Suggestions for Audio Fidelity Multichannel SACD Releases

[Q-Eight]

How about some Quad Country?

Lynn Anderson - Greatest Hits or Rose Garden (I'd go for Rose Garden personally, just because the mix is more aggressive than GH.)
Dolly Parton - Bubbling Over or Real, Live Dolly (Neither of which I've ever heard!)
Jerry Reed - Hot A-Mighty; Lord, Mr. Ford; Uptown Poker Club
Waylon Jennings - Lonesome, On'ry & Mean
John Denver - Poems, Prayers & Promises (also, search the archive for the advertised-but-unnamed JD album from 1975 that was supposed to come in Quad. I'd bet it's Rocky Mountain High, which, I'd love to hear)
Literally, ANY of the Mac Davis albums. They all feature at least 2-3 hits and have some really smooth mixes.


Other titles screaming for exposure:

Johnnie Taylor - Eargasm (was an SQ-only title)
Janis Ian - Between the Lines (had her biggest hit and again, SQ-only)
Best of the Guess Who #2 (or Road Food)
Rick Derringer - Spring Fever or All American Boy
Wild Cherry - Electrified Funk (but look to see if their first album was mixed, too!)

 

[Circular Vibes]

I would go for country titles too, but Charlie Rich would be tops on my list.

 

[GOS]

How about some Quad Country?

Lynn Anderson - Greatest Hits or Rose Garden (I'd go for Rose Garden personally, just because the mix is more aggressive than GH.)
Dolly Parton - Bubbling Over or Real, Live Dolly (Neither of which I've ever heard!)
Jerry Reed - Hot A-Mighty; Lord, Mr. Ford; Uptown Poker Club
Waylon Jennings - Lonesome, On'ry & Mean
John Denver - Poems, Prayers & Promises (also, search the archive for the advertised-but-unnamed JD album from 1975 that was supposed to come in Quad. I'd bet it's Rocky Mountain High, which, I'd love to hear)
Literally, ANY of the Mac Davis albums. They all feature at least 2-3 hits and have some really smooth mixes.


Other titles screaming for exposure:

Johnnie Taylor - Eargasm (was an SQ-only title)
Janis Ian - Between the Lines (had her biggest hit and again, SQ-only)
Best of the Guess Who #2 (or Road Food)
Rick Derringer - Spring Fever or All American Boy
Wild Cherry - Electrified Funk (but look to see if their first album was mixed, too!)

I'd love John Denver....

 

[fredblue]

Other titles screaming for exposure:

Johnnie Taylor - Eargasm (was an SQ-only title)
Janis Ian - Between the Lines (had her biggest hit and again, SQ-only)
Best of the Guess Who #2 (or Road Food)
Rick Derringer - Spring Fever or All American Boy
Wild Cherry - Electrified Funk (but look to see if their first album was mixed, too!)

I know you're not an SQ guy Darrin but Eargasm is pretty decent thru the SQ Vinyl Involve unit, drop me a line if you ever fancy hearing a snip.. iirc there was a Q8 supposedly of Wild Cherry's Electrified Funk (I've not heard it but I think Bob Romano has the cart?) and ditto to the SQ of Wild Cherry decoded by the SQ SM isn't too shabby (and I just love the album, which helps! It's riotous, even the ballads are funky!) oh and Redbone Beaded Dreams is a great mix too just crying out to be liberated from its SQ shackles!

 

[edisonbaggins]

I'd love John Denver....

ewww

 

[fredblue]

I would go for country titles too, but Charlie Rich would be tops on my list.

They aren't necessarily the best Quad mixes of all time but the sound quality.. oh my giddy aunt... the sound on each and every one of those Charlie Rich Quads just makes my jaw hit the floor :yikes ...beautifully recorded albums, thats for daaaaaaaamn sure!

 

[Circular Vibes]

I have a couple Charlie Rich Q8s and they are actually rather discrete. I can't get enough of that voice or Billy Sherrill's sound, RIP.

 

[Q-Eight]

I know you're not an SQ guy Darrin but Eargasm is pretty decent thru the SQ Vinyl Involve unit, drop me a line if you ever fancy hearing a snip.. iirc there was a Q8 supposedly of Wild Cherry's Electrified Funk (I've not heard it but I think Bob Romano has the cart?) and ditto to the SQ of Wild Cherry decoded by the SQ SM isn't too shabby (and I just love the album, which helps! It's riotous, even the ballads are funky!) oh and Redbone Beaded Dreams is a great mix too just crying out to be liberated from its SQ shackles!

