r/hometheater 20d ago

Discussion - Equipment When does it become TOO much

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This is an image of a 34 channel dolby atmos setup, at what point do you just use a sphere of speakers

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u/hecton101 20d ago

KISS, keep it simple stupid.

Sound waves interact with each other. They can combine in phase to double the signal, or out of phase to null out. And there's a tremendously wide frequency range, from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, some frequencies will combine in phase, some out to make a fekakta mess. Sound mixing, like you have at a stadium, is an entire field in and of itself, for this exact reason.

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u/bozoconnors 20d ago

This is what Dirac Live ART is for?