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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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Toto Roseanna - 3:31 - The guys all sing "not quite a year since she went away" but someone throws in a "well is it?" as a bit of a joke (is it Jeff Porcaro?) just after away - "not quite a year" obviously being an awkward lyric but necessary to fit the rhythm and deserving a bit of contempt since it is repeaqted so often at the beginning of each chorus!

Mike Porcaro used to date Roseanna Arquette and she would bring the band food at the studio.
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On a good used copy of Yes Fragile LP I just purchased, I heard something really strange:

I had on my AKG 702s, fed by my Raptor headphone amp, VAC preamp and a killer analog front end and was listening to one of my favorite tracks, Mood For A Day, which I've heard 100's of times. It sounded beautiful and was completely involving... then, about a minute into the song, I heard a faint click and suddenly it sounded like someone turned on another mic, or inverted the phase, or something, but it was instant and dramatic! It was as if I was A/B-ing two different systems! Different soundstage, presence, one more enveloping, the first more laid back... weird! It lasted until just a second or two before the end of the song.

Of course my first thought, as is probably yours, was that something changed in my system at that moment: tube failure, some circuit that suddenly came on or switched off, etc. But no, I played the track again and it happened again at the same exact spot!

So I pulled out another copy of the album, also from 1972 (but a different pressing), and listened to the same cut without making any adjustments... it played flawlessly. No phase changes or any anomalies whatsoever.
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Part way through the opening track of Donald Fagen's "Kamakiriad" you can hear a car door open and then a few measures later, close.

Dire Strait's, "Private Investigations", towards the end Mark bends a note that sounds like a cat meowing and later there's the sound of a bottle breaking against a wall in an alley (OK...breaking bottle anyway).
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