Best copy of Wish You Were Here

My first copy of WYWH was an 8 track tape. Sounded good, to me! Much later I aquired the LP just for the artwork. And the cool blue shrink wrap. Was played on a Dual table with V15 III cart. And several generations of electronics. Too bad I dumped my vinyl in 87 or so. Never gonna be able to get that stuff back again....

After years of buying every WYWH in sight, my best is an early 80's columbia JC33453. Quiet quality pressing, a little rolled, wooly bass, blustery midrange. Beats my early UK Harvest by a mile.

I have had good luck with the orig US release...although I paid a bit of premium
at a HiFi shop...and they ran it thru some mega $$$ cleaning machine....sounds amazing...i also have CBS master sound CD which is nice as well...wasn't blown away by recent reissues...

that one usually comes in black shrink and very rare.

I have the UK first press, and the black shrink was one of several attributes of the packaging, there was other indicia as well that had to do with how the jacket was cut, but my memory fails me. These early UK pressings sound pretty good, but I suspect there is less difference between the UK and US on this album than there may be with Dark Side.