I find myself agreeing with @mahgister on this one.
In previous posts over the years, I have spoken about the need to place my speakers on top of 6 foot high bookcases, to keep them away from my cats who have scratched up speakers. No need to shame pets, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I have had speakers from Omega, Ascend Acoustics, Zu Audio, Acoustic Research, Epos (among others), in play over the years and usually enjoyed, but never loved the sound of the system. Speakers placed normal way, on their sides, inside the bookcases, on top of the bookcases ... all just sounded ok, which was fine as long as I was working. Once I retired, the ok was not enough and it started to bother me more.
I was watching my buddy’s large screen TV and was noticing and enjoying his Atmos speakers (bare bones HT system) in a small, cramped Manhattan apartment. Well, it got me thinking along the lines of the basic Bose 901 principles.
I replaced my front firing speakers with a pair of Klipsch 502 dipole surround speakers. The idea of ambient (?), multi directional sound waves makes some type of sense and is very enjoyable. No idea/ not noticing standing or cancelling sound waves. Just being enveloped by the music.
I am six weeks into this ’new’ set-up. Will see how it goes.
Associated equipment: Heaven 11 Billie integrated Mk2; PS Audio Direct stream DAC, PS Audio SACD/ CD Transport, Technics 1210 Turntable.
Rich