UHQR Dark Side of the Moon: worth the $$$$?
RichTeer -- Sun, 08/31/2008 - 13:44
Hi all,
MFSL's UHQR version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon seems to enjoy an almost cult-like existance/following. When they (very rarely!) get a copy, record dealers charge hundreds of bucks for a copy, so I was wondering: from an audio perspective, is it really that good? I have the regular MFSL version in addition to the EMI 100th Anniversary issue, and was wondering if the UHQR version was worth aspiring to.
Hi Rich,
I had both the regular 1/2 speed MFSL and the UHQR. If you agree the regular 1/2 speed is like day and night compared to a regular pressing then I'am will to tell that the UHQR is a day and night comparison to the regular 1/2 master. It truely is incredible. The information/detail on the album Mind you...your audio equipment needs to be up to snuff top to bottom no weak links anywhere.
Also with a dealer you don't know who owned the album and they CARED for it.. I played my UHQR maybe 30 - 40 times in the twenty years that I owned the album. I always rested the album at least 72 hours before replaying. The album was cleaned on commerical record cleaner (thank you Take 5 Audio). The album was cleaned a very soft brush made in France before and after every play.
P.S. If you ever run into UHQR SuperTramp "Crime of the Century" serial number 50. I owned this album from new...approx. 20 years and cared for it as described as above. I am sorry I don't recall the serial number of "Dark Side of the Moon". If I find any documentation I will post on this site.
P.S. The Speaker's Corner "Crime" is actually better in some-maybe most--facets of music reproduction than the MoFi UHQR, which is GREAT!
To me this album isn't worth $.10 because I really can't stand the "music".
DSOTM epitomizes the audiophile ethos of listening to the same tracks over and over again to get further infusions of sonic jollies. Toward what end, I shudder to contemplate.
For my money I'd rather buy $200 to $300 of fresh new music. I just got Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell's One to the Heart, One to the Head which has more moving music in ten bars than DSOTM has on the entire album.
YMMV :)
Steven Stone
Contributor to The Absolute Sound, EnjoytheMusic.com, Vintage Guitar Magazine, and other fine publications
To each, his or her own. It isn't on the TAS list for no reason at all.
PS: I mean the EMI pressing.
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