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The sound designers had done something forbidden. As the blade passed through the frame, they collapsed the entire mix into MONO. One channel. Pure, flat, dead. No space. No depth. Just the wet thock of a liege lord’s head leaving his shoulders.
Then the dialogue channel bloomed: Lord Eddard Stark’s voice, dry as autumn leaves, saying to a small boy, “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.” It was crisp, centered, like the man himself—unwavering morality in a room of wolves.
Outside, the first snowflake of a decade touched the Citadel’s tallest tower.
Game of Thrones Season 1 [5DVD] (English audio) - Amazon.com
: Typically features a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track, which is lossless and superior to standard DD5.1.
As Ned Stark walked from the dark cell into the daylight of the Great Sept’s steps, the overhead channel (the rarely used .1 of the height layer in the 5.1 configuration) bloomed with a sound no text had described: the hum of a thousand flies. The city’s corruption made audible. The crowd’s noise was not a single roar but a chorus of discrete positions —a child coughing at 135 degrees, a fishwife yelling at 210, the grind of a cart wheel at 45.
