Vanquish wrote: "This makes a lot of sense Duke and I am wondering if there are any
particular dipoles and horns that you would recommend?"
In my opinion SoundLab fullrange electrostats do an excellent job in a wide range of rooms, assuming they can be positioned five feet in front of the wall. Less than that and they can still work well, but we will need to diffuse the backwave or, as a last resort, absorb it. SoundLabs have an exceptionally uniform radiation pattern across either 45 degrees or 90 degrees front and back, depending on whether you go with the new (45 degree) panels or the old (90 degree) panels. I prefer the new 45 degree panels UNLESS a rather wide sweet spot is needed.
I make low-coloration horn speakers with room interaction very much in mind, which includes something that I don't think anyone else is doing: I include user-adjustable additional upwards-and-backwards firing drivers to fine-tune the reverberant field. The fairly directional output of these additional drivers bounces off the wall behind the speakers and then off the ceiling before arriving at the listening area, so it arrives after a sufficiently long time delay without requiring much distance from the wall. My website is under revision but you can see my current models at James Romeyn Music and Audio. Jim is my partner.
You mentioned Texas... I'm located about an hour from Dallas.
Duke
In my opinion SoundLab fullrange electrostats do an excellent job in a wide range of rooms, assuming they can be positioned five feet in front of the wall. Less than that and they can still work well, but we will need to diffuse the backwave or, as a last resort, absorb it. SoundLabs have an exceptionally uniform radiation pattern across either 45 degrees or 90 degrees front and back, depending on whether you go with the new (45 degree) panels or the old (90 degree) panels. I prefer the new 45 degree panels UNLESS a rather wide sweet spot is needed.
I make low-coloration horn speakers with room interaction very much in mind, which includes something that I don't think anyone else is doing: I include user-adjustable additional upwards-and-backwards firing drivers to fine-tune the reverberant field. The fairly directional output of these additional drivers bounces off the wall behind the speakers and then off the ceiling before arriving at the listening area, so it arrives after a sufficiently long time delay without requiring much distance from the wall. My website is under revision but you can see my current models at James Romeyn Music and Audio. Jim is my partner.
You mentioned Texas... I'm located about an hour from Dallas.
Duke