQ Vinyl Edition...)

...oh man, this is just gorgeous..

I realise it has no chance of a Surround SACD reissue from AF but seriously guys, if you haven't heard this surround mix yet and you like your sweet soul music, track it down, somehow.. for a piece of plastic almost as old as me this record has no earthly right to sound so wonderful.

 

[fredblue]

The Marvin Gaye Collection - SACD

This is one I enjoy a lot!

One of my biggest wish is for Universal to release the Quad mix of What's Going On on Blu-Ray or at the very least allow a reissue label to do so either on Blu-ray, DVD-A or SACD. Of course my big dream would be to have a Multichannel release of my favourite Marvin Gaye album: Trouble Man.

The Quad is a delight! Still, I'd love to know what the dickens happened to the 5.1 Universal were supposed to have done like 15 years ago..!? Its been erased from history.. I'm beginning to think it never happened and the rumours I've heard about it over the years are porky pies..

Come on Universal,
WHAT'S
GOING
ONNNNNNNNNNN....????

 

[quicksrt]

I've been listening to the "quad conversions" of Diana Ross and The Supremes, and the Jackson 5's - Greatest Hits. I am totally blown away with both the sound quality and the performances, as well as the CD-4 decoding jobs on both of these.

I need to own both these on vinyl. Do you think I have any hope?

 

[quicksrt]

The Marvin Gaye Collection - SACD

This is one I enjoy a lot!

One of my biggest wish is for Universal to release the Quad mix of What's Going On on Blu-Ray or at the very least allow a reissue label to do so either on Blu-ray, DVD-A or SACD. Of course my big dream would be to have a Multichannel release of my favourite Marvin Gaye album: Trouble Man.

I have only the DTS Marvin Gaye hits collection. This SACD must sound much nicer.

 

[Simon A]

I have only the DTS Marvin Gaye hits collection. This SACD must sound much nicer.

I think you can still find it at a decent price so if you get a chance, grab it.

 

[fredblue]

I've been listening to the "quad conversions" of Diana Ross and The Supremes, and the Jackson 5's - Greatest Hits. I am totally blown away with both the sound quality and the performances, as well as the CD-4 decoding jobs on both of these.

I need to own both these on vinyl. Do you think I have any hope?

I can get you the CD-4 of the Live Supremes album any day of the week but those two, ahh.. don't lose hope but it's a toughy I reckon.

 

[fredblue]

Next up on the turntable of dreams...
(who am I kidding its an old Pro-Ject heap of shit I resurrected from the scrapheap.. in fact I thought I'd slung it out 10 years ago after a load of stuff fell on it and smashed the lid back when the roof was being done but earlier this year I found it in a box and managed to bring it back to life with a few replacement parts and.. occasional speed wobbles aside it's still doing its thing, bless it.. and well that set me off onto this SQ/Quad vinyl odyssey that is just an utter joy..) so, anyway..
"Listening to now (in surround)..

This Time We Mean It - REO Speedwagon (SQ LP)

This thing comes across as almost Q8 discrete thru the Surround Master, its astonishing the amount of separation those Involve guys managed to squeeze out of these old records..! It ROCKS..!!!

Still, if Audio Fidelity announced a Surround SACD of this one tomorrow (I doubt it..) I'd be all over it like a rash and pre order it double plus quick

 

[quicksrt]

I can get you the CD-4 of the Live Supremes album any day of the week but those two, ahh.. don't lose hope but it's a toughy I reckon.

Someone got one not long ago fairly cheap and posted the photo of it here. I'd like to do 24/96 transfer in stereo. I do those kinds of needle drops and love them even in plain old stereo playback.

Last night I did three needle drops to 24/96 high rez while I was online. I did Mott "The Hoople", (god does Ian's piano sound stunning), Grass Roots 16 Hits (a few of these songs are as good as hit radio ever got). and the mentioned Pink Floyd - WYWH (I picked up a near mint US SQ pressing back in 2000 on ebay at a steal to replace my teenage '76 copy which had seen it's better days.)

I'm going to do the ClickRepar on the files later tonight. SQ and CD-4 records can be recorded to 24/96 digital and decoded later if desired, so it's not a total waste of time to not decode them at this point. The main thing is clean copies of the LPs, newish stylus, and 24/96 digital recording.

