Cleveland, OH

Bozo I'm with you. Movies are just fine through my stereo set up.
I'm not into those types of movies that have jets, choppers etc. any-
way. I once saw a movie at a theater and there was a guy standing
on a beach gazing out at the ocean and the "really cool" effects
had the water sounds behind you. When's the last time you stood
in front of a body of water and the sounds of the waves were behind you. If there is a movie I want to see on the big screen, and
there's not many, I'll go to the Cinemark. I was at a local A/V store
recently and one of the salesman said he couldn't understand why
us Stereo Stalwarts had a problem with muti-channel set ups. He
said just switch your DPL A/V receiver, if that's what you have, into
two channel mode and listen away. It may sound good to him but
there are compromises in that design, no thanks. I just really think
this HT thing is a bunch of CRAP!

Hi Tom youngstown area here,only two audio stores here and they both STINK. I love two channel only way to go. any interested audio people in my area please contact

I'm in Akron and love vinyl. I just got a new Music Hall MMF-9, my preamp tweaked and a new pair of JM labs Electra 926's.Life is good.

Geneva Oh. Addicted to Two Channel. Are there any good shops around anymore? They all seem to close.

I live in the Cleveland area. I use strictly 2 channels for music listening. When I go to a concert I feel that that is the way I hear the sound. The orchestra or band is in front of me. The sounds from the side and rear are echoes, and people coughing. I don't feel I'm missing anything in 2 channels.
I have a cool setup on my home theater system, though. I wasn't going to get a surround system originally. I have a wonderful Sansui G8000 receiver I use on that system. 120W per channel, separate power supplies for each channel all the way back to separate windings on the transformer for each channel. On this system I also have a Luxman PD-375 TT, a Sony DTC1000ES DAT, a TEAC 6010GSL, an Onkyo Integra DX708 CD player, and a Denon DRM-710 cassette deck. Mostly I use this system for listening to music. Last summer at a garage sale I found a Sony ES surround amp. This is a really nice unit that has an amp for the surround and center channels and line level outputs for the fronts with steering logic for all 5 channels. It has stereo rear channels, not mono like on most Mid-Fi junk. The Sansui has a 4 channel adapter bus on it, so I have the surround connected there. Now, when I watch a movie or Star Trek Enterprise, I push the 4 channel adapter switch and turn on the surround decoder. I have very convincing 4 channel surround (I don't bother with the center channel) for movies, and I switch it out for listening to music.

Warren