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I recently found out that some people are buying AVRs (usually Onkyo brand) for their All Channel Stereo option and are runnning multiple speakers that way. The claim is that they fill the room with sound and get a better stereo image in the whole room. They don't care about surround sound. When i had onkyo i did, sometimes, use all channel stereo for party, because i found that i didn't have to amplify too much.I was thinking more for THD/SINAD/linearity than ultimate power output. While it would be nice to know what all-channel power actually is, I don't think it's worth testing to destruction. The reason is this line in the Emotiva A-500 review:
That to me seemed to nullify the importance of any test preceding it, because who is buying those to run stereo? That's a massive deviation in performance when used as intended.
But in those cases, i don't think that nuances in sound quality matter.