Eldartford, I agree with you regarding the goal being the same level of quality between high end two channel amplification and high end multi-channel amplification. It's getting closer, and perhaps the gap has already closed and is just being discovered. The largest universe of audiophiles doesn't know the answer, but maybe a smaller subset does. From a marketing perspective, it makes more sense to me for the manufacturers of digital amplification to go after the HT crowd to establish a foothold.
I may have extrapolated too far when I read your comment that,"Red Dragon is supposedly working on a multichannel version that I could configure for three channels, which is what I want". I thought this meant you were after ICE amplification for HT application, but perhaps you meant multi-channel music application.
I may have extrapolated too far when I read your comment that,"Red Dragon is supposedly working on a multichannel version that I could configure for three channels, which is what I want". I thought this meant you were after ICE amplification for HT application, but perhaps you meant multi-channel music application.