Large dipoles I may pass on exact advice on thoose . But as they have a back wave a healty distance to walls behind them and considerable toe in against the listening positioning, if they are of the the never kind with thin separate treble ribbons they may not beam that much, but owners of planars usually aim them at the listener .
I would not be surprised if end up with something like 1/3 of you room behind the speakers if they are large planar dipoles , hybrid planar like martin logans can be closer to back wall due to that the membrane is not full frequency . Dipoles bass performance is peculiar the rule from box speakers that you enhance bass close to boundaries may not apply innthe same way due to what happens with the back wave so having them in the room and not close to walls may not be any disadvantage att all The maggies manual what does it say, magneplanar should have specific placement instructions . You could use the advice from a never large model the principle is the same. If you manual is gone. If they are very large you would not have any problems with ceiling or floor reflections as the speaker would practically not radiate in that direction at all. And they don't radiate much if you are on thier sides, they radiation may look similar to a figure eigth seen from above. Users of large electrostats could also have usefull experience the placement principle will be similar -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93503 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
