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New Mac Studio M2 Ultra

I'm thrilled! I finally got a player that handles both DVD-A and SACD multichannel discs with my surround system without rewiring.
In the early 2000s, I attended a recording industry seminar at the Beverly Hilton. There I met one of the featured speakers, Elliot Scheiner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Scheiner

Aside from being an accomplished record producer, he is one of the foremost proponents of the multchannel music format and has remixed many classic albums for it. Notably, he did Eagles' Hotel California but also artists like Steely Dan, Elton John, Billy Joel and the seminal digital recording, The Nightfly by Donald Fagen.
Scheiner set a standard for the placement of instruments, vocals and their effects throughout the surround soundfield. One of his devices is that the center channel (which in movie theaters for instance, is mostly only dialogue) contains primarily lead vocal, drums and bass... all dry, ie. without effects like reverb. When listened to soloed (without the other channels) it sounds like you are standing right next to the singer in the studio.
Sometimes for live recordings, Scheiner would put the listener virtually in the middle of the band. Imagine the singer and rhythm section arrayed in front of you but the horns, strings and background vocalists to the rear.
Famously, Pink Floyd toured with a gigantic quadrophonic sound system. When I saw the 1973 DSOTM show at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, there were TWO quad systems- one for the pavilion and one for the lawn section. I remember stacks of A7 cabinets some facing in, some facing out at the corners of the building and even more at the top of the hill on each side. The recorded sound effects... the cash registers, the clocks, the footsteps, the voices, the synths... all swirled around the entire concert venue.
You can have that in your living room.