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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40

Nick Mason, David Gilmour, and other Floyd affiliates echo why The Dark Side continues to be the modern audiophile Holy Grail.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted April 19, 2013
The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It’s been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that’s 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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Steven Wilson’s Raven: The New 5.1 Benchmark

Just when you think Steven Wilson is at the surround sound pinnacle, he ratchets it up another level.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted February 25, 2013
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How does he do it? How does Steven Wilson continue to create original, envelope-pushing, mind-blowing, mind-expanding music for the surround sound arena?

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The Art Of Listening

Steven Wilson continues to push the boundaries of surround-sound mixing. Audiophiles the world over approve.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted September 18, 2012
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“Anything that we sit down in, we’re good at.” This is Steven Wilson, 5.1 mixmaster nonpareil, discussing two of the gold medals that Great Britain won in the Summer Olympics — one in cycling, the other in rowing. If there were Olympic medals given for achievement in surround-sound mixing, then Wilson would own more golden hardware than Michael Phelps has collected a dozen times over.

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Ian Anderson, "Brick"layer

The once and future Jethro Tull maestro reveals how Steven Wilson improved upon the mixes for Aqualung and Thick as a Brick in 5.1, and why he'd better protect his hearing onstage.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted September 18, 2012
It’s nice to feel that the music can be improved, and in the case of Aqualung [which saw a 40th anniversary box-set reissue in 2011 with new stereo and 5.1 mixes by Steven Wilson], that wasn’t difficult because it wasn’t a very good recording.

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Storm Corrosion Talk Vinyl

Worldwide Exclusive! Noted record lovers Mikael Åkerfeldt and Steven Wilson navigate the nuances of the LP format — and much more.
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted May 1, 2012
Sound+Vision is honored to present an exclusive 10-minute interview clip with Storm Corrosion, the explosive new collaboration between Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. SC's self-titled debut comes out next Tuesday, May 8, in a variety of S+V-friendly formats.

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Surround Review: King Crimson

The latest multichannel mixes by Steven Wilson
- By Parke Puterbaugh
- Posted February 2, 2012
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“Superb. The music is brought to life.”
That’s Robert Fripp’s own assessment of Steven Wilson’s 6-channel mix of Discipline. I have to agree.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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The S+V Interview: Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth

When a band actually does change, it’s like, “What the f— was that?”
- By James Rotondi
- Posted January 5, 2012
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Exclusive Video Interview: Steven Wilson

The surround-sound twins discuss SW’s adventures in live quad, and beyond
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted November 15, 2011
“I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time,” Steven Wilson told me backstage about an hour before his groundbreaking live quad show unfolded at the Performing Arts Center at Temple University in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 12.

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Pioneer at Work: Steven Wilson’s Amazing Live Surround-Sound Experiment

A SQ stalwart breaks new ground in concert and sets the tone for future performances
- By Mike Mettler
- Posted November 14, 2011
Surround-sound guru Steven Wilson has upped the ante yet again on his Grace for Drowning solo tour by presenting the music itself in surround sound, an unprecedented feat. Well, ok, technically speaking, the show is in live quad, with two speakers placed in the back of the venue at hand.

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The Blu Album

Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson embraces Blu-ray to fully express his "Grace for Drowning."
- By Ken Richardson
- Posted September 27, 2011
To say “The Blu Album” is not to suggest that Steven Wilson’s Grace for Drowning (Kscope) is as wildly diverse as the Beatles’ “White Album” — even if Wilson rightly calls his own double-disc set “more experimental and more eclectic” than his previous solo outing, 2009’s Insurgentes, with jazz and classical influen

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CD Review: Blackfield

Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen reunite for “Welcome to My DNA”
- By Jeff Perlah
- Posted April 19, 2011
Sure, it’s great when one musician can collaborate with another in a faraway country and end up with something impressive — even when the two never spend any time together in a studio. The wonders of the digital age have made it easy to carry on long-distance recording relationships.

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At last: King Crimson in surround
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 24, 2009
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