Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Pink Floyd: DSOTM & WYWH DVD(A)

Blame my friend, but he found these DVD(A?)'s on the Internet of some previously unreleased Quad mixes of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.

DSOTM is definitely better sound quality wise than WYWH. I haven't heard the SACD version of DSOTM so I can't compare to it, but the mixes treat the rear channels the same as the front. In fact its the first time I have thought my QS4's were definitely not what I need to properly listen to these. (I think the bigger issue is the placement of my surrounds is far from idea for multichannel music)

I'm pretty geeked to have these thou. According to the threads on AVS Alan Parson's did the DSOTM at least. It was recently converted to DVD-A I guess. I don't have a DVD-A player but it sounds great in DTS (and DD).

I had a chance to listen to both and I still think the SACD (5.1) version sounds superior. DVD-A version which is a raw quad original mix is still very nice but I would pick the 5.1 mix anyday. Just personal choice I guess. I like use of center in 5.1 SACD mix - it anchors the sound when there is a need and feels the artificial gap betwen left and right. It also makes some panning effects more subtle and refined. Note that this has nothing to do with the format (SACD vs. DVD-A), just the mixes are quite different. I also thought that SACD had more "evolutionary" approach to mix - not too radically different from the original LP.

I love that DSOTM SCAD on 8 channel direct….

I think my universal player is doing something funky with it though. There is a gap, or silence between the tracks and I do not get this when I play the CD through any of my regular CD players. It’s distracting. Does this happen for you guys when playing SACD?

It may not be the player. As far as I know the CD and SACD tracks are completely different on the disk, they just happen to have the same music recorded on them. The SACD tracks could easily have gaps between them where the CD tracks do not. Just a thought...

Well that's what I was thinking, gaps between tracks. The only problem is this CD doesn't have gaps. I've never really known where one song ended and the other started. Good think I don't smoke pot or this would definately kill the effect this CD is suposed to have.....not that I'd know what that is of cource.

I listened to the DSOTM on SACD tonight and there are no gaps between songs.

Was that in six or eight channel direct, digital or HDMI?

Same here. There's some other problems with my Universal changer, but my SACD stuff is gapless. I wonder if there's a menu setting somewhere that does that?

7 channel direct using the Denon link, that I'm assuming is digital.

Yes, it is digital, but it can be somewhat funk-ay.