5.1.1?

[Bargeman]

Maybe you could tie 2 wires to the end of the original wire, then use the original wire to re-pull the 2 new wires?

You would still have to deal with getting the 2 wires to the proper ceiling locations, but that may be easy to hide.

That might work! I can’t remember if I attached to stud I will give it a tug! Thanks

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Atmos is not simply about birds and planes and rain overhead.

True.

But probably 75 % of the time it is about birds, rain, thunder, voices, and aircrafts overhead.

IIRC, your only setting options are 1) whether you have the ceiling/height speakers, 2) whether the speakers are Small/Large, and 3) Crossover.

Of course, everyone agrees that 2 speakers are better than one.

 

[Bargeman]

I believe in the Speaker Config setting, the AVR will assume you have 2 Height or Ceiling speakers. And then you specify that it is present and set to Small.

IOW, you could tell the AVR that you have 4 ceiling speakers and it wouldn't know if you were lying. Just don't use the automatic room EQ.

Interesting! I hate to lie to it but you gotta do what you gotta do!

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Interesting! I hate to lie to it but you gotta do what you gotta do!

I have lied to the AVR that I had 4 Atmos ceiling speakers when I had ZERO.

This was to check to see if I was getting Atmos decoding before I installed my 4 ceiling speakers.

Based on my experience with watching many Atmos and DTSX contents, having one Atmos speaker is better than zero Atmos speakers.

It seems like most of the time, what I hear from the four overhead ceiling speakers are rain, thunder, birds, aircrafts, voices, and music.

There are some panning effects and 3D sound-field creation, but being able to just hear something overhead is better than nothing at all.

 

[mtrycrafts]

That might work! I can’t remember if I attached to stud I will give it a tug! Thanks

If your basement is such that you can use 4 Atmos speakers, then pull all 4 wire pairs if it will go.

 

[Andrein]

Can bluetooth help here?

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Can bluetooth help here?

In which way?

 

[Andrein]

In which way?

To avoid wires. Transmitter at avr out and receiver at the speaker end.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

To avoid wires. Transmitter at avr out and receiver at the speaker end.

There are wireless kits out there but you’d need power at the speaker. Plus BT, IMO wouldn’t do justice to lossless. I don’t believe BT can support the bandwidth.

 

[shadyJ]

Atmos has turned into a disaster. The world would have been better off had it never been invented.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Atmos has turned into a disaster. The world would have been better off had it never been invented.

Lol! I’m gonna have to disagree as it’s added nothing but good in my system. I DO wish the promotional material and educational side was better.

 

[Andrein]

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There are wireless kits out there but you’d need power at the speaker. Plus BT, IMO wouldn’t do justice to lossless. I don’t believe BT can support the bandwidth.

I think the latest BT with aptx is lossless. Not sure about power to speakers. Think some of those BT devices might work from batteries. My farther's headphones Marshall 3 with BT aptx work days if not month one charge. Worth to take a look.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Lol! I’m gonna have to disagree as it’s added nothing but good in my system. I DO wish the promotional material and educational side was better.

It's been almost a year since I turned to the Atmos Dark Side.

And I absolutely love Atmos.

Probably even more important is NeuralX for all the non-Atmos contents.

As some of us in the Atmos/DTSX thread have witnessed, NeuralX has made many contents sound even better than a few Atmos/DTSX contents.

Now all my contents (even 2Ch) sound like Atmos.

YMMV.

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

Any chance you could use that single speaker wire to pull in two new ones?

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[davidscott]

Wish I had a basement for a media room. I live in a nice 1 bedroom apt and have set up a modest audio and video system. Don't get me wrong I like the apt but I kind of miss cranking up the sound.

 

[Bargeman]

Any chance you could use that single speaker wire to pull in two new ones?

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

Wayne I tried last night! It’s hanging up on something, there is a little furnace room next to den that has a small access hole that I might be able to feed a wire to each end! All this for MORE SPEAKERS !! What is wrong with us! Thanks to everyone!