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From my experience, Seabird is on the right track. Somewhere
on the package youll find the words "remastered" or "digitally remastered". Another way you can tell (in most cases) is if the CD is housed with a clear CD tray, instead of the black, or gray tray. These trays are being used more frequently with newer releases, and I dont beleive the Who
titles are being released not remastered anymore. Lastly,
get the matrix, or catalog number off the package, and then hit the big on-line sites to see what they have in their description. Usually there pretty good about such notes.

Personnally, Ive shelled out a bit for my favorite Who titles. Tommy MFSL, Whos Next & Quadrophenia Jap rematers.
I had a copy of Whos Next MFSL, but I dropped it at eBay
for a cool $105. Payed for all my others with that!
Good Luck

The original vinyl version of Who's Next sounds good with reasonable dynamics -- Quadraphenia less so. Haven't compared to the cd version, though!

In another thread, Blues Man noted that some "remastered" versions sport LESS dynamics!!

Cheers!

The MCA 180 Gram version released a few years ago, of Who's Next, on LP, was the best sounding version I heard. Better than the Decca "Rainbow" original and subsequent MCA remasters. Other than that, Greg is right, the original is still best.........Frank

Is the MCA GOld CD of Who's Next any good? I've heard that these are also fairly rare. How does is compare to the MFSL version?

thanks you guys about all the info about the "Who's Next" album...the interesting thing about this album is that Steve Hoffman (of DCC fame) has a thread at Audio Asylum discussing the remastering job he did on this album back in the '80's. It's now released as a budget Canadian CD and I picked it up from an online store in Canada. it really is quite good (and very cheap). anyone interested should do a search at AA and read the thread. regarding my question about "live at leeds" - didn't the remastered version add some songs that the original CD didn't contain?

best,

gregg