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Re: Most of the music I buy these days is MC


You probably have limited listening experiences to live classical performances or even live jazz. Otherwise you would think quite differently of multi-channel in either genre. Have you listened to SACD multi-channel in either classical or jazz, but especially the former. If so, what recordings?

Also, I can't speak to hard rock, but I can say with authority that many soul concerts have had "surround" type feel since at least the 70's. The performers may be in front of you but the music (speakers projecting the music) is everywhere. Also, it is not unusual for performers these days to play their instruments literally into the audiences down the aisle. Until down the presentation of their music on CDs and LPs has been severly handicapped by two channel limitations.

In modern concerts musicians just don't sit like bumps on logs like in days past. The show is *very* dynamic. The days of Kate Smith, Patti Page, and the McGuire Sisters are long gone. But even their music would have benefited immensely from SACD multi-channel.

I recommend that you listen to some multi-channel SACD on a correctly configured system before you paint it with the broad and inaccurate brush of "Home Theater" and "Quad".


Robert C. Lang


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