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Dark Side of the Moon - Is MFSL really all that?

So I got a copy of the MFSL pressing of DSotM. I haven't done extensive comparisons, but one major thing I feel is missing from my original CD (which I have no idea right now exactly WHICH CD) is the kind of surround effects present in some of the tracks. MFSL sounds more like an acoustic cut, while the original CD sounds like an effects CD.

Is this right, and what people like about the MFSL pressing? Help me be a cognoscenti please.
erik_squires
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falconquest
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I have to admit that I was unmoved as well  by my MFSL copy. I used to listen to this LP at a friends house when I was in high school. We were listening to vinyl but that sounded way better on his mediocre system than my MFSL CD copy today. Hate to admit it but it's true.
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stereo5
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I have both the MFSL cd and vinyl and the vinyl is much better although not nearly as good as an original pressing I bought back in 1973.  The cd also seems to have much less gain than other cd's.
erik_squires OP
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The CD is pretty low volume, but the effects of the original are all missing too. Kind of unmistakable if you switch back and forth.
sevs
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As mentioned, it depends on your medication! Whenever I play any of my dozen pressings of LPs or SACD or that boxed set I just zone-out... ;-(    Which one is the best?  I will never know...
grinnell
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I can't speak to the MSFL release but when i opened my copy of DSOM after 30 years i found a nice surprise. 


Smoked it that night
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