Split Atmos Channel?

midfidude said:

I'm thinking, if I just split those two channels for 2 sets of speakers, I could achieve that without having a 9.1 receiver.

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midfidude said:

I have a fairly long and narrow room that will have multiple rows so my thoughts were that if I had two sets of left and right Atmos speakers, it might improve the overhead sound since I will still have the surround channels behind the rows.

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Or do you think that having the duplicate pairs of left right Atmos speakers will muddy the front to back effect even though I have the back surround channels?

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midfidude said:

Agreed, there would be no front-back between the Atmos speakers. However, I have a fairly long and narrow room that will have multiple rows so my thoughts were that if I had two sets of left and right Atmos speakers, it might improve the overhead sound since I will still have the surround channels behind the rows. Or do you think that having the duplicate pairs of left right Atmos speakers will muddy the front to back effect even though I have the back surround channels?

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midfidude said:

So, I have a newer 7.1 channel receiver, which will allow me to run a 5.1.2 system in my future dedicated theater room. However, I've heard/read that it's a much better experience to have 4 Atmos speakers up in the ceiling as opposed to 2. If that's the case, can I just split the two Atmos channels using speaker selectors switches with protection/overload on them? There's only two actual discrete Atmos channels for HT, correct? So I'm thinking, if I just split those two channels for 2 sets of speakers, I could achieve that without having a 9.1 receiver.



Am I thinking of this all wrong (probably the case)?

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Jon SS said:

Which receiver do you have. You may have pre-outs and just need a separate stereo amplifier for the other 2 Atmos channels and use the receiver’s amps for 2 Atmos channels and the main 5 to get 5.1.4


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jdsmoothie said:

Unfortunately, AFAIK, there haven't been any 7CH models released that can expand to 9CH since 2015.

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midfidude said:

Agreed, there would be no front-back between the Atmos speakers. However, I have a fairly long and narrow room that will have multiple rows so my thoughts were that if I had two sets of left and right Atmos speakers, it might improve the overhead sound since I will still have the surround channels behind the rows. Or do you think that having the duplicate pairs of left right Atmos speakers will muddy the front to back effect even though I have the back surround channels?

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midfidude said:

Agreed, would have preferred a 9 channel receiver, but I was able to score a 1 year old Yamaha RX-A870 for $200 with an extended 4 year warranty, so I couldn't pass that up as I still have many other things to buy for this theater build!

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midfidude said:

So, I have a newer 7.1 channel receiver, which will allow me to run a 5.1.2 system in my future dedicated theater room. However, I've heard/read that it's a much better experience to have 4 Atmos speakers up in the ceiling as opposed to 2. If that's the case, can I just split the two Atmos channels using speaker selectors switches with protection/overload on them? There's only two actual discrete Atmos channels for HT, correct? So I'm thinking, if I just split those two channels for 2 sets of speakers, I could achieve that without having a 9.1 receiver.

midfidude said:

So, I have a newer 7.1 channel receiver, which will allow me to run a 5.1.2 system in my future dedicated theater room. However, I've heard/read that it's a much better experience to have 4 Atmos speakers up in the ceiling as opposed to 2. If that's the case, can I just split the two Atmos channels using speaker selectors switches with protection/overload on them? There's only two actual discrete Atmos channels for HT, correct? So I'm thinking, if I just split those two channels for 2 sets of speakers, I could achieve that without having a 9.1 receiver.

Am I thinking of this all wrong (probably the case)?

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Hi bro same doubt for me I have 9.1 home theatre I like to play 5.1.2 any idea you have bro any software you have long days I confused this method

Am I thinking of this all wrong (probably the case)?

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sdurani said:

Let's separate channels from speakers. Splitting the same channel to two speakers doesn't give you stereo.

2 speakers above you will let you hear left-vs-right separation overhead. 4 speakers above you will let you hear left-vs-right AND front-vs-back movement overhead. So there is a definite advantage to 4 heights.

However, if you're splitting the same 2 height channels between 4 height speakers, then you won't hear any front/back movement (both pairs of height speakers are playing the same info).

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midfidude said:

So, I have a newer 7.1 channel receiver, which will allow me to run a 5.1.2 system in my future dedicated theater room. However, I've heard/read that it's a much better experience to have 4 Atmos speakers up in the ceiling as opposed to 2. If that's the case, can I just split the two Atmos channels using speaker selectors switches with protection/overload on them? There's only two actual discrete Atmos channels for HT, correct? So I'm thinking, if I just split those two channels for 2 sets of speakers, I could achieve that without having a 9.1 receiver.

Am I thinking of this all wrong (probably the case)?

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Jon SS said:

Which receiver do you have. You may have pre-outs and just need a separate stereo amplifier for the other 2 Atmos channels and use the receiver’s amps for 2 Atmos channels and the main 5 to get 5.1.4


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