Thanks everyone. I ask because Im living in an apartment and I think having 4 of Polks biggest towers is too much. I ended up with this setup because my want to have wood grain speakers and not black and Frys had an awesome deal on Polk rtia9's in cherry at Christmas. I had to get them and that freed up my original polk towers. Now Im thinking of selling my rts150's to a friend and looking at different surrounds. Im also loking at dipole/bipole surrounds. Polk makes some but only in black or white. I want cherry. So that brought me to the axiom site looking t the Qs8's. Which would fit my situation perfectly plus I like their design of quad directional sound.
So does anyone know how axiom compare to polk in sound. I think I have heard they are bright which most also say about Polk.
That is a lot of money to spend for mismatching surrounds, no? I've done mismatched surrounds, and it works perfectly well for HT, but then I ended up matching them in the end. After that experience, I will always try to match if at all possible. And while I've probably now seen hundreds of movies on my PJ setup, my new must-see bluray for new guests is now actually a classical music concert bluray, where before that might have been Rataouille, or The Dark Knight, or Kill Bill, etc.
IMHO, it's not necessarily worth spending so much for bipoles/dipoles, of course, only in relation to one's total budget for the entire HT. Monopoles work great too for much less cost, particularly if it's a small viewing area and/or the room setup doesn't allow for such designs. Dipoles need to be placed so that you sit in the null, and bipoles depend more on boundary interaction than monopoles. BTW, I currently have bipole side surrounds.
