5.2.4 or 5+2.2.2?

[afaleh]

I am sure that is a very confusing thread title?

I currently have a 5.2 system set up in my man cave, Jamo concert towers and center, Monitor Gold series surrounds, wonderful! I originally skipped the back speakers as the couch only has two inches space to the back wall.

Now I have some cash I decided to upgrade, so I bought four Definitive Technology in ceiling speakers, my original intention was to set these up as ceiling atmos speakers and will start the installation tomorrow. But I was watching one of the videos here and it seems you can have 5 speakers at ear level and two in ceiling to complete 7.2 if I understand it correctly? If that is true I would be amazed at how EQ would work that out!

Any way, the question is should I install two speakers at a location in the ceiling or the back wall to complete 7.2 before deciding on the location for atmos? or just stick to my 5.2.4 plan?

 

[XEagleDriver]

Room size and location of windows/doors/other openings?

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[yepimonfire]

What receiver and how many channels? If it's a 7.1 receiver, you can only use two height channels anyways. If it's 9.1 or 11.1, you have more options. It's also dependent on your room and seating arrangements.

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[afaleh]

Sorry my receiver is Onkyo TNR 3030. Rooms size is 8 meters by 5 meters.

Support is not an issue, its placement and wheather or not i can use ceiling speakers to take my 5.2 ear level system to 7.2 and then add atmos, or just add four atmos speakers....

 

[BlwnAway]

I am sure that is a very confusing thread title?

I currently have a 5.2 system set up in my man cave, Jamo concert towers and center, Monitor Gold series surrounds, wonderful! I originally skipped the back speakers as the couch only has two inches space to the back wall.

Now I have some cash I decided to upgrade, so I bought four Definitive Technology in ceiling speakers, my original intention was to set these up as ceiling atmos speakers and will start the installation tomorrow. But I was watching one of the videos here and it seems you can have 5 speakers at ear level and two in ceiling to complete 7.2 if I understand it correctly? If that is true I would be amazed at how EQ would work that out!

Any way, the question is should I install two speakers at a location in the ceiling or the back wall to complete 7.2 before deciding on the location for atmos? or just stick to my 5.2.4 plan?

Since you have so little space behind your seating, don't even entertain the idea of a 7 speaker ear level layout, you really need at least 3-4' behind your seating for you to benefit from Rears. Plus, don't forget, you're not losing anything, even with true 7 channel content, if you don't have Rears, the sound gets mixed into the surrounds.

If you already have 4 speakers, I'd install them in the appropriate positions for a 5.2.4 setup, then simply experiment with which pair sounds better to you until you upgrade to a 5.2.4 receiver.

 

[selden]

To get the best results, the overhead speakers should be used for Atmos and DTS:X Top Front and Top Rear, and not for Rear Surround. There should be as much vertical separation as possible between the "ear level" speaker channels and the overhead speakers.

These days, using overhead speakers for the "ear level" Side or Rear Surround channels is appropriate only if you have no other choice. Long ago, when surround sound was first developed, the surround channels of a 5.1 system were used primarily for ambient sound and positioning the surround speakers up high was appropriate. In contrast, many modern surround-sound audio mixes assume the surround speakers are positioned relatively low. This is particularly true for Atmos and DTS:X soundtracks which use the overheads extensively for those sounds which are supposed to come from overhead.