While I enjoy original LP's for both sound quality and historical and artistic context sometimes the SQ of the original can be quite poor compared to a "good remaster". It is interesting that you mention the Rolling Stones, I have a lot of original release Rolling Stone's LP's including a 1971 UK pressed A3/ B4 "Sticky Fingers" which is rather poor sounding compared to later CD's. While not applicable to Sticky Fingers for me some of the very best remasters are the ABCKO SACD of the Rolling Stones. These sound better to me in every way than any other version I have heard. I like being able to play both digital and LP's and don't see why anyone would think not being able to play something is better than being to play something.What left Rolling Stones Records' pressing plants in '71 is the original and only Sticky Fingers. Pressed on vinyl. Maintaining that the artist and the producer wanted to put on the final release on vinyl some detail but that wasn't possible because of technical limitations, so that now we are justified in rescuing it, is a conceited and mean exercise, arbitrary as a concept and debatable in its outcome.
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