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

Showing 2 responses by surfgod

I'm sorry, I guess you haven't heard 2 or 4 track pre-recorded factory Reel to reel tapes. Played through one of the many fine systems that so many of us in paritcular have. You can't even think about going to put on a CD let alone a Multi track recording. Capturing the musuic in this way opens up ones senses to the art of reproduced music.
CdWallace,
Sorry for waiting so long to get back to you. On a Reel to Reel the amount of tracks will refer to the amount of channels, but the most you can have is two (comerically).
With a 2 track, only two tracks are recorded and it takes the entire playable side of the tape. This results in a superior sound quality because there is more room to store musical information. 4 track means that the one playable side is split in 4 tracks, two for side A, and you flip the tape around for the other two tracks of side B. The last stereophile show in NYC they had a Amprex 2 inch 30 IPS original master tape and of what I heard this sounded astounding. I would wholeheartly suggest that everyone try to get a chance to listen to open reel tape. And if you dare, pick up a deck on Ebay and some factory pre-recorded Amprex, Magtec or columba at 7.5 IPS and judge for yourself. I had to upgrade my cartridge because of the superiority of open reel tape.