I was a major hi-fi freak as a kid (still am), so I just HAD to build speakers that would properly reproduce the low end audio of “Dark Side Of the Moon”. But if I cranked it up at all, my Dad, if he was home, would yell up at me from downstairs “Turn off that damn alligator heartbeat!”
At the local stereo store, it was fun to find out which speakers could “take it”, and which would go “blapp!” or maybe blow damping material out of the port.
Of note, the only release out there with better maximum dynamics than the 1973 vinyl release (Japan) appears to be the 2011 Blu-Ray / Quad Mix, and the improvement seems to be mainly in that opening “heartbeat” track “Speak to Me”. I might have to go find that DVD.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/dr/desc?artist=pink+floyd&album=the+dark+side
Could be fun!
That one record, though: 741 weeks on the charts. That’ll never be matched...
I have the 5.1 mix SACD and it sounds great!
Haven’t heard the BD, though.
Cheers,
Jim