Is it better to have Dipole speakers on the side surround or the rear surround?

[Gavilan355]

also the same for bipole speakers. is it better to have them in the back or on the side?

perhaps have dipoles on the side surround and bipole in n the rear surround?

 

[TLS Guy]

also the same for bipole speakers. is it better to have them in the back or on the side?

perhaps have dipoles on the side surround and bipole in n the rear surround?

The side surround, although I think good monopoles work best for all speakers.

I use all monopoles and get phenomenal imaging and depth 360.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Speakers that are accurate and have good image/soundstage will work the best, regardless of whether they are monopole or dipole or bipole or omnipole.

But since we are talking about the surround channels, which are like 10% of the movie soundtrack, you don't need to spend the extra money on them; monopoles will work perfectly.

I think it's funny how the front 3 speakers make up about 90% of the whole movie soundtrack, and yet a lot of people use like 6 speakers for that 10% surrounds.

Can you imagine people using the Revel Gem2s for surrounds in 7.1? That would be $20,000 for the 4 surround speakers.

 

[Warpdrv]

What is your room layout and where is the seating locating in relation to the speakers and screen... ?

I think different types of surrounds - be it monopole, bipole, or dipole is an extremely room dependant variable.

Large rooms where you can position the surround speakers further from the seating location, monopoles will deliver a wide accurate immersive sound field....

Smaller rooms where the surround speakers are much closer, monpoles become beaming and don't cover the seating locations. Which is where a much more dispersive product such as bipoles and dipoles will smear the sound around out from the source creating a much wider and larger sound field...

I prefer monopole in my large room for the accuracy rather then the blanket effect of dipoles, in my smaller room but both are very good quality surround systems.

Here is a good picture giving a rough idea of the radiation pattens of monopole vs bipole/dipole