I truly care about stereo and mono, too. Sure, I wish EVERYTHING were available in surround. If you care about music at all, you care about stereo. What I'm hearing is something like: "I love Frank Zappa, but I only listen to Quaudiopheliac, Halloween, Apostrophe and Overnite Sensation." I take this to mean that all non-surround titles by FZ are pure crap, both musically and sonically, simply because they aren't available in surround.
@: Are all Beatles albums worthless other than Love?
It's great to have a 2ch SACD thread. It was very naiive to create an SACD thread and expect no one to mention that they bought a stereo SACD, especially in light of the dearth of surround titles. Based upon past experience, don't expect that everyone will adhere to this, anymore than DVD-V albums never being posted in the DVD-A thread. Schmidt happens. Hopefully, people will find and embrace the 2ch SACD thread, as well as use it as a resource. Those who have no interest can bypass it.
Sure, this is a surround forum. That's why most, including me, are here. Once again, I maintain that I'd much rather listen to Bessie Smith or Tampa Red on mono 78's (or transfers made from them) than I would some trite BS in Quad. If the music doesn't matter, then I suggest we listen to white noise in 5.1.
100% agree. I don't care at all about Stereo.