And more importantly do you hear a difference and was it worth it. I know that gear manufacturer's have to keep uping the ante or we won't upgrade but this sounds like lunacy. You only got two ears!!! Nobody that I know of has encoded 9 discrete channel of music to a soundtrack (Sir TT will let me know if I'm wrong) WTF is next? 12.1? 14.1? When does the madness stop?

Worf