I am cheap… I am looking on Discogs… 
Other versions do clearly exist, but their availability was poor and/or they were expensive… Or both.
I was not - at the time I ordered - aware that Victims was about to be re-issued… So I was not looking at new, on the Long Waterway… Or elsewhere…
But I did today get Transitus (used) for very little from the Musical Bird…
(I simply do not buy any ‘new’ Vinyl. Only old stuff…)
Yes - I’ve now found that both of their previous offerings come as sets with 4 discs - 2lp + 2cd - so I’ve cancelled Space Metal 2cd and re-ordered 2+2 - oh happy days!
See above… I am cheap… very cheap. I very rarely buy any ‘new’ CD’s (generally, only if its a new release and/or I cannot find it used) - and definitely no new Vinyl.
My system is also cheap… relatively… 
Is that why you keep it hidden
just joking - if it gives pleasure then its worth is inconsequential!
Sorry… Do not understand…?
Your user profile!
If you click on my Avatar/picture you can see my user profile which mainly lists my system - if I click on yours it says its hidden!
I can see it now!
If that’s a cheap system mine is from Poundland!!!
You have way more items than I do…
Everything I own is either old, or pre-loved - or both. The newest is my XPS2 (pre-DR), from 2005. After that its my 2002 CDX2. My oldest Naim box is my CB-era 250, from 1985 - but my Linn LP12 is from 1981… 
Not bad to say that all the electronics were replaced this year - I’m a “lait” developer - and its all 2nd hand apart from the Core which is a grade B refurb! Only bits new are a Naim DC1 and the NACA5 speaker cable!
Who’d have thought u can get that at Poundland?
It is still sealed waiting for me to set up a multichannel system!
Do you know when the 4-Channel version was made?
Back in 1971, or in 2020?
It is supposed to be the original quad mix. Here is a Google translated text from the cdjournal website (Dec 2019):
Miles Davis’s 1971 album “Live Eve” (SACD hybrid SICJ10012-35,000 yen + tax) consisting of live sound sources and studio recordings is a SACD hybrid specification that includes 4ch mix sound sources It will be released on January 22 (Wednesday). Three types of sound sources are recorded: SACD 4ch mix and stereo mix, and CD stereo mix. The 4ch mix of the front and rear is a sound source recorded in released in March 1973 and can be said to be a long-awaited revival release. The stereo mix that can be heard on SACD and CD is newly mastered from the analog master.
Please let me know what that sounds like when you get a 4 channel system working.
As you probably know, the tracks on that album are from a 3-set gig at Washington D.C. Cellar Club on the 19th Dec 1970 (last of a 4 night run) - plus other recordings made by quite a different band a few months earlier in Columbia’s Studio B.
Perhaps the latter may have been mic-ed up for 4-channel sound.
Maybe when you open it the liner notes will explain how each of these very different sources was mic-ed, mixed and mastered.
In the meantime, there’s always this CD which shows how the band evolved over those 4 days.
Yes I have that set in digital files. I’ll have a listen sometime in June as I am away travelling 'till then.
That’s interesting. I have both versions, but funnily enough I prefer the RVG remaster. I upgraded many of the initial BN CD releases with the RVG remasters and without exception prefer the remastered versions. I suppose we must all hear things differently.
The RVG masters are louder, most definitely, but I just find them dynamically lacking. As you pointed out though ymmv.
