Having seen most of both, I'd say that both the Ocean and the FUNi dub have their good and bad points.
Personally, I've always looked at one of the points of making a dub, isn't just to be faithful to the original, but also pay
a lot of focus on the target audience. And for this, I think FUNi did better than Ocean. A lot of the voices fit more. Kids in the 90s did and still do now enjoy rock more than very eastern orchestration. They are more grabbed by obvious intensity rather than subtlety.
Whereas with Ocean, I would say that they lost a bit of this. Some voices were just incredibly off (Trunks especially) and just did not fit with either the setting, or the choices, making the cast a little too eclectic and inconsistent.
But, however, I would also say that though FUNi had more fitting voices, Ocean had better actors. Maybe it's just the direction, but so much more emotion was conveyed in the Ocean Dub, so long as you got past the cooky and quite frankly bizarre music.
The fighting was a lot better with Ocean. Here being a great example;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK_rTDcyjHk The fight is just a lot more enjoyable without the intense grunting.
So yeah, I'm pretty much with everyone else on my choices, though I'd like to give specific attention to Stephanie Nadolny. Her work, especially as young Goku in Dragonball was superb and though a little grunty, created a really, really nice Goku.
I love humans, always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.
(for consistency, I guess....because Funimation is so concerned about being consistent).
