The episode opens with ambient city noise—distant sirens, rain on asphalt—before cutting to the hospital’s fluorescent hum. In a poorly encoded file (e.g., low-bitrate MP3), these environmental sounds collapse into a hissy mess. However, in a high-quality AAC encode (192 kbps or higher), the soundstage remains wide. You can pinpoint the location of a rolling gurney in the left channel while a pagers chirps on the right.
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