2003 R1 MGM DVD: This sounds very good. Plenty of detail, yet minimal hiss. I doubt its frequency response has been manipulated much digitally, if at all. Easily the best of these.
2013 Second Sight Blu-ray: A sizeable treble boost compared to the MGM DVD, significant compression and some limiting, and a small amount of stereo reverb. The German Wicked-Vision blu-ray is the same.
2015 Criterion Blu-ray: Even less dynamic range, very little above 10 kHz, a new cloud of hiss and distortion between 10 and 12 kHz (which is audible), and a big bass cut. The filtering here is not only unnecessary (as ever), but uncharacteristically inept too.
2025 Second Sight UHD Blu-ray: This is the 2013 Second Sight blu-ray track with its right channel discarded.
I'd like to hear the old Image LaserDisc.
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