Merry Christmas to you too, kk650! It’s so cool that you posted this today — I came here just to check on some technical details of the 2.2 release and saw that you’ve brought this out.
One quick question for you (or anyone else who knows) — what’s the difference between the two DTS HD-MA 5.1 audio tracks? If I’m to listen to one, should I be listening to the upmix of the PCM mix or the one labelled ‘Cinema DTS-HD MA 5.1’?
Anyway, thanks again for v2.5, and I second your good wishes regarding Carrie Fisher.
The main difference is that the PCM upmix is based off Belbucus’s '93 2 channel PCM audio track so it doesn’t have all the directional sound effects and flourishes that were added to the later 5.1 audio mixes like the Cinema DTS tracks. I personally love Belbucus’s '93 2 channel PCM audio track the most, the music has the prominence it deserves while later Star Wars surround sound audio mixes gave more prominence to the sound effects to the detriment of the music.