What would you do...better surrounds or better sub?
After finally settling on speakers for my new setup, I've purchased my front towers and center channel. Now I'm looking at picking up surrounds for a 7.1 system, and a sub. My budget would allow me to get either 4 bookshelf speakers for surrounds, and a bigger sub, or it would allow me to get 2, possibly 4 dipole surround speakers and a *good enough* sub.
The speakers I'm looking at in particular are (4) Monitor Audio Silver S1's for surrounds (side and back) and then a SVS 20-39+ PCi, or Monitor Audio SFX dipole/bipole (4) and a SVS 20-39 PCi.
I guess my question is how good of a thing for movies and multi channel music are the di-pole/bi-pole surround speakers. I tend to think that a bookshelf, especially a well reviewed one like the S1's would have better sound quality. The di-pole/bi-pole speakers would have better room filling effects. My room is 20 feet long and 14 feet wide, so it's not too terribly wide. I'd think that the di-pole/bi-poles would do a better job of eliminating dead spots and such. However, I think as I said that the bookshelf speakers would sound better, and more sub is always a good thing.
Any thoughts and advice will be highly appreciated:)
PSB The Image S50 Bipolar Surround Speaker
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