I'm very nearly ready to sign off on the new 2-channel version. Just need to check it a little more to make sure there's nothing I've missed, give it a final listening test, and it should be ready for uploading. I spent a lot of time recently going over it in fine detail and making little tweaks to fix things as well as I could; I think it's all taken care of, and at any rate whatever remaining issues would almost certainly be beyond my skill to improve any further. I'll post more in more detail about that later on.

My belated thanks to everyone who PM'd me about the digital '77 stereo track. I did end up using it for the explosion when the droids are getting in the escape pod, since the '85 mix just sounded too tinny in comparison at that point. The tradeoff is worthwhile for a more robust sound, seems to me.

I think I'll go ahead and use the LFE from the '97 AC3 laserdisc like before, since the DTS version is not yet available as a source. But when/if that happens, I'll investigate the possibility of replacing it if it turns out to offer an additional benefit to the sound quality.

I want to have the 5.1 track finished in the next few weeks so that it can be included on the Despecialized Edition 2.0, without causing Harmy any unnecessary delays. I would be spending today on it, but we're going to see a triple-feature for all three of Christopher Nolan's Batman films at the Ciné Capri, so that's right out. ;)