Tidal streaming needle-drops?

After folkfreak’s post, I pulled out my CD, which I haven’t listened to in quite awhile.

Yeah, it’s recorded that way.

Thanks, guys.  Boy did I find that distracting.  But it did take me back to "the day" of dinged up LPs.  Of course, back then neither my system nor my brain was that resolving ;-)

dbtom2- I'm not enamored with all of her song choices but her voice is stunning.  First heard her music at RMAF a few years ago and been a fan since. 

It makes me wonder why people are going back to vinyl. Even if it 'sounds' better, those damn pops, and scratches were the devil's work.-Let alone having to get up and cue a new record...

I'm not going to get drawn into an analog vs digital discussion (if you check my rig you can see I have quite a decent setup for both) but in discussion of surface noise any decent resolving LP system will push any noise out of the plane of the recording such that i rarely if ever find it objectionable. 

On listening to the Teng track the OP referenced (last snowfall) I had a chance to listen to it on my main rig and it's neat how she and Alex place the distortion very carefully in the mix layered just in front of the backing vocals. It's a nice test of resolution in your system if you can clearly separate all of the parts, the distortion rhythms and the vocals and instruments.  Thanks for making me dig this disc out, Vienna has a habit of overloading recordings and hoping you can work out everything that's going on, then often dropping back to a whisper the next moment

I was listening to an mp3 streamed to my M00s listening in near field.  So it was definitely in my face.  I'll try to get a flac copy and listen on my main rig.