Cote Dazur
Addicted to Fun and Learning
And why not?
In my sound surround/home theatre system, I often listen to music in multi channel mode, the stereo in that system is not optimum, so both ways are compromised. My home theatre is very good at playing a decent experience for more than one listener, it is optimized to play/decode multichannel movie soundtrack.
When I want to listen to music, as in just listening to music, not background music when really doing something else, if listening to a stereo recording, which is 99% of the music I listen to, I do it on my stereo system, in my dedicated music system, from my unique listening seat. A properly set stereo system, will let you hear all of the music and present a very convincing sound stage, if it was recorded properly to start with.
So for me listening to music that was recorded and produced to be listened to in stereo using digital processing to re distribute it on 7.1 channels does not seem like a great idea.
In reprocessing a stereo recording to a multichannel, however sofisticated the process is, we are getting very far from the concept that digital flies are so much better because they are closer to the original master.
That said everyone should enjoy the music in their home the way they see fit, mono, stereo, multichannel.
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