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

@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.

Take a listen to Stadium Arcadium by the RHCP

SQ is great and instrument placement is spectacular

Drums are front and center and slightly elevated

Vocals are right where they should be, bass is off center to the left, guitar off center to the right

The entire band sounds like they're in the room and firing on all cylinders 

A couple of sleepers that build and impress

Wet Sand

Hey

Snow (Hey Oh)

Hard To Concentrate