Ian S wrote:

If you're into music, you may as I did want to dabble with the new formats -
DVD-Audio and SACD. These provide superb high quality musical sound in a
surround format. Some people consider them gimmicky, you have to have a
special DVD player to play them in optimum format, the titles available are
fewer, and they're a bit more expensive than standard CDs. Still, I like the
surround sound - stems from my youthful desire for a Quadraphonic system way
back in the 1970's, I guess.

Remember those bass-management and distance-compensation
issues, however. Most 5.1 analog input sections in receivers
will not have those circuits. This can make typical sub/sat
systems (even those with largish left and right main
speakers) run into problems.

Howard Ferstler