Best "Wish You Were Here"

I,m surprised at how overlooked Pink Floyds Animals is. I love that album and the Japanese pressing is great. Cheers

When the urge strikes me to listen to Rock, Pink Floyd are usually in the line up somewhere.

Best Shine on you Crazy Diamond, my preference is the live version from the vinyl box set of Pulse, UK pressing.

Having seen them live a few times the experience was riveting to say the lease.

Their Dark Side of the Moon tour with the use of quadraphonic surround sound and heavy dense fog through out Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Canada stands out in my mind... Over 36 years have gone by and its still vivid when I think about it.
So yes I'm parshall to Floyds live recordings.

Which ever your favorite album, Floyd certainly put a lot of effort into their recorded releases and for the most part many first or early domestic and over seas pressings are decent. Don't worry there is total garbage pressings also everywhere.Later issues to new re-issues of today.
For the hard core there may exist of any given album that one splendid set of pressings that trumps the rest sonically.
For me Meddle, my favorite Floyd studio Lp, is an eye opener.

Loss of interest in SACD? There are now over 6,000 releases (check out SACD (dot) NET, a "neutral" reference source).

Yes, the "mass market" American consumer never developed any "interest" and the pop/rock market have "lost interest", but the format is alive and well.

A search found Theo's remark above - sad to say, doesn't seem to be any response from the "powers that be" about WYWH, which has perhaps my favorite saxophone solo - with the right speakers, the imaging is wonderful. Not to mention the high quality of the album as a whole.

"Powers that be" - get WYWH released on surround sound! I'd vote for SACD, but if there's an audio-only Bluray format ready for market (that is, beyond just a theoretical "capability"), then be pioneers in BluRay...

But get WYWH release in surround sound!

For you hard core Pink Floyd fans, I would like to bring attention back to Pink Floyds vinyl 4 Lp deluxe box set of Pulse.
"This is what all Rock Lps should sound like" however unfortunately they do not.

The best of the best of other Rock Lps that I have are quite good though only a handful approaching the sonics of Pulse.
Incidentally two other Floyd Lps are among this handful, The Wall and Meddle.

This 14 year old UK box set is a tour de force block buster that has sonic consistency on all eight sides, a rarity indeed.

I would easily rate this recording as the very best among my record collection in the Rock category.

Of course it's rare though like anything else that exist on vinyl, good clean first release mint and near mint pressings do turn up found or for sale on occasion.
Though this box set was released as limited edition with no further re-pressings.

This is a must own....