I've only listened to ANTR and AROP, but so far, JLB sounds almost as bad as he did on Chaos in Motion (on certain parts)
And I still think that AROP is the worst song for them (live). All the vocals sound horrible.
The whole band sounds off at a lot of spots in AROP. I'm sorry for being such a downer but... I thought that they were performing better than this lately. Maybe my ears are going bad and I'm hearing things...
And I love Dream Theater
EDIT: Certain things are really good though, but all the talk of James being "amazing and almost as good as the I&W era" that I've been hearing on the forums is false (according to my ears)