Yes - Going For The One Audio Fidelity SACD

this album SO needs this, i am so happy

 

I agree.... A great album. Pleased, but hope SH tinkers enough with the balance to make the bass shake the rafters.

 

I wonder if it's the master tape. A former member of this forum recently complained on Progressive Ears that the HDTracks "flat transfer" is painfully bright. I haven't heard it, but I can't imagine it could be worse than the original 80's CD or '03 remaster.

 

Wow

My favorite yes album

My Japanese vinyl sounds good but could be more open and dynamic

Turn of the Century and Awaken are my favorite Yes epics

Went to see Yes a week ago
They are Doing The Yes Album, CTTE and GFtO
Unfortunately it was a casino and they cut my favorite GFTO

Now going in July three hours away to see all three albums
My 19 year old son loves them too

A remaster is great
The ccte sacd has the punch
Any chance of a remix, vinyl or 5.1 version?
Thanks

 

I like the HD Tracks GFTO better than the Atlantic, Marino or Rhino versions. It is a slight bit bright but much better than the Rhino version. And the clarity is very good as well. Of course it will like lag behind the SH version.

 

Hell, I'd kill for a backside like that. Always saw it as true art.

 

Looks like AF is on the Go with Sack-Dee though rumours of only one pressing plant in the world.......... The Audiophile market is looking really good at the moment with stuff on DVD-A, SACD, Gold CD's and Bluray-Audio. I am really enjoying these times. And for the non physical people there are lots of stuff on HD-tracks etc. I believe that the labels soon will try releasing more hot stuff on Audiophile media. We have seen Neil Young, Stones and Zep testing the market on Bluray-A.

 

Dear Steve:

I listened to the full album carefully twice today. First with headphones and then without them.

I know its sonics aren't up there with 'Close To The Edge' or 'Fragile' but I'd love you to get rid of that awful "dry reverb" (lacking a better term) that plague the overall sonics, especially on drums, which sound like being played in an empty shed with metal walls and ceiling

Thank you

 

The sound you are hearing is probably the room sound that was recorded.

 

Sorry, my English vocabulary is nowhere near as extended/complete as I wished

I don't know how to describe it with better words. But the overall sound is edgy, distant, a sort of "wall of sound" that is a real mess during high volume parts. And if you concentrate on separate instruments, drums and guitars sound the worst.

 

The reverb is most likely on the master so like it or not it will be on the SACD. I personally love the album the way it is.

It is part of the mix, and besides, none of Steve's work ever touches a digital workstation which would be the only way but it would destroy the album . If you hate noise reduction then this would be worse. It would take a remix to get rid of it and the chance of that happening is zero.

 

And yet when I listen and compare a number of Steve's remasters to other versions it makes me wonder if he can't, to some degree, fix this substantial problem. I always point to the sonic miracle of Steve's Jim Croce remasters as evidence of the impossible.

 

i hope we can hear steves analysis of the way the master tape sounds and how will go about his transfer. maybe the tape sounds like that to begin with, who knows

 

Perhaps the remastered artwork will feature an updated Anderson "Bottom End". On second thoughts maybe not eh?

 

I don't believe it is Anderson's "Bottom End" we are seeing on the cover.

 

I always thought it was his khyber pass? Maybe a Yes expert can confirm...?

 

I don't understand this at all. Don't know what you mean, really

 

After seeing Yes last night, they performed this album (along with The Yes Album and Close To The Edge) in it's entirety. I forgot that this album was pretty good. I enjoyed it very much.

 

Rick Wakeman has nicknamed the album "Going for the Bum"

 

I was also at the show, the closer Awaken sounds great live and resembles the Tales or Relayer era. It's always been one of my favorites as at that time in 77 I was getting heavily into Prog. I came to Yes with this album and then went backwards.

Close To The Edge remains my all time favorite though.

 

That wasn't Anderson. Model was used.