I remember when I first got the '97 LD set home, and first compared them sonically to the 93 DC. While it was louder, the range was gone. The parts that needed real “oomph” just didn't have enough. I really didn't like the Dolby Digital track, either, but that may have had more to do with how used to PCM I was at the time, 384 kb/s DD just sounded anemic.

Despite some of the changes (some of which, such as the glass shattering during the cell block shootout, I find really distracting), the '93 track has the best quality of all of the sources.

I'm really digging the new version of the 70 millimeter track reconstruction. I can't wait for the SW DE Blu-ray so I can watch it in lossless with the sound a-blasting (I could, technically, burn a Blu-ray from the MKV, but I'd rather wait for the Real Thing). I have several friends eagerly awaiting my screening thereof.