A Guide to Bipolar, Dipolar, & Direct-Radiating Monopole Surround Speakers (PART I)

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Originally Posted by Tufelhundin

Anyone have any thoughts for Front Height speakers? Should one want to get direct, di or bi? Does it really matter?

According to Chris Kyriakakis of Audyssey, the wide/height speakers for Audyssey DSX should be direct (not dipole or bipole) and timbre matched with the three front speakers.

http://ask.audyssey.com/entries/98040-speakers-for-dsx

The general idea is to have the DSX Wide and Height speakers match the timbre of your front LCR speakers. Typically this is achieved by using speakers from the same family line as the fronts.

Audyssey DSX Wides and Heights should be direct radiators. Smaller speakers will be fine. Running MultEQ will help bring their response closer to that of the fronts.

For additional information, read post #144 of https://forum.blu-ray.com/audio-theo...io-codecs.html.