I've come to the conclusion that unless you're building a dedicated home theater or if you have an ideal layout for multichannel music (again probably a home theater), surround is a huge waste of time and resources. The novelty quicky wears off quickly. Besides, when you're watching a movie most of you concentration is on dialog and visuals. Enhancement of audio by going multichannel is minimal at best. Invest in a good 2.1 system and don't look back - imho.