I can live with the new swing sounds, however, more often than not I can not hear my own manual blocks or my enemy blocking. Sometimes I can hear them, but most of the time it feels like my blocked attacks are bouncing rather than blocked, although with no sound at all. I didn't really try much before reverting back to old sounds, so I don't know if the "no sounds blocks" happens for certain attack directions or similar. Might try again later.