Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

 Added the Sony UHD blu-ray.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The old analogue LaserDisc sounds superb compared to every subsequent edition (all ostensibly the same, but some additional noise reduction on the Criterion mono atop the already extreme amount).

Update (10/17/2021): The 2.0 mono track on Sony's UHD blu-ray is a downmix of the 5.1 mix. Content-wise, this doesn't mean much since the 5.1 is just the dialogue track (with strong noise reduction) mixed with a much higher fidelity music and effects track. Consequently, dialogue is muffled, while Duke Ellington's score is clear - a jarring juxtaposition. 

I very briefly compared the new Atmos remix to the 5.1. It sounds more rolled off (less clear), but the main differences are the new generic ambient sound mixed into most scenes and the absurd amount of reverb added to the courtroom dialogue.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The 5.1 mix is unbalanced: Ellington's score gets a huge fidelity bump, but everything else sounds mostly the same, and the score is too loud. As for the mono, the mix is much better, and Criterion haven't applied too much high-frequency noise reduction. Unfortunately, a high-pass filter was applied arbitrarily to the entire film, eliminating most low frequencies, presumably to reduce the distortion that is present at those frequencies.

Consequently, you can barely hear the bass in Duke Ellington's score, as well as numerous other sounds throughout the film. The 192 kbps mono track on the R1 Columbia DVD sounds MUCH better, with better lows and highs.

The R1 DVD mono track can be synced to the Criterion blu-ray with a +11595 ms delay.