I bought a Tascam DR 680 six channel recorder for other uses, but decided to do some quadraphonic LPs while it's sitting there next to my computer audiophile workstation. Beautiful recordings from this deck. I like it better than using a computer to record.

 

[quicksrt]

I can get you the CD-4 of the Live Supremes album any day of the week but those two, ahh.. don't lose hope but it's a toughy I reckon.

For some reason, the way the mixes are done on these two, I can really hear how much work Diana Ross and MJ put into their vocals on those tracks. The isolation of the vocals, and then mixed to quad does something I really like. The standard stereo mixes sound wonderful and bouncy of course, but these are a different, and I just love them.

 

[Simon A]

Next up on the turntable of dreams...
(who am I kidding its an old Pro-Ject heap of shit I resurrected from the scrapheap.. in fact I thought I'd slung it out 10 years ago after a load of stuff fell on it and smashed the lid back when the roof was being done but earlier this year I found it in a box and managed to bring it back to life with a few replacement parts and.. occasional speed wobbles aside it's still doing its thing, bless it.. and well that set me off onto this SQ/Quad vinyl odyssey that is just an utter joy..) so, anyway..
"Listening to now (in surround)..

This Time We Mean It - REO Speedwagon (SQ LP)

This thing comes across as almost Q8 discrete thru the Surround Master, its astonishing the amount of separation those Involve guys managed to squeeze out of these old records..! It ROCKS..!!!

Still, if Audio Fidelity announced a Surround SACD of this one tomorrow (I doubt it..) I'd be all over it like a rash and pre order it double plus quick

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I've got a question for ya Freddie: Did you do as that sticker on the album cover says? Did you get out of control?

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

I've found a lot of great music mixed in surround at the end of movies while the credits play on Blu-ray discs (especially John Williams scores!). The song "Orion" at the end of "Through The Never" (by Metallica) is great (especially if you turn up the rears a few decibels).

Yes! I've done a few audio-only rips of some of these. The first Cruel Intentions movie had pretty good tunes over the opening and closing credits, for just one example. And I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, but that Enya piece over the close of LOTR 1 is one of my go-to reference tracks, especially for checking the center channel.

What can I say? It's reeally pretty! :violin

-- Jim

 

[Simon A]

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks - Sony SACD

I'm absolutely loving Simple Twist Of Fate!

 

[GOS]

Loggins & Messina Quad SACD

Yeah.....temporarily hooked up my system this afternoon....OK, this disc sounds excellent...

 

[quicksrt]

Loggins & Messina Quad SACD

Yeah.....temporarily hooked up my system this afternoon....OK, this disc sounds excellent...

It is amazing ain't it. After I heard it once all the way through I did my other assessment test I put all quad through. I wired up the rear channels to play in all four speakers, so I hear only rear chans, but played in all four corners. The quality was tops, and I could play the missing sections off of my brain's memory chips and sing along just swell. I know the album fairly well.

 

[GOS]

It is amazing ain't it. After I heard it once all the way through I did my other assessment test I put all quad through. I wired up the rear channels to play in all four speakers, so I hear only rear chans, but played in all four corners. The quality was tops, and I could play the missing sections off of my brain's memory chips and sing along just swell. I know the album fairly well.

Oh yeah...sounds excellent. Hard to believe something with this age can sound that good....

 

[fredblue]

Someone got one not long ago fairly cheap and posted the photo of it here. I'd like to do 24/96 transfer in stereo. I do those kinds of needle drops and love them even in plain old stereo playback.

Last night I did three needle drops to 24/96 high rez while I was online. I did Mott "The Hoople", (god does Ian's piano sound stunning), Grass Roots 16 Hits (a few of these songs are as good as hit radio ever got). and the mentioned Pink Floyd - WYWH (I picked up a near mint US SQ pressing back in 2000 on ebay at a steal to replace my teenage '76 copy which had seen it's better days.)

I'm going to do the ClickRepar on the files later tonight. SQ and CD-4 records can be recorded to 24/96 digital and decoded later if desired, so it's not a total waste of time to not decode them at this point. The main thing is clean copies of the LPs, newish stylus, and 24/96 digital recording.

