Why Omnidirectional

Why omnidirectional speakers?

• most uniform sound pressure level across the room
• most uniformly distributed frequency response across the room
• similarity to musical instruments sound radiation
• same sonic experience / frequency balance / soundstage in every position of the room
• in nature, all other energy radiations are omnidirectional: light, heat, gravity
• most "natural" sound
• the least affected by room acoustics

What are the key disadvantages of directional and horn speakers?

• when we move in horizontal plane, we have different frequency response - away from "sweetspot" we hear less high freqencies and a bit less mid frequencies
• as a result, away from the sweetspot the soundstage collapses