The principle operation of the surround arrays is to cover it with smaller loudspeakers set out in a similar way that a cinema would. There is the smallest cinema at Empire #3 and that is smaller than most HUGE American home cinemas that only use four surround loudspeakers in a 7.1 mode.
Since there is no 7.1 discrete films available on DVD except SDDS 8 for the cinema and since the whole point of surround is to surround the listening area and since I have spent far less than most with there 7.1 over costly four surround loudspeakers, yes the total array came to £249.00 that’s not bad going where only a pair of over costly dipolar or bipolar might be close to £300.00 for a pair.
Sorry I have used bipolar and would touch them much less dipolar with a ten foot barge pole.
Bass traps I have looked at some interesting video demonstrations show how easy to install them and the results showing up on the RTA was conclusive proof that sold me on the idea. There is one to do DIY bass traps where the user will save hundreds of £££ pounds.
That’s an option that I might get around too at later stage and I’m looking forwards to seeing the differences.
Most home cinema owners that don’t have Dolby 6.1 matrix could easily add a Dolby pro-logic decoder to the rear surrounds where with most of the really good Dolby film mixes that have split-surrounds would work a treat plus there will one extra channel to play around with that is not accompanied on most AVR or AVP decoders that sport Dolby digital-EX looks like someone overlooked it when knocking it together for the consumer.
