sjackson
Prominent Member
So I'm in the early stages of a new room setup as we're doing some work on the house over the next 6-8 months. The room will be quite small (about 3m x 3.8m) but I'll probably have free reign on what to do with it. I'm looking seriously at normal 2-way bookshelf speakers for Atmos. My thinking is they'll be better bang for buck vs in ceilings and/or specifically designed angled baffle speakers.
I thought the below was interesting taken from AVS.
"In the Dolby spec if you take their class like I have it says speaker needs to be aimed towards the audience. I work in this industry and I do acoustic deign as part of my job. I don't know why they show it that way on their consumer site. For in ceiling speakers I would recommend angled models if placing it 45 degrees off axis. But just in case you don't believe me here is literally the guy who wrote the book and what he is doing on his room with bookshelf speakers on the ceiling. I attached a picture of Dobly's HT Atmos demo room at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention. i hope this clears up their poor recommendations on their webstite as even they don't follow their webite's guidelines in their own demo room. They could have flush mounted their bookeshelf speakers aiming straight down."
I'd probably hide such speakers in a large pelmet. I've been looking at various speaker options from Richersounds or online and put together a matrix below. Some interesting things stood out to me:
Has anyone done a similar exercise or have thoughts on bookshelves for Atmos?
I thought the below was interesting taken from AVS.
"In the Dolby spec if you take their class like I have it says speaker needs to be aimed towards the audience. I work in this industry and I do acoustic deign as part of my job. I don't know why they show it that way on their consumer site. For in ceiling speakers I would recommend angled models if placing it 45 degrees off axis. But just in case you don't believe me here is literally the guy who wrote the book and what he is doing on his room with bookshelf speakers on the ceiling. I attached a picture of Dobly's HT Atmos demo room at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention. i hope this clears up their poor recommendations on their webstite as even they don't follow their webite's guidelines in their own demo room. They could have flush mounted their bookeshelf speakers aiming straight down."
I'd probably hide such speakers in a large pelmet. I've been looking at various speaker options from Richersounds or online and put together a matrix below. Some interesting things stood out to me:
- The Spektor 1's are tiny.
- The Bronze 1's are great value vs small size (have a pair as desktop speakers and they are not bad at all).
- Spektor 2, Diamond 12.1 or Mission LX-2 represent good volume for money.
- QX-1 MKII, Silver 50 (6G) or Oberon 1 might represent a step up to the next class for not massive money extra per speaker.
Has anyone done a similar exercise or have thoughts on bookshelves for Atmos?