After some live testing i think the new one can lose some pitch (becoming slightly lower) and maybe a little of its pitch variation.
It seems generally OK (only a few people seem to hate it), but sometimes the pitch variation thing will make it too high for comfort.
Additionally, it needs more priority, because otherwise it's not always audible when there's a lot of stuff going on.
The old one was easily on top3 of most inappropriate weapon sounds in ZK. Surely, you get used to this, but when i made my first Scythe and it made the hammer-barrel sound i was like this: