Hissing, and all the other Joni albums up through Shadows and Light (that is, everything before she switched to Geffen) were remastered in 1997-8 from the original source tapes and in HDCD. They sound incredible on any cd player. They *really* sound incredible if your cd player has the HDCD chip, which reads the extra bandwidth encoded on HDCDs but unread by normal cd players. (Joni was my reason for buying one.) The irony of this is that since she went back to Reprise in 1994, which was before HDCD was available to the record companies for general use, the one non-Geffen album of hers that is not mastered with HDCD is Turbulent Indigo. (The new ones since-- TTT and BSN-- are in HDCD.)
This reminds me--- Does anyone know when we will be seeing those remastered four Geffen albums with bonus tracks that Joni was talking about a few months ago?
