[Slowhand] Remasters

[Dave McAffee]

I have all of Clapton's commercial releases on CD ( I was not around for 
vinyl, my wife may have a cassette).  But anyway I have recently been 
looking at all the different remasters and reissues.  For example Layla has 
been given the go around from the master tapes multiple times.  There is the 
sessions remaster, 24kt gold, 20 bit and the SACD.  I know there have been 
recent releases of the 461, Desreali, and Bluesbreakers.  Now my question 
is, which remasters are better?  Is there a noticable difference? People pay 
hundreds of dollars for the 24kt gold cds.  And Layla in surround sound 
could be awesome.  What is your experience?  Is it worth the cost for a 24kt 
got cd.  Do the remasters clean up the sound and increase the quality or are 
they just poorly digitalized versions of the original masters reissued just 
to make a buck.

Dave

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