rear speakers for dvd audio/Sacd?

plem
plem Posts: 30
edited February 27 in Clubhouse Archives
Any one know what rear speakers are best for dvd audio/Sacd?

dipole/bipole speakers? monoploes such as Rt35i's ,etc

Please, only input for those interested on the format!
Post edited by RyanC_Masimo on

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  • PETERNG
    PETERNG Posts: 918
    edited September 2001
    I used a pair of Polk-Audio F/X500 and the PSW150 sub for the rear channels for DVD-A and it sound incredible. Put on the Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac or Deep Purple DVD-A disc and experience them for yourself, it will knock your sock off and blow you away…:)
  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited September 2001
    Although I've only heard the two formats at a store, I would go with regular conventional monopole. I would think seriously about some of the older monitor series bookshelfs.

    My thinking: At the time of DPL, I could see were dipole/bipole would be good. It was basically a mono source spread across the back of the room. But now, the music is being directed to any given speaker and should be dealt with accordingly. If dipole/bipole was good at point source reproduction more manufacturers would put it in their front speakers.

    This is only my conjecture and could be wrong. It sometimes is.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited September 2001
    If the speaker is to be used for listening to music, use a standard, direct radiating speaker. Hopefully, one that is matched to your mains, at least as far as x-over and tweeter go.....

    Even though I haven't jumped on the dvd-a/sacd bandwagon, I'm sure that di/bipole speakers are not the best choice for music reproduction. Not to say they won't do it, but they seem to lean toward a more ambient effect for movies, not straight forward audio....

    Cheers,
    Russ
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  • rskarvan
    rskarvan Posts: 2,374
    edited September 2001
    Right now, I have the SDA3.1TL's as mains with the FX500's as surrounds.

    I have a denon3801 receiver. It supports two sets of surround speakers (not including additional rear surrounds). Someday, when I get a big enough living room... I'll move my Monitor 10's to music surround duty while keeping the FX500's for movie surrounds. I use the RT25i's as rear surrounds.

    Anyway, the FX500's do a decent enough job for DVD-Audio all by themselves. I highly recommend this format. Properly done, multi-channel imaging is important.