dlbsyst said:
Adywan thanks for this fine dvd but...

I hate to say it because so far all of your releases have been superb but I am a very disappointed with the sound on this release. As someone who own's and has heard the AC3 audio on the Japanese LD I can safely say that the audio on this dvd doesn't even come close. I can hear massive amounts of dynamic compression going on in this mix especially in the loud parts. It sounds to me like the soft parts have been brought up and the loud parts have been brought down. Explosions sound much quiter than they should and the big light saber battle, which was so amazing on the LD falls totally flat here. I hope I don't offend you Adywan as I'm just giving my honest opinion. Is it possible something slipped in when you assembled/recoded the sound in Vegas?

-dlbsyst

I mentioned about this before. It has nothing to do with the encoding process in Vegas. This was present on the laserdisc. TPM was recorded at the same time as i did the SE OT and there was no problem with the recording of those. The compression is on the laserdisc itself. I have watched the laserdisc through my home cinema system and its very noticeable on that too. This is why i was originally going to use the DVD audio. If it had anything to do with my set-up or the way i captured the audio for TPM then the problem would be there with the 3 OT discs too, which it isn't (and TPM was recorded straight after ANH and before ESB on the same day with no settings changed as it was a bit-for-bit recording through the optical input)