I listened to the 1997 CD version of Equinoxe from 2003 (when I got back into JMJ's music) to 2007, when I got the MFSL LP - and listening to its mix of Equinoxe 4 for the first time, I thought "hmm, now there's an ever-so-slight delay in the Eminent strings when the keys were pressed,
I wonder if my turntable's faulty somehow", clearly attributing the "error" to the turntable/digitalization process itself.
Maybe I had just gotten used to the 1997 CD's sound OR maybe it was a case of subconsciously "realizing" that the 1997 version had the channels the right way round, thus making the other ones sound "off" (which I still attributed to the condition of the record or sth instead).
(Oddly enough, the 2018 LP version sounds like the strings are "lagging" more than ever before, even though the "delayed" strings are on the left channel as they'd have been in the 1997 CD.
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Also as an example, the attachments to this post are from the Japanese LP version - I had to actually verify for the very first time that there actually is some kind of string delay going on, and luckily it was easier to find out than I first thought
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