Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon - Best sounding CD (updated)

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by AnyColourYouLike, Oct 21, 2011.

  1. bluesaddict

    bluesaddict High Tech Welder

    Location:
    Loveland, Colorado
    I voted other because my CP35 3017 non-TO/non-CDP was not listed. I have the Black Face and the UD1 and my CP35 is my go disc.
     
  2. ricks

    ricks Senior Member

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    No one said anything in this thread to justify that kind of nasty response, where in effect you call every BT owner a liar - NO ONE! BTW nearly the same thing could be said in reverse.


    I am not voting due to the poll being flawed; different masterings are grouped together and some identical masterings are split up. In addition I've heard less than half of the choices on the list and that's my minimum cutoff to vote. I also believe those who only have heard one of the choices should refrain from voting as well.

    My thought is the OP should request this thread be deleted, then start a new one with corrected choices......
     
  3. Rock Slag

    Rock Slag New Member

    Will skip voting, too many errors in way choices are presented.

    I just finished listening to the 2011. Meh, is my only comment.
     
  4. RedRaider99

    RedRaider99 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Dallas, TX
    I don't know which one I like anymore, I don't have the time to listen to the 4 or 5 versions I have on CD all at once.

    To the OP: maybe use this for your reference list, as he identifies similar/different masterings used on the various releases:
    http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/DUSCDPF.htm
     
  5. acjetnut

    acjetnut Senior Member

    Location:
    USA
    Mine cost less then $11.99...
     
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  6. vinyl diehard

    vinyl diehard Two-Channel Forever

    The Blackface is the same mastering as the Black Triangle, non-TO. I have no idea how someone can say the BT is better than the BF when the only difference is the paintjob. Probably need to justify spending 3-4 times as much for the same sound.
     
  7. thetrout

    thetrout Forum Resident

    Location:
    Phoenix, AZ
    My Harvest Blackface non-TO cost a couple bucks at a swap meet. In your face, Best Buy!
     
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  8. Yardbird

    Yardbird Forum Resident

    MFSL
     
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  9. I have the 1988 Mobile Fidelity UDII CD, the 1994 EMI U.K. remaster CD that used the 1992 Doug Sax, Mastering Lab remaster and the 2003 SACD/CD hybrid.

    I haven't performed a listening shoot-out on them yet.
     
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  10. eyeCalypso

    eyeCalypso Forum Resident

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    Colorado, USA
    Yeppers! :laugh:
     
  11. The 1990s Doug Sax, The Mastering Lab remaster of Dark Side Of The Moon was done in 1992 as documented in the U.K. 1994 reissue/remaster with the extended booklet and custom label artwork.
     
  12. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialistâ„¢

    Location:
    B.C.
    Have you ever run into two identical [same pressing plant/same matrix #] CDs that sound different?
     
  13. pinkrudy

    pinkrudy Senior Member

    i heard the mfsl, sax, and japan cds...liked japan best(toshiba)
     
  14. Is my purchase holier than thou?

    I recently bought an EMI blackface (Harvest CDP 7 46001 2; Made in Japan). The matrix is: CP35-3017 33D1 TO. The EAC track peak levels are: 39.9 / 43.3 / 70.1 / 55.2 / 72.3 / 44.5 / 53.9 / 54.6 / 61.2

    Now, is this the same mastering as the "holy grail"?
     
  15. Electric

    Electric The Medium is the Massage

    Is there a CD version that beats the SACD layer of the SACD? That's all I want to know.
     
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  16. Lyle_JP

    Lyle_JP Forum Curmudgeon

    Location:
    Danville, CA, US
    They sure don't sound the same to me. The Shine On disc has a very different character than the 20th Anniversary, which came out only a year later, and stayed in print longer than any CD of Dark Side (at least here in the States).

    I know they're made from the same Doug Sax remastering effort, but something is very different. Maybe one is exactly out-of-phase from the other, or maybe there's some different EQ. I'm not certain. You can clearly see that the peak levels don't match.

    I wish foobar2000 had included the Shine On disc as part of his exhaustive comparison of nearly all the redbook versions of DSotM.
     
  17. eyeCalypso

    eyeCalypso Forum Resident

    Location:
    Colorado, USA
    I've seen varying opinions on the quality of the stereo SACD layer. I guess a question could be, which cd's do the stereo SACD beat?
     
  18. unpede

    unpede Forum Resident

    The voting option does not make much sense if all the voters didn't hear all the listed releases. Now, who did actually listen to all of these in a way that allows you to decide which one is best?
     
  19. OnTheRoad

    OnTheRoad Not of this world

    Try this link...it originates here on the SH Forums...this is an older analysis than the one RedRaider99 linked to in post #29 above. Same author, Vernon Fitch.

    http://pinkfloydarchives.com/Articles/DSOTMCDM.htm

    The guy lists 11 masterings up through the 2003 SACD hybrid.

    I have mastering 6 (late 80s Capitol, with an RE1 in matrix) http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/DUSCDPF.htm#DSOTM16 , 7 (MFSL http://www.pinkfloydarchives.com/DUSCDPF.htm#DSOTMUD, 10 (2003 SACD hybrid) and the 2011 (Immersion boxset edition)

    *oh and...of what I have, I vote for the MFSL.
     
  20. PhilBiker

    PhilBiker sh.tv member number 666

    Location:
    Northern VA, USA
    Poll had me confused.
     
  21. Daniel Plainview

    Daniel Plainview God's Lonely Man

    I vote for the one in the Shine On box.
     
  22. Rose River Bear

    Rose River Bear Senior Member

    I have listened to around ten different versions of Dark Side. I own six versions and the others were friends Cds.
    The Black Triangle is my favorite. I picked the BT over the Harvest BF five out of five in blind tests. I feel the bass is tighter and the midrange is a little more mellow on the BT.
     
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  23. LeeS

    LeeS Music Fan

    Location:
    Atlanta
    I find the detail and dynamics of the SACD to match more closely my German LP which I think has some of the best sound I have heard.

    P.S. I have all the CDs on this title. The silverface Harvest is really nice.
     
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  24. LeeS

    LeeS Music Fan

    Location:
    Atlanta
    32 votes for the Mofi? Really? That should be a banning offense.
     
  25. John Carsell

    John Carsell Forum Resident

    Location:
    Northwest Illinois
    A lot of difference between the UD 1 and UD 2.
     

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