I am looking to buy Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" on MFSL CD. I see them available on ebay in Ultradisc and Ultradisc II versions. Is there a difference in sound between the two of them? Was Ultradisc II a natural progression in sound quality by MFSL?
Thanks a lot for your response to my post guys. It seems that the original pressing made in Japan may have some quality advantage over the US pressing. I will also look for the Japanese mini lp editions.
I bought the Japanese faux mini-lp pressing of Animals and I think it is terrible. Mine sounds bright, harsh, and devoid of bass. I can not recommend that disc. I do enjoy my UDII MFSL DSOTM, which I bought used a couple of years ago. I would say the MFSL mastering is no better than my Wish You Were Here remaster by Doug Sax, which is outstanding, IMHO. Good Luck, Charlie.
Yeah...the MFSL DSOTM mastering may have been superior at the time (late 80s? very early 90s?), but mastering technology has improved a great deal since then. I'm not saying that a current remastering is necessarily going to sound better, but it *should* sound better due to technological advances (of course there is always the mastering engineer to consider, and no amount of modern equipment will make a bad engineer's work sound good).
I picked up the latest WYWH new remastering (Capitol, I think), and it was horrible. Boomy in the mid-bass, not deep bass, compressed sound, too peppy in the mid/highs.
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