Received my copy yesterday and popped it in to compare pic quality and audio to the first bluray. I never considered the original bluray "bad" given when it came out on the format and the age of this film.. but man, Arrow has made it look great. There's so much detail in scenes like the Slaughtered Lamb.
The audio is also great. I'm looking forward to watching with the original mono soundtrack, it sounds phenomenal!
I do have a question for everyone. What mode on your AV receiver do you listen to mono films with? Being a 1.0 track, the audio comes from my center speaker by default. This isn't terrible by any means, but it kind of limits the sound stage a bit. If I select stereo, I get sound from the L+R, but not the center. I also have an all channel mono setting.. but this puts the sound through all 11 speakers in my setup. It actually doesn't sound so bad that way.. I wish I had a "mono front" setting that'd use L+C+R. Just curious what others do for an "authentic" experience.
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