Recommendation for Multi-Channel recordings

[bigshot]

Is anyone out there doing 5:1? I am getting an Oppo blu-ray player that does multichannel in several different formats, so I am looking for good multichannel recordings. I got the 11 disk "10 years of Pentatone" and their Walkure and Rhinegold. Looking for more. Multichannel blu-ray or HD audio is fine too. Any favorites?

[71 dB]

Is anyone out there doing 5:1? I am getting an Oppo blu-ray player that does multichannel in several different formats, so I am looking for good multichannel recordings. I got the 11 disk "10 years of Pentatone" and their Walkure and Rhinegold. Looking for more. Multichannel blu-ray or HD audio is fine too. Any favorites?

I have a 5 speakers + passive subwoofer system.

I haven't encountered a bad multi-channel recording. They take seriously producing them and that's why even the stereo CD-layer of hybrid SACD discs tend to sound very good.

'Death and Devotion' disc on Channel Classics of 17th century german cantatas is a SACD I wouldn't want to be without. 

[Jay F]

Check out Kal Rubinstein's column in Stereophile, "Music in the Round."

http://www.stereophile.com/category/music-round

[bigshot]

I'm finding very few options for multichannel music, which is interesting because there are all sorts of "HD" audio formats. I haven't found any advantage at all to bitrates higher than CD quality, but I've found that multichannel provides MUCH better sound quality than 2 channel stereo. I guess most folks with 5:1 use it for movies and don't even think that music could have the same kind of sound.