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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.
cdwallace

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metralla
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Cdwallace writes:
did you do much listening of 2ch CD's in surround? How did you like it?
How do you get surround sound from 2 channels. By synthesis?

Regards,
metralla
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Cdwallace writes:
Any futher questions, Metralla?
I guess not. Thanks.

Regards,
metralla
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You know how when a 2Ch setup is locked in, the sound stage is detailed, deep and wide? Now imagine, if you will, this same phenomenon taking place, when done correctly, 5 times over.
I'm all for a thought experiment, Cdwallace.

If 2 speakers use interference effects to produce a soundfield (stereo), then 5 speakers arranged in the ITU pattern should produce interference effects from all pairs. Should we not then "imagine this same phenomenon taking place 10 times over"?

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