Look, everyone can prefer whatever they like, but the audiophile hobby endeavors to reproduce the live event, or so I believe.
Anyone who prefers hearing an instrument from a rear speaker, or hearing the chorus from the rear speakers is not endeavoring to reproduce the live event on their system. Their interested in cool sound effects.
Such is their prerogative, but it's not the audiophile goal, and therefore it's of little importance on this site.
Let's look at the total of individual contributors to this thread: 13.
Not an overwhelming response to the multi channel topic, which supports a conclusion that multi channel audio is a non starter at the present time.
Anyone who prefers hearing an instrument from a rear speaker, or hearing the chorus from the rear speakers is not endeavoring to reproduce the live event on their system. Their interested in cool sound effects.
Such is their prerogative, but it's not the audiophile goal, and therefore it's of little importance on this site.
Let's look at the total of individual contributors to this thread: 13.
Not an overwhelming response to the multi channel topic, which supports a conclusion that multi channel audio is a non starter at the present time.