I do think that B&O confuses field updates with field development at times.

Hey up mate - how've you been? You must tell us what you've been up to in the past few months (and have you broken much)??

And yet, seeing them side by side like that screams to me that they should have been a single unit! - I guess it proves yet again that everyone's tastes and requirements are different.

[quote user="9 LEE"] It's a little foil device that you insert into a wine bottle spout to stop drips! They have the B&O logo on Lee [/quote] .............. or a joke that fell flat on it's face! No little foil device can stop me!

Thankyou B&O btw - what's a wine stopper?

Check out the date of the articles - it's seems highly unlikely to happen now as an audio only system. It also sounds like some pseudo-surround system generated from two tracks. While it may give some spacial or immersive feel I doubt the integrity of the recording can be very well maintained. It certainly won't be 6 or 7 channels of full bandwidth

[quote user="timhanna"] Thanks guys for the very useful info... is there a format that is encoded for surround sound music? [/quote] SACD and DVD-Audio were the "high def" surround sound format contenders, SACD's are still available although the take up has been poor and in truth it's all but a dead format for the masses

Easier still, follow your eyes - examine the TV with digital freeview sources, HD disc sources (Blueray) and HD Cable or Satellite sources. Don't buy it if your primary viewing source is poor, as nice as the other souces may be - remember it costs a lot, if you don't watch a lot of Blueray and your primary source is Freeview SD then weight your

Middle-Side does have it's place (although it is more common as a microphone recording technique than playback) - what it does give you is a true "mono" channel i.e. what you would hear on a mono radio. My advice would remain, listen and enjoy stereo recordings on a conventional stereo speaker set-up, certainly don't listen to them

I can't comment on your setup but I don't think I would personally select music with a centre channel. Most music is "encoded" when recorded as a stereo signal to be played in the conventional 2-speaker equilateral triangle arrangement. To get a good performance from a 3 speaker setup the music would have to be re-encoded as a Mid