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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [EMI 180gLP; edition 2011] "DM series" vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz & CD-format

Posted By : aksman | Date : 10 Nov 2011 06:14:00 | Comments : 29 |
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
"DM series" vinyl rip (presented in 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | m3u, cue & Tech Log
Artwork | DR Analysis | 966 / 258 mb incl. recovery | FS, FF & WU | Art Rock | 1975
Re-mastering by James Guthrie, Vinyl cut by Doug Sax @ The Mastering Lab, Ojai, CA
EMI 180g LP (2011 edition) / Cat.#: SHVL-814

This the 2011 LP re-issue.... Take the opportunity and make yourself a picture about the sound before you maybe purchase it.




On its release in 1975 Wish You Were Here topped the album charts in both the UK and the US. Reflecting the band's thoughts of the time on the music business, and exploring themes of absence, Wish You Were Here contains the classic cut Shine On You Crazy Diamond, a tribute to founder member Syd Barrett.

Since 1967 Pink Floyd have produced one of the most outstanding and enduring catalogues in the history of recorded music. The albums have been painstakingly remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of The Wall). Artwork designed by long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson. As a part of their "Why Pink Floyd?" campaign, EMI has chosen to release three titles on collector's vinyl LP (throughout the year 2011 and into early 2012) including The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. Look for more details to come!

"The Floyd's follow-up to The Dark Side of the Moon was another essay on everyday lunacy, dominated by the liquid-rock suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a poignant allusion to errant ex-member Syd Barrett. "Have a Cigar" is a searing blast at the music biz, with the classic line, "Which one's Pink?" - www.rollingstone.com



Track listing
    A1 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
    A2 Welcome To The Machine

    B3 Have A Cigar
    B4 Wish You Were Here
    B5 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

Personnel
    Pink Floyd

    David Gilmour – vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, EMS Synthi AKS, keyboards, tape effects
    Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, VCS3, tape effects
    Richard Wright – keyboards, VCS3, clavinet, background vocals
    Nick Mason – drums, percussion, tape effects

    Additional musicians

    Dick Parry – saxophone on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
    Roy Harper – vocals on "Have a Cigar"
    Venetta Fields and Carlena Williams – background vocals
    Production

    Brian Humphries – engineering
    Peter James – engineering, assistant engineering
    Bernie Caulder
    Phil Taylor – additional photography (remaster)
    Hipgnosis – design, photography
    Peter Christopherson, Jeff Smith, Howard Bartrop and Richard Manning – design assistants
    George Hardie – graphics
    Jill Furmanovsky – additional photography (remaster)
    James Guthrie – remastering producer
    Doug Sax – remastering

Dynamic Range Analysis

foobar2000 1.1.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.0
log date: 2011-11-09 17:48:32

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Analyzed: Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here [LP release 2011; DMR series]
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -0.80 dB -17.03 dB 13:37 01-Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
DR11 -1.01 dB -16.60 dB 7:36 02-Welcome to the Machine
DR13 -0.79 dB -15.88 dB 5:13 03-Have a Cigar
DR13 -0.84 dB -18.90 dB 5:40 04-Wish You Were Here
DR12 -1.27 dB -17.10 dB 12:40 05-Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
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Number of tracks: 5
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 733 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Technical Log

Hannl "limited" Record Cleaning Machine with Rotating Brush
TT: Bergmann Audio "Magne" (with air-bearing platter)
Tonearm: Bergmann Magne (tangential/linear air-bearing tonearm)
Cartridge: Ortofon MC A 90
Phono Amp: Nagra BPS (battery driven pre amp; 100 Ohm load)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnects by Silent Wire (NF-7)
Wavelab 6.1 recording software (recording & manual click removal)
iZotope RX Advanced 2.0 (resampling & audio restoration)
Traders Little Helper (SBE fix on 16/44.1)


Vacuum Cleaning > Bergmann Magne > Nagra BPS > Laptop > Wavelab 6.1 (24/192) > manual click removal (not neccessary this time)
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > resample to 24/96 (16/44.1) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.


