New fan
I am an audio engineer and musician by trade. I like Floyd but amd not a huge fan and this is my first album of theirs. For starters, the CD layer sounds like it's at least a 4th generation 1/4" copy duped at too high of a level. Luckily, this master was spared the horrific loudness was exploitation so the sound is fairly open. But the over-cooked source tape causes the loud passages to get a bit mushy and dull.

Now for the SACD. They obviously went through great efforts to try and recreate the original mix as well as possible. The natural dynamics of the recording really shine and there's good usage of all the channels without being overtly weird with placement. The only real problem I can hear is the vocals are a bit overly bright, to the point of being harsh at times. But aside from that, the SACD layer is inof itself well worth the price of the album. Definitely worth owning even if you're relatively new to Floyd like I am.

Turn your room Lunar
1973, I was all of 13. This was, in my pre-driver's license days, the only way for me to travel. "Dark Side of The Moon," a big old pair of Koss headphones, and a relatively cheap but OK stereo. Dark room. Posters. Dreams of escaping. Desires of being an astronaut. Wanting to be a pop star. And then this.

Even today, over 30 years later, "Dark Side of The Moon" remains a sonic marvel. When you imagine that this was done well before the advent of digital recording, samples and the like, it becomes all the more impressive. Instruments dart in and out, effects (the clocks, the cash register) flood your head and room with sculpted sound and psychedelics. The wailing voice on "Great Gig in The Sky" (Clare Torry) is downright otherworldly, as are the snippets of conversation that pop up at intervals throughout. The album unfolds in the best conceptual album sense, as nothing here explodes as much as it does infiltrates. It's one of those albums where it's well nigh impossible to listen to it in segments, the cross of songs into each other demands that you take it as a whole.

To this day, "Dark Side Of The Moon" is probably the best known Pink Floyd album, coming along with that masterpiece of dysfunction, The Wall. In many respects they're very much alike. On this, the band was still trying to make sense of Syd Barret's descent into madness (as they did again on Wish You Were Here), on "The Wall" they looks at the crush of success and how it almost drove Roger Waters over the edge. In the case of "Dark Side of The Moon" and its long and pristine sculpted sound (courtesy of a young Alan Parsons), they captured their moment, and over 30 years later, it still stands like a towering achievement.

Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
This 30th Anniversary Edition brings back the almost-forgotten thrill of hearing this group the first time many years ago...and the continual enjoyment for a long period.Wonderful !

Quad revisited with 2007 technology. Wow
Well this is what Quadrophonic was promising in the late 60's, however with a quality that we could never have dreamed of then. The full effect of the project as only they heard it when they recorded originally can be heard in your listening room. The better your system and the better the set up brings you as close as you will ever get to "being there." That's because this remix will never be the weakest link. It is outstanding.

Old and new at the same time. There is nothing else like it for this reason.

The Sound Track of my life.
An album totally driven by emotion, there's nothing fake or plastic in it. A master piece.