That may well be true. Nevertheless, I’d rather spend my money on improving the sound quality of the two channels I have than on acquiring more. Each to their own.
Failure of Multichannel
This is a supplement to the currently revived thread on SACD.
The most important reason for SACD, DVD-A, and Blu Ray to fail was that all physical media couldn’t survive the rise of streaming.
There is a current attempt to revive it with non physical media, with Apple leading the way. I don’t have any data handy but I don’t think that it’s been particularly successful.
It was released at a time when baby boomers, the biggest consumers at the time, were raising families, perhaps having their first divorces. It having multiple speakers, with the entailed wiring, and new sources and amplification is a more daunting start up challenge than say buying our first two channel systems as young adults.
In the non classical/non jazz sphere a lot of multichannel releases were gimmicky, reminiscent of quad. Separate speakers for different instruments. This party trick could wear thin with time.Many serious listeners didn’t detect any sonic advantage, even when the mixes were more musical. I personally enjoyed the ambiance that a label such as Pentatone would place in rears, but many Classical lovers didn’t perceive this or thought it was gimmicky.
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