skoal said:
… I prefer the 1999 Warner DVD for the audio.

Aside from what was discussed before (missing dialog, panning, etc.), does anyone have any idea which of these is quantifiably, sonically superior? Since audio seems to be the weak-sister with video taking center stage, is there any definitive way to analyze the audio quality?

Maybe we just should go back to the film, with something like these …

All 10 canisters of a 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey