My favorite Organ Symphony is the old Paray/Detroit version.
Many DG recordings were indeed hard to take in their early digital incarnations, especially Wilhelm Kempff records, but I still prefer them to vinyl.
On the whole, early CD remasterings for Classical blew away the lps. Sony alone saved Bernstein, Szelk and Ormandy from the sonic graveyard. Bernstein Mahler 7 would be Exhibit A. And RCA lps had become unlistenable by the 1970s due to the exceptionally poor vinyl. At least the first CD remastering lacked surface noise and tracked