I have Wild Cherry's cartridge in my collection. I don't think it's a very common tape as I've only ever seen 1 or 2 others.
Beaded Dreams is also a good mix, but I wonder if it's 'commercial enough' for AF to tackle.

I would be curious to hear Disco Lady from Eargasm. That's sort of the reason I want the album put out in discrete. JT's album 'Rated eXtraordinare' is a hell of a mix. Very discrete but very well thought out.

 

[Lute]

Country, Funk and Disco!

Yeah!! I could definitely go for some of that.

Bring them ALL on... in QUAD! :51banana:

 

[fredblue]

I have Wild Cherry's cartridge in my collection. I don't think it's a very common tape as I've only ever seen 1 or 2 others.
Beaded Dreams is also a good mix, but I wonder if it's 'commercial enough' for AF to tackle.

I would be curious to hear Disco Lady from Eargasm. That's sort of the reason I want the album put out in discrete. JT's album 'Rated eXtraordinare' is a hell of a mix. Very discrete but very well thought out.

Maaaan... That Wild Cherry Q8 is very very rare!! To see 3 of the carts in a lifetime and to actually own one of them is quite something! That's probably all the Q8's of it that are left on planet earth! Did you get around to transferring it yet?

I did a drop from a sealed SQ LP of Electrified Funk the other month and decoded it with the Surround Master and its not at all bad.. never gonna trouble the Q8 for separation etc but I was SO happy to finally hear the Quad mixes, since it was scheduled for Sony Surround SACD release back in the day and got cancelled (along with a load of other great stuff like Ramsey Lewis' Sun Goddess - a surround mix that remains unreleased to this day and I don't see much chance of it ever coming out now ).

Slim to no chance Beaded Dreams' Quad will ever get reissued.. a glimmer of hope for Redbone's "Message From A Drum" since it was a bigger selling album (not hard, around 4 people bought Beaded Dreams!) Mr.Hoffman expressed his affection for the Quad mix of Redbone's "..Drum" on his forum one time, if anyone could swing it to happen he could.. but the Surround Master does its best with the "brand new" still sealed SQ LP of Beaded Dreams that I played just once and lovingly transferred into 4-channel FLAC that nobody gives a rats *** about hearing but I enjoy it so who cares..!

PM me and I'll send you a Disco Lady you can dance with! She's not discrete but she moves around the room alright with a bit of pumping

 

[fredblue]

I have a couple Charlie Rich Q8s and they are actually rather discrete. I can't get enough of that voice or Billy Sherrill's sound, RIP.

I never said they weren't discrete.. ..just they aren't the best mixes I've ever heard.. ..if you ever fancy hearing snippets of how the SQ's pan out to compare them to your Q8's, just for fits and giggles, please do PM me!

 

[fredblue]

Country, Funk and Disco!

Yeah!! I could definitely go for some of that.

Bring them ALL on... in QUAD! :51banana:

Indeed! Lets hope they also keep the old school Rock and Pop flowing!

I'm hoping AF reissue the following at least on Surround SACD..

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings, Rocks,
Argent - In Deep,
Azteca,
Chase S/T & Chase - Pure Music,
Chicago - II to X,
Rick Derringer - All American Boy,
Dan Fogelberg - Captured Angel,
Art Garfunkel - Breakaway,
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, Tyranny And Mutation,
Dave Mason - S/T, Its Like You Never Left, Split Coconut,
Buddy Miles Band - Chapter VII,
Mountain - Best Of, Avalanche,
Ted Nugent - Free For All,
Poco - Seven,
Raiders - Indian Reservation,
REO Speedwagon - This Time We Mean It,
Santana - III, Caravanserai & Welcome,
West Bruce & Laing - Why Donchya, Whatever Turns You On,
Edgar Winter - Shock Treatment..

 

[fizzywiggs41]

And I would also like to see some more of the Rock/Pop discs on the RCA label,

Such as;

The Guess Who-Number 10
The Guess Who-Greatest Hits Vol 2
The Guess Who-Road Food
The Guess Who-Wheatfield Soul
The Guess Who-Canned Wheat
The Guess Who-American Woman
The Guess Who-Share The Land
The Guess Who-Rockin
The Guess Who-Artificial Paradise
Jefferson Airplane-Worst (Best of)
Jefferson Airplane-Bark
Kantner/Slick-Sunfighter
The Youngbloods-Best

and a couple of 5.1 notables;

Procol Harum-Symphonic live
The Cheiftans-Another Country
The Cheiftans-The Celtic Harp

 

[jasong]

Suggestions for Marshall.

