«Excellent choice as
Atmos height speakers.
Integrated into a sloping top panel is an upward firing CST optimized specifically for reproducing the Dolby
Atmos height channel audio information.
Implementing Dolby Atmos in a home theater will involve either mounting speakers high on a wall and having them radiate sound directly down, installing them in the ceiling, or adding
Atmos height effects speaker modules which fire upward at the ceiling, thus relying on boundary reflection to provide the illusion that the special effects are originating from overhead.
Indeed, if you're more than 1.5 m you probably won't get any sense of
Atmos height at all.
Shifting them to Dolby
Atmos height or surround duties didn't phase the Prime Elevation one bit.
The B6.2 is part of the Debut 2.0 range which also includes floorstanders,
Atmos height speakers and a sub.
The front left and right speakers have additional speakers on top of the cabinets that perform as Dolby
Atmos height channels, bouncing sound off your ceiling.
There are a number of ways to get
Atmos height channels into your living room.
The Bad The Onkyo TX - NR646's Dolby
Atmos height channel capabilities are limited to only the front - left and - right channels, not the surround height channels, and the receiver is only DTS: X «compatible» until an update is released later in 2015.
The Onkyo TX - NR646's Dolby
Atmos height channel capabilities are limited to only the front - left and - right channels, not the surround height channels, and the receiver is only DTS: X «compatible» until an update is released later in 2015.
Not exact matches
If you have a Dolby
Atmos home theater setup, you will experience a more precise and immersive listening experience (vertical
height) than with the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 option.
Add Dolby
Atmos ®
height effects to any existing home theater with Jamo ATM 50 on top of your floorstanding or bookshelf speakers.
On the other hand, one comparison I could make is how the Dolby Surround Upmixer and DTS Neural: X surround sound processing formats made use of
height channels with non-Dolby
Atmos / DTS: X encoded content.
All of the directional,
height, and ambiance information contained in the Dolby
Atmos soundtrack is placed within a 7.1 or 5.1 channel framework (whichever is being used).
The downmix was still very immersive and spacious, with objects placed at points in space similar to a true
Atmos mix (helicopters and drones are the best examples), but lacking some of the location preciseness and, of course, some loss of the
height channel experience (although the Dolby TrueHD downmix still produced a better - than - traditional «horizontal» 5.1 or 7.1 channel mix).
In fact, those looking to expand to
Atmos can grab a set of the company's Prime Elevation Speakers (designed for the
height element of object - based audio), and they'll be off to the races.
The most basic configuration (and the most common in
Atmos soundbars) is 5.1.2, which involves a typical 5.1 setup (left, center, right, and two surrounds), along with two
height speakers, which can be mounted overhead, or angled up from ground level to bounce sound down from the ceiling.
But with its
height speakers for
Atmos, you may not miss that.
Dolby
Atmos and DTS: X: Some of today's top - of - the - line soundbars will let you take advantage of the latest object - oriented audio technologies, such as Dolby
Atmos and DTS: X. Soundbars that feature object - oriented audio, are typically limited to 5.1.2 or 7.1.2 configuration, where they only reproduce the front two
height effects channels.
You can use in - ceiling, on - wall, and even Dolby
Atmos up - firing speakers for
height channels.
Purchasing a soundbar doesn't necessarily mean you'll miss out on a full home - theater experience; in fact, some models offer optional surround speakers and others can even support object - oriented codecs, such as Dolby
Atmos and DTS: X, that deliver a sensation of
height.
Good: Let me start by saying that the soundbar sounds really good and sub is almost too powerful Dolby
Atmos effects sound pretty amazing
Height is perfect, for my LG OLED TV.
There are two pairs of spring - loaded terminals on Onkyo's front left and right speakers, because the speakers on top of the cabinets reproduce the
height effects in Dolby
Atmos soundtracks.
And you'll be topped out at that point: You won't be able to expand to a 7.1 - channel system (with a pair of rear surround speakers) or a 5.1.2 - channel system (with a pair of
height speakers that can take advantage of something like Dolby
Atmos).
