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Originally Posted by Pointerman
I'm with Joe. Last time I checked base was non-directional (thus the need for only one speaker in a home theater setup) and treble tones are directional. The lower pitched the tone the more likely it is to travel in all directions.
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At lower frequencies acoustic waves become more omni-directional, which means it gets more difficult to pinpoint its source. It does not necessarily mean that it radiates in all direction from the source.
In a home audio system a single sub-woofer cabinet will perform well because of the onmi-directional nature of the bass frequencies. The more uni-directional nature of the higher frequencies require two sources interacting through constructive/destructive interference to provide imaging and sound-staging that stereo reproduction is designed to create .