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The good is the combination of HQ Vinyl and Dolby Atmos Blu-ray - the official songbook with notes and chords as well as lyrics an added bonus and the Black & White full size photograph hardcover book is also cool. The not so much is the repetative discs - seems like they made several discs with exactly the same content - still trying to figure out blu-ray/DVD content - but the ATMOS and UHD stereo is incredible albiet could have been contained one just one Blu-ray - missing are any outakes or different versions of cuts like you got in the Immersion release a few years ago - you do get the live album both on CD and Vinyl.
Note: This Box set weighs a TON.... The packaging is the best I have ever seen on a box set - all discs are in separate slipcases so no discs flopping around at bottom of box so no disc scratching - what a relief - I had to send back my Wish you were here Immersion for that reason (scratched discs). The "Single" records in the size of a 45 RPM but with the smaller 33 1/3 RPM spindle holes are cool. Wall Posters look authentic to originals included with original Vinyl release back in 72 (I have it somewhere) & records are heavy gauge, not warped & perfect.. And like I said - the packaging can withstand a nuclear bomb - quadruple boxed... Is it worth the $$$$ - If you are a Pink Floyd Lover and want the ATMOS Mix (the only mix that comes close is the SACD DSD 5.1 surround from 2003 - played on a REAL DSD player not a DSD to PCM decoder.)
Added on 5/11/23: I wanted to clarify my last comment comparing the 2003 SACD 5.1 DSD encoded surround mix and the new Dolby ATMOS mix. What I meant to say was the 2003 DSD 5.1 SACD surround mix was the best multi-channel Surround Mix until the new Dolby ATMOS Surround mix found on the 50th Anniversary set only - both are excellent - but the ATMOS is superior assuming you have a properly equipped true Dolby ATMOS setup - meaning a Blu-ray player and surround sound processor that support and can decode the Dolby ATMOS format along with the appropriate number of speakers correctly positioned as per the Dolby ATMOS recommendations. My system uses an Oppo UDP 203 4K BluRay, DVDV, DVDA, SACD, DSD, CD etc... player, an Emotiva RMC-1 Surround Processor supporting Dolby ATMOS, DTS:X, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus, 5.1, 7.1 PCM & True DSD & DSD over PCM etc.. 3 high powered Subwoofers, main Def Tech (7) speakers powered by 300 Watt / channel amps & 4 10" Toshiba Ceiling speakers (front & Rear ATMOS) @ 100 Watts/channel. High Resolution Audio up 32 Bit @ 384 KBPS by comparison a standard CD is 16 Bit @ 44.1 KBPS audio resolution - Dark Side of the Moon - besides the remixed standard CD there are 5 High Definition mixes of the entire album on the 2 Blu-Ray Discs 1) Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 Mix, 24 Bit/96 KHz per channel 2) Stereo Mix DTS HD-MA 3) Surround 5.1 Mix DTS HD-MA 4) Stereo Mix 24 Bit /192 KHz uncompressed 5) Surround 5.1 Mix 24 Bit /96 KHz uncompressed.
DSD via SACD discs has been around for around 30+ years. SACDs were typically packaged as multi-layer discs with a regular CD quality copy of the album included with the High Definition DSD content so that the SACD could be played on regular CD players but when played on a SACD/DSD equipped disc player and a Receiver/Processor that could decode DSD (in either PCM format or True DSD - BEST Quality!) - you would hear the difference whether the DSD copy is in UHD Stereo Audio and/or a 5.1 UHD surround copy of the Album. Some SACDs contained all 3 formats of an Album, Standard CD, DSD UHD Stereo and DSD UHD 5.1 Surround. A fantastic format that unfortunately (like DVD-Audio) did not catch on- more popular in Japan and Europe - the special hardware / software required to read the disc (special laser required in player) and then decode the disc (Processor) - further complicated by copyright protection requirements & licensing for the software and integration - companies like Oppo just added all these formats SACD and DVD-Audio which used the entire capacity of a DVD disc most allocated for video, to expand Audio capacity to support not only bit streamed multi-channel encoded formats like Dolby Surround and DTS MA-HD but also totally uncompressed full bandwidth PCM up to 7.1 uncompressed PCM Audio (Dolby and DTS have some compression using their proprietary encoding/decoding format). SACD used the DSD encoding/decoding to get 5.1 (not sure if it goes up to 7.1) but a very pure and balanced sound with most manual adjustments locked out from user as they did not want the user to mess with their protocol by changing the levels or tone equalization on an individual channel basis, similar to Dolby Atmos - you are locked out from many individual channel fine tuning as the Dolby immersion software does that for you. I hope that streaming does not make obsolete physical media like the BluRay disc - there is no comparison IMHO between a Dolby Atmos Audio only or Audio/Video (e.g. a movie encoded with Atmos sound) on disc vs the same content via streaming.. No Matter how fast your connection is there is always lag and to prevent "complaints from users who bother to report this" the streaming service content providers add COMPRESSION to both the Soundtrack and the Video - so you are not getting the same picture and sound streaming as you do running the disc locally - especially with quality equipment using hardwires to connect the components (not wi-fi). Much better picture and sound.
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OMG!! It now plays flawlessly! It’s hard to remember how well albums played “new” back from my teenage years, but this is the 3rd or 4th “new” album I’ve purchased recently that simply IS NOT clean after the pressing. In all cases the sonic cleaner has saved the day. I also purchased Adele 30 vinyl on this same order, and both albums also played with some noticeable minor clicks. One again, the sonic cleaner cleaned those up. I was amazed at the visible debris in the tank after these 3 “new” albums went through. I just assumed that “new” vinyl was being cleaned thoroughly, but my recent experience seems to indicate otherwise…
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I was about to be very disappointed by the initial playback quality… I decided to run it through my recently purchased HumminGuru sonic cleaner.Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024
OMG!! It now plays flawlessly! It’s hard to remember how well albums played “new” back from my teenage years, but this is the 3rd or 4th “new” album I’ve purchased recently that simply IS NOT clean after the pressing. In all cases the sonic cleaner has saved the day. I also purchased Adele 30 vinyl on this same order, and both albums also played with some noticeable minor clicks. One again, the sonic cleaner cleaned those up. I was amazed at the visible debris in the tank after these 3 “new” albums went through. I just assumed that “new” vinyl was being cleaned thoroughly, but my recent experience seems to indicate otherwise…
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