Personally, I find that there's more lousy sounding surround recordings than good ones. But when its a good one, it's awesome! So far, the best are DTS encoded.
Home Theatre - Hoax or Substance?
Being a dyed in the wool 2 channel advocate,I do wonder about Home Theatre or Multi Channel. Have recently auditioned several multi channel units. None of the sound like music. Too much woof,woof,tweet,tweet,boom,boom. Auditioned a Bryston multi channel that was just awful.And I know Bryston makes great two channel equipment,although I dont own Bryston at the moment.