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Post 1 made on Friday February 4, 2005 at 14:56
Riddlin
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Ok I am up in the air. I have a pretty good system as of right now, but I am looking to upgrade. (Tax Returns) :) I have 5 year old infinity reference series towers for my front channels, but I am getting bored with them. They are not to big and bulky, but I want to slim things down, but not lose sound quality. I currently have Polk Audio RTI25 for rear channels. Anyone have any thoughts about moving those to the front channels and picking up some dipoles for the rear channels?

I have no option to put the dipoles at the sides of the room because I have a huge window and on the otherside is my dining room. Any suggestions would be great.

My Center Channel and Sub are in perfect position and I do not plan on replacing them, because they were really expensive and I doubt I could 50% of the $800 a piece I paid for them. Plus they are only a 2 years old.

Any complaints or suggestions for a 7.1 system? I dont know much about them. Can I do it without sidewall speakers?

Please let me know. Thanks all.
Post 2 made on Friday February 4, 2005 at 15:30
diesel
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Can you mount the side speakers on the ceiling?
Post 3 made on Saturday February 5, 2005 at 11:27
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Depending upon how "golden" your ears are, I'd recommend you consider buying new front speakers to match your center speaker. Keeping the sound quality even across the front three speakers is highly desired, in order to avoid uneven tones as the action travels across the screen. I'd then continue to use the Polks in the rear. If I were unable to mount side speakers (on stands? from the ceiling as diesel suggested?) I would not try to set up a 7.1

Also, depending on whether you have even a partial side wall from the rear on your dining room side, I would not recommend dipoles even with a 5.1 setup. The main intent of rear dipoles is to diffuse (spread) the sound, in part by reflecting off the side walls, to help avoid localizing the surround effects. However, if you don't have a side wall on one side, dipoles may diffuse the sound so much that you don't even hear effects on that side, while simultaneously magnifying the effects reflecting off the other side wall and your window! I would use direct firing conventional speakers in the rear, about 6 feet or 2 meters above the floor, tilted inward and downward toward your primary listening position. This should eliminate both reflections from the window side, and loss of signal into the dining room.

Hope this helps.
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Post 4 made on Saturday February 5, 2005 at 20:59
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I'm with Bruce in concept, match those front 3 speakers. But I have to disagree about the golden ear comment. Noticing a difference in the timbre of front/center speakers is very obvious if you try. It's not like comparing 2 sets of speakers for which is better. You just have to set them up properly and then see if you can hear each speaker. If you can locate the center, it is either a different speaker or not set up properly.

That's why I think it is so important to have matched speakers. I've tried it the other way and it is not nearly as immersive.
OP | Post 5 made on Monday February 7, 2005 at 11:33
Riddlin
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Thanks for all of the responses. I went out this weekend and went Silly and got a new reciever Sony STR-DA1000. It works nice for what I have. Then i bought these to accompany the rest of my system. Infinity BETA ES250 Dipole's. So what I did was I hooked up the 7.1 put the Infinities in the back and the they are firing side channels on the outside and the inside channels are working as my rear channels. The speaker has the ability to produce two seperate channels from one speaker. So that is what I did. it really sounds great!


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