No. They are not sending out masters when they have everything digitalized. They told us that back then. The tapes are too fragile anymore. Does that mean DV doesn't acquire a master and do it themselves. No, but i would bet a wad Sony is not doing transfers that way. Maybe someone else is that silly to send out masters. Maybe maybe 2nd or 3rd gen if around, and you have a relationship with the people. but not sony.maybe things have changed in the years since you were doing the DTS Quads?
Polyhymnia (which did all the quad transfers for Pentatone) is the former Philips classical recording unit in the Netherlands, formerly part of Universal classics before being shut down, and they still have a very close relationship with Universal Classics, including preparing a number of remasters this year for them (including the William Steinberg quad disc released recently). So there may be a special relationship, but I don't know.No. They are not sending out masters when they have everything digitalized. They told us that back then. The tapes are too fragile anymore. Does that mean DV doesn't acquire a master and do it themselves. No, but i would bet a wad Sony is not doing transfers that way. Maybe someone else is that silly to send out masters. Maybe maybe 2nd or 3rd gen if around, and you have a relationship with the people. but not sony.
No. They are not sending out masters when they have everything digitalized. They told us that back then. The tapes are too fragile anymore. Does that mean DV doesn't acquire a master and do it themselves. No, but i would bet a wad Sony is not doing transfers that way. Maybe someone else is that silly to send out masters. Maybe maybe 2nd or 3rd gen if around, and you have a relationship with the people. but not sony.
SQ Classical International Quad LPs
(EAY = Angel)
EAY-80001 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor "Pathetique"'
EAY-80002 -
EAY-80003 -
EAY-80004 - Rothenberger / Fischer Dieskau / Gedda / Boskovsky/Vienna Symphony Orchestra 'Strauss: Die Fledermaus (Highlights)'
EAY-80005 - Fremaux / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 'Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3'
EAY-80006 - Ozawa / Orchestre De Paris 'Stravinsky: "The Firebird"'
EAY-80007 -
EAY-80008 - Berglund / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 'Sibelius: "Finlandia" (The Popular Sibelius)'
EAY-80009 -
EAY-80010 -
EAY-80011 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Bruckner: Symphony No. 4'
EAY-80012 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor'
EAY-80013 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Beethoven / Brahms / Wagner' *NEED MORE INFO*
I just added the following info about some EMI-Angel SQ classical quad LPs issued in Japan by Toshiba-EMI that aren't in Mark's list to post #1:
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I'm not positive, but I don't think any of the music on these is unique to Japan, they look to be reissues of EMI/Angel titles that were also available in Europe and the US. The only difference is the Japanese ones have different (unique) cover art and are presumably nice sounding as much of the stuff from Japan is.
So recently on a Japanese auction site I came across an auction for a huge lot of cassette tapes, and in amongst them were something I haven't seen before - 5 Toshiba-EMI RM encoded cassette tapes. I clipped out the relevant front and back images:
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(You can see they have the same '4 Channel' logo as the quad reels shown earlier in this thread, but instead it says '4 Channel RM Sound')
Unfortunately the auction images are too small to get much info from them, but squinting really hard, it looks like they have the same catalog numbers as their LP counterparts, but with a ZA prefix. So doing some detective work from the list in the first post and the titles listed in the auction listing, I believe these tapes would be (left to right):
IPZA-90005 - Ray Charles Singers 'Love Me With All Your Heart'
ZA-9537Z - Akria Ishikawa & Count Buffalo 'Love Theme From "The Godfather" (4 Channel Exotic Sound)'
ZA-9515Z - Dynamic Latin Brass 'Latin Brass '77'
IPZA-90010 - Command All-Stars 'Spectacular 4 Channel Sound!'
ECZA-90012 - Lettermen 'Live In Japan'
ZA-9???Z - 'Sound · Effect · In · mood / 4 channel world with sound and music' (not sure which LP this is)
Based on the scattered catalog numbers, it seems likely that these are just the tip of the iceberg, and that most likely the majority of the TP-95xxZ series of Asian market QS LPs, and the 90000 series of 13 Western popular QS LPs probably have RM/QS encoded cassette equivalents.
The one where you need more info is probably: https://www.discogs.com/Herbert-von-Karajan-Dirigiert-Beethoven-Wagner-Und-Brahms/release/3087264I just added the following info about some EMI-Angel SQ classical quad LPs issued in Japan by Toshiba-EMI that aren't in Mark's list to post #1:
SQ Classical International Quad LPs
(EAY = Angel)
EAY-80001 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor "Pathetique"'
EAY-80002 -
EAY-80003 -
EAY-80004 - Rothenberger / Fischer Dieskau / Gedda / Boskovsky/Vienna Symphony Orchestra 'Strauss: Die Fledermaus (Highlights)'
EAY-80005 - Fremaux / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 'Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3'
EAY-80006 - Ozawa / Orchestre De Paris 'Stravinsky: "The Firebird"'
EAY-80007 -
EAY-80008 - Berglund / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 'Sibelius: "Finlandia" (The Popular Sibelius)'
EAY-80009 -
EAY-80010 -
EAY-80011 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Bruckner: Symphony No. 4'
EAY-80012 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor'
EAY-80013 - Von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 'Beethoven / Brahms / Wagner' *NEED MORE INFO*
According to a Japanese blog I found, these were released between 1973 and March 1974, and the 13 titles are the entirety of the series. I've listed the details of all the ones I could either find pictures of, or conclusive information about, but it's pretty much certain that all 13 exist so if anyone has photos or knows what 2, 3, 7, 9 and 10 are (and the full title of 13) please share so I can update the list.
I'm not positive, but I don't think any of the music on these is unique to Japan, they look to be reissues of EMI/Angel titles that were also available in Europe and the US. The only difference is the Japanese ones have different (unique) cover art and are presumably nice sounding as much of the stuff from Japan is.
I found another cassette here. 4CH cassette This makes me wonder if they actually decode okay and is there any big releases like DSOTM...
They are most likely using true master tapes. Sometimes it is required that the licensee come to the vault and do their transfers in the local studio sometimes on premises. Sometimes not. But some labels (but not all) will refuse to let their masters go off site. Other labels let the masters out, and demand return within one day. It really is different for each project.ok, so when DV say they are using original analogue master tapes that is just ******** then. their SACDs still sound good to me whatever tapes they're using. anyway, we're going OT so i'll drop it now.
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