Yesterday I was doing some extensive studying on the transfers I've got (Isomix, Farsight, EditDroid, TR47 and Dr. Gonzo). And after doing that saw the Moth3r-ANH download was finished. So popped that one in, and it blew me right off of my chair! I really didn't expect NTSC to be that inferior to PAL. Especially when you've been watching the other ones for over an hour the difference is amazing. Although it already was past twelve in the evening I just had to fetch a bag of chips, pop open a beer and watch it entirely. I have quite some experience in VHS>DVD transfers, and have found that with a good VCR the image can be near DVD quality, VERY near. But the thing always giving away the source is the considerable amount of hiss in the sound. Therefore I expected the VHS sound to have ruined this otherwise awesome transfer, until I watched it. I always crank the volume up quite a bit when I'm watching a movie, but I didn't notice any difference with the other transfers. When you really start comparing I have no doubt you'll find the LD sound is better, but when you just watch it you really don't notice it. I did notice an occasional line drop-out and the two color shifts, at first I thought "huh, how could he have missed those?" but I just read the entire thread and found out you had, but didn't fix them (why?).
The only remark I have is the noisyness. Very noticeable on the walls in the Tantive sequence and the first couple of Tatooine scenes. One of the reasons Dr. Gonzo had been my favorite up until now, is the smoothness (not softness!). Of course Dr. Gonzo is also pretty soft besides being smooth, but there is one transfer which is smooth AND sharp: EditDroid. But then, it also has a lot of moire (often referred to as dotcrawl) and some filter really ruined some of the Tatooine scenes. Can this be a result of the smoothening? This is a very important question to my opinion: if you could smoothen it up keeping the sharpness (EditDroid-style) but keep the moire out, there's a fair chance it will look as good, or even better than X0.
Conclusion: Best transfer so far, first one to nuke Dr. Gonzo. I expect it to be better than Cowclops v2, has anyone done a comparison (I haven't got it yet)?

P.S. Can't wait to see ESB uploaded on a.b.starwars or MySpleen