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Who in Quadrophonic Sound?



I was researching Quadrophonic sound and found this article by Pete talking
about Quadrophenia, at 
http://www.thewho.net/chris/Who4.html.  

Has anyone ever seen/own a Who recording in quadrophonic sound?

Carla

"For a while we'll see our records as two editions, one in stereo, the
other in
quad"

>Rock Recording
>by Peter Townshend

snip...
>I mean I'd conceived it in that way. When we came to mix it we spent
months mixing it and then found out that
>MCA was using the CBS quad system and ... you might as well forget it. So
our engineer remixed it in the same
>manner that it was mixed in stereo, the same sort of creative approach.
We're going to do a completely new album,
>practically. 'Cause so much of the album is actually in the mixing, the
blending and everything."

>So there will be a quad album? "Yeah. For a while we'll see our records as
two editions, one in stereo, the other in
>quad ... one in a stereo mix, one in a quad mix. That has to be the way it
has to be because stereo at the moment is
>so much more mature and advanced than quad is. Everyday they make an
improvement in the quad set-up; you
>know everyday I get a piece of mail through from CBS telling me that
they've got another dB of separation from
>front to back and that, you know, if we buy the new modified
encoder-decoder we'll get better results.

...snip