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Aug 20, 2015 - 9:36 AM
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andy b
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For the home systems, it's the new up graded sound cards to give a higher definition in a home system. It basically needs an Atmos amp & player, I use Oppo DVD / Blu Ray player & Onkyo amp.
You will need the minimum of 7.1 speaker system set up to get the full use of the sound cards and the level of detail from the disc.
A number of 7.1 / Atmos releases have already taken place, Transformers 4 (don't recall the actual name of the film), Expendables 3 & 7.1 tracks are on the likes of Pacific Rim, Tron Legacy & Frozen to name a few.
Basically it's been a huge hit for cinema chains to "add" to the experience of cinema going & the slightly altered version is now becoming more prominent on the home view discs.
Most Atmos theaters had to install many more speakers & at varying heights to give the full effect of the system.
The UK Dolby theater has some 500+ individual speakers in it's viewing & testing screen & is used by many directors to work on their soundtracks (effects, dialogue, music etc), long before release.
The system is such a success that Dolby are opening a new theater for film makers in LA as the UK operation is almost permanent booked for years to come.
A great article on this entire set up & how it came about can be found in Cinema Technology, http://www.cinematechnologymagazine.com
It goes into more detail for the commercial use, but the home version is a scaled version of the cinema version.
here is a link that gives a great home version explanation,
http://www.whathifi.com/news/dolby-atmos-what-it-how-can-you-get-it
Hope this helps a little.
regards
Andy b
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Sounds like a character from Barbarella!
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I recently visited the Cinerama in Seattle - specifically to listen to Atmos for the first time - and I was a bit skeptical - how much better can sound get in the theater?
THIS much better - it is simply astounding - Speakers placed in the ceiling, along with additional speakers along the walls - allowing the sound designers to place sounds in specific locations in the theater - just spectacular.
I'm looking into a home setup, and there are multiple iterations of speaker setup, but you do need a player to decode the sound, and an amplifier to drive the multiple speakers - 7.1, 5.1.4, 7.1.4 - lots of options for you out there -
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It's basically 55+.1 surround.
Multiple speakers are placed around the theater walls and ceiling allowing sound designers to pinpoint sound playback from very specific point in space.
The Atmos decoding computer can place the sounds in any appropriate speaker depending on the playback set-up from 2.1 to 5.1 to full-on Atmos installations.
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