Anyone heard the Toshiba EMI Pink Floyds

Warning: The Toshiba_EMI UmmaGumma outer jacket is larger than a standard CD case and therefore does not fit into my storage cabinet... Surprise!!!

dweller: interesting. the capitol/emi reissues are in cardboard sleeves that replicate the lp covers, but they simply envelop a standard jewel box. guess we now have a sure way to differentiate the toshiba's from the other reissues. from your description, however, the new cd's use the same remasterings done in 92-94 in the usa. hmmm. -kelly

Thanks, everybody. I will try to find out more.

I had a hard time believing that Pink Floyd would have let anyone other than Steve Sax touch their master tapes, (from what I hear.) I have the Sax "Wish You Were Here" and it is very good. If this is a reissue, somehow, of his work, I would be happy to know it.

They are $27.99 US from Music Direct. And they do describe them as a "Japanese mastering." ??? !!! Charlie

Kelly,Charlie et al,
This is getting confusing but probably only to me.
First up the EMI releases were first,remastered in 1992-94 as you state Kelly by Doug Sax.
In 1997 Columbia (not EMI)released 30th Anniversary editions of some Floyd albums-DSOM was not included for some reason but these included the statement "Digitally remastered under the bands supervision"-however on my copy of WYWH it says remastered by Doug Sax(doesn't give a date!).
Were these stickers misleading and actually only the packaging changed?
What complicates it for me is that both '97 versions of The Wall and WYWH sounded better to me than the '92 versions that I already had....you could for instance detect the ambient sounds at the start of both albums sooner than on the '92 versions....I guess they could just have mastered the '97 versions that bit louder.
I no longer have the 92 versions but I believed my ears at the time.
I'm off to a Floyd newsgroup to see if they can shed some light on this........
Any ideas here on Audiogon,are we just getting the same remasters constantly repackaged?
Ben

The person I talked to today at Music Direct says that this is a Japanese mastering from the mid 90's. He reported that he had heard DSOM and Animals from this batch; while he prefered the MoFi DSOM, he liked Animals better than other versions he had heard.

He did tell me, as I pressed for more info on the mastering, that most people were buying them, not for the mastering, but for the "album mini-covers." So, somewhere along the line we went from the flier stating, "they're the best digital versions we've ever heard," to most people buying them for the collector plastic and paper covers. That is not reassuring, to me.

I shall throw my money in the hat and give one or two a try. If they are bad, I will come back and whine a bit.

Charlie