We're designing our new house and our main family room will be the home theater space. Room will be 23' x 20' with 12' high ceilings. The listening position will be about 12' from a 75" TV.
For L/R fronts I'm probably going with the Monoprice THX-365T THX speakers with the 365C for the center channel. I'd go with the 15" Monoprice Monolith THX sub.
I must put the L/R surrounds and L/R rears in-ceiling. I have no other option. There is no rear wall in the family room. It's an open floor plan to the kitchen.
For the surrounds and rears, I plan to use the RSL C34E speakers, aimed at the listening position.
I also had planned to add 2 more RSL speakers for Atmos and have a 7.1.2 setup.
Because I have to use in-ceiling speakers for the surrounds and rears, will the in-ceiling Atmos speakers loose their effectiveness and not be worth it? Is it too much?
Alternatively, the Monoprice 365T front L/R speakers have a separately connected, angled Atmos speaker in the top of the speaker. Should I just use that and forget about the 2 additional in-ceiling RSL C34E's?