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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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tedmbrady
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CDwallace,
No one has responded cuz there's no question! It's a diatribe by you about 5.1 and 360 degree sound. A question ends with a question mark.....like this....What is your question?

If it's "Are you aware that the very essense of MC is durived from the same principles of 2CH?" then yes, I am...not sure what durived means, but yes.

I love hirez mch surround, have lots invested in 5.1 (and 7.1 for movies) and have posted many times here and on AVS, the Asylum, etc about it. But IMO it's not one or the other; stereo and mch are two different formats. I love them both, for very different reasons. No poison for me.
tedmbrady
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Cdwallace,
My post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but no one can ever tell on the 'net, so nevermind. Sorry you took it any other way.

The 7.1 surround format is mainly one of derived or matrixed 5.1 stuff, with side speakers helping to steer well-derived pans from front to back. I've been living in the 7.1 world with movies since Lexicon first intro'd Logic7 years ago. The first real true discrete 7.1 stuff will not be here until the newer HD audio formats are outputted 7.1 (HDMI 1.3 and /or 7.1 analog inputs become standard).

I appreciate any and all threads that discuss mch music. I love it. (but don't love it any more than great 2 channel.....always have to love both children the same, right).
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