[pjsbro]

I'm guessing that this is the way that the sound engineers intended for it to be (instrumentals on the left, more in the background).

To me the song sounds much better reversed, i.e., instruments in 'foreground', voices laid back.

One of these days I'll pull out my 45 year-old LP (ouch!) of the Beatles '65 album (No Reply was the first cut, IIRC), connect up the old turntable, and listen to it the way it was supposed to be heard...on vinyl!!!

I'll bet on vinyl it sounds more like the reversed FLAC, which is probably how I used to hear it and why I prefer it that way.

[Star Traveler]

Yes, that would be interesting to find out. Let me know what you hear when you pull it out... :-)