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Best System for Pink Floyd


Someone who I never expected might listen to Pink Floyd was praising Dark Side of the Moon recently.

It made me realize that I have been listening to it for over 30 years now, and I still get something out of it every time, and also trust and rely on Pink Floyd to test the resoltuion and imaging of my audio components.

Which made me wonder:

Imagine if the only music you would ever listen to again was Pink Floyd, what components and in particular, what speakers would you suggest?

It would be fascinating to hear how you like to listen to Pink Floyd, as well as an interesting litmus test for capable and dynamic systems.
cwlondon
cwlondon OP
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Sonicbeauty

Yes, a good point re headphones....but still not as much fun as speakers which can resolve all the weird detail, while imaging well.

Hence, my question.

I disagree with the idea that anything which can play loud and/or low is up to the task.
mikelavigne
2,144 posts
 
a few points;

-the ideal Pink Floyd system must do scale and space very well.

-you must have a great tt to be able to hear everything that Roger Waters 'Amused to Death' original pressing tells you. much of the out of phase 'Q' sound information info is lost on less than SOTA tt's. also the UHQR of DSOTM is pretty damn good.

-it does not hurt to have a great reel to reel machine to play 15ips 1/4" master dubs of 'Wish You Were Here' and 'DSOTM'.

--your room needs lots of deep bass capability and be coherent on peaks for 'Fearless' from Meddle to sound ideal.

i like my room/system for all those attributes including the appropriate software. i know there are other issues but those are important.
unsound
7,311 posts
 
Dunlavy's?
cjfrbw
148 posts
 
Member Oneobgyn's Wilson/Lamm system with his reel to reel tapes of "The Wall" and DSOTM and Gotham subwoofers.
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