Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners What speaker for sixth channel

QS is your best choice, I've also heard that a direct radiator postioned directly behind you will sound as if it is coming from the front, but by all means experiment.

Telekinesis, man. Best way to enable it is with a direct radiating rear surround.

Well if you insist on going with a single rear channel verses two, you will not have discrete R/L sound in this channel. What you will hear will be matrixed sound from the R/L surround channels. In this case, the obvious choice is to go with a non directional speaker such as the QS series. I would not use a direct radiating speaker unless you run two for a 7 channels sound, and only if you have plenty of distance between the speakers and where you plop your ass down, 6 feet or so.

Whatever you do, you'll enjoy the rear channel and don't believe those who tell you differently.

I would get the QS8 or similar design. I’ve used both QS8, M22, and VP150 as a single rear speaker and found that for the center seat (sweet spot) the direct radiators were useless. I couldn’t tell if the sound was coming from behind or in front of me. The QS8 was a slight improvement upon this for directional sounds and helps a lot for ambience if there’s a large gap between the side surrounds.

Rick, your best chance to minimize the back/front reversal that's been mentioned, and which Dean experienced, is to use a speaker as multi-directional as possible.

hence a Q series speaker.

Another QS4 it is then.

Just put in an order for a QS4.

Congrats!

Very nice



Funny thing is, LOTR blu-ray just came out with 6.1 DTS Master.

I am considering going 6.1 in my room as speaker placement is tough with 7.1 in there, and it's not a big room. I don't know that it's a big enough upgrade over my 5.1 though, only have about 3 or 4 feet to the wall behind the couch.