Unless this filter is applied at the mixing stage so that the sound mixers can hear what it is doing to their audio, you are NOT hearing what the sound designers and mixers heard or intended. This is the audio equivalent of a video "noise reduction" filter on a TV, plain and simple.
Doug
And considering that modern soundtracks are, with very rare exception, digital from start to finish, and there is no analog path, this is completely irrelevant.
Doug
Apodizing. Hmmmmm Sounds like the audio equivalent to motion smoothing. Great if you like your images, or in this case audio, processed and artificial sounding.
I'll take the original, unmolested audio thanks. If they want in the future to offer REAL original 96k audio that started out that way...