Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Sacd Review

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Pinkish Floyd – Wish You Were Here

Label :	Analogue Productions – PFR25 , Analogue Productions – 19075810342 , Pink Floyd Records – PFR25 , Pinkish Floyd Records – 19075810342
Format :	SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country :	USA & Europe
Released :	Dec 28, 2018
Genre :	Stone
Manner :	Prog Rock, Classic Rock

one		Smoothen On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) Saxophone – Dick Parry Written-Past – David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Roger Waters	13:33
2		Welcome To The Machine Written-By – Roger Waters	7:23
3		Have A Cigar Vocals – Roy Harper Written-By – Roger Waters	five:08
4		Wish Yous Were Here Written-By – David Gilmour, Roger Waters	v:36
five		Smoothen On Y'all Crazy Diamond (Parts vi-9) Written-By – David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Roger Waters	12:xxx

• Authoring [DSD Authoring for SACD] – Gus Skinas
• Backing Vocals – Carlena Williams, Venetta Fields
• Bass Guitar, Vocals – Roger Waters
• Design [Original Sleeve Pattern - Assisted Past], Photography By [Assisted By] – Howard Bartrop, Jeff Smith (17), Peter Christopherson, Richard Manning (iii)
• Design [Original Sleeve Design], Photography By – Hipgnosis (two)
• Design [SACD Bundle Designed Past] – StormStudios
• Drums – Nick Stonemason
• Engineer – Brian Humphries
• Engineer [Assisted By] – Peter James
• Graphics [Original Graphics By] – George Hardie N.T.A.*
• Guitar, Vocals – David Gilmour
• Keyboards, Pianoforte, Vocals – Richard Wright
• Lyrics By – Roger Waters
• Mastered By [5.one and Stereo Mastering] – James Guthrie, Joel Plante
• Mixed By [five.1 Environment Mix - Banana Engineer] – Joel Plante
• Mixed Past [v.1 Surround Mix] – James Guthrie
• Photography Past [Band Photography By] – Jill Furmanovsky, Phil Taylor (5), Wallas Eaton
• Producer – Pink Floyd
• Saxophone – Dick Parry ( tracks: 1, 5 )
• Vocals – Roy Harper ( tracks: three )

Barcode and "Disc(s) Made in Federal republic of germany/Packed In USA" on sticker.

Issued in a hardcover book-like sleeve with viii-page booklet, includes six post cards with anthology artwork.

• Barcode (Text on sticker ) : one 90758 10342 6
• Barcode (Scanned on sticker) : 0190758103426
• Matrix / Runout (Inner Ring) : ['arvato digital services' logo] 54762222/B0000254SA D 22
• Matrix / Runout (Outer Ring) : ['arvato digital services' logo] 54762223/B0000254SA 21
• Mastering SID Lawmaking (Inner Ring) : IFPI LP73
• Mastering SID Lawmaking (Outer Ring) : IFPI LB 50
• Mould SID Code (Showtime) : IFPI 07G6
• Mould SID Code (2d) : IFPI 07N9

This is for sure the best digital version of this anthology available - it's lovely.

Seeing as about of the digital (and analog) releases of the past decade are sourced from the same mastering and same digital files, it really comes down to whether you adopt your music with added aurally-pleasing playback stage distortion (vinyl), or non (digital).

And yeah - fifty-fifty as someone who is nowhere near old enough to be a Pinkish Floyd fan and has no overt attachment to the ring - this is worth going out of your fashion to mind to in multichannel.

Edited 3 years ago

Just a quick review of this Analogue Productions SACD version (2018 reissue) - The printed hardcover booklet case is prissy, and adds to the sentimental value of the record - there are small format postcards in the booklet, reminding of the original LP release (which I had purchased at the fourth dimension).

The sonic value of this edition lies substantially in the five.1 mix - lush and relaxed, with a lot of free energy in the loud parts, the presentation allows many details to appear that I had never actually noticed before. The tape becomes more than relaxed in parts, and more oppressive in others (equally it should exist), and information technology becomes more of a coherent whole equally you listen to both sides in a continuous play. The multichannel mix is really the chief jewel in this release - information technology will be revealing even to the most skeptical of multichannel engineering science. If yous get a take chances to demo some multichannel setup at a hifi dealer of at some audiophile friend's, this is certainly one record to bring along.

However, the stereo mix of the SACD (DSD avant-garde resolution) did non 'impress' me as much, possibly because my expectations were too high. Information technology does not have the 'wow factor', as they say, of the multichannel mix. In fact, I checked with an before CD version I accept from the tardily 1990s (LP replica), and I can run across some improvements in parts, only it's definitely not a night and day difference. In fact, I plant that some of the medium frequencies were a little harsh in the first parts of the record (Smooth on You Crazy Diamond part 1-5 and Welcome to the Motorcar), which I didn't feel in the LP versions that I accept. I find that the 2d office of the tape is free from any harshness, and very pleasant (the terminal tracks really stand out, much more than than before), so information technology may exist a subjective impression, or a case of adjusting my expectations.

In any outcome, I retrieve fifty-fifty the recent vinyl reissue (2016) feels more "organic", or "in the flesh", to apply a floydian illustration, than the stereo mix on this SACD. Speaking of vinyl, apart from the original LP pressing that I have worn out over the past 40 years, I think the best vinyl versions of Shine on You Crazy Diamond (part 1-five) that I take had on vinyl to this date were the 2016 remaster and the version on the Echoes box set which was pressed over a single side. I never had any rare of audiophile limited editions to compare them with, so maybe there are better versions out at that place.

(Notation on the multichannel mix : I never had a chance to mind to the original quad mix (which is included in the Immersion box fix), then the 5.1 multichannel mix may not be such an improvement from that version. The original quad mix of Nighttime Side of the Moon which was released with the Immersion box set was much better than the 5.1 mix from the SACD release of the early 2000s, so it may be worth checking the quad mix earlier buying this version.)

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Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/13026401-Pink-Floyd-Wish-You-Were-Here

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