That 9 and 10th channel are only good for the 2+2+2 preset, and there they represent 2 height channels.

The 2+2+2 recordings are made by the German Recording company MDG They have 2 height channels in stead of the center and sub (so still 5.1 DVD-A recordings)
You than loose the Center and sides in the playback process (sub still used for bass management)

So no use as of yet for multiple subs from a 3rd output card in 861.

I think also Meridian might have understood my question wrong. What i would like to see is the modell Lexicon has implemented:
For bass managment 2 subs, one gets all the left bass, other all the right, and they devide bass from the center channel.
The 3rd woofer is dedicated for the LFE channel.
This way spatiality is still there, and this is better to adjust between film and music playback than having LFE+BM output summed into 1 woofer.

Jaco

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