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In Reply to: RE: Dolby Atmos and planer surrounds posted by josh358 on July 12, 2014 at 20:11:59
I use MG10.1s for surround duty, and they are pointed directly at my ears, tweets in board. They seem to do an excellent job to me, I tried them edge on. Could not get the levels loud enough in that position. As it is they are at max volume level now, and still could use more volume to compete with the 3.6's upfront.
Besides don't a lot of people complain that dipoles are too diffuse anyway. I have used the 10.1's in stereo and compared to regular speakers or the 3.6s they are too diffuse. Anyway aren't our ears really designed for sounds that come the front and sides.Since surround channel technolgy is dedicated now, starting with Dolby Digital and not matrixed anymore. I thought most people parted ways with the THX dipole diffuse concept in general. Special seating situations not withstanding.
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I think most of the people who have surrounds are using them for movies, and aiming them at the listener is definitely better for that since it gives you better localization. But if you're trying to emulate a concert hall for music, a point source isn't so good since lower interaural cross correlation is associated with better concert hall ambiance/sound. Basically that's saying that you want sound to seem like it's coming from everywhere, rather than just a specific point -- a very diffuse, randomized sound field.
Of course, that assumes you can get sufficient levels. Once you're back a few rows in the concert hall -- the far field -- more than half of what you're hearing is reverberation, so even for acoustical music the surrounds have to have good SPL capability.
Re your other post, haven't seen that setup. I did see a picture of a very cool surround setup that someone made using electrostatics mounted in the walls. It looked like it was audio oriented. Theatrical surround by convention had the surrounds mounted higher up towards the ceiling.
Josh, didn't Telarc Records in their mixing room, use some on wall Magnepans for ambience? I belive they had them, hanging down from the ceiling close to the side walls even with or maybe somewhat forward of the mixing engineer.
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