PINK FLOYD a Saucerful of Secrets GERMANY A1/B1 Rare DMM Audiophile issue NM LP

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One of many PSYCH and Classic 1960's Rock LPs from a fanatically well-kept collection of a long-time former DJ
Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a large amount of PROMOs and a few choice IMPORT LPs.
Many of these still in SHRINK WRAP ...several STILL SEALED
Quite a few WLP, Sterling, RL and Masterdisk pressings in the mix!

*Sadly I am NOT FAST at listing and am lucky to get around 50 up at a time, but they will keep on coming (as I pause between each auction series to focus on top level packing and immediate shipping) throughout this fall, several hundred to list, so keep checking back.
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This auction is for:
PINK FLOYD
a Saucerful of Secrets
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EMI / COLUMBIA Records 1C 038-15 7794 1 DMM
Limited Edition Audiophile issue • Stereo LP
DIRECT METAL MASTER • 1A / 1 B Matrix

VINYL is NM
Gleaming gloss High Grade TELDEC pressed vinyl looks and plays Like New. Labels are also Like New. There is still wisps of pressing flash in the tight, perfectly round center hole. LP may never have seen a turntable until I test-played it for auction.
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COVER is NM
Laminated cover still in the importer's "loose bag" shrink; importer's sticker on front. No creases, dings, indentations or other marks. Like New. Crisp, tight and straight edged with sharp corners all around.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Incredible Sound on this strictly Ltd. Ed. AUDIOPHILE Masteried and Pressed LP
LONG Out of Print and extremely scarce - they apparently made 1 press run only; year unknown*.

*I looked all through Discogs and PINK FLOYD online sites but could not find a date for this LP - however, the importer's sticker on front bears a 415 telephone area code for its FOSTER CITY CA. address which makes it quite old; Foster City switched to the 650 area code decades ago. Also the inner sleeve promotes a number of LPs issued in the 1980's so that would be my best guess.

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: 1041901-A2 157 694 1-A
?Side Two: 1041901-B2 157 694 1-B

The official Teldec "DMM" logo is printed on labels, left side

Cover states Printed In Germany. Label states Made In EEC.
EMI/Columbia-logo printed in upper left corner, front corner.
Columbia/EMI-logo printed in lower left corner on the back;
1C 038 15 7694 1 DMM u.r. corner back, below scancode.

David Gilmour's name is written as "Gilmore" on back cover; label spells it correctly.
Label reads "Set Controls For The Heart of The Sun"; back cover states it correctly.

Original EMI/COLUMBIA "FAME" company inner sleeve included?.?

You don't want to sleep on this very scarce, magnificent sounding pressing
as MFSL never made a 1/2 Speed Master of SAUCERFUL, this LP is undoubtedly the TOP AUDIO pressing in existence.

Disc kept in separate ANTI-STATIC inner sleeve to protect both the original inner and the vinyl.

Even though still inside of the shrink-wrap
LP is kept in a protective, clear mylar outer-sleeve
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Please see my other listings for more PINK FLOYD and other
Vintage Collectible PSYCH, Rare 60's and CLASSIC ROCK LPs

a bit about the DMM Mastering/Pressings:
Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) is an analog audio disk mastering technique jointly developed by two German companies, Telefunken-Decca (Teldec) and Georg Neumann GmbH.

"The advantages of DMM (hard surface material) over acetate lacquer cutting (soft surface material) are both sonic and practical: because of the rigidity of the master disc medium, no groove wall bounce-back effects take place after the cutting has been completed. This preserves the original modulation details in the groove walls much better, especially those involved with sudden fast attacks (transients). The improved transient response, as well as the more linear phase response of DMM improve the overall stability and depth-of-field in the stereo image. In addition, disturbing adjacent groove print-through sounds (groove echoes) are reduced in DMM. Also, there is no need to rush the finalized master disc directly into a refrigerator for groove preservation, as in conventional lacquer disc cutting, before processing the master disc to produce matrices for the pressing of the records.

The cutting lathe for DMM engraves the audio signal directly onto a copper-plated master disc, instead of engraving the groove into a lacquer-coated aluminum disc. The DMM copper master disc can be plated to produce the required number of stampers using the one-step plating process. Rather than having to electroform a master (or "father"), mother and then stampers (the traditional "three-step process"), the DMM copper disc serves as the 'mother". Bypassing the silvering process and two electroforming stages reduces the risk of introducing noise that can be generated in the electroforming (galvanic) process. In cases where hundreds of stampers may be required, the DMM disc is often plated to produce a master and mother, from which many stampers are then made."

...this and more info on the process, the technology and the history is available at the DMM wiki site.
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All records packed with vinyl (inside inner sleeve) behind cover with bubble-wrap around all sides - sandwiched between stiff corrugated flats and shipped in strong LP mailer boxes for best protection in the mail.

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