Pick your poison...2-channel or multi?

Metralla...Glad I could help. If you do have a MC question, or even something that you've been wondering about MC, feel free to ask away. However, this forum was intended to help demistify MC, and enlighten 2CHer in the area of MC.

Thanks for the breakdown, D_Edwards.

I've noticed that no one has responded to the previously mentioned question I posed a few postings ago. I must say, its not my intention to be a pest about this, but I'm more than curious as to what legitimite answer anyone can come up with. Sooo.....back by popular demand...I'm posting the same question for the third time. Thanks for you patients!!

Are you aware that the very essense of MC is durived from the same principles of 2CH? Here's the easiest and most practical way I can explain it. Its like getting the same stereo magic between each of the 5 speakers. You know how when a 2Ch setup is locked in, the sound stage is detailed, deep and wide? Now imagine, if you will, this same phenomenon taking place, when done correctly, 5 times over. The results are truely amazing, not a gimmick.

Not only that but the purpose of the five is to really perform like one! Lost you didn't I. You see, when the 5 have been setup and calibrated properly, it creates a 360 degree soundfield. This is just as if your hearing the instrument or voice in front of you (in its orginial intended placement) and the reverb, echo attack and decay, ect...all around you. As if the performance was taking place in the room with you.

You know how when a 2Ch setup is locked in, the sound stage is detailed, deep and wide? Now imagine, if you will, this same phenomenon taking place, when done correctly, 5 times over.

I'm all for a thought experiment, Cdwallace.

If 2 speakers use interference effects to produce a soundfield (stereo), then 5 speakers arranged in the ITU pattern should produce interference effects from all pairs. Should we not then "imagine this same phenomenon taking place 10 times over"?

Regards,

Metralla...thanks for the post but I think I'm a little lost. You wouldn't be suggesting people, whether 2ch or MC, are listening to interference, are you? Cause if you are, I don't think you gonna have many happy audiophiles. :)

However, I do believe I see where you're headed. In theory, yes. Just as a properly setup 2ch system produces the euphoric soundstage soooo many audiophile rave about, for the most part, the same rules apply for MC to acheive this outcome. Difference is, your actually working with five "stereo pairs". L to C, C to R, R to SR, SR to SL, and SL to L.

But just one other thing though. Just as audiophiles don't imagine thier "phemonemon" taking place between thier two speakers, MC listeners don't have to imagine either. WHY? because the same things 2chers are hearing takes place for MC, only 5 times over within the 5+1 speakers.