Four Surrounds

ncgbrown
ncgbrown Posts: 2
edited November 2002 in Troubleshooting
I am building a house and I currently own a pair of RT16's I bought 4 years ago and love. I'm looking to install four surround speakers, two on the sides walls and two in the rear in my new living room (about 15' across front and rear x 18' on the sides). Should all four surrounds be the same? Should they be bipole/dipoles or direct?

Thanks for the opinion,

Glenn
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited November 2002
    Bipoles/Dipoles for the surround (side), and Direct firing for the rear channels will give you a great soundstage and imaging for not only movies, but for multichannel music as well.
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  • NDTA
    NDTA Posts: 83
    edited November 2002
    Originally posted by ncgbrown
    Should all four surrounds be the same?

    Glenn

    Ideally, yes...
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited November 2002
    Not really but they should be timbre matched.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2002
    I agree with Frank Z on this.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2002
    i like bipoles for rears.. whether they are rear or surrounds. before i was using direct firing surrounds in my 5.1 system. it was to direct.. and felt like i was missing quite of bit of the rear sound.
    went with fx300i's for rears.. and suddenly everything opened up. all timbre matched i's. it's a beautiful thing with all your speakers use the same tweets.
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  • ncgbrown
    ncgbrown Posts: 2
    edited November 2002
    Can I get bipoles and directs that are timbre matched?
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2002
    i believe as long as the drivers are the same. yeah they should be timbre matched.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2002
    Aboslutely. Check out the main Polk site and find "System Builder" in the "Toolbox" and you can find what speakers match.
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited November 2002
    Ncgbrown,
    Try sending an email to customer service and asking which of the current Bi/Dipole & direct firing speakers would be a good match for your RT16's. Here's the email address

    polkcs@polkaudio.com

    It's more than just drivers, tweeters will have a greater impact.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited November 2002
    The RT16's sport a trilam tweet that will match pretty well with the RTi's.

    I found that my RT7's (well RUSS's RT7's) mated well with the newer RTi series.

    BDT
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