There's no support for DTS; or the higher - resolution bitstreams introduced with Blu - ray (Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio); or the object - oriented codecs Dolby
Atmos, DTS: X, and Aureo 3D that add the element of
height to your speaker array.
Two of those speakers are on the top of the unit, although it doesn't support Dolby
Atmos, the latest audio standard that adds
height to the mix.
Samsung's first
Atmos bar — which uses
height channels that bounce sound off your ceiling for another dimension of immersion — may be pricey, but it offers a ton of features, including separate wireless speakers (though they must be plugged in) to elevate your sound for a thrilling experience.
And because
Atmos - compatible speakers have integrated upward - firing drivers, you have the added benefit of
height.
On top are up - firing Dolby - enabled speakers for Dolby
Atmos and
height duties.
Dolby
Atmos adds an extra
height channel to programmes, instead of having «regular» surround sound at ear level.
In order to get Dolby
Atmos, you'll need a compatible AV receiver and either in - ceiling speakers or upward - firing
height channel speakers, as well as the BT Ultra HD YouView box + and Ultra HD subscription.
With Dolby
Atmos, in contrast, you have amazing flexibility: the format provides even richer, more detailed sound by rendering to overhead or
height speakers and / or to more than seven speakers at the listener's level.
In addition to a traditional three - speaker setup, you can fully customize every aspect of home theater with a combination of side - firing speakers and rear speakers — and even
height modules or in - ceiling speakers for Dolby
Atmos that create special sound effects above you.
An
Atmos - enabled speaker sits on top of an existing flat - top speaker or on a speaker stand above ear
height, but is angled to bounce sound off the ceiling down to your listening position so that you hear the sound coming from above you.
The 1508 supports most surround standards including DTS - HD and Dolby TrueHD, but unlike the NR1608, it lacks playback for
height - channel standards
Atmos and DTS: X.
Height channels Movie soundtracks encoded with Dolby
Atmos and / or DTS: X treat audio events as objects that can be placed in three - dimensional space.
Dolby
Atmos supports
height as well as surround channels.
If you have a Dolby
Atmos surround sound system or soundbar then you'll get the extra
height channels support through the Xbox One X.
Dolby
Atmos and DTS: X, described above, add the element of
height.
Don't think that a Dolby
Atmos mix or
height channels make a difference?
Yes, as long as a Blu - ray player has been set to output a direct bitstream signal, your Dolby
Atmos - enabled receiver should be able to decode the signal and send the
height channels to the Dolby
Atmos speakers.
The bar houses dual 2.5 - inch midrange drivers and a single 1 - inch tweeter for each of its three channels, along with dual 2.5 - inch
height drivers for
Atmos.
Dolby
Atmos — and its DTS counterpart DTS: X — represents a revolutionary cinema technology that not only frees sound mixers from the rigid restraints of traditional surround sound mixing, but also adds
height speakers to engulf listeners in a hemispheric globe of sound.
The two upward firing speakers that create the enveloping sound effect you get from Dolby
Atmos can have their volume adjusted to help counter for varying ceiling
heights.
It was initially designed as a direct - firing
height - effects speaker that the average consumer could install for Dolby
Atmos, DTS: X, or Auro - 3D.
Atmos, for the uninitiated, is a scalable object - based sound system available with seven channels of amplification, in a 5.1.2 (five surround channels, one subwoofer output and two
height channels) speaker configuration.
I ceiling - mounted the Prime Elevation right next to the in - ceiling
height speakers in my 7.4.4 Dolby
Atmos home theater setup.
They're the perfect
height speaker for any Dolby
Atmos, DTS: X, or Auro - 3D installation.
Object - based methods like Dolby
Atmos add
height into the mix via either ceiling - mounted or upward - firing speakers, allowing sound to come from above or below you as well.
We've been harking on about Dolby
Atmos and extra
height channels in a surround sound setup for a while now, but you've really only been able to replicate the more immersive experience at home for yourself if you had a supported AV receiver.