JediMasterFisher said:
... I can't imagine it sounding even better!
To be honnest, I can't myself...
... Now, having listened to the two last versions these days, I feel that there's a stronger cohesion on the previous one, but such a clarity lacks in return some relief. I mean OK you can hear quite everything, but it doesn't pop out from the orchestra. The new version may be a bit the contrary and you have to listen more carefully to catch all that happens.
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Explained more concretely, I think version 2 "looks" better: it's clear, very clear, and a lot of the sound is coming straight to your ears so you don't have to pay that much attention to catch the orchestra.
The new version deals in an other way: you ears have to (and are now able to) dive into the sound to catch what happens there. Now there's a distance, and you may catch several things you didn't before because you can pay atttention to the difference between them.
For exemple, "The Rebels Escape" features a far horn just after the first Vader theme (at around 40 or 50 sec). On version 2 the horn resounds without any distance as it somehow surrounds the music. On version 3 I hope your first reaction will be : "Hey, the horn is over there, in this direction, this distance!". That's exactly what I intented to do, making the choice to sacrifice (yep, one more) the way of what I consider as a flat clarity.
That's it. Hope I'll hear some people here about how they catch this difference, and what do they prefer.