I bought a Tascam DR 680 six channel recorder for other uses, but decided to do some quadraphonic LPs while it's sitting there next to my computer audiophile workstation. Beautiful recordings from this deck. I like it better than using a computer to record.

Oh well that kinda proves those Motown CD-4's do come up for decent money sometimes! Don't lost hope!

I've been put off the Mott SQ for the time being (apparently the SQ encode isn't upto snuff and I'm all about putting the SQ Surround Master thru it's paces right now! ) but I'll no doubt get around to it in time.. the Grass Roots is one QS I picked up recently but haven't got around to trying it out (sounds like a keeper from what you're saying!).

That Tascam recorder looks like a nifty piece of kit! How does it interface with the computer? Does it have USB?

 

[fredblue]

Oh yeah...sounds excellent. Hard to believe something with this age can sound that good....

Quad never died.., it's the speakers that got smaller!!! :banana:

 

[quicksrt]

Oh well that kinda proves those Motown CD-4's do come up for decent money sometimes! Don't lost hope!

I've been put off the Mott SQ for the time being (apparently the SQ encode isn't upto snuff and I'm all about putting the SQ Surround Master thru it's paces right now! ) but I'll no doubt get around to it in time.. the Grass Roots is one QS I picked up recently but haven't got around to trying it out (sounds like a keeper from what you're saying!).

That Tascam recorder looks like a nifty piece of kit! How does it interface with the computer? Does it have USB?

The Mott might not be a very hot surround experience on this album. But I love the music and production, and piano and sax are more prominent on the SQ mix than the stereo one.

The Tascam recorder does indeed have a USB jack for transferring the recordings to computer for the post work I do on the files. I've been doing needle drops for years, but only 24/96 for 18 months. It's quite a lovely deck.

Have you heard of that "fan" project in DTS called: Monkees - "Quarters"? It was sync-ups plus some extractions to create a Monkees quadraphonic 2CD set. This is going back 10 or 12 years. It likely used the Rhino Headquarters Sessions 3CD set for much of the source materials. It caused quite an internet stir because it was indeed discreet 4-chan. However, my opinion is that the fidelity was less than stellar, and the sync-up was not exact either. However, the set got pressed up eventually on silver pressed discs by some entrepreneur and was seen for sale as if a rare Japanese import, color artwork and all.

Anyway, I plan on recording the 3 CD set to 24/96 with all takes in sync (as much as possible), and further tweaking each track until it's as good as it can get, and mixing to 4-channels myself. So I am not going to try to recreate the Headquarters album in quad, but simply mix some of the Monkees "sessions" disc set for quad playback in the highest quality possible. I'll down-sample to 24/48 at the end. I think I can do something more interesting than what the Quarters set did. But I'm not sure. Just an interesting demo it might be. The Tascam unit is a good machine for the initial recording to 24/96. The reason for going to this high bit rate is because time stretching of music files often results in quality loss, this loss will be less when working in a higher resolution. I think that to get the best sync some time altering will be needed. I may be syncing different takes of songs together, so they are really going to need work. Just ideas I have gotten since buying this unit.
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The Monkees – Headquarters Sessions

