hairy_hen: As per your post on page 19, I take it the 1993 Definitive Collection laserdisk set you are using as your main source for The Empire Strikes 5.1 soundtrack does have the full 96db dynamic range of laserdisk and was not taken from a VHS soundtrack source, as is suspected of the 2006 official DVD set?

By the way, that would indeed help to explain why the GOUT soundtracks don't sound as clean and powerful as the laserdisk soundtracks do (plus the fact that the bit-rates aren't high enough on the DVD's).

I guess this just goes to confirm that the laserdisk soundtracks are the best soundtracks released for home video in terms of their overall quality. :)