Surround speaker help

[Zond]

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on rear surround speakers, I want to get all polk speakers so I'm stuck between the bipole/dipole fxi A6 or just using a good bookshelf like the rti a1's or a3's.

It seems that the fxi speakers are designed to be surrounds, but on the polk forums I see mostly only people running the bookshelf surrounds. I read one review that said the bookshelfs are better for music so I'm not sure whats the all around better speaker type. I'll probably be using the speakers mostly for games/theater/ and maybe 20% music.

Any suggestions or wisdom would be appreciated.

 

[EndersShadow]

Hi, I'm looking for some advice on rear surround speakers, I want to get all polk speakers so I'm stuck between the bipole/dipole fxi A6 or just using a good bookshelf like the rti a1's or a3's.

It seems that the fxi speakers are designed to be surrounds, but on the polk forums I see mostly only people running the bookshelf surrounds. I read one review that said the bookshelfs are better for music so I'm not sure whats the all around better speaker type. I'll probably be using the speakers mostly for games/theater/ and maybe 20% music.

Any suggestions or wisdom would be appreciated.

Get the dipole speakers for your surrounds. Then if you end up going 7.1 later get bookshelves for the very back surrounds. I have had Monitor 40's and R50's as my rear surrounds and I plan on getting FXI A6's when possible for my surrounds.

 

[Zond]

I went to american to demo the speakers, they only had the fxi 6's hooked up, damn they are huge surrounds, website pictures don't do them justice. I decided to go with the fxi 4s. Thanks for ur recomendation.

 

[EndersShadow]

I went to american to demo the speakers, they only had the fxi 6's hooked up, damn they are huge surrounds, website pictures don't do them justice. I decided to go with the fxi 4s. Thanks for ur recomendation.

They are indeed big, but they sound awesome, but your choice also is a good one. From one Polk owner to another Enjoy!