Hi Folks,
I've been wanting to set up a little home theatre for a long time now but I've always held off because the room I use is really small and I sit right against the back wall so there is no room for rear speakers and I'm renting so I'm not allowed to wall mount anything.
I finally pulled the trigger last week and bought a Marantz SR5010, Paradigm Centre 3, Paradigm Monitor 9 series 7 and a Qsonic subwoofer. Really happy with it so far, but I can't help but worry I'm missing out on not having rear speakers for the traditional 5.1/7.1 setup. So I'm wondering if there would be any solutions of getting a 5.1 setup without having to have speakers behind me. Space at the front is limited so I don't really want to add more bookshelf speakers at the front.
I was thinking now with the upward firing speakers configured for Dolby Atmos configurations would it be possible to use the upward firing modules that sit on the left and right floor standing speakers in place of the traditional rear speakers? Would the receiver see those as normal rear speakers and send the normal signal to them or would it only send atmos specific applications to them? Obviously unfortunately theres not much atmos content out there just yet so it would be a bit of a waste to go and buy them if only specific atmos coded titles will work with them. Also I mainly use it for playing games, and ASAIK game systems don't even support atmos yet? I do watch some movies from time to time but the 16:9 ratios of todays TVs and the cinema scope of movies, thus cutting the image and having those ugly black bars throughout the whole movie drives me bat.... crazy so I tend to not watch movies so often.........
So in short can anyone give some advice on what solution I could look into for obtaining a good 5.1 HT, or would I be better off just forgetting it and sticking to my current 3.1 setup?
Thanks for the advice!
I've been wanting to set up a little home theatre for a long time now but I've always held off because the room I use is really small and I sit right against the back wall so there is no room for rear speakers and I'm renting so I'm not allowed to wall mount anything.
I finally pulled the trigger last week and bought a Marantz SR5010, Paradigm Centre 3, Paradigm Monitor 9 series 7 and a Qsonic subwoofer. Really happy with it so far, but I can't help but worry I'm missing out on not having rear speakers for the traditional 5.1/7.1 setup. So I'm wondering if there would be any solutions of getting a 5.1 setup without having to have speakers behind me. Space at the front is limited so I don't really want to add more bookshelf speakers at the front.
I was thinking now with the upward firing speakers configured for Dolby Atmos configurations would it be possible to use the upward firing modules that sit on the left and right floor standing speakers in place of the traditional rear speakers? Would the receiver see those as normal rear speakers and send the normal signal to them or would it only send atmos specific applications to them? Obviously unfortunately theres not much atmos content out there just yet so it would be a bit of a waste to go and buy them if only specific atmos coded titles will work with them. Also I mainly use it for playing games, and ASAIK game systems don't even support atmos yet? I do watch some movies from time to time but the 16:9 ratios of todays TVs and the cinema scope of movies, thus cutting the image and having those ugly black bars throughout the whole movie drives me bat.... crazy so I tend to not watch movies so often.........
So in short can anyone give some advice on what solution I could look into for obtaining a good 5.1 HT, or would I be better off just forgetting it and sticking to my current 3.1 setup?
Thanks for the advice!