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The original soundtracks (all though piss poor quality, imo. Specially the Fellowship one) has better audio volume than these...!
Thoughts please 
Have you played the Blu Ray disc provided in the sets? Maybe that will make a difference.
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Don't know if this helps but I have the original set (with the Audio-DVD) and cannot confirm bad sound, quite the contrary, both the CDs and the 24bit/48khz recordings sound spectacularly cathedralic.
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I have the "original" sets of the complete recordings -- the ones that came with multiple CDs plus a DVD. The sound on those is spectacular although I haven't listened to them in months. I do recall that I noted a difference in sound quality between the CDs and the DVDs (I don't own any of the single disc iterations).
it seemed to me that equalization was used sparingly, if at all, on the DVDs -- hence the sound spread was much greater -- loud passages were very loud and quiet passages were very quiet. I believe there was a bit more equalization on the CDs in those sets. I don't recall any distortion if I turned up the volume on the DVDs. But these are of course only amateur observations.
Not sure if this is helpful -- but that's what I recall. I'll spin the sets again tonight and if my opinion changes, I'll add an addendum as needed.
(I play cds, DVDs, and blu-rays using an OPPO 203 running into a Marantz receiver -- and use either Sennheiser Wireless NoiseCancelling 4.50's or wired AKG K172s.)
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I performed some detailed A/B comparisons of many of the LOTR cues because I was compiling several suites and mixing parts of various tracks together, and deciding on which source to use, and it became clear to me that in some instances they were different performances, and in others it was simply a different mix; one for film, and one for album. That was my conclusion about all of this about 5 years ago anyway. You do not have a defective product, that's just how they are.
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), but in the quality of the audio.
