Are the gold CDs any better than the regular ones?”
That depends upon who you ask. I personally own all three [at this time] gold CDs that have been released from the Pink Floyd Catalog (these are: _Meddle_, _DSOTM_, and _The Wall_). They are produced by the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, and are pressed on a gold substrate rather than the aluminum used by standard CDs, because the gold is not susceptible to oxidation. The theory is that regular CDs could eventually tarnish and become unplayable. Though this has never actually *happened* to anyone (to most people’s knowledge), it is still a key selling point. The main reason that I personally bought the gold discs is that at the time, they were demonstrably better than the standard US releases. The orignial Capitol DSOTM, for example, was taken from an old quadraphonic lp master, not the original master. To compound the problem, instead of placing right front & right rear on the same channel (and the same for left), they put the two front channels on one side and the two rear on the other.
