"Classic Yes" album question...

Rebbi:
If you have the U.S. pressing, then yes, it's harsh and full of distortion. IF you can find a U.K. pressing on the original "plum" label U.K. atlantic, That is the pressing to get. Treble is now in balance with everything else, and overloaded harshness is markedly gone. These U.K. pressings of Fragile are hard to get though.

None of the Yes recordings from the 70's were "audiophile" quality. They sounded OK, but not great. I thinkt hey were more interested in the music rather than the sonics.

Bob

Xiekitchen,
Do you know the catalogue number of the UK pressing? And how is the Mobile Fidelity pressing?

>>None of the Yes recordings from the 70's were "audiophile" quality<<

Baloney.

"Fragile" and "The Yes Album" are wonderful.

Xiekitchen,
Thanks for clarifying that. Yes, my US pressing is just shy of unlistenable.... We Have Heaven and Cans and Brahms, for example, sound full of clipping distortion, and Roundabout is full of spitty, ragged sibilants. It's as if nobody listened to the thing before shipping it. How's the CD, then?