Moth3r said:

msycamore said:

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"In 1985, Ben Burtt supervised a stereo remix for home video, taking into account the acoustics of television audio (as this was the pre-home theatre days it has the least dynamic range of any mix)."

Comparing it against the original Dolby Stereo tracks available, the dynamic range is pretty equal...

It was Belbucus who said, referring to the '85 mix:

From a glance at the waveform it appears to be the least dynamic of all...

It would be fairly easy to check peak vs RMS levels for both mixes in an audio editor to confirm if he was right.

Oh, I see. Well, he should know what he's talking about. Haven't actually checked and compared it in a audio editor myself, was just going by my ears so I might be wrong here, it's possible the wider stereo separation fooled me to think it was just as dynamic as the regular stereo. There's also many different sources of the '85 re-mix out there to complicate matters and we also have Schorman's recently found and preserved original stereo in digital.