Monopole or Dipole surround speakers?

[StevenSurprenant]

First off, here is an article that is worth reading about this subject.

Face Off: Surround-Speaker-Configuration Wars | Home Theater

As for personal experience...

I use Magnepan wall mount speakers for my surround system. For those that don't know, they are thin dipole speakers that are made to hang on the wall. I'll attach a picture to clarify this.

Anyway, I've had these mounted directly on the back wall behind my seating position and I thought they sounded fairly good except that sometimes I could hear the sound coming directly from them. To me, it was somewhat distracting. I got the idea of hanging them in the corners of the back wall and raising them toward the ceiling. I angled them to a 45 degree angle so that they acted purely as dipoles. The result was a tremendous improvement. The surround sound was much more prevalent and the room had much less of effect on the sound.

Anybody experience the same thing? Or do you feel monopoles are better?