To downmix or not to downmix, is that the question?

Me neither… I was going to try to repeat your test for myself, but couldn’t find any test files that included four channel content; most seem focussed (understandably I guess) on 5.1+. It was interesting to find at least three different layouts for four channel though!

May I ask where did you find your test files?

(I have zero multichannel files… )