Quote Originally Posted by curtis View Post
When a movie is mixed, it is done with direct radiating speakers. If the engineers want to create a diffused sound, then can do so with these speakers.

Bi-poles and di-poles ALWAYS create a diffused soundfield, and it will not create what the engineer intended.
Understand but an engineer is also mixing with the intent that the listening environment is a large movie theatre environment. Therefore I wouldn't make a blanket statement that a diffused sound can’t be advantageous in a smaller home theatre because of how a movie engineer mixes for a mass listening environment.

I don’t think you can really say direct or diffused is better than the other. I think that they both have a place depending on the application.