the dipole emission, unless placed in an anechoic chamber will create a maze of reflected wave, ie producing a reverberation effect,
I have dipoles - cross to the woofer is at 180Hz.
When I compare the impulse response of the dipoles with a more conventional speaker, the "maze of reflected waves" seems to be more a property of the conventional than the dipole.
This image infers about 10dB less reflected energy overall (blue) with the dipoles. At 27ms there is the double room length bounce. For the conventional, looks to me like reflections occur from many side surfaces.
When critically listening, I prefer the dipoles, as they present a much more focused image, loudest bounces from the direction of the "stage", without the extra high-level lateral reflections.
The room is a living space, counch TV, CD shelves, etc., not "treated".
This also shows in an unsmoothed frequency response - lots of cancellation hash on the conventional:
This is my interpretation.
@amirm will say "You can't hear that", my reply is "I hear something".
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