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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
cwlondon OP
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Donc55

Re "only a fool would build a system around ONE group!"

As you can see by the growing number of responses to this thread - it's just a fun question.
baka1969
101 posts
 
The best I've heard Pink Floyd is with my headphone setup. The HD800 being amped wih the three channel Beta22 amp and Sigma22 power supply sounds pretty amazing. Laying back and letting the music of Floyd run through you is what it's all about.
bongofury
1,160 posts
 
They were mixed on ATC speakers, so not surprisingly, sound amazing. On a budget: try their 16s or 19s. Money no object: 150s.
kbarkamian
647 posts
 
I love DSOTM and The Wall on my system - Bryston B60, Rega Apollo, and Audio Physic Yara Evolution Bookshelves. I also have them on vinyl, and my Pro-Ject 1Xpression with Speedbox II and Dynavector 10x5 presents them in an equally well, yet different way.

I've heard both albums on several systems. My favorites were ATC active floorstanders with an ATC preamp and Linn LP12 with Lyra cart, and Mac seperates with Totem Arros.

My only criticism of both albums is I think they used a bit too much echo in the vocals. Sometimes it gets a bit distracting to me.
kbarkamian
647 posts
 
Regarding headphones vs speakers - both do different things. One isn't completely better than the other IMO.
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