Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (Blu-ray to DTS 5.1)

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (Blu-ray to DTS 5.1)

James Guthrie 2003 5.1 Surround Mix (previously released only on SACD) in high resolution audio at 96kHz/24-bit.

Blu-ray
Of course the main attraction of the Blu-ray is the high resolution audio which offers us the 5.1 SACD mix of Dark Side of the Moon which was accomplished in 2003, now presented in LPCM 5.1 at 96kHz/24-bit. For the record, the Blu-ray also contains the 1973 stereo mix in LPCM 2.0, 96kHz/24-bit as well as the 1973 quadrophonic mix presented in LPCM 4.0, 96kHz/24-bit. This may sound like heresy, but there were actually several songs I personally preferred in the LPCM 4.0 mix, though it can’t be denied that the added spaciousness and especially low end of the 5.1 made me return repeatedly to that mix to resample various moments of each song. While the 4.0 mix perhaps offers more substance in terms of midrange, simply because instruments are slightly more massed, the 5.1 is incredibly spacious and the surround activity (identical to the SACD 5.1 mix, obviously) is often incredible, if sometimes quite subtle. The washes of guitar, at times so redolent of the Beatles (especially tunes like “Because”), bounce gently between the side channels, but the most obvious use of discrete channelization comes in “Money,” when the iconic opening percussion riff which Nick Mason assembled out of seven pieces of spliced tape of sound effects (as he discusses in the documentary also included on the Blu-ray) ping pong back and forth between left and right channels giving a nice whiplash effect.

As the guys themselves mention in the documentary, the 5.1 mix (which they were commenting on after the SACD version, not the Blu-ray) does allow the listener into the music as never before, and that allows those who may have grown up with the album to discover all sort of new treasures buried in the multi-track recordings. I personally had never heard the spoken elements quite so clearly before, and several small instrumental colorings, like the drop of a Fender Rhodes note here or there suddenly sparkle with new found sonic brilliance. ~ Review by Jeffrey Kauffman, September 27, 2011

EC1037	Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (Blu-ray to DTS 5.1)
Label:	EMI Records Ltd
Catalog#:	50999 029434 9 7
Format:	DTS Audio CD | Source: Blu-ray of “Immersion Edition”
Encoder:	DTS HD Encoder Suite
Released:	2011
Barcode:	5 099902 943121
Style:	Classic Rock, Progressive Rock

 

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Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (Blu-ray to DTS 5.1)

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01. Speak To Me
02. Breathe In The Air
03. On The Run
04. Time
05. The Great Gig In The Sky
06. Money
07. Us And Them
08. Any Colour You Like
09. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
Total Time: 00:43:00

 

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Digital remaster ℗ 2011
The copyright in this music is owned by Pink Floyd Music Ltd under exclusive licence to EMI Records Ltd.
© 2011 Pink Floyd Music Ltd.

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WARNING!!!
Audio Format: Digital Surround DTS 5.1
To play DTS CDs you need to have equipment that supports DTS and a surround sound system that is capable of decoding the DTS signal.
Don’t play this on equipment that isn’t compatible because you’ll only hear static!