Man thats a big question this late at night.
You used the words Dipole and Bipole interchangeably. Some dipole speakers have a switch to change them to bipole configuration.
A dipole will mount on the side wall in line with where you sit BUT you have to have space behind you [Pref 6+ft]for them to work properly. At this point you would have 5.1. Add the rear on the back wall and we have 6.1. Depending on the ability of the receiver you may be able to put 2 speakers in parallel on the 6th channel on the rear wall. If the receiver is lower power and can't handle low impedance than wire the 2 in series and turn up the volume to the 6th channel
Ok that said, you may not have your receiver set up properly for the sound field you are trying to use for the material. Reread your manual you may be missing something simple.
Dipoles are really nice and the can enhance the rear effect but you should be doing very well with the JBL's.
Got to be missing something in the set up. After you read the book again call the factory tech.
One thing that can really bring out the rears is put a second sub off of the rear surround speakers using "speaker line in" and then to the L+R rear surrounds. Often a 10" is enough. THe ratio is 2:1 sub : woofer size {R^2X3.14= Area}
Another thing that can effect the experience is room acoustics. If your room is like a cubed ping pong table the sound will be very uncontrollable and one may have a tendency to turn it down to keep it from being painful and then we loss ,depth spaciousness or emersion.
Also consider getting a pink noise set up disk to EQ your set up. Avia is decent. There are some 5.1 set up discs out now . Reeves is one.
The speaker/amp set up is the most tedious and leanthy part but the most rewarding for the $$$ spent. It will give you a better understanding of room acoustic too.
I'm Around if you want to chat more, because a lot of basic questions have to be answered before a solution is found.
Also there are others out here chomping at the bit to add their $0.02 of good wisdom.
Bear!
You used the words Dipole and Bipole interchangeably. Some dipole speakers have a switch to change them to bipole configuration.
A dipole will mount on the side wall in line with where you sit BUT you have to have space behind you [Pref 6+ft]for them to work properly. At this point you would have 5.1. Add the rear on the back wall and we have 6.1. Depending on the ability of the receiver you may be able to put 2 speakers in parallel on the 6th channel on the rear wall. If the receiver is lower power and can't handle low impedance than wire the 2 in series and turn up the volume to the 6th channel
Ok that said, you may not have your receiver set up properly for the sound field you are trying to use for the material. Reread your manual you may be missing something simple.
Dipoles are really nice and the can enhance the rear effect but you should be doing very well with the JBL's.
Got to be missing something in the set up. After you read the book again call the factory tech.
One thing that can really bring out the rears is put a second sub off of the rear surround speakers using "speaker line in" and then to the L+R rear surrounds. Often a 10" is enough. THe ratio is 2:1 sub : woofer size {R^2X3.14= Area}
Another thing that can effect the experience is room acoustics. If your room is like a cubed ping pong table the sound will be very uncontrollable and one may have a tendency to turn it down to keep it from being painful and then we loss ,depth spaciousness or emersion.
Also consider getting a pink noise set up disk to EQ your set up. Avia is decent. There are some 5.1 set up discs out now . Reeves is one.
The speaker/amp set up is the most tedious and leanthy part but the most rewarding for the $$$ spent. It will give you a better understanding of room acoustic too.
I'm Around if you want to chat more, because a lot of basic questions have to be answered before a solution is found.
Also there are others out here chomping at the bit to add their $0.02 of good wisdom.
Bear!