Ripping Note

Holy crap, one of the best pressings I ever listened too.... No clicks, ticks or surface noise!
Therefore this can be called a raw rip. Re-issues of such records are mostly heavy discussed with a
lot of cons and a few pros. Spare your opinion with the community!!!
However, don't blame me or my setup if you don't like the sound. In this case you should blame the
people behind the "Why Pink Floyd?" campaign.




All files are inside the folders.
High resoulution files are marked as "hr", CD-compatible files as "rb".

The files are interchangeable!!!

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Posted By: paulix Date: 10 Nov 2011 07:22:27
THANK YOU!!!!!!! Can't wait to hear this one!
Posted By: Kel bazar Date: 10 Nov 2011 07:43:18
I buy mine yesterday, and yes it's a real alternative to a UK 1st pressing.
Posted By: ManWhoCan Date: 10 Nov 2011 07:52:47
Thank you for the preview.
You didn't think it worth a 192kHz rip then?
Looking forward to the Blu Ray, for comparison.
Posted By: rokosh Date: 10 Nov 2011 08:09:39
Many thanks- what a wealth of listening choices for this album; can't wait to hear this!
Posted By: terra6 Date: 10 Nov 2011 08:40:21
Gruss & Dank aus Eierland. Cheers
Posted By: floydian_wgwm Date: 10 Nov 2011 10:11:10
Thanks for the rip!
I think your turntable speed is not quite right. I compared it to the CD discovery version. The pitch is a tiny bit higher on the CD.
Posted By: luxendel Date: 10 Nov 2011 11:22:54
I have the UK 1st pressing (A1/B3) and NOPE, this issue is not even close to being
an alternative.

For someone who has no other pressing at hand, it is a nice "entry-level".

Its pretty good, but IMHO, the difference to my A1/B3 is mountain-high.
I also have a German 1C-064... pressing and its also better than the 2011.

Soundstage, drums, bass....everything is better on the UK.

But for a re-issue, it´s really good.
I love the quality of the pressing. Dead quiet and no nothing...awesome.

But the tonal "scale" on my UK is just in another league.

Posted By: ponchoman Date: 10 Nov 2011 16:31:33
Tough to do a comparison, since the only rip I have of the original UK is pbthal's recent rip of it, and your amps have very different sound signatures. From what I can tell (judging on what I know of the changes in his system), this new pressing sounds pretty veiled. I'd have to compare any rips that both of you may have done of the same pressing of something to better judge the vinyl itself. From what I can determine, though, it's nice, but both the original and the Nimbus Supercut have much greater clarity.

BTW, after having looked up info about your amp (which is enough to intimidate me away from ever trying to start doing rips of my own), I strongly recommend using Duracell batteries. When I had a battery powered Monica 2 DAC, the battery type chosen made a tremendous difference. Perhaps the circuitry in your amp is good enough that it doesn't matter, or perhaps not. I'd be curious to know if you hear any differences between Duracells and crap Radio Shack batteries. (Side note: I really miss that DAC, it sounded amazing, despite only being 16-bit).

Thanks for the share!
Posted By: janslyn Date: 10 Nov 2011 17:01:13
Interesting...
@luxendel - I`ve got the halfspeed mastered CBS Mastersound LP, with rich sonics, I like it very much.
Do you have a digital hirez rip of the UK 1st pressing you can post here?

Thanks for sharing :-)
Posted By: pymander Date: 10 Nov 2011 17:08:25
@janslyn
See PBTHAL's rip of a first UK pressing here:
http://avaxhome.ws/hraphile/vinyl/pink_wishuk.html
Posted By: Marmeladov Date: 10 Nov 2011 17:11:39
Great! This will be my opportunity to hear your new ortofon. Any chance of slowhand?
Posted By: janslyn Date: 10 Nov 2011 20:49:42
@pymander
Just found it....just read about DocRob and the dj + old ortofon. Although this rip sound nice on my rig, I`m looking
foreward to hear the real stuff :-)
I`m absolutely on usbdac, so great thanks to theese fantastic uploads of fantastic music :-)

PS:! I wondering what the rig does for the sound?
Could be interesting with different rig and rips of the same vinyl original!

