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RE: Maggie's room vs other dipole

The downside to full range dipoles is that they need plenty of distance to the front wall. Unlike box speakers, which are wall loaded to increase bass by placement near the front wall, planars cancel out more bass as you approach the front wall. Planar dipoles are wall loaded by placement by the sidewalls. With a hybrid the bass requires different wall distances than the planar section. This allows closer placement to the front wall and the planar section's performance can be maintained by wall treatments on the front wall.

The main problem we have in determining placement for a planar dipole is that we can't get the rules for box speaker placement out of our heads. So we keep planning out how the speakers should be placed as somewhere near the front wall and away from the sidewalls. While dipoles do best when far from the front wall and are friendly to the sidewalls where the output is nulled..

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