EXTREMELY RARE QUADROPHONIC UK ISSUE  L@@K.......

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you. 

RELEASED IN DECEMBER 1973 6 MONTHS AFTER THE STANDARD STEREO ISSUE, THIS IS ONE OF EMI'S FEW NON CLASSICAL SQ QUADROPHONIC RELEASES ( " IMAGINE " " ATOM HEART MOTHER " AND " WISH YOU WERE HERE " ARE SOME OTHERS THAT ALSO SPRING TO MIND ).

BUT WHAT MAKES THIS SO COLLECTABLE APART FROM IT'S STUNNING CONDITION AND RARITY - PARTICULARLY TO FLOYD COLLECTORS - IS THAT THE MIX WHEN PLAYED ON STANDARD STEREO EQUIPMENT IS DIFFERENT TO THE STANDARD STEREO MIX SO TO FIND ONE IN THIS CONDITION IS VERY IMPORTANT TO FLOYD COLLECTORS.

EMI BEGAN THEIR EXPERIMENT WITH THE SQ QUADRAPHONIC SYSTEM AROUND 1972 AND BY 1975 ALL IT'S CLASSICAL RELEASES WERE IN QUADROPHONIC, HOWEVER VERY FEW NON CLASSICAL RELEASES WERE EVER MIXED FOR SQ QUAD AND ALTHOUGH IT WAS A VERY IMPRESSIVE AND INGENIOUS SYSTEM ( I HEARD A DEMONSTRATION AT A HIFI FARE IN EARLS COURT IN 1976 ) IT NEVER REALLY TOOK OFF, NOT LEAST BECAUSE THERE WERE ONE OR TWO OTHER COMPETING SYSTEMS FROM THE LIKES OF CBS. ACCORDINGLY NOBODY COULD AGREE ON A SINGLE FORMAT, SO PEOPLE PREFERED TO STICK WITH STEREO RATHER THAT SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON A QUADROPHONIC SYSTEM THAN MIGHT SOON BECOME OBSOLETE. EMI ACCORDINGLY HAD DROPPED THIS EXPERIMENT BY THE EARLY 80'S, WHICH WAS A GREAT SHAME AS THEIRS WAS PROBABLY THE MOST PRACTICAL OF ALL THE SYSTEMS.   

A VERY RARE AND COMPLETE EXAMPLE IN STUNNING CONDITION!

DOMESTIC UK BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL ITEMS THAT SELL FOR MORE THAN GBP 9.99  WILL HAVE TO BE SENT VIA RECORDED DELIVERY WHICH  ARE GBP 3.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND GBP 4.99 FOR A DOUBLE LP. THIS IS TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT SO IF ANYBODY IS UNHAPPY WITH THIS THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE NOT TO BID. ITERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY OTHER NOTES ON POSTAGE.

  For Auction here is the UK LP ''  DARK SIDE OF THE MOON " 

ARTIST:  PINK FLOYD

MONO/STEREO:  NEITHER! QUADROPHONIC

Cat. No : Q4SHVL 804

LABEL: HARVEST  

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1973

MATRICIES:  A2 -B1

MOTHERS/STAMPERS:  2MP 1RH

VINYL WEIGHT: 115g

THE CONDITION

SLEEVE:  LOVELY EXAMPLE, EVERYBODY WHO COLLECTS VINYL WILL KNOW HOW POOR THESE UNLAMINATED DSOM SLEEVES CAN BE. EVEN WHEN BOUGHT NEW THEY WOULD OFTEN ALREADY BE SUFFERING FROM CREASING AND WARE ( I KNOW THIS FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE) THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BETTER ONES WITH JUST MINIMAL CREASING AND WARE, A STRESS BREAK  TO THE TOP REAR HARDLY SHOWS SO STILL GRADES EX- AT WORST  WHICH IS MORE LIKE NEAR MINT FOR ONE OF THESE.

VINYL VISUAL:  LOVELY SHEEN, HARDLY ANY MARKS IN EVIDENCE EVEN UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT SOURCE. GRADES EX TO EX PLUS EASY.

 (Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL TO EUROPE FOR A SINGLE LP IS USUALLY GBP 8.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 12.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 15.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50... 

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