What's the Latest QUAD TAPE Added to Your Pile? Q8, Q4

[Q-Eight]

Also, I've found there are two variations of the Jim Croce Greatest Hits. Nothing major, just the markings on the tape slicker match.

The one on the left has the Red Q8's on top and the Quadraphonic "Pill" on the spine. The one on the right has the Quad "pills" on both the top and spine.

Shame that the one with the pills is in not the greatest of shape and Front Left has some distortion through the whole tape. I'm going to guess it's a bad dupe.
The shame comes from the fact that I've been after this label variation for quite some time as it matches the rest of the later ABC tapes. Oh well. The search continues I guess.

 

[Q-Eight]

Hello, Dolly! Just got this one the other day. Looks like hell, plays fine. Didn't even have to open it up - it played good from the get-go. Some very minor static in the back channels here and there, but I think this is one of the cheapest sales for this Q8. I paid $20.53

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All
Got a load of Q8 & one Q4 tape yesterday..

( Alshire. Q8 QST-4 -Today`s Hits Jack Dorsey & the ''101 Strings " )-
( Alshire. Q8 QST-9 -The California Popy Pickers )-
( GRT. Q8 C7058-8114 -The Big Band Sound Of Lawrence Welk )-
( GRT. Q8 C7058-8104 -The Exotic Guitars )-
( Project3. Q8 PRQ8-5062 -Super Guitar Tony Mattola )-

( Ovation. Q4 OVT-J11604 -Hollywood Gold Vol. 4 The Quadra Strings )-

The Ovation Q4 Hollywood Gold Vol. 4 I did not know that it existed because I have The Quad LP`s 1-2-3 and I thought there were only 3 Volumes but I was wrong there is a Vol.4 all my looking over the years I have never seen Vol. 4 on LP...

 

[rawmacias]

Just purchased a DSOTM discreet quad tape from G.B. Only the second one I have seen since I started my Quad journey . Couldn't pass it up.

 

[kap'n krunch]

Just purchased a DSOTM discreet quad tape from G.B. Only the second one I have seen since I started my Quad journey . Couldn't pass it up. View attachment 32673

AWESOME CATCH!!!! How much was it...if you don't mind me asking???

 

[rawmacias]

$391.00 . The last and only other one that I saw on Ebay , sold for $800+. The person I bought it from did not have it on the U.S. Ebay. IT was on the U.K. Ebay and I had to deal with him about the shipping.

 

[kap'n krunch]

$391.00 . The last and only other one that I saw on Ebay , sold for $800+. The person I bought it from did not have it on the U.S. Ebay. IT was on the U.K. Ebay and I had to deal with him about the shipping.

Not bad for being such a rare item..hope you enjoy it !!!

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

2 Items came today...

( Columbia. Q8 CAQ 31770 -Mac Davis Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me : New Factory Sealed )-
( Ambiphon. Q4 QR 7301 -Natalie Ryshna Plays Debussy )-

 

[Philip Spinner]

Hi. All

2 Items came today...

( Columbia. Q8 CAQ 31770 -Mac Davis Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me : New Factory Sealed )-
( Ambiphon. Q4 QR 7301 -Natalie Ryshna Plays Debussy )-

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Hope you are able to play this OK. Ambiphon used that new at the time tape stock that was horrible. You may have to bake it, otherwise you may get a small pile of oxide below your deck when you rewind it for playback.

 

[bigbillquad]

Hope you are able to play this OK. Ambiphon used that new at the time tape stock that was horrible. You may have to bake it, otherwise you may get a small pile of oxide below your deck when you rewind it for playback.

Hi. Philip Spinner
I played the tape and found it to be to dynamic the peaks where hard in the red of the VU meters, it sounded clean there where no sticky syndrome or squelching sounds from the tape but there where some oxide deposit.
There is spliced onto the front of the tape test signals to calibrate the tape deck to and I think if you use these calibration to set up the deck to play there tape, would put your deck out of calibration to play normal quad tape so this is a curiosity tape only because I`m not going to use there calibration to listen to this tape ..

 

[fredblue]

360 Degrees Of Billy Paul (Q8)

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

Another Q4 RtoR came today...

( Project3. Q4 PR4C-5059 Enoch Light & Big Hits of The 20`s )-

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All
Another Q4 RtoR came today...

( London. Q4 LON J 17173 -Film Spectacular Vol. 4 " THE EPIC " Stanley Black : Factory Sealed New )-

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Just want to mention that I love this thread...love the picsLooks like Big Bill is taking advantage of his retirement

 

[bigbillquad]

Just want to mention that I love this thread...love the picsLooks like Big Bill is taking advantage of his retirement

You bet I am...……...

 

[bigbillquad]

More Q4 & Q8`s

( London. Q4 LON J 17190 -Ronnie Aldrich Come To Where The Love Is :New factory sealed )-
( CBS Columbia. Q8 CQ 10709 -The Popular Sounds Of Ray Conniff & Jim Nabors :New factory sealed )-

 

[bigbillquad]

Hi. All

I have been following a Auction on a Japanese web site for a set off 5 Quadraphonic Q4 Reel to Reel`s tapes they finished and sold for

US. $1,270.94.....

The one that I would of liked was the - John Lennon Imagine... and it wasn't me how won........

 

[winopener]

W.O.W.!!!

 

[winopener]

Anyone has ever seen one of these before?

1973, Manufactured by Ampex USA ELk Grove, label Concept 4. Instrumental versions of summer 1973 italian hits, 7 italian 3 english (my love, you're so vain, crocodile rock)
Since i have no recollection of ever seeing or hearing something like that in my decades of hunting quads, and that there's no reference at all in the Mark Anderson discography, i can presume that it has been produced in USA for the Italian market that was introducing quadraphonic carts in 1973. After all, if it was distribuited in the USA too some of you could have some idea about it...

 

[JonUrban]

Holy Crap, bigbill! That's remarkable. I would bet that reel, as it looks almost new, is worth way more than the $1270.94 the winner paid. Seeing as how it's an Apple release, a quad reel, and a John Lennon album, the collectability of the thing is through the roof. No doubt it's rarer than any butcher album cover, and 45 with a misspelling, or a lot of other Beatles/Apple related stuff out there. I have never heard of an Imagine Q4 - ever.

Of course I grabbed those images and added an "Imagine Q4" section to the QQ Beatles Page. Thanks for posting them, and I of course gave you credit in the blurb I wrote.

Would be a prime candidate for a conversion, eh?

And I wonder what was on the "Rock and Swing" reel? Probably MOR stuff I would guess, but you never know.

Hi. All

I have been following a Auction on a Japanese web site for a set off 5 Quadraphonic Q4 Reel to Reel`s tapes they finished and sold for

US. $1,270.94.....

The one that I would of liked was the - John Lennon Imagine... and it wasn't me how won........

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