Pink Floyd Immersion Box Sets with surround mixes

Everybody knows Pink Floyd. For everybody else there is whypinkfloyd.com. It’s part of the campaign promoting the remasters of the complete Pink Floyd catalog, most notably the Immersion box sets of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’ with 5.1 surround mixes on Blu-ray.

If there is one band that is predestined to release it’s music in surround sound, it has to be Pink Floyd. They were experimenting with surround early on and even performed a concert in 1967 using a custom quad system.

The album The Dark Side of the Moon has been available in surround for a while now, both as SACD mixed by James Guthrie in 5.1 and as unofficial bootleg DVD Audio with the original Alan Parson’s quad mix.

With the release of the Wish You Were Here Immersion box set, following the fantastic Immersion box set of The Dark Side Of The Moon, there are now 2 official surround sound music releases by Pink Floyd. Unfortunately the preview for the content of the Immersion box set for The Wall shows no surround mix. Whatever the reason is behind this, what a great missed opportunity! But at least we got DSotM and WYWH, so I won’t complain, especially since they are great surround mixes.

Full review will follow.

You can get the Pink Floyd Immersion box sets here: