For movies i agree 100% but for music i beleive if they could get it right and make it sound natural,which has NOT happened yet that would be great,but no one now can tell if my center channel is on when i play two channel,not even someone with golden ears,and this is with the speaker sitting 5ft behind the other two as i only place the center were it belongs when watching an ocasional movie. There has been no dts,dolby digital ect recorded music that sounds right in the rear channels although there is an intial wow factor it turns to this does not sound right after a while,besides there is a lot less information on dd,dts than there is on cd,not to mention audible distortion.I bought an sacd player a while back and love the sound but multi channel has a lot to prove to me.Ibeleive in the future maybe there will be a viable multi channel format such as sacd,but for now your the one that is wrong IMHO.
Stereo sounds better than 5.1?
I don't think so !!! More speakers, if done right (ie. the right pre-amp), you get, better imaging, better clarity, better everything. Nobody that has any "Good" audio experience can disagree with this. If you do disagree, YOUR WRONG. I feel sorry for all you are missing. End of story.