How about that writer.. ah.. J. Gordon Holt. Is he a neophyte? I believe he's a big proponent of mult-channel music.
This neophyte eeenjoys both 2 channel and multi-channel music. And I really like my movies in multi-channel format. Now if only we could get the studios to provide the background (movie) music in 2 channel to satisfy those who don't care for the artificial sound.D)