Time Travel Degrades Audio

I've come to the inescapable conclusion that traveling through time in any manner other than our pedestrian "carried downstream by the current" method has some form of damaging impact on audio transmissions.

To illustrate, I'll discuss the three* best** Time Travel movies I've ever seen.***

• Primer. The best damn time-travel movie of them all, assuming you're not so ADD that you can't sit through a film without explosions. It's got a totally fresh take on time travel, and manages an amazing amount of complexity and internal consistency, both despite a tiny little budget. The size of the budget, however, manifests in the terrible sound channel in the first scene. The first of the five times I watched the film, I had to rewind the opening sequence again and again testing if my speakers needed replacing.
• Time Crimes. Another incredible little film, with a great plot and oodles of self-consistency. Like Primer, it totally sells you on the idea that this time-travel could actually happen, and this is what it would be like. It's a tiny bit less logical than Primer, but makes up for it with creepiness and car crashes. However, the original language is Spanish, and the English dub that the DVD defaults too is terribly grating ADR in a echo-chamber. Great film, but only if you speak Spanish or don't mind reading subtitles.
• Twelve Monkeys. Okay, it's a much larger budget, and thus doesn't have weird audio problems. But the guys teeth talk to him, and I think that supports my thesis.

*: If I were to extend the above list beyond the top 3 time travel films, the next slots would be filled by Blink (which is actually just an episode of Doctor Who), Memento (which actually has nothing to do with Time Travel), both Bill & Ted films (which are parodies), in that order. Time After Time, The Lake House, the original Back To The Future, and three of the four Terminator films are also worth watching, in no particular order. Beyond that list, you're better off doing just about anything else.

**: As far as I'm concerned, the most important element of any time-travel story is the sensibility of the plotline. You have to believe that the characters (unless they are supposed to be screwballs, like Bill & Ted) actually understand the ramifications of being able to travel in time. In other words, the stupidity of "San Dimas Time" only works if you're telling a comedy - it's a dealbreaker if it shows up in serious Time Travel fiction. I can suspend my disbelief of "You invented a time machine", but I can't suspend my disbelief of "You're supposedly smart enough to invent a time machine, but you're too dumb to figure out the most rudimentary uses of the damn thing." This is of primary importance to Time Travel, and it greatly exceeds all other concerns of plot, story, directing, acting, characterization, etc. Even the rule of cool must take a back seat to this principle. In an action film, I can believe there's moments where you're acting faster than you can think. In sci-fi, I can accept that the interaction between species that evolved on different planets may be unpredictably volatile. Most of the time in most films I can accept that the main characters will make really stupid decisions in regards to thier lovelifes, but it'll somehow all work out in the end (just please put something else into the storyline while you're at it). I just can't accept that someone could invent a time machine, or get promoted to the Time Police, without understanding the implications of the technology. It's like being an auto-mechanic or a professional race-car driver - but not knowing how to use little things like the steering wheel, brakes, or seat belt.

***: I'd prefer to share with you anecdotes from my own Time Travel experiences, but I'm afraid that Further Information Is Not Available Here. The Continuum doesn't like me spoiling secrets Aquarian or Pre-Piscene.