What device is decoding in your setup? What would you do for an ATMOS setup?
I would likely use the Arvus in an ATMOS setup.
Right now, I decode to 7.1 PCM in the blue ray player. Convert the Audio HDMI to SDI, deembed 4x2ch AES3 audio, run it through a DDRC-88D Dirac Live processor, reembed to SDI, convert back to HDMI, run it into an Oppo-205 used as a DAC, and to amps.
The first blu ray player, and a streaming PC go into an HDFury Diva, and the audio, or eARC audio from the TV gets routed to an audio HDMI output (and HDCP stripped by the Diva) into the HDMI to SDI converter.
All very Rube Goldberg, but it works.
The Lucid 8ch AD/DA serves only as a level display. With the Apollon amps, and Oppo 205 as a DAC, I get about 100 dB SINAD to the speakers, which are BG Radia 2x520i, 4x420i, 1x220i, and dual Rythmik Audio subs.
If the sinad figures on the minidsp Flex HTx are good, it would replace much of the equipment.