What's the Latest DISCRETE Quad LP Added to Your Pile? CD-4, UD-4

[fredblue]

All Directions - The Temptations (CD-4)

2nd copy, in much better condition than my 1st

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

Another CD-4 LP for my pile.

( Project3. CD-4 PR 5082 CD4 -Tony Mottola & The Brass Menagerie )-

 

[jefe1]

Wow BBGQuad you must hold the world's reserve of Japanese quad records. I think I would faint if I saw your collection. Don't tell the Japanese where you live......

 

[bigbillquad]

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Wow BBGQuad you must hold the world's reserve of Japanese quad records. I think I would faint if I saw your collection. Don't tell the Japanese where you live......
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Hi. jefe1

Never fear I would invite them over for Surround party …………

 

[rawmacias]

Just got these in the mail. Look new! I will play them later on my FR3080 with AT440mla later when I can enjoy them. I know the separation is not that great , but that's ok.

 

[fredblue]

Just got these in the mail. Look new! I will play them later on my FR3080 with AT440mla later when I can enjoy them. I know the separation is not that great , but that's ok. View attachment 40520

if only it were the other way around and Music were a CD-4 and Tapestry QS..

 

[sjcorne]

if only it were the other way around and Music were a CD-4 and Tapestry QS..

Well, there is one King CD-4 LP unaccounted for (4D-20)...so maybe there is a Music CD-4 as well? Could be a variety of titles I suppose, as stuff from A&M, Ode, CTI, Vanguard, London, and others is fair game for that series. Amazing that after all these years, no one knows what that title is.

Music on the Q8 didn't wow me too much. According to that diagram that comes with the QS LP, there's instruments panned to all four corners and all phantom positions simultaneously (front center, back center, left center, right center, dead center), so I think you'd have to be sitting in the exact spot in a system with perfectly equidistant speakers to get the results the engineer wanted.

 

[steelydave]

I agree the mix on Music isn't knockout 4-corner discrete, but given the nature of the music (no pun intended) and that it's a singer-songwriter who plays piano, I think the nature of the mix (lead vocals in all 4, with the piano in FL+FR and RL which I think emulates the triangular shape of a grand piano as seen from overhead) suits it, and gives the music the sense of intimacy it deserves.

I always found those Ode Q8's to be kind of crusty sounding, which I think is especially detrimental to quieter more nuanced music like Carole King's that doesn't saturate the tape with lots of high volume stuff. Like I said, these aren't Enoch Light-style ping-pong quad showoff albums, but they'd really benefit (Music, Rhymes and Reasons and Fantasy, Tapestry is 100% a clang-clang reverb upmix job) from being freed from the shackles of the shortcomings of the QS, CD-4 and Q8 formats via a SACD reissue.

 

[steelydave]

I meant to add, I love the mix diagram on Music, I wish more quad albums (especially matrix encoded ones) would've done this kind of thing, I think it would've raised awareness amongst end users that the placement of voices and instruments in the rear speakers was an intended and carefully considered thing on the part of the producers and engineers.

 

[bigbillquad]

H. All

Another CD-4 LP.

( Teichiku. CD-4 CDX-5 -Invatation To The Movie Music )-

 

[sjcorne]

Just came in today. Quite an improvement over the SQ vinyl, but I'm still not all that impressed with the mix. It seems like it's mostly keys/piano across the front, drums/bass across the rears. Seems like a real missed opportunity to not spread all the layered keyboard parts around the room.

 

[fredblue]

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Just came in today. Quite an improvement over the SQ vinyl, but I'm still not all that impressed with the mix. It seems like it's mostly keys/piano across the front, drums/bass across the rears. Seems like a real missed opportunity to not spread all the layered keyboard parts around the room.

that's the beauty of the SQ version, everything's all over the place!

 

[rawmacias]

This one came in today. Looks like it has never been played! As far as I know, it is complete with OBI , lyrics sheet and near mint cover.

 

[fredblue]

when is the latest discrete LP added to your pile not a discrete LP?

when its a discrete 45 added to your pile!

Kenwood CD-4 Compatible Discrete 4-Channel Test Record (4DE-505)

 

[fredblue]

The Fisher Test & Performance Standard (CD-4 Side 1, SQ Side 2)

 

[4-earredwonder]

The Fisher Test & Performance Standard (CD-4 Side 1, SQ Side 2)

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Testing ..... 1 ..... 2......3........4........

The aural equivalent to the morning after pill.

 

[fredblue]

A Different Drummer : Buddy Rich (CD-4)

 

[fredblue]

A Different Drummer : Buddy Rich (CD-4)

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[fredblue]

Paramount Pictures Presents The Godfather Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD-4)

 

[fredblue]

Paramount Pictures Presents The Godfather Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD-4)

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