[AdamCalifornia]

Can your high-end headphones reveal: an orchestra
faintly playing the Beatles' 'Ticket To Ride' at the very end
of the Dark Side of the Moon? This can be heard on the
Red Book CD, including the Harvest Gold CD, hybrid SACD
(both stereo DSD and Red Book layers). The 5.1 DSD layer
does not have it, because it was mixed from scratch.

More precisely, at the end of the last track 'Eclipse',
39 secs before the end of the disc, the following words are heard:

'There is no dark side in the moon really.
As a matter of fact it's all dark.'

At about 27 secs before the end of the disc,
the orchestra starts faintly playing 'Ticket to Ride'.
You have to play it very loud, starting 27 (or 39) secs before
the end of the disc. If you start, say 44 secs before the end,
you can hurt your ears!

Friendly Advice:
In case your CD player is not revealing enough,
you can always get a CD player for $55,000.
See thread: 'Lamborghini Among CD Players for $55,000.

Hear you on the Beatles' 'Ticket To Ride'

on the Dark Side of the Moon

Adam

 

[Drakemoor]

i first heard it on my e2c's and thought it must have been a mastering error or something, i could hear music but didn't know what it was.

 

[FloydCouncil]

I could easily hear this on my $50 Koss. Infact, I've heard it on every system.

 

[AdamCalifornia]

... you can hear it on a low end system as well.
I am curious why it was left over there.
However I'd be interested how they hear it on SA5000, DT880, ...

See you on the Curious

Side of the Moon

Adam

 

[]|[ GorE]

most cryptic thread ever.I feel restless.......

 

[aerius]

Ah...but will it give you a message from the devil if you play "Stairway to Heaven" backwards? That's what I'm interested in.

 

[boodi]

and do you know what's rec&hidden at the end of Ticket to Ride ?...

 

[Beauregard]

Interesting... I can't hear it on my MoFi gold disc. The spoken phrase occurs at 32 sec from the end and I can kind of hear something that sounds like some sort of coherent musical signal buried in the noise before the end of the disc. But I sure couldn't identify it as "Ticket to Ride" or anything else even with the volume at max.

I believe I've read that some (many?) of the original MoFi discs are recorded 6 dB down. Maybe this would explain it?

Best,
Beau

 

[ChaosCow]

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerius Ah...but will it give you a message from the devil if you play "Stairway to Heaven" backwards? That's what I'm interested in.

See for yourself!


As for the question posed in the thread, neither my HD-650 nor Grado SR-325i can hear loud enough to distinguish what is being said. Then again, I have but a $250 CD player and $350 amp, so what can be expected? I could only hear that SOMETHING was going on there, but definitely nothing I could identify.

I was using the original Harvest release with the Japanese flag on the CD case, by the way.

 

[macbrush]

Maybe they put it there as a signature or something? They are conceptal band after all.

 

[bhjazz]

I have the SACD version, and the main items, Ticket to Ride and the comments before that, are quite clear with a Mint+HD600s on a Sony DVP-S9000ES. I switched to the CD layer and found that those two items were buried deeper in the noise floor. Pretty interesting. As for the last words I can hear, the whole mix just disappears so I'll have to play with that some more. Definitely something being said, though.
Wow, I thought Ticket to Ride was the DSOTM Holy Grail, but there's more, eh? Very cool!

 

[AdamCalifornia]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauregard Interesting... I can't hear it on my MoFi gold disc. The spoken phrase occurs at 32 sec from the end and I can kind of hear something that sounds like some sort of coherent musical signal buried in the noise before the end of the disc. But I sure couldn't identify it as "Ticket to Ride" or anything else even with the volume at max. I believe I've read that some (many?) of the original MoFi discs are recorded 6 dB down. Maybe this would explain it? Best, Beau

Hi and thanks!

I've heard "Ticket To Ride" on:
1. The MFSL Gold disc- yes it is there!
2. The Red Book CD layer of the hybrid SACD
3. The 2-channel (stereo) DSD layer of the SACD

I used my universal Pioneer DV-578A cd/sacd/dvd-a/dvd-video player ($130)
connected to the simple multimedia CambridgeWorks Stereo receiver ($100)
through both Sennhesier PX-100 and HD595. I also barely heard it using my old Sony MDR-CD280 ($30).

Hear you on the Beatles' "Ticket To Ride"

Side of the Moon

Adam

 

[SptsNaz]

Wow, i just heard it. You have to turn it up REALLY loud though on my set up

 

[muckluck]

Can't hear it on the Sony V150s (surprise surprise

) My a700s are on a plane from Osaka to JFK

. Can't wait to own my first true pair of audiophile phones. Only auditioned a few and fell in love.

 

[Jahn]

with 12 seconds to go you'll hear the strings kick in with "I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, yeah..." very clearly, although the string noodling before it wasn't as obvious as being a part of Ticket to Ride. both my HP2 and STAX picked it up, no prob.