The Shout Factory blu-ray looks fantastic but sounds dreadful. There's quite a lot of noise reduction that makes everything murky and uninvolving. There's a constant low-frequency hum/buzz that selectively underlies all dialogue, which sounds almost like a distant airplane or that sound worn VHS tapes sometimes have.
The old Image Entertainment LaserDisc sounds better because its hiss hasn't been scrubbed away. The hum/buzz is present here too.
Here's the puzzler: the Warner DVD sounds much better than either, with more true bass and treble information and none of the hum/buzz. Warner provided Shout with the 4K OCN scan, so it's strange that Shout might have been also handed what sounds like a known dupe soundtrack.
