Rolling Stones remasters

Haven't heard any of the Stones remasters yet. I am not sure how much benefit we can get from remastered Stones music. Don't get me wrong, "It's only rock and roll, but I like it". I don't really consider Joe Gastwirt a remastering "guru". I prefer the work of Doug Sax, Bernie Grundman and Stan Ricker. Just my 2 cents worth.

One more clarifacation, all Stones albums proir to 1971 are still on the ABKCO label and do not have any 1999 album replica CD remasters. From 1971 to present label is Virgin CDs and these are the ones that had 1999 limited edition album replica remasters.....that leaves a lot of Stones stuff that still needs help.

Gents, Picked up Exile on Main Street with the cardboard packaging. While I was at Best Buys I also checked the jewel case version. It is also a remastered Virgin copy (Bob Ludwig 1994 same as cardboard packaged version). In this case the only difference is the packaging. Still a good idea to get the cardboard packaging. The album like liner is way cool.

I found the literature I was looking for, and my previous post made reference to the wrong letter/number combination. On any of the recent remasters is there an "SA3" process reference?

I checked and could not find a 'SA3' on 'Exile on Main'. The date stamp for the remastering is 1994.