I think the 1997 mix is the best for the original star wars though. It sounds really good.
Agreed. SE changes aside, the 97 mixes were very good. They didn’t start really mucking things up in general until 2004. Same with the colors.
Indeed. For my personal a new hope I used the 97 mix and just used the pcm 93 mix to patch over se nonsense.
But empire strikes backs theatrical audio mix doesn’t have the sound quality problems that anh’s does so that’ll make it easier.
Actually I prefer dolby surround over dolby digital as a format anyway. More versatile. Want surround effects? Got it. Don’t have surround? No problem still sounds good in stereo. Less bitrate required to sound good, or you can have the same bit rate and have very little compression artifacts.
Yes, the 2.0 surround DTS Stereo mixes for the Studio Ghibli films are really versatile.
And Studio Ghibli retained the audio in DTS Stereo instead of making it 5.1 or 7.1 for movies theatrically presented in Dolby Stereo to retain the theatrical soundtrack as much as possible is just pure genius.