This is a great sounding reissue. It has more space and detail than my original. I am not a great lover of 45 rpm reissues but this works really well as it is a Doors album with a particularly long track times L.A.Woman 7:49 The Wasp 4:12 & Riders On The Storm 7:14.It is also my favorite Doors album.
I used to dislike fitting the 45rpm adaptor owing to the force required to slide it over the spindle and fear of what it was doing to the motor bearings. Then someone at Radford told me of the fix, which was a revelation . The ultimate solution came with the introduction of the Lingo PS, of course.
Unfortunately the best sounding CD is the RCA release and that tends to be pricey!
To be fair I’ve never listened to the latest CD’s but I doubt they’d touch the RCA’s.
The Ryko (EMI inUK) with the extra tracks from 1990 sound good if you can tame the treble/highs a little. Bang for buck they’re then a good option.
Vinyl it’s an early UK press or the EMI 100 centenary pressing, both not cheap.
Good luck
No idea, just not found and believed lost - I believe that Michael Cuscuna has confirmed this. Previous CD issues have been needle drops I understand. The same thing applies to Horace Silver’s ‘The Jody Grind’, also from the Liberty era.