Love to be on the avaxhome.ws :-)

Cheers janslyn, Denmark

Posted By: Dr Debaser Date: 10 Nov 2011 22:52:48
Thanks Aksman. Really great to hear this. Just been googled your Turntable and cart--holy crap thats hi end equipment. Thank god I have never been tempted to post anything from my £100 sony! Seriously though its a pleasure to have your rips.
Posted By: SushiLover Date: 11 Nov 2011 00:08:01
Thank You.
Posted By: Lizard_King Date: 11 Nov 2011 05:02:55
Thanks so much Aksman. Both you and pbthal have great posts about the awesome album. They both sound great. To all who have these, which do you prefer?
Posted By: infinitykalli Date: 11 Nov 2011 07:57:05
great rip aksman, thank you again!!!
Posted By: Gnulp312 Date: 11 Nov 2011 15:31:51
Hi, my best wishes for your new, extraordinary, hifi gear. Now you're just in heaven.
I bought this great reissue too and I'm curious to compare it with yours!
At least, only a suggestion to try RME Babyface as ADC instead of E-MU 0404. I own both but the first one is just of another level.
Posted By: ponchoman Date: 11 Nov 2011 16:21:30
@Gnulp312: Good god! Yeah, one would expect a much higher level from an ADC that costs more than four TIMES as much! *choke* Out of curiosity, though, do you have any idea how the Apogee Duet 2 compares with either of these?
Posted By: Gnulp312 Date: 11 Nov 2011 16:41:58
@ponchoman: I know only that RME Babyface came out as the main rival of Apogee Duet 2. I didn't compare it but I read about this challenge on the RME Forum. RME clock is very steady and with low jitter.
Anyway one of the best choices is still Apogee Rosetta and in our cases mod. 200 would last.
Posted By: aksman Date: 11 Nov 2011 16:43:35
@ Gnulp312 & ponchoman

It is true, the ADC of almost all vinyl rippers I know, is the bottleneck in the rig. I even notice a lack of qulity when using my previous setup (Music Hall 9.1, Nagaoka MP-500) but now the it is even higher.
Especially details of stage depht, air & a "livelike" sound are missing compared to the vinyl itself.

I am also pretty sure that the difference between the E_MU & the RME Babyface is small... Right now I am thinking of a Tascam DV-RA1000HD. A digital stereo/DSD recorder.
Posted By: Marmeladov Date: 12 Nov 2011 03:24:35
ADC is not so important, not as important as the analog equipment like the turntable, cartridge, phono preamp, the headshell weight etc. I've read somewhere of this kind of blind test where you don't have not even a chance to hear the difference of a 300$ dac and a 3000$ dac. Dacs might matter but not as the analog equipment.I've heard something similar from you when I suggested you to buy a tascam hdp2. however all of you guys are free to spend your hard earned cash on whatever you want, and talking about me, I would buy a good expensive dac but only if it is the las thing to improve SQ and when there is nothing else to do. You know music is like a religion to me and it is a must for me to get the best audio components to get the best audio quality as possible
Posted By: radam40 Date: 12 Nov 2011 07:32:19
I heard the KORG MR-1000 should be a good choice:

http://www.korg.com/mr1000
Posted By: kikerock Date: 12 Nov 2011 23:07:49
Grossartige Arbeit mit diesem Album. Dafuer danke ich dir.
besten Dank, K.
Posted By: bathingap3 Date: 14 Nov 2011 13:43:44
Many thanks aksman. YOUR THE MAN!!!!
Posted By: nima1024 Date: 11 Dec 2011 20:44:33
I have both the BluRay versions (Audio Demux 24/96) and SACD (DSD -> PCM 24/176.4) but in my opinion they have nothing to say in front of these LPs, I don't know which one to get, PBTHAL Original UK Pressing or this 2011 LP.

While both BluRay and SACD's Dynamic Ranges are extremely near to each other (BD 12 / SACD 11), Original UK Pressing reached 13, the is also a +1 point for it.
Posted By: 3lv1scat Date: 21 Dec 2011 18:48:28
Thanks, aksman. You can never have enough Floyd.
Posted By: nedjo Date: 26 Dec 2011 16:00:33
Fantastic.
Thanks Aksman,
Posted By: thequick1 Date: 31 Dec 2011 07:56:01
...and again.... THANK YOU!
Posted By: nrwsps Date: 12 May 2012 06:33:47
Many Thanks.
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