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Dark Side of the Moon

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This is a wonderful version of a wonderful album. One of the best things about the Mobile Fidelity CDs is that they allow a far better dynamic range in the music. Most CDs are engineered for maximum volume, at the price of music quality. There is a limit to how loud any sound on a CD can be. To make it sound louder the engineer compresses the sound, making more of the middle level sounds reach this maximum, causing a muddiness that can't be EQ'd out. MFSL Ultradisks will not sound as loud or blown out as a normal CD, and some people can't hear the difference in quality this allows because they're used to listening to garbage. Loudness is not quality, neither is the artificial emphasis that some engineers put on the highs to compensate for the horrible compression that has to be used to make a CD sound louder. The tremendous improvement in imaging this version has is instantly obvious to me. If it isn't loud enough invest in a better pre-amp. Your system isn't as good as you thought it was - just loud.

I had many issues of this album. I had it on LP, on ordinary CD, on CD from the Box Set and Japan LP version. I also listen and compared MOFI CD with SACD version. In the end MOFI Gold disc sounds the best. For those who have difficulty hearing I recommend syringing their ears first.

This recording speaks for itself in terms of production quality; this is a long-standing reference recording. The MFSL Gold CD version of this CD is EXCELLENT. I have been a part of the ultra high-end audio industry for over 30 years and only listen to reference quality systems; this transfer is incredibly well done. There are no gain (volume issues) or any lack of resolution in any area. I don't think the performance advantages over the standard and SACD versions are subtle. This is well worth the investment, and becoming rare. Buy it while its available ~

...and you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again, the sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, shorter of breath, one day closer to death..

now that is big-time lyrics.

The Dark Side of the Moon is what we call a concept album. All the songs connect to a central idea which in this case is insanity, exploring diferent concepts such as:war, alienation, evolution and life.

Now the music is simply incredible. The blending of sound textures in most of songs (breathe, the great gig in the sky, brain damage...), generating an erotic, relaxing and non-gravity ambient is the reason why I consider this album a keystone of modern music.

It is a master piece in lyrics, music and basically you can understarnd why they were able to come up with "the wall".

Buy it and frame it, it's a must!

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived a little girl who was scared to no end of Pink Floyd. Her eyes had mistakenly fallen upon the Delicate Sound of Thunder album, and her young mind could not comprehend why there was a picture of man wearing lightbulbs. She vowed that day that she would never let such freakish things corrupt her thoughts, ideas and ideals, and kept that promise for the next three years. The little girl was now becoming a woman and entering high school, and thus exposed to many new concerts and concepts. One day while exploring her options by rummaging through her mother's CD collection, she found an album known as Dark Side of the Moon. She was initially hesitant to play it, for she was still quite wary of the man wearing lightbulbs, but she took a deep breath and popped it into her CD player. Lo and behold, something was stirred within her. The instrumentals swept her away, and the lyrics touched her in a way music had never before done. She knew this music, she had heard it all before, but where...? Suddenly it hits her. She remembers a scene from when she was six years old, back when she still lived in a forest. She could picture her biological father, whom she had not seen in five years, sitting on their blue couch listening to this music. It had been one of his favorite albums, and has since become one of mine. From the chords that send chills down my spine to the wailing lyrics that make my heart cry out, this album evokes more emotion than any other could even come close to. This is Pink Floyd, their genius in music, not just sounds or words, but music in its truest sense. It is music that makes you think, makes you feel, music that lets you know you are here. Every time you listen to it, another aspect will reveal itself to you, for there is no way any one person can comprehend everything in that album. Another recommendation I would make is Us and Them: the Symphonic Pink Floyd. Many of the songs on it are from DSOTM, and in my opinion they are wonderfully done. At first it was hard for me to listen to, because I knew all the songs by heart from their original albums, the entrances, the chords, all the blips and bleeps found in them, and Us and Them doesn't follow exactly to that. But I think they captured the essence of the songs, and all through instruments, they didn't even have the lyrics to support them. I say that DSOTM is an album that anyone who appreciates classical rock must have in their collection. So what's stopping you from buying it?

This is my favorite Pink Floyd disc. I have heard nothing like it before!! Would recommend this disc to anyone who likes real music not that stuff they call music in the "90"'s The music on the disc is just incredible. I don't think anything comes close to the way it was produced or recorded. just awesome!!!

Man, its like this: This album was not created by people who see the world the way we do, it pulls you off your feet and lets you spin around. All I have to say is if you haven't gotten toasted and listened to it you haven't lived.

i originally owned this album on cassette tape years ago when i was a teen, then when the digitally remastered cd came out i bought it, but then my uncle bought the MFSL (Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs) gold cd version and when i listened to it i was amazingly astounded by how much better and more dynamic it sounded compared to my remastered copy. so i eventually bought this version because of that fact. if you can get a MFSL version of any album you're looking for don't look any further because MFSL's digital encoding processes are bar none to any other audio cd manufacturer out there, and that's no bullsh**

I recently purchased the Japanese version with the obi strip $200.00. Please save your money and buy this Mo-Fi version. I have both now. The Japanese (so called collectors issue) is slightly and I mean slightly better. The only way to tell the difference is if you have a high end system as I do. So again please save your $$$$$$$$ and buy the Mo-Fi cd which I rate as a 3 and the Japanese version as a 3.1 for sound quality.

This is the great album from Pink Floyd not remastered. In my opinion and that of many others that is the best way to listen to it. Plus the gold case is very nice, a very nice collectors album. Bottom line, get this to avoid the remastering on the other cd version.