Paradigm ADP150's in a 7.1 system

The answer is in the manual of your surround processor.

What kind of speakers does it show?

If it shows dipoles use dipoles, if it shows monopoles well I think you''re getting it by now.

Spanky, often the speakers will not be literaly defined, as Javachip has expressed this need for freedom of choice in his post.

Manufacturers will draw pictures of the speaker layout showing sound coming out of the speakers dipole monopole.

What brand processor do you have, that would help. Then I could tell you what type of speakers it needs.

HK is monopole all the way, you should be looking 3se's or Monitor se's for rear channels.

The Harman Group has some homogeny with their surround algorithms, only the all out THX units of old will mention dipoles.

http://manuals.harman.com/hk/Owner%27s%20Manual/AVR%20435%20OM%20FINAL%20(web).pdf,

this is a link to the 435 manual, on page 19 you will see a picture on the setup, which shows how the rear channels are supposed to be setup. they have made this much more vague than it used to be as they would simulate sound waves coming out of the rear channels defining the speakers as monopole.

But you can see that Dipoles are an after thought in the 2nd paragraph third column.