DSOTM Release Date April 1st

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We'll all have to wait just a bit longer for what everyone in the biz seems to be talking about. EMI announced new street dates for both the LP and SACD versions of the remastered Pink Floyd/Dark Side Of The Moon. The hybrid multichannel SACD will now be shipping on April 1. The LP will ship April 8.
:rolleyes: Well we're almost there!
0] Rob



 
Depends on who you talk to at EMI.

My contact at EMI told me earlier today that the release date for the DSOTM SACD is still 3/25.


 
So, I've been looking around, and I cannot seem to get clarity on this. Rob, was it an official release that you saw that changed the dates? If so I would believe that more than a EMI rep, who might not be in the loop.

I just want the darn thing already!:evil:

-Doug
 
I received it in e-mail from one of the on line services have to go back and see where it came from The where the ones that had the Album cover pix from one of the other pages here or forums !
I'll go find it ! Rob
 
Just got a fax from the EMI radio promotions person about giveaways for the 30th edition DSOTM. The fax says the release date is on Monday the 24th since the original release date was 3-24-73.

T-Bone
 
EMI still says they plan to have the SACD of DSOTM out in the US on 3/25.

Stay tuned, we'll see how it all turns out !


 
Brian, I hope your right ! The e-mail said street date of April first, Maybe an April Fools Day Joke !
:rolleyes: :cool: 0] Rob
 
Couldn't this be a situation like the one with the Rolling Stones? Some stores didn't get all the titles at release date, but others did, and the release date didn't really change.

Maybe it's just a case in which Acoustic Sounds isn't expecting it until April 1, but other stores will have it a week earlier, as scheduled? Online stores are not the primary concern of big record companies. Elusive, for example, was very slow getting some Stones titles. If my memory is correct, it took them a couple weeks after WalMart had them.

I have no inside info, so this is just speculation.

4ears
 
Could be. We'll have to wait and see I guess.

>>Couldn't this be a situation like the one with the Rolling Stones? Some stores didn't get all the titles at release date, but others did, and the release date didn't really change.
 
There are a LOT of quad DSOTM LPs and even an 8-track or two on eBay at the moment. LOL Maybe these sellers fear that the pending release of this multichannel SACD will kill any future opportunity for big money. :lol: There is even one LP that opens at about $100! Rats from a sinking ship? Makes you think; hmmmmm ... <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\">

Mike.
 
Perhaps so. Although the new Multichannel SACD will feature a new 5.1 mix. So some folks may want to own both !

>>There are a LOT of quad DSOTM LPs and even an 8-track or two on eBay at the moment. LOL Maybe these sellers fear that the pending release of this multichannel SACD will kill any future opportunity for big money. There is even one LP that opens at about $100! Rats from a sinking ship? Makes you think; hmmmmm ...

Mike.
 
EMI and Doug Sax Choose AcousTech for Dark Side LP

One of the largest labels could have gone anywhere to remaster one of the world's most important records…They went to AcousTech Mastering.

EMI hired Doug Sax to handle perhaps the most historic master tapes in pop music. Sax, long-renowned as a mastering guru, set out to produce his masterpiece on LP. And so he brought his MCI JH-110 transport with custom heads and tube electronics to Camarillo, California, where Kevin Gray had assembled the best-sounding mastering and cutting room that Sax knew of — AcousTech. His decision paid off.

Here at Acoustic Sounds, we spent Monday morning critiquing the resulting test pressing. When we first learned of EMI's decision to reissue Dark Side on vinyl, we along with many of you worried that they would go the usual route of major labels, and we'd all have yet another mediocre-sounding reissue. We're thrilled to be to the first to announce that this time the majors got it right. This is it! All of the dynamics, clarity, warmth and air…This surpassed our highest expectations, which believe us, were quite high.

We've already sold more than 300 preorder copies of the Dark Side LP. Now that the mystery is over and this is a bona fide audiophile record, we're likely to sell thousands. We've been told that the LP will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl in Holland. Hopefully, EMI will keep this in print for a long while, but knowing the majors' track record with vinyl, don't bet on it. Now's the time to act.


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Vinyl Available April 8th
Preorder Today!

LP = AEMI 82136 - $24.98 See more images of the Dark Side remastering process

Read more about this historic reissue


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This is from Acoustic Sounds and was e-mailed to me will al<a href="http://store.acousticsounds.com/floydmastering.cfm?keywords=newsletter" target="top">store.acousticsounds.com/floydmastering.cfm?keywords=newsletter</a>so link a page from them to check out the photos.

They say the L.P. will be released on April 8th

0] Rob

 
Well, I just preordered my SACD from HMV here in Canada. It was only about CDN$30 (US$20) with tax and shipping too! I thought that was a pretty decent deal. How does that compare to what you guys are seeing out there?

Mike.
 
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