1995 Warner LaserDisc [11122]: This sounds fabulous - crystal clear with no/minimal mastering work. Very clean, hardly any distortion.
2005 R1 Warner DVD - Deluxe Edition: More rolled off than the LaserDisc, but still solid.
2007 Warner Blu-ray: Terrible - very muffled, no high end to speak of. It's worth emphasising (as always) that this sounds bad because of noise reduction, not its lossy compression. The DVD is lossy too and sounds much clearer.
That's a pretty huge difference. At the 2:55 mark the music on the blu-ray almost disappears.
ReplyDelete