With the excellent news that Shenmue will finally be released on modern consoles I was looking back at the series and the comparison videos with what we know so far in a visual sense, but I was wondering about the audio aspect of the games and how that might be improved.
Shenmue has some audio compression issues due to the sheer size of the game and the limitations of the optical storage and RAM at the time means that the voice tracks and sound effects at moments come across as shallow or tinny with occasional popping distortions due to low bitrate. The excellent DF Retro video highlights these issues briefly. https://youtu.be/c0blSBgpRUg?t=10m15s
Is it technically feasible to improve this in the HD port or is it something which is impossible? It would greatly improve the game if they touched this aspect up, I'd love to play this game on a really nice surround sound system with those awesome cutscenes and soundtracks. I don't know if other HD ports of games ever improved audio so I'm not even sure if it is possible but like I said, it would be amazing to have the game sound as intended without the compression.