russs15 said:

Belbucus spoiled us with the 1977 ANH Mono Restoration and the 1977 ANH Theatrical in High Quality from the analogue 1130-84 CAV LaserDisc. He also gave us the 93 mixes ex DC/Faces (are these "rips" or captures and how do they stack up against the GOUT audio??)

IMO there's really no comparison, the AC-3 tracks on Star Wars and Jedi sound pretty good for being lossy 192 kbps tracks but cannot compete with the PCM of the LD's, the Empire DVD track have less dynamic range for some reason making the PCM even more superior, hairy_hen and/or d_j have since his GOUT project also repaired a slight glitch in the PCM track of Empire (a high pitched sound appearing when the Falcon "attacking" the Stardestroyer) and a glitch in the '93 track itself (a jump cut in the music just before C-3PO says, "If only you'd attached my legs, I wouldn't be in this ridiculous position." The music cue starts and then it seems to start again less than half a second later).

I would also count the weird lack of the whining snowspeeder sound effect being a sort of miss/glitch in the process of creating this remaster as the goal with this track wasn't to make things sounding different, they just went back to the source material/masters to avoid the limited range of the original optical track.

russs15 said:

Back to ESB, do we now have conclusive proof that all pre-DC - analogue or Digital Sound - are the same mixes? If so, a rip of a Digital Sound LD must be better (I assume!!) than any analogue capture we can do so are you planning a "rip" of one of your amazing collection to add to your 1130-85TD ANH and 1478-80 ROTJ "rips". I may as well ask the other question - are you planning anything High Quality with the analogue 1425-84?? (I ask as I am still hoping to do my single mix of analogue v digital to finally prove that they are the same to myself.)

I don't believe anyone have been able to prove it, it's just that no one have been able to hear any difference in content as of yet.