While watching the Criterion blu-ray, two things were immediately obvious: 1) this disc comes from the same restoration (with a few 'tweaks') as the Universal DVD; 2) the Universal DVD sounded a lot better. Putting two and two together, one would expect the BD to sync to the DVD with ease. And it does - add a 14973ms delay to the Universal DVD to sync its vastly superior 192 kbps AC-3 mono track to the Criterion BD.
Noise reduction is at play once again, and this time it has had an especially disastrous effect on dialogue. It's pretty audible (unlike the rumble filter that's also been applied), with the actors' voices sounding a lot more buried in the mix than they ought to be.
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