Monopole or Dipole surround speakers?

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

It's a funny thing...

He talks about comb filtering and such when using more than one speaker for the center channel and how terrible it is, but he uses an array of mono speakers for each side of his back surround speakers and then speaks about the virtues of that set up. In addition, his set up violates, as he has repeatedly and profusely explained, what the recording engineer intended when he created the recording.

Steven, once again you are too stupid to understand that the goal for the front speakers is totally different than the goal for the surrounds. The front speakers should be directional in nature so that imaging is tight and well defined. The surround speakers should be capable of presenting diffusion/spaciousness and directness, something that dipoles cannot do. My surround speakers are capable of doing diffusion, spaciousness and directness, which is exactly what a surround speaker system should be able to do.

Since the speaker system in my signature is directly designed and calibrated like a dubbing stage, it accurately represents what you would expect from Sony, Paramount, Universal, and every other studio that ports its cinema soundtracks directly to home media. I have other sound systems design around the THX, DTS, Dolby model which is the common setup for made for hometheater mixes.

One again you are showing a profound ignorance when it comes to home theater.