[Kodhifi]

Lets get a list going of songs that used to sound fine, but after getting better equipment you noticed flaws that slipped past the recording engineers. Name the artist, track, equipment, and flaw.
 
Blood Orange - Champagne Coast - HD650/E5 DAC The drums are looped every 2 measures and when they overlap there is an audible click from level mismatch. You can hear it through the entire song.
 
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven - HE400/E5 DAC About 5 minutes into the song you can hear the guitar drop out in the left hand side from overdriving the preamp on the console. Just after 'your stairway rides on the whispering wind' when he starts the clean guitar.
 
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive - HD650/HE400/E5 DAC. Anytime the kick drum coincides with the dubstep bass the song distorts. Almost the entire song is at 0db but they didn't cap the signal well enough and it clips through most of the song.
 
Dave Matthews Band - Crash - HD650/HE400/E5 DAC. 11 seconds into the track you can hear a tamborine rattle in the center channel from a mic left on.

 

[eargasam]

Toto Africa around 0.02 to 0.04 you can here laughing

 

[Kodhifi]

  Toto Africa around 0.02 to 0.04 you can here laughing

I totally hear that. It's in the left channel. Like a ha ha ha.

 

[eargasam]

Yeah exactly

 

[wuwhere]

May depend on the frequency response of the headphone also. Going from a V-shaped to a more emphasize mids, you will hear sound clearer from the mids.

 

[HarleyZK]

If anyone has ever listened to the album Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower, you will know this one. In the background to the mammoth guitar solo in Too Rolling Stoned, there are people cheering, talking and carrying on in the background. The solo must have been recorded live with them cheering him on or something - only explanation to me.

 

[Kodhifi]

I need a 2nd opinion on a track,
 
Dirty Projectors - The gun has no trigger.
 
The drum beat in that song is done similar to a drum loop. Is it just me, or are they putting a barely and i mean barely perceptible pause at the beginning of each 'loop' IE each new bar. A pause so microscopic that it comes across as more of a tickle on your ear, than a perceptible flaw. And it's not every bar, only some of them especially at the beginning of the song. It becomes easier to hear if you listen to the interplay of the bass and the drums, or the "Ooooh aaahhhh" with the drum.
 
These guys do so many odd time signatures, and deconstructed/reconstructed music, it wouldn't surprise me if they did it on purpose. I was listening on my HE400's tonight which are very fast headphones and I think thats the only reason I noticed.

 

[Kodhifi]

Kings of Leon - Knocked Up, about 2 seconds in, you can hear someone off mic say something like "hey man" or "ok man" or maybe "playback"

 

[JuanseAmador]

Kings of Leon - Knocked Up, about 2 seconds in, you can hear someone off mic say something like "hey man" or "ok man" or maybe "playback"

Man, that was 6 seconds in! I was replaying like crazy after 2 seconds thinking I was going deaf or something

 

[joe]

That KOL one is hilarious, but I can't imagine that wasn't fine by the band to be in the track. It seems pretty apparent in the track.
 
Now, Alter Bridge's track "Slip to the Void", there's a hiss in the background... But about nine seconds in.... it's boosted. I love the track, but man, that bugs me EVERY TIME. I initially never heard it, but I'd hear the song on the radio. Once I got it on any other media... hiss.