On 12 Aug 2004 23:17:58 GMT, "Norman Schwartz" wrote:

"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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With multichannel, you capture *exactly* what the engineers got down on
tape, which is a reasonable facsimile of sitting in a seat in the hall.
What's your beef?

Its useless for my stereo library

That's likie saying that CDs are useless for your turntable.

and most often puts me in a seat that I
wouldn't have chosen.

At least, it's a real seat on the better recordings. Besides, those
RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence SACDs have the original
3channels!

Kal