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The 28-cent VHS vs the 120GB rip, the tape won for sound
I compared the old mono VHS dub of The Thing I found at a pawn shop in Gary, Indiana to a 120GB 4K rip I pulled off a forum. The picture on the rip was obviously clearer, but the audio had that weird digital echo, the tape sounded raw and punchy. Turns out the rip was a bad 5.1 downmix, someone botched the EQ at the source. Anyone else keep a crummy tape around just for the sound, even when you have the fancy file?
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