@asvjerry, an afternoon at my house and that would change:-)
Most speakers are more or less omnidirectional. The penalty is a lot of energy is wasted bouncing off walls going everywhere but the listening position and you have a more complicated and expensive room treatment situation. You can however make it work. I have heard it work in a stupid small overtreated room. Go figure.
Too directional (beaming) is a bad situation with which I lived for over two decades. Only one person gets high frequencies from both speakers and there is absolutely no image off center. This was the main reason I had my eye on the Sound Labs for around 10 years. Which in my room is perfect. Everyone in the seating positions back hears everything from both speakers. My desk is in the back of the room on a side wall and the sound is much better. Sound only bounces off the side walls behind my listening position out of harms way. Since there is no back wall until two rooms later I get the ambience of the whole first floor. It sounds like a small jazz club.
I have to use an array of subwoofer in order to match the radiation pattern of the main speakers which are line sources. Two subwoofers get are a pain. You have to keep matching levels as the volume ratio keeps changing with volume. With 4 subwoofers forming a line source I can set their level and forget it.
The Ohms do mid bass fine it is in the region where they crossover from pistonic motion to wavy vibration that things get messy. I know them well as I sold them when I worked for Luskin's in Miami. They offer a different color than other speakers in their price range so, I can understand why some people like them. They are not true omnidirectional speakers by the way. High frequencies are limited vertically. If you were to sit down too far away from them you lose high frequencies. This is actually a good thing IMHO. You also have to take the covers off. The corner posts really screw things up.
Listen on!
Most speakers are more or less omnidirectional. The penalty is a lot of energy is wasted bouncing off walls going everywhere but the listening position and you have a more complicated and expensive room treatment situation. You can however make it work. I have heard it work in a stupid small overtreated room. Go figure.
Too directional (beaming) is a bad situation with which I lived for over two decades. Only one person gets high frequencies from both speakers and there is absolutely no image off center. This was the main reason I had my eye on the Sound Labs for around 10 years. Which in my room is perfect. Everyone in the seating positions back hears everything from both speakers. My desk is in the back of the room on a side wall and the sound is much better. Sound only bounces off the side walls behind my listening position out of harms way. Since there is no back wall until two rooms later I get the ambience of the whole first floor. It sounds like a small jazz club.
I have to use an array of subwoofer in order to match the radiation pattern of the main speakers which are line sources. Two subwoofers get are a pain. You have to keep matching levels as the volume ratio keeps changing with volume. With 4 subwoofers forming a line source I can set their level and forget it.
The Ohms do mid bass fine it is in the region where they crossover from pistonic motion to wavy vibration that things get messy. I know them well as I sold them when I worked for Luskin's in Miami. They offer a different color than other speakers in their price range so, I can understand why some people like them. They are not true omnidirectional speakers by the way. High frequencies are limited vertically. If you were to sit down too far away from them you lose high frequencies. This is actually a good thing IMHO. You also have to take the covers off. The corner posts really screw things up.
Listen on!