49thdiver
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Peter here, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
I started in Quad almost 45 years ago thanks to my friend Henry. This was also the beginning of my love for Opera and and not long after that Laserdisc. Of course in the intervening years technology has changed a lot and my hearing is not as good as it once was. I certainly have a substantial collection of recordings on vinyl, CD, DVD and Laserdisc. My friend Henry has just gifted me his collection of Laserdiscs and the reason I am here his SQ collection of vinyl. Wow what a gift. I am interested in recording this collection to discrete 4 channel. It occurs to me that Hard drives are so big and cheap these days that it should not be an issue to just simply skip the decoding and record 4 channel. I have a couple of SQ decoders from the old days as well as thanks to Henry a space and image composer. I see a few have attempted conversions using software and converting them to 5.1 etc etc.
I can't help but think with my diminished hearing that what was good in 1980 is still going to be good enough today.
Any thoughts, links or otherwise appreciated. I will end my introduction with that my audio experience is powered by Vintage 1980 Tube Luxman power and preamps with Dalquist DQ10 to push the sound waves. Ahhh the Joys of fine music, thanks for the forum.
I started in Quad almost 45 years ago thanks to my friend Henry. This was also the beginning of my love for Opera and and not long after that Laserdisc. Of course in the intervening years technology has changed a lot and my hearing is not as good as it once was. I certainly have a substantial collection of recordings on vinyl, CD, DVD and Laserdisc. My friend Henry has just gifted me his collection of Laserdiscs and the reason I am here his SQ collection of vinyl. Wow what a gift. I am interested in recording this collection to discrete 4 channel. It occurs to me that Hard drives are so big and cheap these days that it should not be an issue to just simply skip the decoding and record 4 channel. I have a couple of SQ decoders from the old days as well as thanks to Henry a space and image composer. I see a few have attempted conversions using software and converting them to 5.1 etc etc.
I can't help but think with my diminished hearing that what was good in 1980 is still going to be good enough today.
Any thoughts, links or otherwise appreciated. I will end my introduction with that my audio experience is powered by Vintage 1980 Tube Luxman power and preamps with Dalquist DQ10 to push the sound waves. Ahhh the Joys of fine music, thanks for the forum.