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RE: Dolby ATMOS and planars?

Posted by JBen (A) on January 13, 2015 at 23:36:22

In Reply to: RE: Dolby ATMOS and planars? posted by josh358 on January 11, 2015 at 10:30:51:

Hey Josh, great to see you around here again! (I am mostly on "vacation".)

Dumpingground, I did spend some good hours with Atmos systems in Dec. One of them was factory calibrated. All were on box speakers. Neither my friends nor I were all that impressed. Hype is a bitch, I guess.

Height information can be replicated with planars to a large extent. One of my friends commented how my (now raised MMGs) provide a better impression of frontal height than the multi-speaker factory calibrated Atmos we heard. Of course, things are never so simple but I suspect that with a full set of tall-enough Maggies, something like Atmos itself could work great for movies, with 7.x speakers surround; without even needing the extra surrounds.

I am more intrigued by what DTS:X could bring. DTS and my MMGs have always worked great (more so for movies). Furthermore, DTS-HD (Master) on musical (Blu-ray) programming is seriously enjoyable stuff. So, perhaps, DTS:X follows the progressive tradition. Anyway, I am in no hurry...cranking the crank on my old receiver is still fun :-))

Edits: 01/14/15

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