jimfisheye
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Compared to damn near everything you've ever heard and you wonder what the heck happened! You know what I mean. Bad enough that you don't need a master to compare to to hear which way the wind is blowing. I'm thinking of titles I haven't seen offered in any other format, so no way to compare and point at the mix, mastering, or delivery format.Dull compared to what? I'm talking about the same surround master mix, in lossless or DTS encoded
The only audible difference due to encoding might be the LFE content, which might or might not have a 120 Hz bandwidth cutoff on the DTS. But, many AVRs also enforce such a filter on LFE anyway, in which case, no audible difference.
Probably a few of them are 100% the fault of a really bad mix too. There are some really botched surround mixes done as pure novelty.
Point is, there are enough stock core dts releases with poor sound for whatever the reason was to start a stereotype for this. There are also examples with nothing wrong at all that prove that the poor ones can't just be attributed to any shortcomings of the delivery format.
Yes, of course you can find some examples where the delivery format or some novelty mastering altered a mix so badly that it really changed it and stepped on it. I still think the mix itself is the main variable no matter what other sonic destruction is employed. And novelty mastering a million times to one over any release format with that.
There's an incendiary thread idea! Post examples of novelty masters that are strikingly altered that appear to come from the same mix.