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Rachael, there aren't that many multi-channel mixes I can say I love on hi-rez. On most things I prefer the 2-channel. I do like Blue Country Heart in multi-channel. When I was at the Home Entertainment expo in NY a few months before the release of either the Stones stuff on SACD or Jorma Kaukenan's album Sony had a demo room (that would hold about 20 people) with 5 Eggleston speakers, their XA-777ES, 5 Manley Neo Classic monoblocks, top of the line Transparent wiring to demo SACD. So I suspect that at least Blue Country Heart was something that they had multi-channel in mind during the recording process. It is one of the few non-classical or jazz DSD recordings. The Tilson Thomas SF Symphony Mahler recordings are probably another one of those that had multi-channel in mind. I have the 1st and 6th symphonies. Some of the old RCA Living Stereo classical stuff is in 3-channel. I have a few but not listened yet as I just got them back from a friend I lent them to along with the 2000ES CD/SACD changer I bought for the basement as he sold his high end player and may be interested in the 9000ES. I suspect those Living Stereo things might be good in 3-channel The David Elias disc is one of those I actually like the multi-channel more than the stereo. I have a few of the Telarc classical recording that might be the same way. Hopefully, engineers will thing about these things when musicians are actually in the studio vs. an afterthought.
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