Thursday, 19 August 2021

The Parallax View (1974)

Every edition below except the Criterion blu-ray sounds fantastic - this is truly one of the best-sounding '70s film audio tracks out there. The Criterion blu-ray is missing some high-frequency detail, but its real problem is bass: almost everything below 70 Hz or so has been removed.

Jump to 03:00 in this sample for the gist of it:




Film:

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 August 2021 at 11:40

    What are the other 2 sources?

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  2. Unknown22 August 2021 at 09:15

    As indicated as titles on those graphes, the 4 sources are : 1999 R1 Paramount DVD, 2004 R2 Paramount DVD, 2017 Amazon Video Download, 2021 Criterion Blu-ray.

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  3. Anonymous25 August 2021 at 13:36

    Thanks. It made me look closer and I finally saw that very small print.

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  4. SpacemanDoug31 January 2023 at 18:02

    what about the Imprint release?
    it uses the same master as Criterion's

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