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What is your favorite recording with a quirck

I recently began to play some CD's I had stored away. Two of my favorites are "Rhapsodies" Stokowski RCA Living Stero 09026-61503-2 and Shirley Horn "You Won't Forget Me" Verve 847 482-2. These stick in my mind because they are recorded well. But also they have something quircky present.

In the Stokowski recording on track #6 Tristan und Isolde when I listen closely I hear a whirring sound like a turbine starting up. I asked a friend who lived in New York city and he suggested it was the subway underneath the building where this recording was made. Intersting I thought as my audio system could resolve and reveal this sound caught on the rcording.

Another moment of testing resolving ability was on the title track of Shirley Horn's recording of You won't forget me. During the song Miles Davis makes what seems to be a sarchastic sour note and Shirley in response whispers a**hole.

Have you any favorite quircky tests of resovling power on recordings that you have found?
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cwlondon
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One all time favourite test for this would be Pink Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky. There are several barely audible items - a psychedelic change of pitch in one of the last lingering piano notes...the voice of the pub philosopher...the breath of the vocalist....

I have used this as a reference for over 25 years.
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dweller
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The Ace-of-Base song, "All That She Wants" (from "The Sign" album), has a sound that is exactly like someone slamming a sliding patio door with maximium force.

Of course, you need a quality amp to get the effect.
The sales associate at the Best Buy store took my word for this when his boom-box failed to reproduce it.
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philjolet
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Cowboy Junkies original Trinity Sessions you can clearly hear subway trains rumbling in the background during quiet passages.
bongofury
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The phone ring at the end of "Life On Mars" by David Bowie. You can hear it during the piano fade-out. Evidently someone left the door open in the control room.
chadnliz
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When you listen to "Witches Brew" on Mercury Living Presence (or any recordings from that English hall it was performed in ....Albert Hall??...I cant recall) anyway if your speakers go low enough you can hear the Subway trains pass thru under the hall avery so often.
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