Those Yes remasters - are they better than the previous remasters

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For the Yes-fans out there (I know there are quite some on ILM): I have the mid 90s Atlantic remasters of most of the Yes-albums, but picked up "Drama" and "90125" as I only had burned CDs based on downloads of those two.

Anyway, I am considering whether to go for the remasters of the rest of their 70s albums as well, and I wonder if there is any obvious improvement in sound quality. I mean, obviously, the liner notes are better in the Rhino edition (it's Rhino after all), but is the sound considerably better?

Anyone able to answer this?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

i have 90125 but the 70's were very different weren't they ?

― retrokid, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

"90125" is kind of different, yet. "Changes" and "It Can Happen" are somewhat like what they used to be in the 70s :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

..and "Cinema" isn't..??

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

yeah they sound better, particularly Going for the One and Relayer.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't see how they could have improved on the mid-'90s remaster of The Yes Album - don't have the newest version of Tales... but the mid-'90s version I own is a tad murky, so the latest remaster should be some kind of improvement.

― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I have mid-90s versions of everything from Fragile through Relayer, but those are bracketed by newer versions of The Yes Album and Going For The One. I can't hear any appreciable difference.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

the new tales remaster has the full intro to the album the old remaster had some weird cut off point that started right on the first lyric

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like the "Tales" remaster is worth getting then at least.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 29 December 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

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