I'm sure this topic has come up before so I appologize in advance if its old hat.
But, I'm finishing up a dedicated HT room (really my basement which had been previously unfinished ). While construction has been going on I've been acquiring a new matched speaker set, specifically one of Paradigm's recommended systems: http://www.paradigm.com/Website/Site...11_System.html

Now that the basement is almost finished, I realize that I have more space than I thought I would. The only speakers have left to get are surround speakers, but now I'm thinking about using another set of tower speakers rather than the dipoles for surround. I listen to 50/50 split of music and movies. Also, this will also be the primary (only) television watching area. To be honest, I'm leaning towards Monitor 11's in the back too, if anything just because it will look bad azz.

But what are the pros/cons of using dipole/bipole type surrounds vs. regular speakers as surrounds?