Height Speaker Placement For Atmos?

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Reverend Slim asks a great question about heights; in this Daily clip Anthony and Joe talk about Dolby and its guidelines vs what Anthony does for people's layouts. If you asked 10 different home theater designers what do you think would be the consensus on where the heights go? Hmmm, would there be a consensus or not? Like Anthony talks about the most important speaker in any Atmos or other format system is not the heights anyways. Can we all agree on what the most important speaker in a system is? Also do you generally agree with Anthony on his height layout guidelines? Let us know in the chat what you think! And thanks for watching!

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[adrianbarac]

Yet again, Grimani just sums it up with the right combo of intellect, a resume few can rival, and real-world, up-to-date experience.

[chriswhite]

I had installed my six height speakers (JBL SCS-8) closer to the wall per some guides I had seen. It was really difficult to differentiate between by bed layer surrounds and the heights. I moved them away from the walls, closer to half way between midway point of room and it made a huge difference IMO.

[PeteNice]

I've been to Anthony's house. The guy is a savant and is very real-world in his approach, despite knowing the science up and down.

[welderfixer]

Mr. Grimani used the statement "canopy of sound" and he is so correct. I can't wait until I find the best positions for all of my speakers. The folks at Dolby sure didn't help by having at least three different speaker placement guides. IMO, I think 7.X.4 should be placed in an "X" pattern over the MLP while splitting the angles equally. It's time to move mine again - dang it! Yeah, it's a hobby. Heck, maybe I should mount my Atmos speakers on 4 way tracks. Oooo - something new to build! YAY!

[MichaelForbes-dp]

Everyone that gets into mixing music in atmos thinks that all the speakers should be set up to create phantom centers everywhere. It turns out the front is the only usable phantom center (maybe one behind you too but it sounds way different)
That being said, the experience of listening in atmos is so much more than you expect.

[OwC]

Amazing podcast ! Love you guys . Keep going 🎉🎉 atmos is overated btw 😅 auro3D is alot better 👍 just my experience 😊

[arasandthevolodkas]

I think the reason why people argue about this is because someone said that Auro layout was better than Atmos, it's almost as if some influencers really tried to push the topic based on research absent from peer review

[santiagoezquerrocordon]

Again, I agree.
You decide, but in my case I want to feel the sound coming from over you.
If I set the speakers on the top ofmy frontal wall, I would feel them in front of me, not over me.

For me is obvious which option is better.

I assume that a lot of people can't have ceiling speakers, or they don't want to go through all the hustle to makes holes and get wires inside the ceiling. So then, they go all over forums and internet to say that high speakers are better for Atmos. They want to convince themselves that, that's the best way to go. Sorry guys, it is not.

[spazzychalk]

For 7.2.2 on a Denon x3800h should I have the heights at front left & right or center front & rear of the seat?

[we]

Should I install my in ceiling speakers on each four corners of the room and two in the middle on the side of the ceiling

[garyausten]

I couldn't pass up a sale on a pair of Klipsch RP-500SA speakers ($299), but I might have a problem. My fronts are on the high up on the wall, but my chair is against the back wall. Klipsch said I couldn't mount them on the ceiling (ala SVS Prime elevations) and suggested I use them at Atmos behind the chair. Would that work out OK or would it really sound strange having front heights and rear Atmos. Would it be better to just leave them boxed up in the basement until I have a bigger room to put them in? Right now I have a 7.2.2 in my bedroom using a Denon 4700 in pre-amp mode and a Tonewinner AD-8300.

[Scarrier-pulj]

Can you please tell me ...I am using Netflix for movies. Netflix wants me to pay 10 dollars more for Atmos and the standard (10.00 less) is 5.1 for the sound . Why cant I save about 10.00 a month if I use my Auro 3 D to upmix the 5.1 to Auro 3D ?.I do not care about 4k ...just sound. .Is this possible ?

[donaldwatson]

Im new to the atmos and height settings and just upgraded from a 20 something year old 7.1 receiver to a 9.1 reciever . I wanted to play around with 7.1.2 or 5.1.4 to see what i liked better plus heights vs atmos . So I got a question about heights vs atmos . I did an experiment were i used settings in the receiver to use atmos in the front and heights in the rear then played several different atmos movies. Then noticed on most of the movie's there was no sound coming out of the heights but was coming out of the atmos speakers . My question is the height and atmos are they not processing for the same thing or do you have to set the height speakers to atmos in settings of the receiver instead of setting them to heights.

[Slasher_Films_Fanatic]

Is 35 degrees from the center of the screen ok for front height speakers