7.1.2 or 5.1.2 in a Small room

[Popsas]

Hi everyone, I really love a good sound system that can give me an engaging experience while watching a movie or playing games.

I am building a room or I should say a very small room 4400x3000 m. So the idea is to have a tailored furniture for the room (maybe it can extend to the ceiling) to save space and still fit a big TV and any other devices. So I want your advice and to know if it’s a good or bad idea to go big on a small room.

Thank you for your time and please excuse my lack of knowledge.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Imo it depends. Can you get 4-5’ behind your MLP? If not, I would recommend 5.x.2.

If you can get some room behind your seat, the most benefit would be 5.x.4. That also wouldn’t require an external 2ch amp.
7 channel bed is icing on the cake but having 4 ceiling speakers is better than having rear surrounds.

 

[ryanosaur]

Imo it depends. Can you get 4-5’ behind your MLP? If not, I would recommend 5.x.2.

If you can get some room behind your seat, the most benefit would be 5.x.4. That also wouldn’t require an external 2ch amp.
7 channel bed is icing on the cake but having 4 ceiling speakers is better than having rear surrounds.

Though depending on the games, if that's your priority... there might not be atmos but a lot of cool stuff is programmed to those rears.

But you do need space for that!

a very small room 4400x3000 m

Did you mean 4.4x3 meters? (Roughly 14x10' i think.)
Is this purely a HT/game/listening room? or do you need it for other things?

I have 7 channels set up in my room which is ~15x11'... and planning on adding atmos when my last pair comes in from Dennis. I'm kind of shoe-horning it in, with the hopes I get to expand to the larger space in the future.
It Is A Tight Situation! Posts 130-134 HERE will show you the room I'm working in. I talked to William about it, too. The rears mounted on that back wall are not super ideal, especially once I put Atmos in. I'm going to have about as much space between my Top-Front and Top-Rear Atmos as I will between my TR and Back Surrounds.

Depending on your gear, and your absolute desires: doing Atmos, you definitely want Top speakers: maybe you can specify Top Middle on your gear, but if not, maybe you could do Top front and Rear Height? If you really want to add that much???

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Though depending on the games, if that's your priority... there might not be atmos but a lot of cool stuff is programmed to those rears.

But you do need space for that!

Agreed. BUT, I will say that ime properly setup surround speakers can create very good phantom center imaging behind you. Also the expense of two more speakers and a capable AVR might be over the limit. Of course we don’t know what that line is yet.
Btw, I think we made to 10° above zero!!! Yay...

Depending on your gear, and your absolute desires: doing Atmos, you definitely want Top speakers: maybe you can specify Top Middle on your gear, but if not, maybe you could do Top front and Rear Height? If you really want to add that much???

 

[Popsas]

Hi guys,

Sorry for the late reply and thanks for taking some time to respond to me. I have been doing lots of work lately and I think I can make the room am working on bigger, so now my question is what is your recommendations for the brand of a 7.1.4 home theater? Should I go for ML, KEF or Klipsch? As for the budget I don’t want to go over 5000$

Thank you again