The Dark Side of the Moon (2023 Remaster)

Beautiful album !!! Excellent edition !!! Spectacular recording !!! [Cardboard Sleeve (mini LP)]

I just keep buying them. Yet again beautiful edition of the greatest album of all time done to perfection as only Japanese manufactures can. Can't hear much difference in sound from previous releases but this album does not need improvement in that department. Buy it while you can. It won't last long.

I have purchased every single so-called “Remastered Version” of this essential Pink Floyd CD since it first appeared on CD in 1983. I have yet to be satisfied — until now, with my CDJapan purchase of “The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Edition”. This version has zero surface noise or tape hiss. None! Listeners will remember the slowly-louder heartbeat and the seemingly disembodied voices saying things like, “I’ve always been mad. I know I’ve been mad, like most of us have.” That entire introduction and the rest of the album was ruined by tape hiss in every prior edition until now! The mixes themselves on songs such as “Great Gig in the Sky“ have been muddy and compressed. Not here, though! Every song is clean and clear as if layers of “sonic varnish” had been scraped off of each song. As a parallel, I remember purchasing the Blu-ray disc of the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho“. “Psycho“ is a movie I had seen on video dozens of times previously. However, seeing it on Blu-ray was a revelation. I pictured myself in a movie theater in 1960 watching a brand-new print of the movie for the very first time. That same sort of astonishing clarity is what this “Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary Edition” from CDJapan sounds like. Put it in your CDJapan collection now, regardless of what other versions of this album you might already own. YES, it’s *that* much better! I saw Pink Floyd live many times; every American tour from 1977–94. I even saw them perform this whole “Dark Side of the Moon” album live from start to finish. The only annoyance was the crowd noise. This new 50th anniversary version from CDJapan was like having the band in my living room performing “The Dark Side of the Moon” album again just for me! One more thing. This 50th Anniversary Edition is not mastered in the SHM or Blu-Spec CD2 format. So you need not worry about which edition to choose. It is simply mastered as beautifully as the Japanese alone do it: by a slower, more accurate and careful process that is matched by no one on earth! The Japanese did not invent rock ‘n’ roll, obviously. They have, however, invented a tremendous reverence for it in the way records are mastered there.