Speaker Characteristics and Why?

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THX certifies many types of speakers, not just computer speakers. A little context would be helpful.

THX certifies many mediocre speakers. Such can be found for $100 here. Is there some relevance to your comment?

If they have the issues that were outlined in the link, you are right.

By all means, argue that with Siggy's measurements.

Your empirical results need context that you didn't include or missed.

The link clearly talks about accurate musical reproduction, not home theatre tricks.

The first THX dipoles were 180 degree designs not monkey coffin 45 degree models.

So, since your commentary was for rear placement, how exactly would you place a true dipole in the back of the room? Obviously, it would not be on the back wall as THX placement dictates.

Oh I understand it perfectly now. The link defines a specific set of frequencies when it makes its claims, and that would be the bass frequencies, not the mids or the highs. This little tibit confirms exactly what I have stated.

I guess that explains why Linkwitz has produced only dipolar speakers for the past decade.

A multi directional speaker WILL interact with the room acoustics more than mono directional speaker. That is a fact that cannot be disputed.

Here again, you argue generics and fail to acknowledge the variance with dipolar speakers.

This not what I asked you. I asked you to show me a HT system with a "steered" image, can you give me an example of one? Panning in a soundtrack has no relationship to a HT system. So what you provided me with was a BS answer.

Sorry if you don't understand the concept. I would have thought your experience with the Ionsono system would have illustrated the concept. Remember your comments?

"and is unique in that it is designed to work with 3D film(or video) to give the sound as much depth as the picture has. It can place sound in extremely specific places in the theater(and I mean any place), and can place a whisper right at your ear, or virtually 300ft away 360 degrees around the head, over the head, halfway down a side wall, slightly off screen, and anywhere in space...The thing that blew me away was I was able to track a ball of white noise from right in front of my head(I felt like I could grab it), around it, and it flew away over my shoulder behind my head to about what felt like a football field away. They did this with several different effects, with ambience playing out of the entire array. It felt like I was outdoors, all I needed was to feel the breeze. They played an orchestral piece, and one by one pulled out each instrument in its own space and highlighted it. It was spooky fantastic.
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I do not buy my equipment to serve the many, and the many does not buy my equipment.

Nor do I. To each his own. Enjoy your HT.

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