Sentence:  As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff 's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the <WSD>cleaner</WSD> , less razor edged monophonic version , for all its lack of big stage spaciousness , the more aurally tolerable - but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims