This British 2 LP reissue from 1993 was (badly) digitally remastered by a Mr. Ron Furmanek. May his name live in infamy.
It contains alternate mixes of 6 songs at 45 RPM on the second record, with sound every bit as bad as the sound of the first record.
The whole Apple series of remastered releases — at least the ones we played — was awful sounding and should be avoided completely. These records are nothing but audiophile bullshit.
If you are a record collector and must have those alternate mixes, just buy the CD. The vinyl is terrible, the CD probably sounds every bit as bad, but at least the CD is cheap and plays all the songs straight through.
If you own this record, my guess is it is pristine.
If you played it at all, you played it once and put it away on a shelf where it probably sits to this very day. Good records get played and bad records get shelved. If you have lots of pristine records filed away, ask yourself: Why aren’t you playing them?
You may not like the implications of the answer: Because they aren’t any good.
And that means you shouldn’t have bought them in the first place, right?
But we all make mistakes. Owning up to them may be hard, but it is the only way to make any real progress in this hobby.
Record collecting for the sake of record collecting is a bad idea.
We like to play records, not just collect them, and we like to play records with the best sound we can find. We call those kinds of records Hot Stamper pressings, and finding them, and making them available to other audiophiles, has been my life’s work.
All the collecting we leave to other people who apparently enjoy that sort of thing.