Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Yes Available Now
At its best, this album is a Big Speaker Prog-Rock opus with tremendous power and dynamic range, but it takes a special pressing to really bring the album to life.
These guys — and by that I mean this particular iteration of the band, the actual players that were involved in the making of this album — came together for the first time and created the sound of Yes on this very album, rather aptly titled when you think about it.
With the amazing Eddie Offord at the board, as well as the best batch of songs ever to appear on a single Yes album, they produced both their sonic and musical masterpiece — good news for audiophiles with Big Speakers!
Drop the needle on a top copy and you will find yourself on a Yes journey the likes of which you have never known.
And that’s what I’m in this audiophile game for.
The Heavy Vinyl crowd can have their dead-as-a-doornail, wake-me-when-it’s-over pressings that are typically cheap to buy and tend to play quietly. Here’s one I couldn’t sit through with a gun to my head.
The amount of effort that went into the recording of this album is comparable to that expended by the engineers and producers of bands like Supertramp, ELP, The Who, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, Pink Floyd and far too many others to list.
It seems that no effort or cost was spared in making the home listening experience as compelling as the recording technology of the day permitted. Tubey Magical British Prog Rock just doesn’t get any better.
Obsession
Yes, we admit to being obsessed with The Yes Album.
It is our belief that to reach the most advanced levels of audio,you have to do two things:
- You must become obsessed with getting your favorite albums to sound their best, and,
- You must then turn your obsession into concrete action.
What kind of action?
Finding better sounding pressings and improving your stereo and room.