Q re: Neil Young CD's

Wow! That's very cool to know! I know there are "hidden" quad titles out there that were encoded but not advertised or marked as being quad, but I never knew about "Harvest". I'll have to give that one a listen through the ol' SQ decoder and see how it sounds.

It's especially interesting to see an SQ encoded recording from an artist on the Warner family of labels. Warner never (officially) released anything in the SQ format and instead went with the CD-4 quad format. So, if Neil released anything in quad, I would expect to see it on CD-4. Good ol' Neil, always the rebel!

Thanks for the inside scoop, Steve!

 

Steve,

Back in the '70s there was an article in Billboard claiming that 10 or so Capitol LPs were released as QS encoded albums, but were not marked. One of these was disclosed as Dark Side of the Moon in the article (which I have, by the way).

At any rate, do you know if this was just Sansui/Capitol smoke, or was it in fact true? One would have had to assume that the titles would correspond to the titles that Capitol released on Q8s, i.e. Steve Miller, McCartney, PF, Helen Reddy, Starr, Lennon, etc.

You would think that, at the time, they would have wanted to make that fact public. (This was early quad-era). The only official Capitol quad LPs were some sampler SQ encoded albums from Cap Spec Products.

:-jon


BTW - That is VERY interesting about Harvest!! I can assure you that "vex" know his quad!!

 

Are you saying that After The Gold Rush has an RE-1? Please let me know, because my copy doesn't. Any other Warners Young titles with RE-1's?

 

Yes. "AFTER THE GOLD RUSH" has been upgraded and my disc has a RE-1 in the inner ring. Sound is very good. Definitely better than the standard issue.

 

Thank you! I assume you don't know about later Young titles besides Decade.

 

I've been checking out this site for a few days now, and today I bought "After The Gold Rush" on your recommendation. I must say that you're absolutely right: The RE-1 has a great deal more "oomph" to it than the original CD. This has to be one of those cases where it is a remaster and not just some other alteration.

JJ3810, did you happen upon the RE-1's by chance, or had you heard about the upgrade elsewhere? And besides "Everybody Knows," "Gold Rush" and "Harvest," do any other WB/Reprise Neil Young CDs bear an RE-1?

 

No, I had no prior info regarding any of these being upgraded. When "Everybody Knows ..." showed up and sounded very good I got "After The Gold Rush" and that sounded much improved too. I tried a copy of "Decade" from two different sources but that was not upgraded and I tried "Neil Young" but that had not changed either. Warners has been very quiet about this sort of thing so I guess it's "hit or miss". Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

 

JJ3810,

That's OK. Your original information was very helpful. Thanks!

 

I'll have to invest in a new copy of After the Gold Rush now!

 

This matches my collection exactly.

"Everyone" is RE-2 and "Harvest" is RE-1. Everything else is plain.

Surprised....I bought Harvest over 10 years ago!

What about "Gold Rush", though? Someone mentioned that they have an RE-1, but mine is regular.

 

The "Gold Rush" RE-1 must be fairly new...I bought an "old" copy a few weeks ago.

However, my RE-1 "Harvest" is more than 10 years old!

 

btw the red rocks live dvd has a DTS soundtrack along with the dolby digital one

 

Pre RE-1

Here's the original Pre "RE-1" from 1983-1985. You can't go back any farther than this!

 

Actually, the current issue is "RE-3", which sounds identical to my "RE-2" copy. Anybody know what's different between the two?