JoeH 5 Posted March 29, 2014 I am setting up my new system which consists of 2 RF82s as the mains and a RC-35 as the center. For surrounds I have a pair of RB-35s and a pair of RS-35s. My question is should the dipole RS-35s be used for the side surrounds or the back surrounds? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Schu 4929 Posted March 29, 2014 So this is 7.1? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sancho Panza 4654 Posted March 29, 2014 Welcome to the Klipsch Forums, Joe. I'd use the RS as Surround & the RB as Surround Back. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mustang guy 2240 Posted March 29, 2014 Welcome to the Klipsch Forums, Joe. I'd use the RS as Surround & the RB as Surround Back. +1 With the rear channel being mono (most of the time) you are ambient enough. Also, directivity is more apparent from the sides than the rear. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scrappydue 2107 Posted March 29, 2014 Welcome to the Klipsch Forums, Joe. I'd use the RS as Surround & the RB as Surround Back. +1 With the rear channel being mono (most of the time) you are ambient enough. Also, directivity is more apparent from the sides than the rear. surround 7.1 is a mono rear surround track? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mustang guy 2240 Posted March 31, 2014 Welcome to the Klipsch Forums, Joe. I'd use the RS as Surround & the RB as Surround Back. +1 With the rear channel being mono (most of the time) you are ambient enough. Also, directivity is more apparent from the sides than the rear.surround 7.1 is a mono rear surround track? Yes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scrappydue 2107 Posted March 31, 2014 Welcome to the Klipsch Forums, Joe. I'd use the RS as Surround & the RB as Surround Back. +1 With the rear channel being mono (most of the time) you are ambient enough. Also, directivity is more apparent from the sides than the rear.surround 7.1 is a mono rear surround track? Yes.i don't get it. 6.1 is a mono surround track I thought. Do you have a link somewhere that I could read up on 7.1 not being actually 7 discrete channels? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mustang guy 2240 Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) OK, I went back and checked this out. Movie theaters have had 6.1 format and up to 13 additional filler (virtual) channels for quite some time now. Dolby Digital held to that format for backward compatibility reasons. Now with Dolby Digital Plus, the rear channels CAN be discreet so long as the recording is Blu-ray, and in fact that platform can support up to 16 discreet channels. If you play a DD+ movie on a 5.1 system, the left surround channels are melded together and the right channels are also melded together. If you play a 7.1 DD+ movie on a 6.1 system, the rear channels are melded together. What all this means is that indeed the rear channels can be mastered separately, rather than the dual mono that was the standard up until DD+ and it's ilk. I see the future is well defined now. There will not only be more discreet channels added in the future, but there will also be more filler channels like ceilings, above the screen, and maybe some day even the floor. For guys like us who KNOW that more is better, that is very cool indeed! Edited March 31, 2014 by mustang guy 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
holtrp 84 Posted April 2, 2014 I think only like 5% of all bluray discs have 7.1 soundtracks right now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heritage_Head 1113 Posted April 2, 2014 I think only like 5% of all bluray discs have 7.1 soundtracks right now. Depends on the type of movie. If you look at the kind that could use 7.1 that % goes way up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
holtrp 84 Posted April 2, 2014 Oh yeah, obviously the format can easily support 7.1 discrete. All I was saying is that right now only 5% of all blurays actually have 7.1 discrete recordings. Most are still just 5 or 6.1. I wonder if 7.1 will every really take off or if something like 11.2 will be the new thing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aundudel25 10 Posted April 4, 2014 Another vote to use as side surrounds. Since the rs-35s are dipole they will create a null zone in front of them. If you sit in the null zone it will sound fantastic for movies. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scrappydue 2107 Posted April 4, 2014 or 6.1 last 6.1 anything i have seen was a dvd copy of triple "x" when i was like 17. id 75% of the blu rays i own are 5.1 and the other 25% (newer action flicks and pixar usually) are 7.1 tracks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beeker 1684 Posted April 4, 2014 Good thread along with the other surround placement thread/s. I am doing more and more testing with angles and placements current in particular is back, rear placement with 2 kg4.5's on the upper wall facing directly at each other on left , right walls. Then with some dcm2ways short floor standers w 6.5 and silk tweeter just below the kg4.5's facing inward(approx 45 degree angle) both amplified with seperate crown xls1000's. I still have both pro heresys and h3's in the back very center stacked atop a marble center speaker stand i use for the thx theater standard setting. I am finding this kg4.5,dcm crown rear back setting very good with movies and music(music very occasional, musics for 2 ch). Regardless when using large watt amplifiers in center channel to surrounds i find so much more detail and just simple use out of them this way to say the least..cheers! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NBPK402 878 Posted April 4, 2014 or 6.1 last 6.1 anything i have seen was a dvd copy of triple "x" when i was like 17. id 75% of the blu rays i own are 5.1 and the other 25% (newer action flicks and pixar usually) are 7.1 tracks. Star Wars is 6.1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
