Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2

[Goona]

Sorry to be repetative but need to tell you Ship Ahoy track is absolutely amazing, followed closely by For The Love of Money.

 

[fredblue]

When I found out our June trip to Tokyo was cancelled, I scored this for 15% off at DeepDiscount
https://www.deepdiscount.com/ayumi-hamasaki-my-story/4988064176762It arrived today! Great aggressive mix!
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Give a listen:

ah its a fun one that.. did you get the SACD or DVD-A of havasucki's 'my titty'? i grabbed both for a not quite matching but still fully sur-rounded pair

 

[fredblue]

Listen Here
This one gets a little funky at times!
Not too bad.

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do it decode well, Quad Pup?

 

[J. PUPSTER]

do it decode well, Quad Pup?

Hmm, I'm still deciding, just got it on for the first time; but I'll let you know.

 

[fredblue]

Sorry to be repetative but need to tell you Ship Ahoy track is absolutely amazing, followed closely by For The Love of Money.

"Goona keeps telling me
Goona keeps telling me
Goona keeps telling meeeeee....!!"

 

[fredblue]

Hmm, I'm still deciding, just got it on for the first time; but I'll let you know.

thanks Mister Pupster

 

[sjcorne]

Sorry to be repetative but need to tell you Ship Ahoy track is absolutely amazing, followed closely by For The Love of Money.

One of the few OOP discs that's honestly worth its weight in gold. I dropped around $100 for mine last year and still have no regrets

 

[Hamilton59]

ok on to ....

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky

 

[fredblue]

One of the few OOP discs that's honestly worth its weight in gold. I dropped around $100 for mine last year and still have no regrets

for $100 it sure carries a lot of weight

 

[The56Kid]

a Mind Transplant would be great too!
i could also benefit from a complete head and body transplant as well

Man, I’d give my left... well, you know what I mean, for Mouzon’s Mind Transplant In quad from D-V. Would match up nicely with Cobham’s Spectrum with young Bolin’s echo-plexed Strat prominently featured on both!

 

[J. PUPSTER]

do it decode well, Quad Pup?

Overall (after side one) I'd give it a B- grade, not totally discrete but good enough to keep me engaged, and the most important part is... It's good music! Percussion/cymbals and piano at times in the rears etc.
It's one of those "Ovation Sector 4 Stereophonic Sound" - again with the stereo thing
Plenty good enough, I'm happy to have it

 

[Philip Spinner]

this looks like the "H" suffixed cart so i guess it'd be the less discrete presentation?

(the "H" in a GRT catalogue Q8 surmised to mean "Home" or "HiFi" i can't remember which now and "C" supposedly stood for "Car" i think it was, where the "C" mix had more separation / greater Rear channel emphasis than the "H")

The H for home and C for car was something I jokingly started back in the 70's so I could remember which is which. The C carts are swapped and the H carts are not, at least on my copies. The C carts did not need to be swapped in the car because there was already one of the front channels in the back where the big speakers were so I called them the car mix. Remember most quad mixes had bass mostly in the front channels so a swapped channel meant I did not have to do it myself. The H carts did not have swapped channels so they sounded good as is so I called them the home mix. Sorry if I caused any confusion.

 

[fredblue]

Man, I’d give my left... well, you know what I mean, for Mouzon’s Mind Transplant In quad from D-V. Would match up nicely with Cobham’s Spectrum with young Bolin’s echo-plexed Strat prominently featured on both!

supposedly done for DVD-Audio and sat there rotting! Linda has the info afaik.

 

[fredblue]

Overall (after side one) I'd give it a B- grade, not totally discrete but good enough to keep me engaged, and the most important part is... It's good music! Percussion/cymbals and piano at times in the rears etc.
It's one of those "Ovation Sector 4 Stereophonic Sound" - again with the stereo thing
Plenty good enough, I'm happy to have it

thanks for the intel is it listed as a Quad?

 

[fredblue]

The H for home and C for car was something I jokingly started back in the 70's so I could remember which is which. The C carts are swapped and the H carts are not, at least on my copies. The C carts did not need to be swapped in the car because there was already one of the front channels in the back where the big speakers were so I called them the car mix. Remember most quad mixes had bass mostly in the front channels so a swapped channel meant I did not have to do it myself. The H carts did not have swapped channels so they sounded good as is so I called them the home mix. Sorry if I caused any confusion.

right! got it! thanks for the clarification

so the H one more resembles the decoded QS or the C one?

 

[sjcorne]

so the H one more resembles the decoded QS or the C one?

My Joe Walsh "H" Q8 and QS LP are the same quad mix - lead guitar in the right rear and talkbox solo in the left rear during "Rocky Mountain Way"

 

[fredblue]

My Joe Walsh "H" Q8 and QS LP are the same quad mix - lead guitar in the right rear and talkbox solo in the left rear during "Rocky Mountain Way"

nifty! thanks

 

[Goona]

Survival Survival of the fittest. Played Ship Ahoy 3 times so had to continue my Ojays Day.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

thanks for the intel is it listed as a Quad?

This is how Mark Anderson's database has it listed.
GENE RUSSELL -
Listen Here. Ovation OV-1803 (QS)
{Cover states “Sector 4 Stereophonic Sound” and may actually be EV encoded}

And here's a whole thread started by our friend @Simon A
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...nd-qs-encoding-in-disguise.24686/#post-365399

 

[fredblue]

Survival Survival of the fittest. Played Ship Ahoy 3 times so had to continue my Ojays Day.

an O'Jay a day keeps the doctor away!