How can you not have multichannel system

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

You can do that if you are willing to switch interconnects around, or if your preamp has more than one six channel input. I actually considered doing exactly what you suggest so that a TV screen could be put between what, for music, would be the rear speakers. However, I found a different use for the second six channel input.

I just finished listening to Grateful Dead's 'American Beauty' on dvd audio, and cannot believe the 2-channel 'Luddites' who have shunned multichannel sound. They probably shun fuel injected engines as well. Oh well, their loss, but Kal has it right.

Mig007, I just cannot under stand, why some cannot understand why the cost of doing multichannel for the limited use it has. I heard some benefit in Kimber's presentation at CES with well over $200,000 worth of equipment using his most limited recordings. Sorry, I just not interested.

Funny Mig007, just this morning I was spinning American Beauty on early issue vinyl, which sounds pretty spectacular, thanks more to 2ch audiophile Owlsey Stanley than to subsequent remixers.