To add overhead sound you can use two or four speakers mounted in or on the ceiling or use dolby atmos enabled speakers that fire sound upward toward the ceiling from where it s reflected back to the listening area.
Dolby atmos ceiling speaker placement 5 1 2.
Dolby atmos systems with four height channels are designated 5 1 4 or 7 1 4.
Dolby atmos speakers either go in the ceiling or on top of your main speakers to fire up and bounce off the ceiling.
Dolby atmos system with as many as 24 speakers on the floor and 10 overhead speakers.
Adding two height channels creates a 5 1 2 or a 7 1 2 system.
To create an optimal sound system enabled with dolby atmos first familiarize yourself with the role and position of each speaker.
Then choose a central seating point and angle your speakers at it keeping them at your ear height when you are seated unless noted otherwise.
Dolby atmos speaker layouts parallel the 5 1 and 7 1 setups for surround sound.
A 5 1 4 or 7 1 4 system uses four ceiling speakers or four dolby atmos enabled speakers or modules.
Then choose a central seating point and angle your speakers at it keeping them at your ear height when you are seated unless noted otherwise.
The naming of dolby atmos speaker configurations is based on the standard nomenclature stereo 5 1 and 7 1 but adds a number at the end to specify the number of height speakers.
The first digit is the number of speakers in the room that are not dolby atmos speakers.
Qper dolby using two height speakers in a 5 1 2 configuration is good enough to get atmos see this earlier ask s v exchange on the subject.
The sib evo 5 1 2 package combines two compact sib evo dolby atmos speakers to handle left right and height channels with a slim cub evo subwoofer and three smaller sib evo satellites for centre.
So if the first digit is a 5 for example this means there is a left center right and a pair of surround speakers.
A 9 1 2 system adds a pair of front wide speakers to a 7 1 2 layout.