Rather fun to read all the differing viewpoints. I'll admit to stacking some cheap junk in college before my first real stereo. But ever since I have only used one (hopefully well-designed) pair at a time. I think a single high-end pair achieves the most pure and true-to-life sound you can get. (I don't/can't design my own.) A dedicated equal five-channel system is totally different and might be superb, but I've not got the money.
While fiddling with combos of speakers or more might be fun, and the sound pleasing to the listener's ears, I fear it is is in reality atrociously inaccurate. If the listener enjoys it, I'm all for doing it.
But I'll bet the non-casual listener, who enjoys sonic accuracy, would be shocked to hear an acoustically well-set-up quality two channel speaker compared to a mish-mash of various speakers channeled together when volume matched. It's all good; just keep listening!
While fiddling with combos of speakers or more might be fun, and the sound pleasing to the listener's ears, I fear it is is in reality atrociously inaccurate. If the listener enjoys it, I'm all for doing it.
But I'll bet the non-casual listener, who enjoys sonic accuracy, would be shocked to hear an acoustically well-set-up quality two channel speaker compared to a mish-mash of various speakers channeled together when volume matched. It's all good; just keep listening!