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Pick your poison...2-channel or multi?

This post is just to get a general ideas among audiophiles and audio enthusiasts; to see who really likes what. Here's the catch!

If you were restricted to a budget of $10,000, and wanted to assemble a system, from start to finish, which format would you choose, 2 channel or mulichannel?

I'll go first and say multichannel. I've has to opportunity to hear a multichannel setup done right and can't see myself going back to 2-channel. I'm even taking my system posting down and will repost it as a multichannel system.

So...pick your poison! Which one will it be, 2-channel or multichannel.
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I also dabbled in "quadraphonic" systems for a while. I came to feel that as a concept and potential, MC should be better if money was no object anywhere in the chain: sound recording, equipment design and manufacture, my own budget. With realistic systems possible within my budget however I could always assemble a more satisfying 2C system. Perhaps, a role was also played by the sources available (LP's then, CD's now) that were/are optimized for 2C.

213Cobra: I've always found the most natural and holistic-sounding speaker for music available at any given time and within what I was willing to spend and accommodate.

I wonder if you'd mind going down the memory lane and listing what those were at different times. The best you heard and the best you could afford.
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