Bosso:

My surrounds are regular direct radiators, the same ones used in a lot of medium sized cinemas (JBL 8330). Since I mix for this enviornment, I need to have speakers similar to the ones that the music will end up on. Since a theater uses horns for the fronts, my fronts (which are horns) fit this requirement.

My only point was that generally (i.e. few exceptions), the power requirements for the surrounds for movie use are more modest then some would imagine.

For strictly music SACD etc, anything goes, and probably does, so this is where you would want to have sufficient power for those instances when a low synth note is coming from the surrounds, for instance. However, if the surrounds are set to "small", this bass would be re-directed to the subwoofer, lessening the power requirement significantly.


[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited May 19, 2003).]