dark_jedi: Do you mean hairy_hen's purist DD 5.1 soundtracks were altered for the encode to DTS HD 5.1, or that when the lossless master 5.1 audio files were encoded at such a high bit-rate for DTS HD that it somehow makes them seem not as loud when you listen to them?

Because I would think that they would sound just as loud as the DD 5.1, but have more fine detail and fullness to them, since every ounce of detail would have been preserved by such a high bit-rate encode from the master files.