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No disagreement there, in fact most of my favorite recordings are from the 90s or later because let's face it, microphones, recording gear and technology have become better. The only real reason I like listening to some older recordings is that I have yet to find a performance from the last 20...

It depends on the engineer who did the mastering or remastering. I've encountered many that are a bit sterile or suffer from digititus like you decribe, but there are some great examples out there also. One example that I really enjoy is this collection of Coltrane recordings in Mono. Since most...

Most of it is not to my taste either. The exception being some electronic music that is designed for surround from the start. That said, particularly with some older classical/jazz recordings, a subtle surround element can return life to a recording that has a "flat" soundstage.

:D As usual I missed the sarcasm. Maybe I need to make a sarcasm bbcode to help dense folks like me realize!

Not all surround modes necessarily upmix to multiple channels, some just apply a very basic convolver which can be useful for some material that doesn't have a lot of stage, like old monaural recordings of jazz etc. AnthemLogic-Music for example doesn't create a phantom center or do anything...

Depends on the goal. In his case, getting more perceived volume and engaging the extra channels + bass management would require a surround mode. Yamaha receivers don't pass anything to the subwoofer in straight mode, so he'll be pretty lacking in bass if he doesn't do the above. I personally...

Eddie. My analogy was really more focused on a stereo source. Straight will take however many channels are coming in, and send them straight back out. This will map 5.1 in to 5.1 out, 2.0 in to 2.0 out etc. Most of the time this is only useful for watching content mastered in 5.1 or above...

All Channel Stereo basically clones the signal to every speaker. What this means is that the receiver is now playing the same content from seven speakers instead of one. In straight mode, you are only getting that sound from one or possibly two speakers at a time, so you were going to get less...