Bruce, that salesman might be a nice guy, but he apparently does his bit to keep at least two audio mythologies alive. Besides the speaker wire thing, there's the silly bit about HT receivers and stereo. Of course this is another thing floating around without factual support. Two of the multiple channels of an HT receiver amplify just as transparently as the two channels of a stereo receiver with similar specs. If it isn't wanted, no extra processing for stereo play has to take place in an HT receiver.
