bigrob said:

Jonno said:

I'm curious to know what the thinking is behind encoding mono as 2.0 dual as opposed to 1.0.

I personally appreciate the dual encoding for the simple reason that my receiver can't spread 1.0 across the front speakers (I only get the centre), but presumably the majority of people don't share this problem and 2.0 is just wasted space.

out of curiosity Jon, what reciever have you got?

It's a Yamaha RX-V365, just coming into its fourth year of service! No HD audio, nothing above 5.1 and very few bells and whistles (mono handling a case in point).

Those caveats aside, it's a fine-sounding amp.