It is too bad that receivers are not more flexible. Why can't you have both height and width at the same time? It seems like height and width would be more beneficial in most rooms than the rear surround channels. So why is it not possible to use the channels of amplification in that way, if there are 9 channels on the receiver? I thought that Denon allowed 11.1 if you add an external amp for the height or width. This is a terrible waste of an external amp. Ideally, one would want to add extra amplification for the front left and right speakers. This would free up the extra channels on the receiver for both height and width speakers, but I think that the receivers are not set up to work in this way.
