Speaker set or Mix brand speakers?

[Getus]

Originally Posted by Big Daddy

Using direct firing speakers for surrounds may have an advantage for listening to high-end multi-channel music. It is also what sound engineers use in a studio, but they have a different agenda. When you use direct firing speakers for music mastering, then timbre matching becomes more important.

Could you be so kind and explain why that is?

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by Getus

Could you be so kind and explain why that is?

Arguments vary from person to person, based upon the preference of the individual.

The surround speakers should not distract your attention away from the movie. They should help to draw you into the film. This is what surround speakers should do. They are intended to reproduce ambient effects like crickets, explosions, gunfights, or the hum of a spaceship so they sound like they're coming from everywhere in the room—not just where your speakers are located. Dipoles/bipoles have a bigger surround sweet spot than direct radiating surrounds have. Dipoles/bipoles are a closer match to the surround speaker arrays found in movie theaters.

With stereo music, you are essentially creating images in space with two speakers. You can move instruments around in space. Add two more speakers in the rear and you now have the ability to pinpoint the source of the music between all four speakers, so in theory you can place an instrument anywhere in 360 degrees around your head. By introducing dipoles/bipoles, you destroy that image. You are more at the mercy of the room. The room will most certainly color the sound and add its own signature. Some may actually like this effect, but the music is less accurate. Your room's acoustics will affect bipole/dipole designs more than conventional direct-radiating. Direct-radiating models fire sound directly from their front baffles toward the listener's ears.

Conventional forward-facing systems, and horn-loaded systems will place the listener in a sound field in which the direct sound is more prominent. It is probably correct to say that the majority of listeners find stereo to be attractive if the room reflections are strong. The sound tends to be open and spacious, with a good sense of depth, but the specific images can be rather vague like real concerts. An advantage is that the stereo listening region is enlarged.

However, there are some listeners who do not like this kind of music reproduction, and prefer to have a very specific, almost pinpoint, sense of image position. Many recording engineers prefer this because they need to be able to hear, very precisely, the results of their manipulations. As a result, recording studios are often acoustically dead, and the loudspeakers are directional and identical. They use identical speakers so that they are perfectly timbre matched and the sound is not affected by the differences between the speakers. However, these same people usually prefer the more spacious version of sound at home.

[Getus]

Okay i think i understand now. Thank you for the explanation