Hopefully it is only a harbinger of Sunfire going more downmarket. |
Stereo was a huge improvement over mono.
Three channels are a big improvement over two.
Five channels are an improvement, some of the time.
Seven channels, well maybe.
Reactionaries can always mix down to stereo, or even mono. |
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iPods are 2-channel. nuff said......
TIC |
Sunfire didn't check with us before reaching a decision not to sell two channel! Audiophiles represent a small segment of the population so Sunfire must be appealing to the masses to sell more boxes. |
Reubent is right. My nieces and nephews (8 of 'em, ages 12 through 24)don't even care about 2 channel. They all use I-Pods for music (you can barely call cheap earbuds 2 channel music) and, increasingly, cell phones for video. Not one of them cares a wit about home theatre. Any home music system is either a small jam box or similar type thing with detachable speakers stuffed into opposite corners. And all of them are in upper middle class homes.
Funny, just a few years ago everybody wanted a big screen TV, now kids don't care if they watch on 2" ones. |
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Reubent: Reubent
iPods are 2-channel. nuff said...... What about that special edition iPod with seven channels and seven ear buds, supplying three and a half humans with mediocre sound :^). |
Albertporter,
It must really suck for that half person that only gets one earbud!
TIC |
Three, Five or seven channel systems reproducing 2 channel music sound like ass, even in two channel mode. |
Then the one person with one earbud will be reduced to mono,which some 'still' enjoy. |
Hey, we're forgetting the true future of music reproduction - the cell phone ring tone! I hear them everywhere and it seems everyone I know has at least one. A guy at the gym has bunches of songs on his phone. I bet there are 20 times as many people interested in ring tones than multi-channel music. |
David99,
If the one "leftover" earbud is downmixed to mono, he's in luck. If he's only getting one channel of a 2-channel track, he'll shortly revert to the "ring tone" method of music delivery!
Enjoy,
TIC |
Shambles...That would only be true if the two channels were inferior equipment. My (three) front channels are exactly what I would have if multichannel had never been invented (and the rears, on their own, would represent a respectable 2-channel system). Your comment reflects the unfortunate fact that many multichannel systems have been constrained by budget to inferior equipment. |
Too funny. You guys crack me up.
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Earbud.
I dunno- all that comes to mind is some Orson Welles movie ;-) |
Eldartford- Point taken... but I don't have $, space or juice for five more Mac 501's. |
considering selling 2 channel amplification is getting harder and harder, carver knows where his bread is buttered. lots of multi channel stuff sounds just fine even only using 2. some fine 2 channel amps have mono switches...and so it goes. |
