Anyone heard the Toshiba EMI Pink Floyds

Anyone?

Thanks, everybody. I will try to find out more.

I had a hard time believing that Pink Floyd would have let anyone other than Steve Sax touch their master tapes, (from what I hear.) I have the Sax "Wish You Were Here" and it is very good. If this is a reissue, somehow, of his work, I would be happy to know it.

They are $27.99 US from Music Direct. And they do describe them as a "Japanese mastering." ??? !!! Charlie

The person I talked to today at Music Direct says that this is a Japanese mastering from the mid 90's. He reported that he had heard DSOM and Animals from this batch; while he prefered the MoFi DSOM, he liked Animals better than other versions he had heard.

He did tell me, as I pressed for more info on the mastering, that most people were buying them, not for the mastering, but for the "album mini-covers." So, somewhere along the line we went from the flier stating, "they're the best digital versions we've ever heard," to most people buying them for the collector plastic and paper covers. That is not reassuring, to me.

I shall throw my money in the hat and give one or two a try. If they are bad, I will come back and whine a bit.

Charlie

If you like your Pink Floyd devoid of bass and on the shrill side, get these EMI pressings. This is the kind of mix, IMHO, that begs for tone controls, (digital please, and hurry.)

The psuedo lp packaging is kind of cool, and the Japanese writing let me get my son, (the Pokemon master,) interested in my "Japanese edition" cd.

Charlie