I also have problems reproducing multichannel audio. I have an album at 5.1 channels 24/96Khz (decreased to 16 bits due to the HDMI issue), that I can only reproduce in stereo in my AVR. In my case, the AVR shows that is receiving multichannel audio (there is a graphic with the channels received), but on the screen appears STEREO and I cannot change it to mutichannel. It seems some sort of glitch of the AVR because when I try to change to multichannel appears 96Khz blinking, as if it was impossible to change due to some limitation. However, I can reproduce material at 5.1 24/96 using an Oppo Bluray player without issues.
I can test the multichannel if you sent me this test file you were mentioning.
PS: If you say that it is sending 8 channels, maybe the problem with my AVR is that it does not support to receive 8 channels at 24/96 (due to too much data rate), because it is a bit old (Marantz SR-5001) and I know it has limitations. If 6 channels were sent, I guess it should work because as I have mentioned before I use these values from other sources such as the Blueray player.
I can test the multichannel if you sent me this test file you were mentioning.
PS: If you say that it is sending 8 channels, maybe the problem with my AVR is that it does not support to receive 8 channels at 24/96 (due to too much data rate), because it is a bit old (Marantz SR-5001) and I know it has limitations. If 6 channels were sent, I guess it should work because as I have mentioned before I use these values from other sources such as the Blueray player.