1995 MCA HiFi VHS: Fairly natural sounding, with its high end perhaps rolled off slightly.
2014 Universal DVD: Similar to the VHS, but it's bizarrely riddled with clicks resembling VHS mistracking. At some points in the film, these clicks appear several times a second.
2020 Kino Lorber Blu-ray: Loud moments have more high-frequency detail and clarity than the VHS/DVD mastering, but unfortunately a sledgehammer approach to noise reduction has been taken, with a noise gate so aggressive that warbly artefacts appear during quiet passages of music and the hiss annoyingly cuts in and out between words of dialogue. There is some limiting too.
This was a case where I knew something was terribly wrong when watching the BD the first time. So much so that I had to track down this more obscure single vhs issue! It doesn’t surprise me at all that it doesn’t suffer these issues. The BD audio is truly weird.
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