Beosound theatre – Tinkering with External and Internal atmos speakers

[Shadi Hameed]

Hi everyone.  I have been experimenting with the beosound theatre connected to external speakers.  What I have set up now is the theatre with 2 beolab 8000 as front left, right and 2 beolab 17 as surround left right.  Then I got a beoamp 2 connected to 2 external speakers for the atmos.  I finally got everything calibrated the way I like.  Now I wanted to conduct an experiment- but before I do just wanted thoughts and experience.

What I intend to try is assign the 2 external speakers on the ceiling as the front heights and the 2 internal up firing on the beosound theatre as the rear heights.  Logic tells me this is not a great idea, but research on how atmos works tells me to give it a try.

I would appreciate any thoughts on this.  Thanks in advance.

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[SimonWeir]

I have a listening position with the same use of the up firing Theatre speakers as rear heights to get 7.1.4

As long as you have setup your listening position with the wired mic, and then checked when sitting in this position that each speaker (check everyone using the test tone… all the many on the Theatre and all your added speakers) that you are getting the same db (I set the TV volume to 45 and this corresponds to the Theatre Centre at my listening position at 65db) the TrueImage works out the different delays and YES whilst not as good as dedicated speakers ATMOS works well.

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