The original Atlantic issues sound fine to me, the ones with a silver label and a red outer-ring, usually West German or Japan for EU pressings. The Rhino remasters are dreadful IMO, an object lesson in how to absolutely trash a recording, as apparently is the expensive Japanese SACD set. The Gastwirt Fragile is good (the original Atlantic issue has pitch and noise issues, maybe an old copy master), but other than that original all the way for me with the caveat that I’ve not heard the well liked and expensive Steve Hoffman Audio Fidelity or the Steve Wilson rewriting of history.
PS With all this sort of stuff I do not want some later reimagining or revisionism, just for it to sound how first press vinyl did on a great system. It all goes wrong when now long-deaf rock musicians try to recreate memories of their once young ears with brickwall compression and horribly boosted EQ etc. No need to repaint the Sistine Chapel with dayglow poster paint.
