What are songs where people or instruments sound closer to you?

@blisshifi 

There are a few different versions  of Ain’t No Use. Any one in particular I should try? I’m listening to the one from “The Divine One”.

Thanks

@CuriousJim That’s where streaming comes in so handy...being able to sample an album before buying physical media.

My copy of "Dad Loves His Work" is a MoFi Superdisk CD. Sadly, I’m not that wild about most of the tracks on it, except "Her Town too" and "Summer’s Here". If I had streamed it first, probably would have passed on buying it.

I guess it works both ways though. I bought Boz Scaggs’ double album, "Dig" after hearing one track. Upon 1st listening, I only liked 2 tracks on the whole 2 disk set...disappointing! But, due to the nature of listening to vinyl, 1 side at a time, I got a real appreciation for 7-8 more tracks after "having" to listen to them because they were on the side where my early favorites were. If I had been streaming, it’s quite likely that I would have put the 2 early favorite tracks on a Playlist and never returned to revisit the rest. That whole album is one of my frequent players.

Ya never know

@curiousjim That's the one!

Also to weigh in on the mono recording posts above, the Analog Productions masters of Ella and Louis does an exceptional job of portraying depth.

@mwinkc 

I just stuck my toe into streaming 6-8 weeks ago thinking I have 2500+ CD’s and and if I listen to 4-5 a day, I won’t repeat a disk for years, blah blah blah and now after just a few weeks I’m listening 80% streaming and am already thinking about changing the power supply on the N130 or getting a better streamer. It doesn’t help that I lost an 18 month old drive in my NAS. WD sent me a lower refurbished drive and I had to send it back and wait for them to send me the correct one.