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2019-10-05, 12:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 2019-10-05, 12:06 AM by BDgeek.)
CSchmidlapp,
just to further elaborate on this issue. I believe what goes on with the soundtracks of modern movie releases is very similar to the issue of 'Loundness war' on the music industry.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with that, but basically the majority of new releases and catalog remasters have their Dinamic Range totally compressed, rolling off low and (mostly) high frequencies (to get rid of the "hiss"), but raising to levels (volume) to 'compensate'. That totally sucks out the life of the tracks.
So it's a big contratiction that we get supposedly HQ formats like SACD, SHM-CD, Blue-SpecCD and in the end, the masters are completely screwed up.
And to take this debacle even further, I'm don't know if you're familar with the whole Disney 'Atmouse' mixes. They are taking soundtracks from just a few years ago, presented originally on BD in DTS-HD MA 7.1, and turning them into really anemic Dolby Atmos tracks for the UHDs. The latest Pirates of the Carribean (which was a day and date release), most of the Marvel movies and some Disney/Pixar Classics have been affected.
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You took the words right out of my keyboard BDgeek. I've made reference to the loudness war for some time now and it's an invisible issue unfortunately most have no idea of spreading to films.
The US LBX LD and it's Japan counterpart have the 70mm mix in matrix 2.0 form and for years I swore it was the best sounding version out there figuring it was the 70mm mix.
The 78 Dolby stereo is so incredibly underwhelming that even screening a 35mm print it sounds mono-ish for most of the feature.
II also has audio mix issues as the original film got a limited release in bass enhanced Megasound. Then there was dolby stereo, a 5.1 remix that some say has some errors-and the Donner cut mix that has some modern mixing styles and effects and is thus not as good as the 1980 mix.
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Oh maaan why would they do that?
Here I've been lamenting the fact I'm not 4K capable yet so I can't watch this but now I don't feel so bad.
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