1993 Criterion LaserDisc [CC1316L]: Audible clipping everywhere and plenty of hiss reduction above 6 kHz. Some bass attenuation. Quite muffled and distorted - even more so than the Criterion blu-ray.
1999 Fox Lorber DVD: ~Identical to the Criterion LaserDisc.
2001 MK2 DVD: Crystal clear, with no hiss reduction whatsoever. It has a loud 8 kHz tone all throughout (filtered out from most later releases), but it's still easily the clearest rendition of the film's soundtrack. Lovely sound.
2003 Criterion DVD - Antoine Doinel box: Not terrible, but significant noise reduction atop the ~2001 MK2 transfer.
2006 Criterion DVD: Identical to the 2003 Criterion DVD.
2009 Criterion Blu-ray: More noise reduction than the 2003 Criterion and a few clipped peaks.
2014 Artificial Eye Blu-ray: Pitched 0.7 semitones too low. Quite a bit more noise reduction than the other standard blu-rays - it's very murky. The film soundtrack used under the commentary sounds like the MK2 DVD.
2014 Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray: Slightly less noise reduction than the Criterion blu-ray, but mostly similar.
2020 BIM Blu-ray: Identical to the Umbrella blu-ray.
2021 Carlotta Films UHD: This new audio transfer has a comical amount of noise reduction and sounds awful.
Not pictured: the 2002 Artificial Eye DVD and 2016 Concorde Video blu-ray, which would both fall somewhere behind the Criterion blu-ray.
For these comparison clips, the MK2's PAL speed-up was removed and its 8 kHz tone attenuated.
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