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In Reply to: RE: New Pink Floyd Releases...no MLP? posted by Charles Peterson on September 28, 2011 at 22:10:49

Hey folks,
I have been on the fence on the whole 'immersion' sets and finally ordered up 'wish you were here.' I think mainly because of the cool swag that comes with it. The latest 'Why Pink Floyd' SACD for DSoTM was the same release as the 2006 version and the vinyl is the same as the 30th anniversary.

I have been waiting for a hi-rez 2ch version of Wish You Were Here for a long time and, alas, I had to decide between the SACD and the 'immersion' swag set. I'll check out the 5.1 2ch downmix to see how that goes. 600kbps is 1/2 the resolution of lossless CD compression so it will probably be a step backwards.
On Tuesday, I picked up the RBCD versions of Animals, Final Cut, Division Bell, Momentary, and Meddle... I have only had time to listen to Animals and I think James Guthrie did a pretty good job and it sounds pretty close to the OBI Japanese Version I have, but a wee bit compressed.
I was one of the suckers that bought the 'oh by the way...' expensive box set thinking that it had all new remasters, but it turned out to be nothing but re-packaging.
I am curious if anyone picked up the immersion of DSoTM to let us know how the 5.1, or even Blu-ray turned out.
Perhaps Guthrie's cat played a role.... (see link)
das boot recording (Open in New Window)

Edits: 09/29/11 09/29/11

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RE: 2ch? - Michi 23:54:04 10/01/11 (2)
I have both the Discovery box set and the Oh By The Way set; I can compare if you want to know -- I think OBTW was kind of a "collectors art piece" more than even trying to say it was remastering -- the LP replicas and all. Discovery is definitely remasters, of course, just redbook 44.1/16.
I do also have the DSOTM Immersion set, just got it a few days ago. I've been listening to the Blu-Ray 24/96 on my Oppo and I think it's quite good... (Since I work with the SA Center though, I'm biased a bit towards the SACD :) - No hard feelings in this forum though; I take Hi-Rez where I can get it, and advocate it too; I'm certainly pro DVD-A.)
What I don't understand is why both 448 and 640kbps versions of the lossy mixes were put on to the DVD. What's the point of that? I have to look at it closer but as far as I know it's just DD 5.1 codec... Why even include the 448? "Here's an OK quality version and, just in case you wanna hear it really crappy, go to this track."
I'm guessing it's something to do with system compatibility... and probably will have a 'duh moment' shortly after posting this.

Edits: 10/01/11
- RE: 2ch? - hwkn 08:15:47 10/02/11 (1)
  Not all dvd players can play the 640kbps version so that's why they included the 448kbps version.
  - Thanks, makes sense then. (nt) - Michi 23:08:08 10/02/11 (0)
    nt

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