Your first level-up in Skyrim: Special Edition should be a truly special moment, but if you're an audiophile it may have been a moment of horror instead. has discovered that both the Xbox One and PC versions of Skyrim: Special Edition have super-compressed and generally rotten sounding audio compared to the origin𓆉al game. Not typically something you want out of a remastered experience!

Liඣsten for yourself. The first level-up sound is from the original Skyrim and the second is from the Special Editio✅n.

SoundCloud layers in some compression of its own, but the difference between the two is still apparent. If you want to get all scientific about it you can check out this spectrogram from Reddit user , whiꩲch shows the new audio (on the right) cutting off above fඣrequencies of 12kHz. That's a big part of why it sounds so flat.

A said in the same 𒆙Reddit thread that the developer is testing a fix for the audio issue and hopes to have an update out next week. Until then, audiophiles may want to limit their Skyrim: Special Edition p꧂laytime to preserve their sanity.

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