captainsolo said: The classic Uni monster films are never going to have much fidelity, especially the early ones being typically poorly sourced from sound disc copies that were improperly stored. The restored lines from Frankenstein were found by a collector by picking up a sound disk and then finally convincing Universal to include them. I'd like to try the LD editions as some are digital sound, and the early Discovision releases are supposedly transferred from original nitrate. (These look like NOTHING else) And personally I love the way the old copies sound at full blast, complete with hiss and crackle-even VHS.

I'm a big Universal Monster fan and have been picky about the sound mixes of these films. The 1999 DVDs for Dracula and Frankenstein for me had the best audio of the 3 DVD releases of those films although Frankenstein was rather quiet. For the 2004 and 2006 DVDs Universal went with mixes that for me sounded hissy and a bit muffled. Then came the Blu-Rays last year. Dracula looked and sounded excellent. Frankenstein looked good too but they used the same soundtrack from the two previous DVDs. I was hoping they would revert back to either the soundtrack from the 1999 DVD and just increase the volume or another cleaner version like the one used on the 1991 VHS which I have. It wasn't just the sound quality that disappointed me. There were portions of the soundtrack missing as well. I made two videos demonstrating the differences between the VHS and the BD. One that demonstrates the clarity of the mix and another pointing out the missing bits. I posted these to Classic Horror Film Board and got a mix response. Here they are incase anyone here would like to take a look.

https://vimeo.com/56206935

https://vimeo.com/57318682