The 1986 MCA LaserDisc is a bit distorted and lacks detail (like most analogue LD audio tracks), and its high frequencies are also very rolled-off. Still, I'm surprised it doesn't sound worse than it does. I hope to one day hear the digital track on the CIC Video LD. (It's reassuring that the MCA appears to have been sourced from the same element(s) as the audio on the DVDs and blu-ray, but less reassuring that the film's high end was being removed even 35 years ago.)
The Universal DVDs are more detailed but still very murky. Bizarrely, the R2 DVD has audible footsteps spliced into the mirror scene.
Universal's blu-ray is the only version among these to have any real bass (and at times arguably too much, since it intrudes on dialogue) and its EQ is less 'pinched' than the others. It has the same level of heavy hiss reduction. I prefer it to the others, I suppose.
10/6/2021: The old Image Entertainment DVD sounds excellent - less unnaturally emphasised bass and a good deal less noise reduction.
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