What CD sound is the best?

Played my original release "In the Court of..." LP today and I'm ready to move up to the new remaster.
There's also a 30th anniversary single disk remaster of "Red," maybe I should wait to see if they release a new remaster.

Great info, Tomcy6. Those were the good old days of music recording; bouncing tracks and "ganging" the slaves together. I'm glad I got my start with 24 track decks.

If I may interrupt the thread, do recent remasters of classic rock and prog rock suffer from over-compression in the way POP ROCK and recent commercial bands do? In other words, is a King Crimson or Moody Blues CD remastered LOUD?

Remember how shockingly bad these original CDs sounded in the 80s when we were scammed into switching from vinyl to CD?

Thanks Mapman, you answered my question. Specifically in regard to clipping.

"particularly in king crimson 'court of the...' it's never outperformed an original release."

Are you talking about vinyl? As far as CDs, everyone is recommending the 40th Anniversary remaster above all other other versions.