I've got both the Faces LDs and the GOUT Star Wars DVD (still undecided whether to get the other two yet or not) and very high quality amplification, and to my ears at least the raw PCM of the laserdisc is far superior and punchy to the DD DVD. Greater dynamic range as well. When you think about it the DD soundtrack is really like an MP3 of the 'original' 16-bit PCM soundtrack. I don't think the DD tracks sucks at all, BUT the 16 bit is clearly superior especially for the finer nuances of the music.

Being as we didn't get the anamorphic transfer, they at least they should really have given us the option of the full 16-bit transfer of the soundtrack at least. Then at least we would have the best transfer possible of the 1993/5 era laserdisc, which I think is as good as we will get it until Lucasfilm is no longer under George's command.