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Review: Pink Floyd Animals Reissue

Posted by jk (A) on December 18, 2016 at 12:57:25

Gosh sometimes it is hard to write a review that is so contrary to others I like and respect. So no insult intended to anyone who recently wrote about this one, this is my opinion.

Today my lady and I sat down to listen to the remastered (from analog tapes) reissue of Animals. The needle dropped side 1 - wow very realistic guitars, this is going well I thought. I love the way the EQ'd the bass, frankly I always thought it was a bit light in other versions.

A couple of minutes into the next song and I just had to tweek. Got up and raised the arm a few thousands of an inch, the highs were just too receeded for my taste. Did it make a difference? Yes, but this just wasn't right. Part of me wondered (oh no, did my Telefunken 6922's finally get too old?), but then logically bass is lost at least as fast as the high frequencies in a used out tube.

The bass is great on many levels. Towards the end of side one it got a bit tubby sounding. My lady's comments were "something's missing" it just doesn't (arms arch from center of ceiling to two opposing walls) fill the room. I suggested that the highs were a bit dull. Nothing sparkled. She imediately agreed.

Either my system was faulty of the balance was not right. There should be shimmer at times, delicacy at others. It was missing.

The next thing I did was to verify the system. Put on the last album we heard, Elliot Lawrence MoFi #55. This is a full frequency big band recording. We loved it yesterday. Did it sound good? yes, but not where it should be. I said "let me put the tonearm VTA back to where it was yesterday before I adjusted it for Animals". A quick reset and we sat down to listen again. POW - It filled the room!

Well friends I couldn't resist, thank God my Lady has patience. I pulled out my Japanese Pink vinyl copy of Animals, and my 1977 version as well. Each sounded different, an intersting exercise. Neither had bass detail, punch, or depth to match the latest reissue. OTOH neither felt like the high frequencies were missing like the lastet issue.

Logically I should lower the arm even more to see if perhaps this awakens the Animals reissue. If the other albums didn't sound so good at this VTA I would have done that before posting. Perhaps I'll try that later and let you know.

I'm sorry to say that the reissue just doesn't have the balance high to low to make it a good buy in my opinion. I wish it were different but it is what it is.

Reference system:

Clearaudio insider reference wood
Graham 2.2 arm
Oracle Delphi V tt

John

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