What is your preferred acoustical perspective?

[michaelhigh]

I played french horn in grade school, junior high, highschool bands, drum and bugle corps (Belleville Black Knights, 12th place DCI 1973, 15th place 1974 IIRC) and in college as well, majoring in performance...it was only in the drum corps experience that I was positioned in the middle of a semi-circle, simulating the two-channel listening experience. Every other experience I was either off to one side or somewhere less than optimal. If I were to choose to be positioned in the middle or surrounded by musicians, I would prefer a surround sound set-up. I simulate this with double stereo in four corners, and I'm actually getting a QRX-5500A to see if I can simulate quad with the right gear if I can somehow locate it (I'm being realistic...I realize that quad carts and TT's aren't growing on trees, as aren't quad FM).