Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel?

Kr4, do you mean to tell me there's actually 1000+ titles on SACD/DVDA? I never see them! I mean, you can go to any major cd chain store in my neck of the woods, and you might find a few titles of stuff you don't really care to listen to for anything more than once!!!
Wow, I didn't know there was even that many.
Still though, you have to conceed that the SACD/DVDA discs aren't getting much play by-enlarge on the consumer mass market level, yes?

The next logical step for this guy is a better AV pre/pro, perhaps with "dirrect analog bypass" for his better sources.
Try an older Krell HTS2. I think this has "throughput's" for analog pass-through...and the digital is unbeaten for DD/DTS and PCM music.
Otherwise, spend less on a more dynamic DD/DTS pre-pro, and do a 2 channel dedicated pre for your 2 channel music(looping the two together).

I'll tell ya why MOST PEOPLES 2 channel system might be better. For one, they're more likely to get lucky getting 2 speakers setup well than 6 or more!!! You couple that with the "ill-placed/setup" subwoofer situation, mating with the other speakers(amoung the other acoustical challenges), and you've got a "hodgepodge" of compromises going on! Really, most people can't get 2 speakers setup for great sound, let alone multiples.
Also, most multichannel recordings are probably thouroughly mixed together, as opposed to pure 2/3 channel mic recordings. Then you add the need for more processing/decoders, and so on, and you get the idea...

Rnm4, that was deeeeeeeep man!
I'm a simpleton, and eat Cheerios and such. Could you repeat all that again for me in "simpleton terminology" I'm not sure I got all of what you said there.
I only read your post once however. Maybe that's why...duhu!

Like I've posted on other posts, we as a society have largely "cared less" about 2 channel stereo sound quality, in favor of convenience and content it seems! LP's died, and so did SACD/DVDA. 25 years later, standard old cruddy CD's are still selling in all the major retail stores! However, multi-channel HD DVD disc material is getting better and better. Why? Does everyone need superior sound with their synthetically processed, mixed, dubbed, effect laden DVD movies, as opposed to what's being played in two channel on their home stereos and cars? I guess it does.
I mean, if you want great recordings on yoru 2 channel rig, what do you have to chose from? You can either do select few records on an Table setup, or you have a few silly little choices on SACD/DVDA! How many times can you listen to Pink Floyed Dark Side, or some Spanish Guitar stuff on SACD, and a few other titles? Let's face it, unless you want to go garage sale hunting for records, learn to set up a good turntable and phone cartridge rig, pretty much old CD and a tuner are your only choices!

Let's look at the current state of digital sound these days. Basically, you've get everything going to mass Gigabite level medium storage. You've also got Ipods as the latest fad (the new "Walk-man" of the era). Where not talking quality here, but more like quantity and convenience. I presume shortly here, everything will all be storage on a large hard drive, as things already are progressing this way. Again, quantity over quality.
Let's face it, when it comes to music, people would rather have easy convenient access to mass quantity of digital storage, rather than audiophile grade sound qualit. That IS a fact!
2 channel high end is a dying bread really...sadly.