DaViD Boulet
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Greg,
Thanks for sharing your comments! Just what I was hoping someone would post...
Thanks for sharing your comments! Just what I was hoping someone would post...
The sound on most laserdiscs has always sounded better then their DVD counterparts. Laser had better sound.
I'm right there with you that typically (though not in Dolly's case) the uncompressed 2.0 PCM of laser sounds much better than the DD soundtracks usually made available on DVD. And often the 5.1 AC-3 (and DTS) soundtracks on laser also sound better because they weren't typically "dumbed down" for "home-theater" like we so often get with DD and DTS soundtracks on DVD.
However in the case of Dolly, the differences in sound are not a matter of compression, bit-rate, or EQ/mixing for the home vs the theater. It's a simple case of the LD sounds like it's been left alone to reveal the full color of the source recording whereas the DVD has been noise-reduced (I'm assuming to remove the hiss that's audible on the LD) which has also compromised the musical signal.