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Originally Posted by
Venomous 
It's the speakers that kill you for this setup. I had to cheap out and add two pairs of omd5s to make it to 11.2 to mate with my 7.1 paradigm studios.
I've tried to espouse a strategy of buying speakers only at deeply discounted prices, effectively in advance of need. So I actually already own 22 acoustically and visually matched speakers that I could use to implement the full
Hamasaki 22.2 configuration, although they are currently in use spread across three systems
. . . and that layout does seem a little extreme without a larger dedicated theater?! 
But I hope we'll have the opportunity to try a 'slightly smaller' configuration sometime in the next few years . . . perhaps something similar to the
Auro-3D 13.1(6) speaker layout...?
In contemplation of that happening, I do have 14 speakers 'committed' for one of my systems, i.e., either already installed or presently boxed. [Instead of a single
Top Center (
TpC) speaker directly overhead, I'm planning to try a 'dual mono'
Top Side Left|
Right (
TpSiL|
TpSiR) surround speaker pair 'cross firing 50%+50% from both side walls at ceiling level'--something like the height channel delivery mechanism employed in the
"Alternate Telarc SACD 6.0 Height Playback Layout" (link).]
