In the area where you initially add speakers generally, you have to scroll down past wireless speaker setup and wired speaker setup and then you see setup for third party speakers.

I'm interested to know anything has been changed so that we can assign what the speaker model is connected to a Receiver 1 so that it can be used in Room Sense.

I manually entered the correct bass redirection level values for when adding a Beolab 2 subwoofer connected to a Receiver 1. That made a HUGE difference to my comparisons that I made last weekend with and without a Beolab 2 subwoofer. After adding the correct values, the bass sounded much more natural and pleasing.

I must say it again in case anyone at B&O is reading: We really do need for B&O to put into the app a way for us to indicate what model of Beolab is attached to a Receiver 1 so that Room Sense can provide the proper calculations.

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Id like to know how to connect passive speakers for the ceiling Atmos on a BL28 BS Theater 5.0.4  center setup.

Hi.

Not many people here operating passives with the Theatre or Beovisions. Main traffic will be with installing Beolab Actives.

Try this:-

BeoApp >> Theatre >> ... >> Product Settings >> Connected Speakers >> Third Party Speakers >> Designate which Powerlink port they are connected to

Obviously, I dont need to tell you that you will be connecting your third party speakers to an external amplifier as the Theatre is only a complicated Receiver with no dedicated amplification for external loudspeakers.

Once connected, I imagine you will have to run room-sense again to calibrate them for sound level, distance, bass control etc...

How is the Atmos sound format encoded?

I’ve read how the 3D experience is “object based” sound etc.

However, I have seen material with 5.1 channels where the B&O app shows it as Atmos. Can this be? I thought it would need to be 7.1 dedicated channels in order to provide the Atmos experience.

For true Atmos, is 7.1 channels a prerequisite in the source material or would 5.1 channels suffice?

To my Theater I have 2 front, 2 rear, 2 ceiling and one subwoofer speakers connected. How would an Atmos 5.1 and 7.1 Atmos source material differ?

Contrary to some of my earlier inaccurate posts, full Atmos runs on 21-23 channels and can track 128 objects (I confused channels from objects).

Depending on the number of channels available either in the playback device or the viewing device (Screen and connected audio outputs), D-Atmos will down-mix and emulate a lower-order sound distribution. I guess technically, you can take a full Atmos soundtrack and output to a single centre mono-loudspeaker?

So I have just moved to setting up 2 pairs of BL3s for height on a 5.2.0 system with the theatre. As of now, I have 5.2.2 as I need a RJ45 splitter to complete the 5.2.4

By going from a 5.2.0 to 5.2.2, I notice the overall sound experience is now more subtle as the sound is shared over an extra 2 channels.

Take an aircraft (film like Midway for example). under 5.1, the propeller comes from the side surrounds to the front and centre. Under 7.1, the propeller comes from the backs, side surrounds to the front.

Adding in a pair of heights on 5.1 to 5.1.2, the sound comes from the side surrounds, then is split/expanded vertically between front, side and height giving true atmosphere, before collapsing to the ear-level fronts.

Going to 5.1.4, the sides become atmospheric, moving to the fronts and remain true 3D atmospheric.

That's how I see, hear and understand the format.