Rhino Quadios - Batch 7 - Speculation

[gvl_guy]

You guys certainly realize that there isn't the slightest chance of getting that over the line.
I do love that William Bolcom Gershwin album.
Solo piano in quad?

It's all about sales, correct? I can't see any of these getting any traction. Just keep the good ones coming, like you've been doing.

 

[shokhead]

It's all about sales, correct? I can't see any of these getting any traction. Just keep the good ones coming, like you've been doing.

And about what they can get to release. I assume they just can't get anything they want from anybody.

 

[steelydave]

It's actually (surprisingly?) a pretty great sounding album. Not to mention historically significant. But I don't know how they did it....

Audiophile nutcase Michael Fremer did a long interview with Marc Aubort about 15 years ago, and while it doesn't get into quad it talks a lot about his philosophy, which was basically two mics for stereo recordings and four for quad, ie. the polar opposite of what Columbia Masterworks and RCA Red Seal were doing, for the most part.

https://www.analogplanet.com/conten...ance-recording-engineer-veteran-marc-aubort-0

Also, this article at PS Audio talks a bit about Aubort's Vox/Turnabout recording of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe/Bolero that MoFi reissued on SACD 20 years or so ago, with a bit of information on the recording mic'ing process:

"For those readers with access to an SACD player, Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs issued a multichannel SACD in 2003 that also includes Bolero, Pavane pour une infante defunte, as well as Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, but without Alborada or Menuet Antique. This is a noteworthy release as Aubort set the choir in Daphnis offstage and captured the sound with two rear-facing mics for the two rear quadraphonic channels. Listeners with a multichannel set up at home will hear the sound of the choir coming from behind. This should sound even more spectacular than the original quadraphonic sound release. I have not heard the SACD, but all the reviews I have read have been positive."