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First off, the speakers use DDD driver, which hae been around for a while, read here:
http://www.german-physiks.com/ddd-bendingwave-converter/ddd-driver.html
The point isnt to get "360-degree surroundamasound" out of them, but to get a cleaner sound overall. "Normal" speakers with front-mounted cone drivers also have a 180 degree dispersion, but once you deviate even a few degrees off the front vertical axis, you get distortion, volume drop offs, etc. That's why in most audiophile speakers (or even crappy speakers....and ESPECIALLY in electrostats) you have to toe-in the speakers so the drivers are firing at you in a direct line, 0 degrees off axis to get the best sound. The point of these types of speakers is that you now have a perfect response 360 degrees (or 180 in some of them) off the front axis, and there is no distorted sound bouncing around the room and reaching your ears. All you get is perfect reproduction, no matter where you sit in the room. Think horn tweeters, only better. And dont even THINK about telling me about Bose acoustimass systems and how they're fantastic for listening to music with their direc/reflecting technology...because you're just wrong. and as far as the omni-drectional attempts back in the 70's, that's totally true. But speakers now are VERY different creatures than they were back in the day. No, I dont work for these guys, and no, I have no intention of ever being able to afford them. But it's just like anything else, they're built for balls-out performance and if you dont have the scrilla then you should go back to listening to your ipod. I'm just tired of uninformed people making fun of things because they're out of their price range. I'm sure your $10 digital casio watch keeps better time than a rolex, but c'mon...it's a freakin rolex.