YES! My two favourites of the series! And I LOVE ANH most, and ESB is great, but is a perfect CONTINUATION of the story established in ANH. But its a close second to ANH in my eyes. They are both my favourite, they just differ by about 2 degrees!
The one thing that I think Empire has hands down over ANH is the Score by John Williams. The Empire/Vader theme, Battle of Hoth, Astroid Field, Yoda's theme, Love theme, Baspin theme, Escape from Bespin and so on and so forth. Every track is perfect. Not the say ANH isn't great because it is. But Williams took what was great about the original and perfected it.