GeneralDisarray
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I don't have an expensive state of the art home theater. But when I watch a movie or good TV series, it sounds way better than any cinema I've ever been to, and I don't live in a little town, while at the same time I don't live in any of the major cities like New York or LA, where I imagine there are probably much better movie theaters.
My receiver is a Pioneer VSX-935, and the speakers are 3 pairs of JBL Stage A130, along with a JBL Stage A125C center speaker. The subwoofer is a 12" Bic America from 2011 that rumbles my whole house without breaking a sweat.
When I got my first Dolby Atmos receiver, I bought two Atmos add-on speakers, I think they were Onkyo. I wasn't impressed at all, so I returned them. Instead, I cut some wood and got some industrial velcro to Frankenstein a combo of two Energy CB5 speakers together, one as a normal front speaker and the other one pointing upwards at an angle like an Atmos add-on speaker would.
I was happy with this for many years, but when my Energy speakers started blowing up the tweeters because they are not very well made, I got the JBLs, and those were too big to do the same thing. So I decided to put them as front high speakers, sitting on a long shelf where I keep all my Blu-rays. And the thing, this sounded amazing. I have a lot of 4K Blu-rays with Atmos, and this was way better not just in sound quality but as far as experiencing the Atmos mixing in movies and music.
So I wanted to get an idea of how many people are using this configuration, and if this can be even considered an approved speaker layout for Dolby Atmos.
My receiver is a Pioneer VSX-935, and the speakers are 3 pairs of JBL Stage A130, along with a JBL Stage A125C center speaker. The subwoofer is a 12" Bic America from 2011 that rumbles my whole house without breaking a sweat.
When I got my first Dolby Atmos receiver, I bought two Atmos add-on speakers, I think they were Onkyo. I wasn't impressed at all, so I returned them. Instead, I cut some wood and got some industrial velcro to Frankenstein a combo of two Energy CB5 speakers together, one as a normal front speaker and the other one pointing upwards at an angle like an Atmos add-on speaker would.
I was happy with this for many years, but when my Energy speakers started blowing up the tweeters because they are not very well made, I got the JBLs, and those were too big to do the same thing. So I decided to put them as front high speakers, sitting on a long shelf where I keep all my Blu-rays. And the thing, this sounded amazing. I have a lot of 4K Blu-rays with Atmos, and this was way better not just in sound quality but as far as experiencing the Atmos mixing in movies and music.
So I wanted to get an idea of how many people are using this configuration, and if this can be even considered an approved speaker layout for Dolby Atmos.