You can't mount a speaker which radiates both forward and backward on a wall; the back radiation would have nowhere to go and cancel out the forward radiation. In any case you would get no benefit from using bipolar radiators in regard to sound distribution when mounted in this manner. I have heard of them being mounted between rooms so they could radiate equally into each but these were full range speakers.
can bipolar surround speaker on backwall with 5.1
I plan to build a 5.1 Home theater. However, the sidewalls of my living room, one side is window and the other is open space. So, I can't mount the dipolar speakers on the sidewalls. I am thinking to mount a pair of bipolar speakers (PSB imagine S) to the back wall, which is about 4 feet from the back of sofa. Does it work to create a surround evelopement? Or, do I need to change to uni-polar ones?
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