Picture Gallery: Pink Floyd / Wish You Were Here SACD
After the marbles, scarves and general excesses of the Immersion box sets, there is something rather classy about the new Super Audio CD (SACD) of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here.
Not fancying it themselves, EMI licensed out the production of the SACD to Acoustic Sounds, and in conjunction with StormStudios, this audiophile specialist have come up with something really desirable, that also fits nicely on the shelf.
The package is a small book-style affair, which includes six high quality postcards reproducing many of the familiar Hipgnosis Wish You Were Here images from 1975 (Burning Man, The Diver, Desert Man etc). A simple 8-page booklet covers lyrics, credits and some in-the-studio photographs, while the disc itself sits in a transparent digipak-style tray bonded to the inside back cover. One nice touch, is a small picture of the late Richard Wright set within the artwork of the rear of the booklet.
Of course the music within is what’s really important, and even though the purpose of this post is not to review and compare this SACD version with, for instance, the Blu-ray within the Immersion Box, Pink Floyd engineer James Guthrie himself, has recently stated “The SACD is absolutely the best way to hear the new 5.1 mix”. From the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
To those not familiar with the SACD format, it offers high resolution stereo audio, and can also deliver lossless 5.1 surround sound. A compatible SACD player is required, as is the appropriate speaker/amplifier set-up for surround sound. This Pink Floyd disc is actually a Hybrid-SACD which will also play the standard stereo mix of Wish You Were Here on any CD player.
As you will see from the photos below, it is described as a ‘special limited edition’ so you might have to be quick to get you hands on a copy at a reasonable price.
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Really really wish I could afford this. Where I can get the normal CD for under a tenner, I can’t find this for anything less than around £35, which is too rich for my blood. I’ll just have to make due with my SACD copy of Dark Side from 2003 (when EMI were HAPPY to release multi-channel discs).
A little late to reply to your predicament but better late than never eh? I always wonder why people equate good pristine quality and priceless music such as this with something as petty as money? It’s sad to see that people often take the artwork and packaging for granted and ignore the painstaking effort put in to produce such a gem, not that we heaved the idea upon their heads for this magnificent endeavor. I’m glad I own this exquisite album, don’t even remember how many quids fell out of my pockets for this, could really care less. Sir, if you truly love Pink Floyd, their aesthetic sense of art and their music…you wouldn’t really take a glance at the price tag. Happy listening! :)
P.S.: I wasn’t born with a golden spoon stuck in my throat, I’m just another bloke somewhere in India who is a die hard fan of Pink Floyd and their magnificent music. Cheers!