Tinkling glass, cat, door latch…………… The TRUE audiophile !
The private Investigations diversion in the “Where to go (if anywhere) from NAC 52?” thread has restored my belief in Hi-Fi in its truest sense.
Forget “musicality” whatever that is !
Forget listening to a whole TRACK, never mind a whole SIDE of an album. Why would anyone in their right mind do that ? especially with HI-Fi equipment costing tens of thousands of pounds !
No ! it’s those little bits of background sound that creep almost silently into our records and CDs that we all want to hear. And excitedly share with our un-enlightened neighbours and friends. What use is a Statement, or an LP12/552/3x500 active system if all you can do with is listen to music. ?
So, this thread is for the TRUE Audiophile.
What other BITS of track do you know exis, that others, with far lesser systems, might be oblivious to ?
What are those BITS of track you take to that dealer demo and secretly listen for when deciding to spend the next TEN GRAND on a length of cable, or another little Black Box ?
Don’t be shy……..
Posted on: 24 January 2018 by ROOG
Nina Simone, 'He needs me' has some creeks and clicks from what sounds like the piano stool and some one fiddling with drum sticks. :0)
Also noticed the 'whisper' "Cha Cha Cha"? halfway through Fleetwood Mac 'the chain'
Posted on: 24 January 2018 by Mike-B
One of my per hates Tabby Cat, plus all the mouth noises, whistling nose's & loose teeth. All it needs is to keep presenters correctly distanced from the microphone. And it's just as bad on my NAT-05
Posted on: 24 January 2018 by Tabby cat
Loose teeth Mike....must listen out for that.
No seriously the detail from the NAT's are amazing.Pleased your one is bringing you much joy 
Posted on: 24 January 2018 by ChrisR_EPL
I remember QSound. Bomb the Bass - Winter in July was also recorded in it. I also remember Tomorrow's World doing a feature about it.
I remember nipping out to sit in the car to listen to it on the new-fangled Radio 1 FM, as we didn't have NICAM then. It was quite effective, Paula Abdul released a CD in Q-Sound, I might still have it somewhere.
Not hidden at all, quite the opposite in fact but the drama in Woman's Hour today on R4 to do with volcanos featured a young solo speaking voice panned hard left, with the same voice interacting with that dialogue and panned hard right, with volcano sound effects going on in the centre. It was the very opposite of hidden, but v unusual to hear these days. Brownie points to Radio 4 for making me look up from my work.
Posted on: 24 January 2018 by Flo-TLSC
Listen for Buckingham saying the F word and 'stu, stu stu stuing' to get the rhythm right, right at the beginning of "The Chain". Turn it up a bit tho
Posted on: 24 January 2018 by kevin J Carden
An unintended additional sound on some classical recordings is the rumble of underground trains below the recording venue, Kingsway Hall. Odd when you first hear it, but adds to the ambience once you realise what it is.
Yes IB, the Kingsway Hall rumble is an ever present on all those recordings and yet to my ears they all sound great. I think because it’s a sound your ears can separate from the music and it doesn’t modulate the music itself. I find it ironic that with several HiRes LSO Live recordings there are a variety of very off-putting noises which really do spoil the sound. I think some of it may be close miking revealing performers groans and bow scraping etc, but also I suspect the Tannoy system in the Atrium outside the Barbican Hall. I can’t believe Tony Faulkner didn’t hear them, but perhaps he thought they wouldn’t be heard by most listeners. Try Colin Davis’ Dvorak 8 or 9 to see what I mean. Frustrating!
Posted on: 25 January 2018 by Don Atkinson
Audiophile (noun): A person who is interested in hi-fi equipment, and the sound that it makes. Actual music is of little concern, but musically irrelevant superficialities are of great interest.
Hi Alba,
I think that’s more or less in line with my interpretation 
is that out of some dictionary, or hifi magazine ?
Posted on: 25 January 2018 by ChrisR_EPL
Yes: Close To The Edge - And You And I. At about a minute in where the acoustic guitar meanderings give way to the 6 repeated bass notes, there's an abrupt edit that truncates the guitar and keyboard, momentarily dropping the original to left only as the bass takes over. Presumably the tape was spliced at an angle. In keeping with the spirit of this thread, it's something I first heard on the CD version and can never listen to that track without waiting for it.
