Help, what's the best "Sticky FIngers?"


Can you point me towards the best sounding version of the Stones "Sticky Fingers." I've got the Virgin/Abko cd version, a well worn original US lp pressing (too well worn to really evaluate,) and a near mint MFSL lp. They all leave a lot to be desired in my opinion. The main problem with the MFSL is that the engineer mastered it with an exremely low sound level. I've got to turn the volume up to near maximum, so even with a well vacuumed record, there is too much awareness of groove noise or the occsional tic. This recording is the only one I've ever found with such an extreme case of this. Any suggestions?
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To my knowledge there is not yet out a remastered S.F. but I know it is under discussion. However, several of the songs on SF are available now in remastered versions - on ABKCO Stones albums in hybrid sacd/cd which came out about 2 years ago there is Wild Horses and Brown Sugar (on Hot Rocks 1964-1971); and on The Best of the Rolling Stones-- Jump Back, there is Bitch. So you can get 3 of the 10 songs on the SF albumn now in remastered versions with the best sound possible.

The negotiations for the remastering and release of SF are apparently difficult since the rights are not owned by ABKCO but by the Stones themselves and maybe others,