The one Jetrell Fo so kindly reseeded is the raw wav extract of the DTS discs. Exactly what I was looking for.
As for the quality of the mixes, the 97 mix is just the good old OOT 93 mix with additions (but the added benefit of being in the original separate channels for full 5 channel surround sound). The 2001 version is remixed from the original elements. That particular edit sounds deliberate to me with the first line being lower than in previous mixes. I will have to check out the quality part when I can listen to it with headphones.
Well it’s not just that it’s lower it’s also equalised completely different and sounds like an old battered cassette tape or something. Very muffled and muddy sounding. Not so in other mixes. You are right about the 97 being mostly just a more discrete 93 mix though, but to me it just sounds better. The 2011 mixes for esb and rotj sound great though.
Some of tarkins lines sound off too. Vader sounds better than ever though.