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Re: What is your reaction to multi-channel recordings?

I have a stack of decoders. SQ, QS, RM, dolby. (funny, I've got Empire's TOTL CD4 cartridge but no decoder for it or records.) I've also got a 4 channel tape deck. Right now I've got a 5 channel HT set up in my bedroom. Compared to my experimental system it is very disappointing. Remember I was around when 4 channel sound was anticipated to be viable. In fact, I read the very first issue of Stereo Review which suggested placing a rear speaker connected across the L+ and R+ speaker output terminals predecessor to Dynaco's Dynaquad system (I also have 2 SCA-80Q amps with built in dynaquad decoders.) Recently (around a year ago) I heard a Bose surround sound system. The salesman though it was fantastic. When he asked me what I thought I didn't have the heart to say it sucked so I said what I always say in those circumstances..."interesting"...just like I said when I heard the Martin Logan Summits.

BTW, I don't expect you to believe it but the mathematical analysis predicts multi channel can't work because there is no way to keep the direct sound out of the microphones designed to record the ambient channels. There is simply no practical way to record just the ambient channels properly, they have to be resynthesized using an appropriate mathematical algorithm, something you'd appreciate. Also, there need to be at least 4 ambient channels in addition to the 4 main channels because the sound field they have to recreate is a vector field, another critical factor which seems to have escaped those who conceived these systems.

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