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The Rambling Story: Will never forget the first time I heard this album. My sophomore year at college, a friend said "You have to hear the new Pink Floyd album". At lunch we went over to his off campus apartment. He played it on a turntable connected to a monster sized Realistic Quadraphonic receiver with large Optimus speakers. We sat in the middle of all four speakers, with the volume turned up to lease-ending loud. Listened to it straight thru, then went back to class with our ears still ringing. I remember all this just like it was 45 years ago................................... The Review: PRO: ** Sounds great, a must buy at $35 - $40 CON: ** Comes in a goofy non-standard size package (digibook) which doesn't fit neatly in storage with other media. Why didn't they just put it in a standard cd jewel case like the DSOTM SACD! Seriously, what (expletive deleted) idiot made this genius decision? Solution - put the actual disc in a standard cd jewel case, and try not to lose the original packaging.Read full review
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If you haven't experienced multichannel SACD yet and you love music, now is a good time to jump in. You can pick up a good player cheap on the used market and the listening experience is better than DVD audio or Blu Ray because you don't need a monitor for the menu and each output has a separate RCA connection instead of needing to be decoded from a toslink optical connection. The definition is amazing and the 5.1 separation creates a totally new experience. Especially on this album the 5.1 version is a different mix which will sound fresh. Even if you think you know the album, if you haven't heard the 5.1 remix, you haven't heard everything! Wish You Were Here is one of the most remarkable Pink Floyd records I have ever owned and on the short list of the best classic rock albums of all time. If you love this music as much as I do, get your hands on this! You won't regret it!Read full review
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For anyone with a sound system where the nuances of such a finely crafted album are visible and beautiful on almost any of the myriad CD masters of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, this SACD will still impress. As well as the much talked about "missing piano" the overall mastering by Guthrie is as good as ever and this album is here presented in the best format imaginable, unless you have the original vinyl. The one criticism I would have is that although it is unquestionably the best digital master [save possibly the hi-res in the Immersion boxset, but you have to buy the whole box for that, and this is easily on par] it wasn't as spectacular as the Dark Side of the Moon SACD that came out a few years back - compared to that something seems to be lacking, or maybe that's just personal taste about which album is better. Regardless, if you have a system that can play SACD properly and you're a big Floyd fan you really can't go wrong with this album.Read full review
A pleasant surprise from the typical SACD packaging...I liked it. This was my first SACD order and hope to start my own collection, even though these are hard to come by. Many thanks!
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There are many excellent MultiChannel SACD's around which absolutely delight the aural senses. I confess to not being a huge Pink Floyd Fan. That being said. "Wish You Were Here" never sounded so good. This is clearly a superior recording & it makes you feel totally wrapted(pun intended) up in the whole multiChannel surround experience. A MUST have for any serious audiophile.
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