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And why is that?

First of all, I have yet to hear a recording that measures anything close to the impact of a piece when you are sitting in a good seat in a good hall - not multichannel, and not two channel. So NONE of these technologies comes close to reproduction of the real thing.

I have been a tremendous supporter of multichannel sound/SACD in the past - I have a large collection of multichannel SACS, and there is no doubt of the superiority of SACD over CD, and of multichannel over stereo given everything else being equal - I still remember well the demo that Sony did back in about the year 2000 at the Stereophile show, playing "Come Away with Me" first in stereo and then moving to multichannel - the sense of additional space and presence was palpable.

But, I have also learned that setting up an adequate multichannel system is not that easy, it is expensive, and each year there seems to be fewer manufacturers that are making high end multichannel audio equipment, and not that many SACD releases. I have also found that a good SACD gets you much of the way, but not all of the way, to the equivalent of LP playback.

I have also found that analog -sourced sound typically trumps anything digital....not always, but quite often. Just more open, more life there.

I prefer my LPs of Harnoncourt's Christmas Oratorio to the beautifully produced recording on Channel, with the Netherlands Bach Society.

What's interesting is the growth in analog playback, both in terms of equipment and media, over the past several years. This is more than nostalgia, I think. What would be great is a return to analog recording (which could support multichannel, of course).

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