"Classic Yes" album question...

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?

If your copy is "unlistenable" I suggest you have a tonearm/cartridge alignment problem or mismatched components.

Using a number of tonearm and cartridge combinations here, the passages you cite track perfectly and without sibilance.

If your copy is a reissue, that's a different story as most of them suck. If it's an original issue, see my opening comments.

thanks

Audiofeil,
I doubt that's the case. The cartridge is brand new, and the arm, cartridge and 'table were just refurbished by SOTA at the factory. Lots of other albums sound great. I think this is just a really crappy pressing. It's also a very old copy...