Spoiled by multichannel????

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.

Spoiled? You mean as in no imaging because of the use of the center channel which flattens the space out, or do you mean unmusical over the top bass because of the use of the .1 channel?
Every multichannel set up I have heard (including the "state of the art" Meridian system at Ambrosia Audio in Belair) sounds like mono, just the opposite of what one expects. For whatever reason 2 channel does a better job of giving the illusion of depth, seperation, and soundstage width.