Below are articles from major magazines and catalogs reporting news
about a Quadraphonic title that most serious Quad collectors might not
know about. 
   Not being able to confirm what has been reported in these articles,
I have listed them here for the Quad community.
   If you have any knowledge of these articles and can confirm or deny
any of this information, please pass on the info.


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Rumors



-	On August 9th, 1975 Billboard magazine reported - 

		     DOZEN SANSUI QS's ISSUED BY CAPITOL

	Capitol Records has quietly joined the rank of labels releasing
	Quad product in the Sansui QS matrix system. Among a total of
	12 albums released a little over a month ago without any notice
	was Pink Floyds - Dark Side of the Moon.
	First indication of the Quadraphonic release was in New York
	during the recent 7th annual International Radio Programming
	Forum. The album, bearing only a stereo label and no indication
	that it was Quad, was demonstrated in a suite operated by
	Sansui.
	A spokesman for Capitol Records said last week that the release
	consisted of remixed product; the spokesman was unaware that no
	announcement had been made or that the product bore "Stereo"
	instead of "Quadraphonic".
	Capitol previously released a few sampler albums in Columbia
	Records SQ matrix system.
	A few weeks ago in an exclusive billboard story, Ryosuke Ito,
	manager of product development for Sansui's QS 4-channel project
	and Motohisa Miyake, director of merchandising development and
	industrial designing for Sansui, said that Sansui QS product was
	being released in the U.S. with only a Stereo label.
	Miyake felt that labels were doing this as protection and that
	they feared the matrix quad albums might not be compatible with
	existing stereo playback equipment. Miyake of course pointed out
	that a Sansui matrix recording is totally compatible.



-	On Feb. 21st, 1976 Billboard magazine reported - 

	The Virgin records release of Mike Oldfield's - Ommadawn has
	been issued in both the SQ matrix system developed by CBS and
	the QS matrix system developed by Sansui to test market
	potential.
{The QS version listed is in Question}



-	The Quadraphonic Record Center Catalog - 2nd Edition, published
	by Beggars Banquet Record store in Earl's Court, London reported
	in the summer of 1977 -

	Polydor (U.K.) have the regular release of the Who - Tommy and
	the Who - Quadrophenia in unmarked QS matrix format created by
	Sansui.
{No surprise to most of us about the Tommy soundtrack as being an
 unmarked QS release, but QUADROPHENIA ?}


*	SLS951 (SQ) WAGNER: Die Meistersinger Von Nurembourg (Karajan)
	(England)
{EMI literature states that the above was recorded in "state of the art
 quadraphonic sound". The Quadraphonic Record Center Catalog - 2nd Ed.,
 published by Beggers Banquet/London 1976 Mentions "Credit must be given
 to EMI who are issuing all their new classical recordings in SQ. From
 the view point of public acceptance of quadro, however, they are
 maintaining a low profile on this and many retailers stocking EMI
 classics are unaware that they are stocking SQ records".
 Some quad collectors think this might be an unmarked Quad recording
 after close examination of the record grooves and using a quad display
 scope and a Tate II SQ decoder for as good as a verification you are
 going to get without documentation from EMI.}

A quad collector has some interesting comments about this
	



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