Rhino Handmade ‎– RHM 7715
3 × CD, Limited Edition, Numbered
Released: 2000

Tracklist
1-01 She's So Far Out, She's In (Tracking Session Takes 1 & 2)
1-02 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (First Version - Tracking Session Composite Takes 1 To 16)
1-03 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (First Version - Master Backing Track Take 22)
1-04 All Of Your Toys (Rehearsal)
1-05 All Of Your Toys (Tracking Session Composite Takes 1 To 10)
1-06 All Of Your Toys (Master Backing Track Take 20)
1-07 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Second Version - Tracking Session Composite Featuring Take 15)
1-08 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Second Version - Tracking Overdub Session Takes 1 & 2)
1-09 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Second Version - Master Backing Track Take 13A)
1-10 Seeger's Theme (Demo)
1-11 Can You Dig It (Demo)
1-12 Nine Times Blue (Demo)
1-13 Until It's Time For You To Go (Demo Vocal)
1-14 She'll Be There (Demo Vocal)
1-15 Midnight Train (Demo Vocal)
1-16 Sunny Girlfriend (Acoustic Remix Of Master Vocal)
1-17 Sunny Girlfriend (Tracking Session Take 7 With Scratch Vocal)
1-18 Mr. Webster (Tracking Session Take 28)
1-19 Band 6 (Stereo Master)
1-20 Setting Up The Studio For Randy Scouse Git (Studio Dialogue)
1-21 Randy Scouse Git (Tracking Session Composite)
1-22 Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Version Take 18 Vocal)
1-23 You Told Me (Master Backing Track)
1-24 Monkee Chat (Studio Dialogue)
2-01 You Told Me (Take 15 With Rough Lead Vocal)
2-02 Zilch (Peter Tork Vocal Track)
2-03 Zilch (Davy Jones Vocal Track)
2-04 Zilch (Micky Dolenz Vocal Track)
2-05 Zilch (Michael Nesmith Vocal Track)
2-06 I'll Spend My Life With You (Master Backing Track Take 9)
2-07 Randy Scouse Git (Master Backing Track Take 23)
2-08 Forget That Girl (Rehearsal)
2-09 Forget That Girl (Master Backing Track)
2-10 Where Has It All Gone (First Version - Tracking Session Take 1)
2-11 Memphis Tennessee
2-12 Twelve-String Improvisation
2-13 Where Has It All Gone (Second Version - Master Basic Track Take 12)
2-14 Jericho
2-15 Forget That Girl (Rough Backing Vocals)
2-16 Peter Gunn's Gun
2-17 I Was Born In East Virginia (Informal Recording Vocal)
2-18 Forget That Girl (Rejected Overdub Session Vocal)
2-19 Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Mix With Unused Tag Vocal)
2-20 Micky In Carlsbad Cavern (Studio Dialogue)
2-21 Pillow Time (Take 1 Vocal)
2-22 Shades Of Gray (Master Backing Track Take 9B)
2-23 Masking Tape (Tracking Session Composite Takes 6 To 8)
2-24 You Just May Be The One (Tracking Session Composite)
2-25 You Just May Be The One (Master Backing Track)
2-26 No Time (First Version - Tracking Session Composite Takes 3 To 5)
2-27 Blues (Excerpt)
3-01 I Can't Get Her Off My Mind (Master Backing Track)
3-02 Banjo Jam (Excerpt)
3-03 Cripple Creek
3-04 Six-String Improvisation
3-05 The Story Of Rock And Roll (First Version - Tracking Session Take 23)
3-06 Early Morning Blues And Greens (Master Backing Track)
3-07 Two-Part Invention In F Major (Informal Recording)
3-08 The Story Of Rock And Roll (Second Version - Tracking Session Take 5A)
3-09 Don't Be Cruel
3-10 For Pete's Sake (Master Backing Track)
3-11 No Time (Second Version - Tracking Session Composite)
3-12 No Time (Second Version - Master Backing Track Take 7A)
3-13 Just A Game (Demo Takes 1 To 3)
3-14 Fever
3-15 Sunny Girlfriend (Master Backing Track)
3-16 No Time (Second Version - Master Take 7A With Backing Vocals)
3-17 All Of Your Toys (Mono Master)
3-18 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (First Version - Mono Master)
3-19 For Pete's Sake (Mono Master)
3-20 I'll Spend My Life With You (Mono Master)
3-21 Forget That Girl (Mono Master)
3-22 You Just May Be The One (Mono Master)
3-23 Shades Of Gray (Mono Master)
3-24 Band 6 (Mono Master)
3-25 Sunny Girlfriend (Mono Master)
3-26 Mr. Webster (Mono Master)
3-27 You Told Me (Mono Master)
3-28 The Girl I Knew Somewhere (Second Version - Mono Master)
3-29 Zilch (Mono Master)
3-30 Early Morning Blues And Greens (Mono Master)
3-31 Randy Scouse Git (Mono Master)
3-32 I Can't Get Her Off My Mind (Mono Master)
3-33 No Time (Mono Master)