Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel?

I'll tell ya why MOST PEOPLES 2 channel system might be better. For one, they're more likely to get lucky getting 2 speakers setup well than 6 or more!!! You couple that with the "ill-placed/setup" subwoofer situation, mating with the other speakers(amoung the other acoustical challenges), and you've got a "hodgepodge" of compromises going on! Really, most people can't get 2 speakers setup for great sound, let alone multiples.
Also, most multichannel recordings are probably thouroughly mixed together, as opposed to pure 2/3 channel mic recordings. Then you add the need for more processing/decoders, and so on, and you get the idea...

I agree with Chad,2 ch for music,multi ch for movies,also a matter of economics for me, if i tryed to equal the quality components in multi ch as i have in my 2 ch,i would have to work 80 hrs a week,give up food,gas,software,cable Tv,,,,,,,,,,

If some one wants multi channel for home theater thats one thing, its not that hard to get a jaw dropping movie experience, but as far as HDCD and critical multi channel music listening everything is important.
That being said most are best off using 2 channel for music and getting center and backs plus sub for movies

just because it's harder (and more expensive) to get multichannel set-up properly does NOT make 2-channel better!

go listen to peter gabriel's up, roxy music's avalon, bryan ferry's boys and girls, and pink floyd's dark side of the moon on a properly set-up multichannel system and then listen to it again in 2-channel and tell me if you can honestly prefer the two-channel.

it seems that people once heard one thing in m/c that they didn't like or heard it on an improperly set up multichannel system and are using at a basis to forever bash it, regardless of whatever strides it makes.

this is the same as preferring mono over stereo because you heard stereo once with a system that had the speakers on uneven plains, bad cd-player, dirty ac, etc.

Alos too many have these super over-priced 2 channel rigs and cant afford to up-grade so they just shit on anything that isnt 2 channel ignorance is bliss