A post by Mike just piqued my interest & got me wondering about surround sound
The question is quite simple, do you only listen to surround sound when the disc that you're spinning is surround encoded, or do you use some kind of processing of a two channel disc/source & listen to an illusion that the stereo track wasn't ever supposed to be?
Ok, so stereo is an illusion but a stereo CD or record is designed to be listened to the way most of use here arrange our systems. But processing a two channel CD or whatever into some kind of surround is something I have never done, I have heard it & I didn't like it
On the other hand, if I have an original surround encoded disc I'll listen in multichannel every time rather than selecting a stereo track if it's also available
What do you do?