The whole 'difuse vs direct radiating' subject has me a bit confused as well. I'm perfectly happy with my QS8's, and feel they work magic. But isn't the difuse design a bit of a trade-off?

They don't use difuse speakers in movie theaters, and the pictures of both Dolby's main testing chamber and DTS's lab, both had direct radiating speakers in the side & back surround locations. It seems to me they do this for a reason.

I don't know what that reason is, but if difuse was superior to direct radiating, then shouldn't they be using different surround speakers? I'm not going to trade my QS8's in any time soon, still there must be a time and place for direct radiating surround speakers. Does anyone know what that might be?


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M80's
QS8's
VP150
EP800
Denon 4802
Emotiva XPA-3
Samsung BD-P3600
Sharp 65 Inch Aquos LCD