How can you not have multichannel system

Audiotomb...A word of warning...you will need surround/rear speakers to match your fronts. When I got these DVDA, and played them using my good but not excellent rear speakers I was disturbed by the fact that the cello, in the left rear sounded weaker than the viola in the front right. New rear speakers fixed the problem.

The Tacet discs have mic/player arrangements all over the map. They are extremely inventive and the audio perspective can vary from track to track. Many are marvelous (the Scherzo from the Mendelssohn Octet), some are thrilling (the opening of the Bach Motets) and some are simply weird.

Kal

As Kr4 says, the performer locations vary (but not between movements of a given piece). The text notes always describe the configuration used for each piece, and sometimes discuss the reasoning. I don't have any that are weird.

Actually, there are some Tacet discs in which the performer locations do change from movement to movement. I cannot check which ones now because I am not where I keep them.

Kal

too bad you can't digitally 'rotate' the preference of the 5 channels. say you have smaller rears - get that cello and viola on your fronts and the violin in the rear