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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition Audio CD

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Pink Floyd Band: Pink Floyd
Title: Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition
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Release Date: 2003-03-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Speak To Me/Breathe 2: On The Run 3: Time 4: The Great Gig In The Sky 5: Money 6: Us And Them 7: Any Colour You Like 8: Brain Damage 9: Eclipse

If there was ever an album worthy of SACD
Luckily I have an Onkyo DVD player that supports this format, as my old Sony CD Player didn't. I received this as a gift since pretty much everyone who knows me is aware of how much I love Pink Floyd. It was a real treat for my ears to hear this in 5. 1. .


THIS is why I bought a SACD player.. really
I bought my SACD player just for this multichannel mix. I wanted this to come out on DVD-A. I am so happy I have it. And the SACD stereo mix is also top notch. .


30th anniversary edition
To hear Pink Floyd in multi-channel SACD is a true joy. To listen to Pink Floyd is always a pleasure. I feel the investment in an SACD player was well worth it.

It is interesting that Pink Floyd's original recording engineer was chosen to compile this re-issue, in lieu of the recording engineer used on the DSOTM album.

I feel the album merits consideration to purchase, and it surely gives my 5. 1 system a workout.


Great Gig in my living room
Frankly, I've been listening to this album, first on vinyl then on CD, since I was 15 (almost 30 years ago). My initial reaction to this SACD version of "The Dark Side of the Moon" wasn't that positive. My initial reaction to the SACD, which I listen to on a 5 speaker surround configuration, was that there is a lot more sound but a loss of focus. In particular, "The Great Gig in the Sky" seemed to suffer from the competing instrumentals. Comparing the two, I found that, not surprisingly, the original stereo mix of the album was not poorly produced. It skillfully brings forward the most interesting instrumentals or vocals throughout the album, while pulling the less significant contributors back a bit. The SACD version has a lot more bandwidth available, and it lays all the music out there without the liner notes. After a few listens, my ear has adjusted. The vocals from Great Gig sound like they used to, because I'm no longer focused on all that sound that wasn't there the last time I listened to the album. The SACD sound is enveloping and fantastic, and I'm no longer happy listing to the stereo CD, which I had been very happy to listen to for many years. Highly recommended to those with a SACD player and surround system.


Great surround sound that few will get to hear.
Others reviewing this album have explained the subtle nuances of the sound that, honestly, is well beyond my appreciation of music. I am not an audiophile. But I have loved this album since it first came out, I heard them perform it at Saratoga, NY in 1974. And I knew once cds became capable of surround sound, that this album would eventually be released in such a format. When the surround sound Dark Star of the Moon ("DSOTM")was released, I purchased it immediately, and I (a 50-something year old lawyer) laid in the middle of my living room with the lights out and had an amazing experience. Wonderful, huh?

Except Sony did not release it on DVD-audio so that everyone could have this experience. It manufactured it using it proprietary SACD format. This is not the first time Sony has left consumers in the lurch. (Remember Beta video, anyone?) There are probably more than 100 million DVD machines and perhaps 1 million SACD-capable players. Like laser-discs, this format has been left in the dust, EXCEPT Sony owns the rights to DSOTM. So those who were not stupid enough to buy an SACD-capable Sony player, will never get to hear this album in surround sound -- an album that should be heard in surround sound. Of course, I was one of the fools who bought an SACD capable machine so I get to listen to it as it should be heard.

Maybe Sony will relent and offer this album in dvd-audio at some time. It did this with one of the top ten albums of all time -- Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. At first it was released in SACD. But then, once Sony realized that SACD was not going to make it, it offered that album in DVD-audio. So there is hope. But in the meantime, I've now got three dvd players crowding my audio/visual set up: (1)the Sony because it is SACD capable and I have albums like DSOFM, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms, Big Brother's Cheap Thrills, and Roxy Music's Avalon which may be heard in surround sound only through an SACD player, (2) an oppo that can play any disc from any region (I've got some British comedy series, such as Green Wing, that is only available only as a Region 2 set, and (3) a blu-ray player. (Thank goodness i wasn't sucked into buying an HD-DVD player. )

I sincerely hope that Sony does the right thing and releases this in a DVD-audio format. It should not be punishing those who were smart enough to realize that SACD was going to lose the surround sound competition.
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