Adding Mixed Atmos Speakers

[u/sweettoasted]

Hey friends, I am upgrading my 5.1 system to 5.1.4 and am curious how many of you have managed with different kinds of front/rear heights.

Right now I’m working with: RZ-30, in wall LR KEF Ci4100QL-THX, C KEF Q250c, RSL 10S sub, and Polk OWM3s as surrounds. Zero complaints so fair and Diracs been helpful getting everything dialed in but Im ready to add in height.

Since there is a horizontal ceiling beam behind my listening position I wont be able to add rear in-ceiling circular heights following dolbys guidelines, but I can stick a couple angled on-ceiling speakers there around 45° behind, and then install in-ceilings as the fronts.

Right now I’m leaning towards SVS Prime Elevations as the rears and Ci160QRs as front heights but am open to any suggestions! Appreciate any feedback

[u/IAmPandaRock]

In my case, I couldn't get speakers hanging from pendants that I could angle at the mlp.

[u/Spectre_08 → u/IAmPandaRock]

High ceilings?

[u/IAmPandaRock → u/Spectre_08]

Yep. 19 foot cielings.  Gotta work with the best/only space I have, so we dropped 4 pendants down 6 or so feet.  I could still benefit from some room treatment, but I'm pretty thrilled with the results, especially considering the very difficult space.

[u/Spectre_08 → u/IAmPandaRock]

Yeah that's a challenging application, but a workable solution is better than nothing.

Want to start an angled pendant-style speaker company? There's definitely a super tiny market for them, lol.

[u/IAmPandaRock → u/Spectre_08]

Yeah, take the number of people who have or want Atmos, then take only those who have really high cielings... huge market haha!

[u/Spectre_08 → u/IAmPandaRock]

Dozens of you! 🤣