Pick your poison...2-channel or multi?

"I've ha(d) (an) opportunity to hear a multichannel setup done right and can't see myself going back to 2-channel." You must have heard mine, CD! :-)

I love big-orchestra Classical and film music, and MC is REALLY 'where it's at' (as the semiliterate diddeeboppers say). MC sound is MUCH more spacious and natural sounding to me. The people who record big-orchestra stuff in MC seem to realize that we want the sounds of real orchestras playing in real spaces; hence they back the mics off a bit and do NOT play with them* (much, at least) during the performance. I have almost a hundred MC Classical and film discs and am buying more all the time.

$10,000? I'd still have Eminent Technology 8s in my system, a 6-channel analog preamp, and a separate poweramp, altho I might have to use a single MC poweramp instead of tubed separates.

* except DG in the Philharmonie; those MC recordings sound gain-ridden, as if the engineers/producers STILL can't stand the thought of having, say, a solo flute actually sound as if it's 10 or 15 feet farther back in the orchestra.
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Thanks for the spell check. I'll try to be a little more careful next time.

Glad to see your horizons have been broadened. Enjoy your days in MC bliss.

On a $10,000 budget - 2-channel!

I have a hard enough time working with two speakers and a room. But, I would love to have 10k to blow on a pair of Wilsons. Stereo for me.

Don't you mean a $6000 multichannel system and a $14,000 two channel system?

That is a more fair distribution of $20K in this contest.

See the 6K/14K causes a real problem because with some luck I could sell my $14,000 two channel system to some unsuspecting noob, for $7,000+ easy, thus I could then buy a $7,000+ surround system, which is even better than the $6000 surround system....am I off topic? Can I change the rules mid thread?, because I think the question is too easy?

OK, I'll shut up now, I'm voting surround.