Spoiled by multichannel????

Nov 26, 2004
I personally find the opposite than the above responses. For me multichannel sound especially with the HIGH RESOLUTION that accompanies it is fantastic and is a quantum leap forward. Two channel is like black and white TV by comparison. I have a set up tht can do two or 6 channel and I much prefer the multichannel. Much of the music I now buy is DVD-audio or at least DTS. Of course a lot depends on who did the mixing. You can have poor 5.1 and a great redbook CD. A properly mixed DVDaudio with its MLP no compression packaging will beat any "standard" redbook CD in my opinion.
Try Steely Dan's "Everything Must Go" or Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" in DVDaudio or 5.1 and you will see what I mean. The still pictures on DVD audio are a plus too.
Happy Thanksgiving to all AudiogoNers.

Newbee, I also am a music lover first. However, I don't think we can totally ignore the medium. If so, we folks from the 60's would still be listening to 8 tracks and transistor radios and single speaker phonos. My question had more to do with comparing apples to apples---which I did not make clear. If one listens to a good multi channel recording, can one then be just as satisfied listening to the same recording in redbook?

There are some excellent multichannel recordings but in general I can not get excited about the DSP sound just too fatiguing and unnatural compared to the best of two channel (LP, CD, SACD, DVD running in 2 channel mode).

There are some excellent multichannel recordings but in general I can not get excited about the multichannel sound with DSP or discrete channels just too fatiguing and unnatural compared to the best of two channel (LP, CD, SACD, DVD running in 2 channel mode). Also, and not a small consideration, this world's resources can not put up with obsolescence by design formats that dump, for the purpose of keeping up, toxic ladden receivers and/or processors in our landfills or, worse, the roadsides of 3rd world countries. No longer can this be labeled tree hunging by some. Call it your last resort hunging.

There are some excellent multichannel recordings but in general I can not get excited about the multichannel sound with DSP or discrete channels just too fatiguing and unnatural compared to the best of two channel (LP, CD, SACD, DVD running in 2 channel mode). Also, and not a small consideration, this world's resources can not put up with obsolescence by design formats that dump, for the purpose of keeping up, toxic ladden receivers and/or processors in our landfills or, worse, the roadsides of 3rd world countries. No longer can this be labeled tree hugging by some. Call it your last resort hugging.