Thanks, I think that made my day to hear how much you've enjoyed listening to this soundtrack. You're right that the addition of LFE helps to mask the reduction in dynamics during some of the 35mm replacement sections. I'm glad to hear that the sound editing is not distracting; the ultimate goal of this project is to create as seamless and enjoyable a movie experience as possible, not just to be 'hey look how much better it is now!' which seemed to be a major part of the thought behind the SE's whether they realised it or not. I've really appreciated your encouragement as I've worked on this, and I'm glad the results are everything you hoped for. Sorry to hear about your receiver--but then, maybe it's an opportunity to get an even better one! ;)

Obviously this couldn't have been done without the prior work of Belbecus, for giving us the GOUT-synched laserdisc PCM tracks, and making the 70mm recording/1993 mix comparison (thanks Moth3r for uploading that). Darth Editous provided the 1997 5.1 mix, which resulted in a considerable improvement in the LFE channel over simply using the 2004 version as I had previously done. And of course Satanika for doing the upmixing, and sharing various mixes that I had not been able to obtain before.

I've got the upmix on my hard drive, but for some reason its playback volume is lower than the source files, so once I get back home to my 5.1 setup I'll give it a more detailed listen and try to figure out why that is.