![]() ![]() There are a staggering number of options, but having the requisite number of speakers is only half of it. An even more comprehensive and important white paper to read is available as PDF, Dolby Atmos Home Theater Installation Guidelines. Dolby has a nice page that outlines Atmos for the home here, and you can get to the actual layouts themselves here. What I didn’t know is what each specific combination looked like, and where the speakers needed to be placed.Ī Google search answered all questions. I knew already that Dolby Atmos is an object based mixing standard for which compatible amplification setups are capable of dynamically interpreting a mix to accommodate a variety of different speaker setups with differing numbers of speakers. However, I’m a filmmaker, and being such I love spending other people’s money, so my uncle’s situation gave me all the excuse I needed to dive in. I’ve had no reason to look into how to actually set up home theater Atmos, so I’d put off reading up on the specifics. However, my own home theater is small, in a small room, in which there’s only room for the 5.1 setup I’ve got. I know that manufacturers have created numerous solutions to deliver Atmos to the home, and I’ve seen it done for ambitious home theater thanks to my friend, actor, writer, and editor Jeffy Branion, who’s got one of the most well appointed home theaters I’ve had the pleasure of checking out, and who recently updated the entire thing to include state of the art HDR home theater projection and a really nice Atmos speaker setup. But how on earth do you create that kind of experience in the confines of a typical basement room? Here’s Dolby’s pitch for theatrical Atmos. After all, Atmos for the theater famously accommodates up to 64 speakers, including overhead (height) speakers that allow a more specific spatial positioning of sound to enhance the aural experience of a movie. The truth was, while I’ve had the privilege of supervising the mix of one of my movies in an Atmos theater last year, am reasonably well informed about how Dolby Atmos works for theatrical distribution, and had the opportunity to learn more about setting up Dolby Atmos in broad strokes having written updates to the Fairlight section of the DaVinci Resolve manual recently, I actually didn’t know much about how one went about setting up Atmos for the home. However, he’s also always been a huge audiophile, with progressively evolving stereo listening setups, the current iteration of which dwarfs any other suite, amateur or professional, I’ve ever been in.Ĭonsequently, when he told me at Thanksgiving that he wanted to set up a home theater, I immediately blurted out two things “You want a 77 inch LG C9,” and “you need Dolby Atmos.” He knows I’m serious about movie viewing, so he just agreed despite knowing nothing about HDR or Atmos. ![]() He’s a microbiologist who worked for the USDA prior to retirement, in which capacity he was once a leading researcher into wheat genetics. My uncle Bill recently moved from California to Minnesota, near where my mom recently moved (also from California to Minnesota) which is two hours south of where I live. ![]()
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