Paradigm ADP150's in a 7.1 system

The choice of dipole/bipole/monopole for side and back surrounds should be guided by personal taste, room layout (including speaker placement in relation to listening position), and intended use (HT vs. music). Most surround processors are not designed around any particular type of speaker. My pre-pro manual doesn't discuss types of surround speakers (other than small vs. large) and I doubt that many other surround processor manuals discuss this topic either.

I only have one audio system. For movies I use 7.1 and for music I use 2.0 or 2.1. I currently don't do multichannel music. I have KEF dipole surrounds and Paradigm Titan monopole back surrounds. They sound fine.

You will probably be very satisfied with the ADP 150 as your surrounds and/or back surrounds. The only thing about dipoles is that your listening position needs to be within the dipole null space in order for the speakers to "disappear." The Polk website and other websites, as well as the dipole speaker operating instructions, have diagrams illustrating null space. If you can't place the dipoles correctly, then bipoles or monopoles might be better.

Thanks for the responses. I definitely didn't find anything in the owners maual regarding this. I probably should have added that my system will be used 99% of time for music(DTS, SACD and DVD-Audio). It seems the majority of reviews say that dipoles are not good for multi-channel music. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks

Spanky, often the speakers will not be literaly defined, as Javachip has expressed this need for freedom of choice in his post.

Manufacturers will draw pictures of the speaker layout showing sound coming out of the speakers dipole monopole.

What brand processor do you have, that would help. Then I could tell you what type of speakers it needs.

I have a Harman Kardon AVR 335 7.1 receiver. I just don't want to waste my time or money on the wrong equipment. Thanks for your help.

HK is monopole all the way, you should be looking 3se's or Monitor se's for rear channels.

The Harman Group has some homogeny with their surround algorithms, only the all out THX units of old will mention dipoles.

http://manuals.harman.com/hk/Owner%27s%20Manual/AVR%20435%20OM%20FINAL%20(web).pdf,

this is a link to the 435 manual, on page 19 you will see a picture on the setup, which shows how the rear channels are supposed to be setup. they have made this much more vague than it used to be as they would simulate sound waves coming out of the rear channels defining the speakers as monopole.

But you can see that Dipoles are an after thought in the 2nd paragraph third column.