Only star wars is a double cd release reflecting the double LP, empire was a single disc even though there was a double LP, jedi got both a single LP and single CD.

the usa polydor cd is now quite hard to find. Hopefully someone on these boards has it.

The CD has the same problems as the 70's source tape as remarked upon in the anthology book i think by Lukas Kendal.

The funny thing is now if someone unearthed those tapes at the Lucas Ranch the technology exists to make them really shine like the recent Beatles CD re-issues.

Instead they opted to make them sound overly clean on the special edition releases and far from complete, and the sound crushed and lacking any high frequency information on return of the jedi.

I think i remember reading that Lucasfilm almost scrapped the anthology release because it did not meet their standards. I think it was mentioned by the person who did the anthlogy transfers on a message board.

The funny thing is the scores can mostly be reconstructed from the anthology release, and we almost did not get it. We lucked out that the anthology release and the definitive laserdisc was released or the originals would probably be buried completely with contempt, claiming the special edition was better.