William Sommerwerck wrote:
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Now I do not do surround. I mean me. I'll put a million speakers
in some asshole's house if he has the money, but for me it is
strictly stereo. Two well placed speakers that sound good and
the sound sounds like it is coming right from them, which it is,
and the stereo imaging is in the hands of the recording engineer.
And I hear it as he heard it. THAT is high fidelity, not this nineteen
speaker junk of today.

You know nothing about what you talk about, either technically or
aesthetically. I've been involved with surround sound for 43 years, probably
longer than you've been alive.

I suspect you're the sort of person who deliberately says ridiculous things
just to get peoples' goats. Well, my goats will stay in their pens.

At least Cliff Claven is amusing.

the my niggas car part was funny. I noticed the audio drivers on most
computers have such silly modes, some of which are completely horrible,
like "wide stereo" or something similar.

As for real surround systems in the home, I have a fairly old 5 channel
system. To be honest, yeah, there's at least 4 idle speakers most of the
time.

Sometimes something explodes, and there's some noise behind you, and some
movies have the ugly CGI intro from the releasing company that might wake
up all speakers for a few seconds.

I'm usually more startled not by the sounds, but by the completely random
effects they'll mix in surround, and only at random points in a movie.

The movie folks do a really half assed job with surround sound is the
short version of the story.

If fuses blew on the amp, I'd not be in a hurry to start replacing them.
I'd probably disable channels in the surround decoder.