Its the recording stupid!!

Never! I put on an LP or CD and sit back and just listen and try not to analyze the sound quality! Focusing on that hampers the enjoyment! After all, the "perfect" recording does not exist - though some are closer than others! There is always a "better" recording to hear!

Sure, this happens sometimes and I will go grab something that I'm intimately familiar with and know how it should sound.  It just so happens that Aja is my go-to for setting up new gear, especially making cartridge changes on my turntable.

I think the key is you asked if this ever happens when listening to your stereo. This should never happen when listening to your stereo. This should only happen when listening to some stranger's stereo. Even then not often. Like maybe the first time you hear it. After that, if you can't figure out what's what, well on second thought if I say that someone's gonna be triggered, there goes the post, and nobody learns how big a deal I think it is that you don't know what you're hearing.

Either that or this was just another roundabout way of plugging Aja. In that case, nevermind.