Our smaller, open floor plan home leaves me with tricky placement limitations. As pictured, we have our 75” Sony mounted to a 70” long wall, a 65” long BDI Avion holds the LCR array and my left/right channels can only be about 4’ apart (to avoid the right being too deep into the corner / too close to the wall). We’ve used a 3.1 setup for over a year and are finally ready to move forward with surrounds and/or Atmos. I would like to purchase 4x RSL C34e speakers for covering front height & surround duty; but I’m open to 6x of them if placing that many would actually be beneficial. My LCR array is powered by amps, so my Denon X3400h can easily power 4 (or maybe 6 via Zone 2 outlets?) of them for surround & height duties.
Our couch seats 5, but nearly all content is watched alone or with my wife, so I’m only concerned with things fitting the room based upon the MLP as shown, directly centered in front of the TV and LCR =) as you can see, my troubles are a wall nearby on my right & a wall just 3-4” behind the couch. The couch may later come about 12” from the rear wall, but I still worry that it would mean troubled placement for in ceilings effectively acting as rears. This is what lead me to mostly blow off surrounds on stands or brackets & explore in-ceilings - and if I’m going to get in my tiny attic crawl space to run any speaker cables I might as well do as many as makes sense to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ hopefully Audioholics can help me determine how many make sense & roughly how I should be placing them, as the Dolby suggested install graphics don’t really align with my space nor my placement within it.
edited to reflect X3400 - not X4400 as originally posted
P.S. I could also consider running 2x of them in my back wall & 4x in ceiling, but I worried that would be just-as-bad if not worse placement for surrounds that cannot be properly toed in..? Please help!