Thursday, 31 December 2020

Wagon Master (1950)

The Warner Archive blu-ray is an improvement over the the Warner DVD since its bass frequencies are more intact. Its high end is slightly less detailed, but only just. 

The IVC blu-ray sounds the best to me, and it's an anomaly as far as IVC releases go -- most are sourced from high-generation dupes, but this one is as detailed as the official Warner blu-ray, if not more so (listen to the end music, which is actually less distorted on the IVC).





And just to show how misleading a clipped waveform can be, after stretching the IVC track by a factor of 1.00051 (which brings it in nearly perfect sync with the Warner blu-ray), it looks like this:

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