Babe (1995) US DVD Dolby & DTS 5.1 synced to 4K Blu-ray

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According to Cinephiles Kino Lorber screwed up the audio on the new 4K master (4K & HD Blu-ray)

Cinephiles

The 5.1 mixes on the UHD and old BDs sound similar, but there has been a very sloppy filtering of the CRT whine inherent to the source recording on the UHD track. Instead of merely attenuating the whine, Kino chose to delete all frequencies from ~15.5 kHz to 15.8 kHz, including in sections where there is minimal to no whine. The old BDs 5.1 is not free from issues, however, as it has 120 clipped samples in the center channel and 10 in the left channel. Lastly, the UHD 5.1 has a heavy dither as it was filtered, dithered to 16-bit, and padded back to 24-bit. Personally I can't detect too much of a difference between the two tracks, though I ultimately decided on the old BD 5.1 as its clipping is extremely minimal and doesn't have the destructive filtering of the UHD 5.1. The archival commentary on the UHD is a transcode of the DVD/USA BD commentary track with no Dolby Surround metadata, so the USA BD track was preferred.

I present to you the US DVD audio. Is it better then the old Blu-ray? No idea. But it's probably not fiddled with.

Download: MEGA
Source: R1 DVD Special Edition
Included audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448kbits) and DTS 5.1 (754kbits) + Audio Commentary within a .mka file
Sync Info: Add a delay of +1000ms to the DVD audio and it will stay in perfect sync to the Kino Lorber release