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Best System for Pink Floyd


Someone who I never expected might listen to Pink Floyd was praising Dark Side of the Moon recently.

It made me realize that I have been listening to it for over 30 years now, and I still get something out of it every time, and also trust and rely on Pink Floyd to test the resoltuion and imaging of my audio components.

Which made me wonder:

Imagine if the only music you would ever listen to again was Pink Floyd, what components and in particular, what speakers would you suggest?

It would be fascinating to hear how you like to listen to Pink Floyd, as well as an interesting litmus test for capable and dynamic systems.
cwlondon
mikelavigne
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a few points;

-the ideal Pink Floyd system must do scale and space very well.

-you must have a great tt to be able to hear everything that Roger Waters 'Amused to Death' original pressing tells you. much of the out of phase 'Q' sound information info is lost on less than SOTA tt's. also the UHQR of DSOTM is pretty damn good.

-it does not hurt to have a great reel to reel machine to play 15ips 1/4" master dubs of 'Wish You Were Here' and 'DSOTM'.

--your room needs lots of deep bass capability and be coherent on peaks for 'Fearless' from Meddle to sound ideal.

i like my room/system for all those attributes including the appropriate software. i know there are other issues but those are important.
unsound
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Dunlavy's?
cjfrbw
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Member Oneobgyn's Wilson/Lamm system with his reel to reel tapes of "The Wall" and DSOTM and Gotham subwoofers.
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mikelavigne
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I think Samuel and Sonicbeauty have pretty much nailed the answer with the reference SACD 5.1 surround system, and headphones answers.

well; i'm a big SACD fan (i own about 1000 of them), a couple of years ago i did convert my 2-channel room to multi-channel (including a pair of f113 Fathoms) using SACD multi-channel as the source. one motivation was DSOTM 5.1. short answer; i ended up preferring my UHQR Lp of DSOTM to the 5.1. in fact; i also preferred the Allan Parson's Quad mix on DTS redbook to the Guthrie's 5.1 SACD mix. the SACD has more refinement but the Allan Parson's Quad mix has things in better balance.

a year later after getting into RTR and adding more tt's i removed multi-channel from my room.

then i heard the 15ips 1/4" master tape dub of DSOTM on the Studer.

game, set, match!

maybe someone someplace has a 1" 4-channel master tape of Parson's quad mix; that would likely be the ultimate 'holy grail' DSOTM if one had the proper RTR deck and quad system to play it on.

i have no comment on headphones.
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