Quad SACD.
It appears that you have had success with Warner Brothers quad albums- The Doors, Judy Collins, America - they are all now controlled by WB , if I'm not mistaken.

It also looks like we've had a bunch of what I label as soft rock sacd quad releases-which I love.


So here some suggestions- Gordon Lightfoot- Summertime Dream and Sundown- they were quad lps

Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark - I believe it was released as a quad lp.

James Taylor- Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim - not sure if they were released in quad.

I think the Gordon Lightfoot sacd would be a good seller, not a huge seller but a good seller. I think our aging Canadian friends would also appreciate it.

The Joni Mitchell and James Taylor sacds would be hugh sellers I think.

 

[privateuniverse]

Suggestions for Marshall.

Quad SACD.
It appears that you have had success with Warner Brothers quad albums-

Warner also controls Randy Newman's catalog. Two of his albums (Sail Away and Good Ol' Boys) were both released in quad. Would love to see those reissued on quad SACD by AF.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Suggestions for Marshall.

Quad SACD.
It appears that you have had success with Warner Brothers quad albums- The Doors, Judy Collins, America - they are all now controlled by WB , if I'm not mistaken.

It also looks like we've had a bunch of what I label as soft rock sacd quad releases-which I love.


So here some suggestions- Gordon Lightfoot- Summertime Dream and Sundown- they were quad lps

Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark - I believe it was released as a quad lp.

James Taylor- Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim - not sure if they were released in quad.

I think the Gordon Lightfoot sacd would be a good seller, not a huge seller but a good seller. I think our aging Canadian friends would also appreciate it.

The Joni Mitchell and James Taylor sacds would be hugh sellers I think.

I'd love some Gordon Lightfoot....I'd buy Summertime Dream just to get one song....The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...love that song.."the church bell chimed , till it hit 29 times...for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald"

[video=youtube;9vST6hVRj2A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A&list=RD9vST6hVRj2A[/video]

 

[Circular Vibes]

Regrettably, Summertime Dream was not in quad. Cold On The Shoulder and Sundown were the two quads. Both would be welcome to me and between the two have three big hits I enjoy listening to, but I would be more inclined to listen to the whole albums if they were on SACD. Now, if Summertime Dream was mixed and not released, and the tapes can be found in usable shape, I'd be in for that one too!

 

[bmoura]

Suggestions for Marshall.

Quad SACD.
It appears that you have had success with Warner Brothers quad albums- The Doors, Judy Collins, America - they are all now controlled by WB , if I'm not mistaken.

It also looks like we've had a bunch of what I label as soft rock sacd quad releases-which I love.


So here some suggestions- Gordon Lightfoot- Summertime Dream and Sundown- they were quad lps

Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark - I believe it was released as a quad lp.

James Taylor- Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim - not sure if they were released in quad.

I think the Gordon Lightfoot sacd would be a good seller, not a huge seller but a good seller. I think our aging Canadian friends would also appreciate it.

The Joni Mitchell and James Taylor sacds would be hugh sellers I think.

Sweet Baby James and Mudslide Slim were already released by Audio Fidelity as 24K Gold CDs.
They are still available for purchase online. That makes Multichannel SACD releases unlikely.

Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell are unlikely on Audio Fidelity Multichannel SACD due to artist licensing challenges.

But there are more Warner Music albums that could make it to AF Multichannel SACD.
Stay tuned....

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Sweet Baby James and Mudslide Slim were already released by Audio Fidelity as 24K Gold CDs.
They are still available for purchase online. That makes Multichannel SACD releases unlikely.

Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell are unlikely on Audio Fidelity Multichannel SACD due to artist licensing challenges.

But there are more Warner Music albums that could make it to AF Multichannel SACD.
Stay tuned....

I have the Hoffman mastered AF Gold CD(AFZ128)Mud Slide Slim and I'm very happy with it..

 

[jasong]

Sweet Baby James and Mudslide Slim were already released by Audio Fidelity as 24K Gold CDs.
They are still available for purchase online. That makes Multichannel SACD releases unlikely.

Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell are unlikely on Audio Fidelity Multichannel SACD due to artist licensing challenges.

But there are more Warner Music albums that could make it to AF Multichannel SACD.
Stay tuned....

You are the Quad man in my book. I trust that whatever is released I'll be very happy to purchase. I appreciate you letting me know why certain titles are unlikely to be released.