surround processor?

From “A Fish Called Wanda:

Otto West : Apes don't read philosophy. Wanda : Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

Good quote, but totally irrelevant.

When surrond processors are being discussed it is relevant to talk about setting them up.

It's very unfortunate that we have several users on this forum who just continually slam any idea of home theater and multi-channel systems. Yeah, after 100 duplicate copy-pasted messages on this forum, we get it. Every channel costs money and ht processors are not necessarily equal to two channel equipment, but at some point this just becomes noise and significant negativity (which is something we need to strive to avoid here).

Toe the party line. Right. Got it. Sieg heil!

When surrond processors are being discussed it is relevant to talk about setting them up.

Except we were discussing getting better stereo performance in a HT setup Otto, not setting parameters for surround sound. You brought that one in from left field presumably because the topic at hand was beyond your grasp, but whatever. Your previous statement...

What I fail to comprehend is how and why dedicated stereo system are always assumed to be better than home theatre systems in stereo mode. Home theatre systems have decent DACs and by selecting stereo mode the multi channel processing is removed....Could it be that as soon as multi speakers are observed there is an automatic assumption the sound is always going to be inferior? It just seems irrational and I hope someone can explain it.

I’d been trying to explain why this is a completely ignorant statement to anyone who understands higher-end audio, but Otto couldn’t get the concept and started the multichannel settings aside for some unknown reason.  So it goes...