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Please don't misunderstand me....

Although I have to admit that I sometimes jerk the knees and fire that shotgun from the hip....

I'm talking about the barrier of entry, and the confusion inherent with the average consumer and the value of the product, and what the industry is doing to promote the system.

If all we have is Tubular Bells, and the Blue Man Group, - we have a novelty, - that not a long term, viable, representation either of what it's like to go to a "real" show, - or make a product that is not annoying over the long term: hence the "Quad" analogy.

Even at CES, - that utterly wretched Von Schwiekert/Dartzeel fiasco probably set (what I, and many would agree with me), MC back considerably, - perhaps years? All my friends walked away from that crap shaking their heads in amazement at how unbelievably bad it was.

Now from Kal Rubinson's many great articles, I hear that there are more and more wonderful MC classical recordings coming out all of the time, - with much more realistic information coming from ALL of the channels, but again, classical music is dying, and can't be relied upon to support MC. Bjork, Goldfrapp, Train, Counting Crows, Dixie Cihicks, Simple Plan, Stones, even Herbie Hancock and Sting need to save MC.

I still stand by the fact that given the expensive point of entry to high end multichannel and the antithetical GOALS of HT and Quad: multichannel audio should've presented itself as 6 speakers arranged in a semi-circle in front of the listener...

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