Best System for Pink Floyd

Floyd sounds best to me via vinyl. After all, that is how it all started. I have come a long way from my AR speakers / Sansui Integrated with the table built in! Today I have Focal 1037's and two JL Audio F113's. A not too far second would be the " DSOM " SACD that I play on my EMM Labs CDSA SE. I have shed the strobe / black lights but I still induldge in the brewskis!

I don't think I could better what I have for Pink Floyd.

if you think PF is a good audio challenge, try the albums "Lighthouse Sun", "Deadwing" or "Fear Of a Blank Planet" by Porcupine Tree.

If the system is able to deliver the goods on most any classical or modern "loudness wars" recordings, including Hip Hop, metal and the likes, then I think it will handle most anything else with aplomb.

The finest reproduction I have ever experienced of that recording was at Phillips Crest National Studios in Hollywood--one of the largest producers of SACD's world wide. They had an amazing, enormous custom room built in with all the acoustic goodies one could want, including a door bigger and heavier than most bank vaults. The system was 5.1 of Eggleston Andras w/ sub, Halcro DM68 mono's on all and Mietner digital from end.

Never before or since have I heard SACD replayed the way it was obviously intended --near perfection. Literally, you could hear and feel helicopters flying overhead, voice and sound coming from specific points all around you and on the track Time, and almost shocking realism with the bells, bass and chimes all separated and in their own space. Then they played Gabriel's UP SACD and I almost fell off the chair, hearing information and scale literally missing from any other system I have heard that using SACD--including some huge systems. I'd give a lot of props to their great room and the meticulous set up.

In terms of experiences with SACD on a 5.1--that stands alone. In terms of more modest home listening I think any system with good balance and near full range capability can do DSOTM a lot of justice. To hear the 5.1 the way Guthrie and the band intended, find a killer surround set up.

As a long time fan of the "Floydsters" I have listened to them on many systems and always enjoyed it. Before I delve in to the dream system you suggest I would own for FLoyd music only, I must add the Maoman is right on que with the refernce to Porcupine Tree. I discovered them a few years back and I feel that PT picks up where PF leaves off. A continueum of the Floyd sound.
SO if I could afford it I would go with:
Wilson Sashas
McIntosh MC1201's
Audio Research REF5
Ayre C5xe-mp for CD/SACD
Linn LP12 with Ekos SE-Keel-Radikal and Urika
Lyra Olympos Cart
Cardas Clear IC's and Speaker Cable
That is about it, I know there is more expensive and better sound gear but these are components I have heard.
Oh and a fresh copy of Momentary Lapse of Reason to warm it all up.

I don't know if it's "the best" system for PF, but I heard the Burmester setup (cdp, amps, speakers) playing The Wall at CES 2009, and it was stunning.