The Australian Madman DVD sounds much better than the audio track prepared by Kadokawa for their 4K restoration, which can be heard on the Kadokawa, BFI, and Criterion blu-rays. The Criterion had some 'additional restoration' done, which consisted of further attenuating high frequencies atop the already aggressive work done by Kadokawa. But the three blu-rays and the BFI DVD sound ostensibly the same.
The Madman isn't objectively great by any standard -- lots of dialogue-related crackle -- but the others deal with it by just shearing off the high end. In addition to sounding muffled, the non-Madman tracks have a louder noise floor, so scenes that play nearly silent on the Madman now sound like there's some highway traffic in the background.
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