Most receivers that have come to market in the past couple of years support the format, even at the budget end, and the best news is you don't have to make holes in your ceiling for installing height speakers. If you plan to go the speaker package route, then a compatible AV receiver with the ability to decode an Atmos soundtrack is required. Given that a cinema-style installation isn't a practical solution for most people, AV manufacturers have stepped in to make it realistic in the domestic situation – and even, in some cases, affordable. Inside the UK’s first Dolby Cinema: 400 speakers, Dolby Atmos and a Compton organ.Or you can just purchase a purpose-built Atmos speaker system. 2 configuration) or to your left/right f‘ont a’d rear/surround speakers (two sets, for a. Instead, there are simpler alternatives: the addition of two or four ceiling speakers in your system installing 'topper' speaker modules on top of your existing left/right speakers (one set, for a.
Up to 400 speaker‘s can be used in the top Dolby Atmos cinemas, but in a domestic environment, it's unlikely you'll have the room (or the desire) to house such a system. These objects can be manipulated and moved around within the space creating a convincing 3D soundstage. The technology can also produceup to 118 simultaneous sound objects, allowing the sound designer to place each sound and voice to exact points within the soundfield rather than simply assign them to specific channels. Atmos is, in Dolby’s own words, “the most significant development in cinema audio since surround sound.” And we’d have to agree, really (whilst also recognising that rival DTS:X – a similar object-based surround technology – is also widely used).Īt its core, Atmos is a surround-sound technology that was first developed in 2012, expanding upon the pre-existing 5.1 and 7.1 surround-sound set-ups with surround channels coming from overhead, enveloping the audience in a dome of sound.īut unlike traditional channel based systems, Dolby Atmos doesn't just send audio at discrete levels to each speaker.
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