I guess sometimes I should be more open minded or not so conservative. My opinion of 5-channel music was I didn't want any part of it, it's not natural, the band isn't all around you at a concert etc. This is still true to an extent if only wanting to feel you are at the show, so to speak. And, we know, good things can be done with 5-channel to enhance this experience as well in terms of ambience and spacial cues. I was at a friends house who is into 5.1 music and he played a couple DVD's by BT and Flaming Lips. This is just another type of listening experience. Something I thought I was against but found to be a lot of fun. If we can enjoy movie special effects, why not music special effects? On one of the Flaming Lips songs the guitarist strummed and each strum went to a diferent speaker, it made a pattern to the time of the music. It was interesting and I can see how this could become an art form of sorts. The accompanying video was interesting as well and gave me the feeling that psychodelia is still alive. The BT was interesting as well with sounds coming from the different speakers with inter-play.

I did a search and couldn't find a dedicated thread where we discussed 5-channel music. I know we've talked a lot about it, I just couldn't find it. So maybe if any one else is into this just add what multichannel music you've enjoyed to the thread and maybe this could become the official 5-channel music thread.