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Mine is a 5.1 system. Personally, I think that while lots of us have extra speakers lying about...

Posted by jeffreybehr on March 13, 2009 at 15:31:52:
...not many of us have the room or the interest in placing them. Also, both my hi-rez disc player, a Samsung 5000, AND my hi-end 6-channel preamp, can't accommodate 2 more channels.

I have 114 BDs in my collection. Exactly FOUR have 7.1-channel sountracks, namely 'The Bank Job', 'Final Coundown', 'The Orphanage (El Orfanato)', and 'Pan's Labyrinth'. I guess if I were feeding digital signals to a 7.1-channel receiver, I might think about a 7.1-channel system, but probably not, as my main suround speakers are already high on the rear wall.

Each of these quite-full-range systems is in parallel with a smallish 'full-range' system mounted on the back of a beam high on the ceiling and slightly ahead of my seat...

...to produce diffuse-sounding surround channels that sound QUITE good for movies and multichannel Classical music. The levels of the beam speakers are reduced with high-wattage resistors so that the locations of the surround speakers are not audible.

So it's ('only') 5.1 for me. :-)
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