There is a (YouTube) extended video regarding DSOM. 1. Why it is the best album ever recorded, b. What is the best version, c. What chemical engineering went into it (the noiseless vinyl) and d. How the oil shortage made that vinyl no longer available after the first UK pressing, and e. What price for the 1st gen UK version. Some go for as much as $20,000.
It spent an initial 741 weeks on Billboard, the longest in history, 50 million and counting albums sold…
A question with many answers! 
For many reasons the record remains a landmark, but it is not my favorite Pink Floyd album. I have a pretty early UK pressing which sounds great, but i also have a 70’s MoFi issue. The cover is really worn with seam splits and ring wear, basically it looks like crap.
But lower the diamond onto that japanese pressed black gold and it is quiet, really, really quiet. Thats the one i keep!
I too own the MOFI version. It is mint and likely played only once. It has the 15 dollar price on it. I have the dealer’s poster from when it was released and that hangs on my sons wall.
I always remember in my single days (sigh) it was “Red Spot Music”
Pitch black room, single index light on amp and a volume to upset the neighbours 
In my day it was blacklights and fluorescent posters…
Clearly, the album captivated an incredible number of people over the past 51 years and continues to do so. Many have darkened room and …er…other things that were associated with it. The Wizard of Oz concurrent playing has been a fun concept over the years.
I have so many versions on so many formats I have lost track…
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But the very limited edition UHQR mofi release is my favorite.
Be ready to pony up $1k plus if you can find one for sale though.
Released in 1981.
Mfqr 1-017
The 1979 MOFI is a great recording, but the UHQR seemed (incorrectly) just to be “one more copy.” That is akin to saying that this 1959 Les Paul in the closet is just another old guitar. Hindsight. “The Wall” is a more complex concept but a bit too dark for many.
Tbh, The Wall is by far my favorite Floyd album.
Might be connected to the fact I saw them perform it at The Hammersmith Odeon in London many decades ago😎
It is mine as well.
I have a Japanese pressing of it and a MOFI CD etc etc. The concepts are interesting, the courtroom situation and, to some extent, the movie was also very creative.
DSOM brings back important memories, but The Wall was amazingly creative. There were no concept-creation groups that were so memorable. An exception could be Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick”
My 4 Vinyl pressings of the Album
There is the ‘Live at Wembley 1974’ recording
Then there are 4 versions on the server
And a DVD with the 4.1 mix
what is the best digital version?
I prefer the 2-channel version of the original Quadraphonic mix
Of course, I could be controversial and say the MQA 96K 
Many reviewers seem to believe that the 30th anniversary is second only to the original UK pressing. I have never heard the album on headphones, and while I have two copies of the surround CD, one case is empty. I shall buy the 30th at some point, have the CD and LP of the 50th. I anticipate that Mr. Gilnour will send me a thank you note.
Pink Floyd’s “Final Cut”, the final album before Roger Waters tried to end the band. The album shows how his father’s death has dominated his life. Among the awesome things on the album is Water’s line “hang onto the dream” and the word “dream” becomes a saxophone.
Someone somewhere does not “get” Pink Floyd, not even the derivation of the name, but I am not allowed to play with them, momma said.
Can you please send a photo of that CD?
It wasn’t a CD, but a download released by Alan Parson, the recording Engineer, as an ISO file.
You could either burn to DVD and play in a multi-channel configuration or down convert to 2-channel PCM in 24/96.
