Tell Us If You Use 3.1, 5.1, 7.1 9.1 system?

[tifune]

9."5".2 (front height)

Primary use case is music; I probably wouldn't recommend front wides for most people but my HTP1 has a front wide synth option that allows me to use front wide with Auro3D (my favorite upmixer). My room is big enough to make good use of them

Strangely, I find that some Atmos mixes have front wides mixed quite loud. In rare cases, even louder than front L/R.

 

[ban25]

Do those speakers work better if placed not on top, but above the speakers and angled down towards the listening position? (As height speakers, that is).

If wall mounted and angled toward the listener, they can work well. At that point, it's a direct-radiation speaker like any other. The problem with positioning them in an up-firing mode is that the direct impulse from the speaker will reach the listener before the reflected one does. The second issue is that reflected sound is going to be much quieter than the direct sound due to the inverse-square law.

 

[Stewysb119]

I use 5.1.2 all the time... Alien: Earth and Wednesday have great soundtracks that are very boomy and loud. I don't see how I would need anything more. Maybe another sub, but damn, 1 is loud.

 

[Vacceo]

If wall mounted and angled toward the listener, they can work well. At that point, it's a direct-radiation speaker like any other. The problem with positioning them in an up-firing mode is that the direct impulse from the speaker will reach the listener before the reflected one does. The second issue is that reflected sound is going to be much quieter than the direct sound due to the inverse-square law.

I have tried using conventional bookshelves around a meter and half above the front and rear speakers. I think that was a fine enough compromise if attaching ceeling speakers is not possible (for aesthetics or infraestructure limitations). To be fair, it worked quite well, but I honestly have no way to compare to actual ceeling speakers in the same space.