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Not sure exactly since we're now dealing with more discrete channels than we had with 7.1 TrueHD. I'd imagine it is lossless and more efficient. IMO the Four reasons Dolby Atmos exists: Simplify the production process for sound by having one soundtrack work for all speaker configurations Add...

Agreed to that especially when you've gut guys like JJ Abrams directing films :( I saw Gravity is Atmos and it was very distracting to put it mildly. I hope Atmos movies won't be overdone with the height channels like early DTS DVD's were with the rears.

Atmos is backwards compatible but it's questionable how much of an improvement there will be listening to Atmos vs TrueHD on a conventional 5.1 or 7.1 surround system. If you want to do a single pair of height channels they have to be located middle of the room which is a bit odd. You can't...

Thanks for contributing to this thread Chris. While I can understand the need to offer a more compatible form factor to propel a new technology like Atmos into the consumer market, firing a driver on top of a speaker aimed at the ceiling will ALWAYS be a compromise to having a discrete speaker...

It raises the question will receiver manufacturers have different settings for the Atmos channels depending on if the speaker is firing up at the ceiling or down from the ceiling? I haven't heard this being the case but it's all still very preliminary. It's still unclear if the Atmos...

Yep I saw that and I don't buy it. No amount of "processing" is going to stop the leakage. The sound bouncing from the ceiling to the listening area is going to be a jumbled mess no matter how good the directivity of the driver is. In any event I look forward to the non Atmos offering of this...

Thanks for the reference. Definitely a lot of marketing talk going on over there. I can't ever envision how firing a driver upward towards the ceiling from a shared speaker cabinet for another channel can be "better" than using a discrete in-ceiling speaker firing downward just like what is...

Yes they are relying on the sound to shoot up to the ceiling and bounce back down and still be intelligible enough to provide a convincing height effect. Their diagram shows a perfect flashlight beaming up to the ceiling :)

They still have 3 more surfaces to work with for the next Atmos spec :) We just wrote up a little preview here: Pioneer Atmos Speakers (SP-EFS73/SP-EBS73L/SP-EC73 and SW-E10) Preview | Audioholics

There is. Turn off Atmos on the receiver :) I'm waiting for Atmos 2 where they put drivers on the back of the cabinet. Hey there are still 3 more surfaces to exploit, why NOT?!

Just b/c the have the name "Studio" in their name doesn't mean they were designed to be a nearfield monitor. They work just fine in a home theater or two-channel farfield environment. In fact, you wouldn't want to use an MTM in a nearfield environment in the first place so it's better to be...

And no amp to power the non-powered sub :)

No thanks. I can't wait to see the new Atmos friendly towers some companies will be putting out where they fire drivers at the top of the cabinet. What a joke! But it probably will happen. Update: Oh my, I just saw the Pioneer Atmos speakers :eek:

Make sure you use the "Manage Attachments" option below the editor and not the insert image icon above the editor.

maybe this review: Marantz PM-11S3 Integrated Amplifier Review | Audioholics

test images Appears to be working fine for me.

I went into ADMIN to make some tweaks. You can now upload 10 images per post instead of 5. The images are already set to auto resize so file size shouldn't be an issue. I don't see the option to auto-correct orientation though.

With 5 RBH T2s in your system, why would you care about anything else ;)

Very sad indeed. I was fortunate to meet him a few years back and he was a kind person.