Just checked my media room and it measures 19 ft long x 12 ft 6 wide, with the TV mounted on one of the shorter walls.
The overheads that are in use are mounted about 5 feet in from the end (short) walls and about 4 feet in from the side (long) walls. The fronts, sides and rears are mounted about 5 feet off the floor, not ideal, but a compromise between sound and aesthetics (otherwise known as "the wife"). The fronts and backs are in line with each other and the Atmos overheads, the sides are about half-way down the room, give or take.
Yes I can discern the Atmos effects very well indeed, even in that relatively small space, but you have to have a movie with some Atmos-ey effects there to begin with.
All those Marvel Superman vs. The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders movies tend to, as do sci-fi movies like The Martian, Gravity, etc. plus others like Sully and Apollo 13. Provided you buy the Atmos encoded versions of the discs, of course, which isn't a given. DTS:X is far more prevalent and you have to use DTS:NeuralX or other means of "upmixing" to pseudo-Atmos.
Anyway. You can imagine how the blast-offs in The Martian and Apollo 13 come into their own with Atmos as the rockets seem to roar overhead. But that's not going to be the case, obviously, if you have a movie like one of those old Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys Jones sketches with two blokes sitting across a table talking twaddle to each other. Or Woodie Allen movies, which are much the same these days, only much much less funny.
As for sound quality and quantity versus our local cinema, we're lucky to have just had a brand new state-of-the-art 12-screen one just open 10 minutes away from our house. I have yet to see an Atmos-ey movie there (we saw Winchester there Sunday night BTW - superb ghost story movie). However, whilst the extra speakers down the walls and ceiling of the cinema might make Atmos or DTS:X sounds track more precisely around a large room, I think my 7.2.4 setup does pretty darned well in the space it has to service. One of the things I really like is the volume knob. Sabs has been on here complaining how the cinema is too loud, and when it's empty like it was on Sunday night (me and the wife had the whole screen to ourselves), I tend to agree. Packed full of people, all the bodies, burping, farting, sniffing, etc., the cinema almost certainly needs the extra volume, but when it's just two people it's too loud.
The overheads that are in use are mounted about 5 feet in from the end (short) walls and about 4 feet in from the side (long) walls. The fronts, sides and rears are mounted about 5 feet off the floor, not ideal, but a compromise between sound and aesthetics (otherwise known as "the wife"). The fronts and backs are in line with each other and the Atmos overheads, the sides are about half-way down the room, give or take.
Yes I can discern the Atmos effects very well indeed, even in that relatively small space, but you have to have a movie with some Atmos-ey effects there to begin with.
All those Marvel Superman vs. The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders movies tend to, as do sci-fi movies like The Martian, Gravity, etc. plus others like Sully and Apollo 13. Provided you buy the Atmos encoded versions of the discs, of course, which isn't a given. DTS:X is far more prevalent and you have to use DTS:NeuralX or other means of "upmixing" to pseudo-Atmos.
Anyway. You can imagine how the blast-offs in The Martian and Apollo 13 come into their own with Atmos as the rockets seem to roar overhead. But that's not going to be the case, obviously, if you have a movie like one of those old Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys Jones sketches with two blokes sitting across a table talking twaddle to each other. Or Woodie Allen movies, which are much the same these days, only much much less funny.
As for sound quality and quantity versus our local cinema, we're lucky to have just had a brand new state-of-the-art 12-screen one just open 10 minutes away from our house. I have yet to see an Atmos-ey movie there (we saw Winchester there Sunday night BTW - superb ghost story movie). However, whilst the extra speakers down the walls and ceiling of the cinema might make Atmos or DTS:X sounds track more precisely around a large room, I think my 7.2.4 setup does pretty darned well in the space it has to service. One of the things I really like is the volume knob. Sabs has been on here complaining how the cinema is too loud, and when it's empty like it was on Sunday night (me and the wife had the whole screen to ourselves), I tend to agree. Packed full of people, all the bodies, burping, farting, sniffing, etc., the cinema almost certainly needs the extra volume, but when it's just two people it's too loud.
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