Pink Floyd remastered again

[Wmcmanus]

It is a shame that the labels keep neglecting the Syd Barrett albums. Oh well at least we got a proper mono CD of Piper.

Syd didn't even know about those albums! Or I should say, he sort of knew, but sort of didn't... it was a little fuzzy to him, which is what makes those albums so durned interestin'

[Synchro Belt Drive]

A good remaster of "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" would be very interesting. It's one of my favourite 'weird' albums and a very fun listen.

[deepak]

http://achtungbaby.u2.com/

Now you can have Bono's sunglasses to go with that scarf. Sunglasses edition supposed to be ~ $400 or 500. I can't think of a more desperate move than that by the music industry

[Wmcmanus]

http://achtungbaby.u2.com/

Now you can have Bono's sunglasses to go with that scarf. Sunglasses edition supposed to be ~ $400 or 500. I can't think of a more desperate move than that by the music industry

I agree. It's getting to be cartoonish.

[roadtonowhere08]

Christ, almost $600 for the "Uber" edition?

"That Steven Wilson has NOTHING on us..."

Out of curiosity, how much of this is the band's decision, and how much of this is the label? I imagine a band as large as U2 would have at least some say in these things.

Edited August 8, 2011 by roadtonowhere08

[MoonShine]

Well they're out now, anyone give a listen?

I heard some of the "Discovery" edition Animals, Wall & DSM today.

Sounded pretty dang good to my 50yr-old-been-to-too-many-concerts-in-my-youth led ears.

[aardvark baguette]

This excites me much more than any box set ever will

http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/77001/Pink_Floyd-Wish_You_Were_Here-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD

I wish AP could do the entire catalog, I'd buy it.

But WYWH is my favorite by far, so I'm covered.

[hwkn]

I listened to Umagumma and Wish You Were Here today and they're quite good imho.

[deepak]

Not going to bother seeing if the mastering is better on DSOTM, but the Wembley concert sounds better than any bootleg of that show. It sounds really good.

[arnaud]

I haven't followed the re-release of recent years so I literally jumped of my seat when I listened to The Wall (from the discovery box) tonight, after a 10+ year hiatus. Between the remaster and the upgrade in my listening system, I'd say I was rather pleasantly surprised by the sound. It's simply awesome sounding through the 009!

[RudeWolf]

I'm a bit cautious when getting modern remasters of classic records. Most of the time they end up being louder and with a narrow dynamic range. Maybe I'm wrong. I sure hope so.

[arnaud]

I'm a bit cautious when getting modern remasters of classic records. Most of the time they end up being louder and with a narrow dynamic range. Maybe I'm wrong. I sure hope so.

Incidentally, I was checking this while listening to the wall and while most of my rock albums don't often exceed 25dB of dynamics range, there are plenty of moments on this one in the -40 to -60dB range. I no longer have the original CD version to compare, but I doubt very much any dynamic compression was applied to this remaster, it actually very much sounds like an "old school" mastering job with plenty of dynamics. Having said that, it is maximizing redbook dynamic range with peak levels near 0dB.

[deepak]

The 2011 Animals remaster is very good (maybe the best). I will see about posting up some samples of it, Sax remaster and the first pressing Japan CD.

[kevin gilmore]

Got the wish you were here sacd yesterday, dropped everything else to

listen to it. Just amazing. Lots of stuff that was never audible now comes

thru with clarity.

[Torpedo]

SACD or the new BluerayDisc release, Kevin?

[Synchro Belt Drive]

I'll have to consider a few remasters...