I would like to see what the guru's response is to this, from a PM on another forum?
"You can't just take a dipole and plunk it down in the middle of the room, it will sound terrible. All speakers suffer if you do that, but dipoles are designed to be a certain distance from the wall and hybrids like the Logans are designed to be a certain distance from the listener. So without judging the Logans pro or con, I'd say that this was a completely invalid test."
"Another thing that wasn't mentioned is that a mono test removes one of the great advantages of dipoles, its superior imaging. In fact, a box speaker will probably sound better in mono because it bounces sound off the side walls. There's a section in Floyd Toole's book on why the Quads sound terrible in mono, which makes it all the more surprising to me that Harman would ignore that."
Most of us die hard planer fans, know you you can't even place a pair of full range planers too far apart, as the midbass will fall apart. So imagine taking one half of the speaker system out of the equation.
I would also like to add, I am not a Harmon Hater. I appreciate the scientific method they are trying to introduce in the pursuit of better sound. I just think in the case of planer's the testing went kind awry. I'm also aware planers have their faults, but to me, they do more right than they do wrong. Especially True Ribbon Tweeters like Raal and Magnepan, compared to conventional tweets.
"You can't just take a dipole and plunk it down in the middle of the room, it will sound terrible. All speakers suffer if you do that, but dipoles are designed to be a certain distance from the wall and hybrids like the Logans are designed to be a certain distance from the listener. So without judging the Logans pro or con, I'd say that this was a completely invalid test."
"Another thing that wasn't mentioned is that a mono test removes one of the great advantages of dipoles, its superior imaging. In fact, a box speaker will probably sound better in mono because it bounces sound off the side walls. There's a section in Floyd Toole's book on why the Quads sound terrible in mono, which makes it all the more surprising to me that Harman would ignore that."
Most of us die hard planer fans, know you you can't even place a pair of full range planers too far apart, as the midbass will fall apart. So imagine taking one half of the speaker system out of the equation.
I would also like to add, I am not a Harmon Hater. I appreciate the scientific method they are trying to introduce in the pursuit of better sound. I just think in the case of planer's the testing went kind awry. I'm also aware planers have their faults, but to me, they do more right than they do wrong. Especially True Ribbon Tweeters like Raal and Magnepan, compared to conventional tweets.