I'm Just Not Hearing It..., Do You???

You definitely don’t need any fancy equipment to hear it. I can hear it loud and clear on my phone using Qobuz.

I have the original CD and listened on the AKG headphones and still don’t hear it.  

I also had my wife’s healthcare worker listen on YT to Remastered version, nearfield, and she couldn’t hear it as a squeak.  She is really big into jazz.  We certainly heard other low level noises.

Maybe people are describing it differently, or maybe this is like the Emperor’s New Clothes...

Maybe it was one of the other tracks I remember hearing it on as a kid.  There are several that are of a similar "groove."  Maybe I’m going to have to listen to the early catalog on headphones to see if I can pick it out.

I was able to hear it listening on YT with headphones, until the guitar gets louder and masks it, as another user pointed out. But I'm blessed with fairly good hearing for a 66 year old. We all hear differently so I'm not surprised not everyone can. On Masterpieces By Ellington, Solitude, near the end of Strayhorn's piano solo there is a wooden squeak that I think is Billy adjusting himself on the piano stool. I also noticed a squeak on a Miles track where he removes his Harmon mute on his trumpet. To me these are just fun little organic sounds that are part of making music. As simao said, little Easter eggs. There are a side effect of focused listening and a relatively resolving hi-fi. Part of what makes high end audio fun.

Observation…. “I also had my wife’s heathcare worker listen”

Being a wife’s healthcare worker does not guarantee that person has good healthy ears.

This discussion is just getting sillier by the minote. 🎶

l was listening to an old concert recording and heard the musicians turning over their pages. I thought…”that’s not music, why is that there?” Then l thought, “yes it is music”

The idea is that a second set of ears didn’t hear it either and she is a bit more than half my age (40s maybe).  But she is here several times a week and when we listened to the YT version, we both heard the very low noises toward the beginning and these are barely audible.  She pointed it out and asked if that’s to what I was referring.  Again, we were listening for a distinctive "squeak" like you would hear from a spring mechanism that needs to be lubricated.

She is a big jazz and music fan (I always hear her car stereo playing when she pulls up) and loves the sound of my stereo.  Her favorite in my collection is Vince Guaraldi doing the Peanuts themes.  When I talk of classic rock bands, she knows who I’m talking about and is familiar with the songs.

She lives in a studio with her daughter and could never afford even a modest system let alone have a place to set it up. Her occupation has nothing to do with it.