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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 6: Reconfiguring Everything (Again)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:00:17 +0000

My seemingly never-ending project to incorporate an absurd number of speakers into my home theater has undergone another major overhaul since I last provided an update. While, no, I haven’t squeezed any more speakers into the room, I have rewired and re-assigned several of them – hopefully for the better. Most home theaters are content...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 5: The Front Wide Experiment

Josh Zyber — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:00:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I last provided an update on my ongoing attempt to expand my home theater beyond the conventional channel limits allowed by Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. Never satisfied, I’ve now crammed 17 speakers into my room. If you can believe it, in some ways this has actually simplified matters since my...

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Upmixer Face-off: DSU vs. Neural:X vs. Auro-3D

Josh Zyber — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:00:27 +0000

As part of my testing of the flagship Denon AVR-X8500H A/V receiver, I finally have access to all three of the competing immersive sound upmixer formats and was able to run a comparison to see exactly how they each work on a normal movie soundtrack. My prior A/V receiver, the 2014 Denon AVR-X5200W, was a...

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Denon AVR-X8500H Unboxing

Josh Zyber — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:33 +0000

Our friends at Denon sent me a very nice new toy to test for review: the flagship AVR-X8500H A/V receiver. Setting this thing up and putting it through its paces is going to take me a while. In the meantime, here are some photos to tantalize you. With a hefty MSRP of $3,999.00, the AVR-X8500H...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 4: Is Eight Enough?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:00:48 +0000

After cobbling together a complicated D-I-Y system that uses three A/V receivers to derive six height channels of Dolby Atmos audio, how much further could I expand my surround sound experience? Let’s go to eight! In previous articles on this subject (start here), I’ve described how I integrated two additional AVRs into my home theater...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 3: Hacking Audyssey

Josh Zyber — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:00:14 +0000

Last year, I started a very complex project to expand my Dolby Atmos surround sound system to incorporate extra height speakers, more than most consumer A/V receivers support. One of the drawbacks I encountered in doing so was that Audyssey EQ room correction interfered with the process and had to be turned off. There is...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 2

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:00:42 +0000

Having connected three home theater A/V receivers to expand my Dolby Atmos surround sound into a crazily convoluted 7.1.6 channel system, the next step was actually making it work. Sadly, that proved to have some unexpected challenges. Because consumer home theater hardware (the kind we humble 99-Percenters can afford, anyway) tops out at a speaker...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 1

Josh Zyber — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:00:46 +0000

A little over a year ago, I began experimenting with ways to expand my Dolby Atmos surround sound system to beyond the 7.1.4 limitation of current consumer hardware. My continued quest to achieve the best Atmos experience at home has recently driven me to make additional upgrades. These days, my home theater is so crazily...

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Gearing Up for Atmos

Josh Zyber — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:00:42 +0000

I’ve been planning to upgrade my surround sound system to Dolby Atmos ever since the format was first announced for home use. Due to a variety of delays, some financial and some personal, I put off the installation of an Atmos-capable A/V receiver until after Christmas this year. Now, finally, the time has come to...

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Poll: Is Now Too Soon to Upgrade to Dolby Atmos?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:00:43 +0000

I, for one, am very excited about the recent introduction of Dolby Atmos surround sound on Blu-ray. I’ve been making plans to upgrade my A/V receiver to an Atmos model, and have taken some preliminary steps to prepare my home theater room. However, rumblings that new competing sound formats may be available next year make...

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Poll: More Exciting Home Theater Ugrade – 4k Blu-ray or Dolby Atmos?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:00:44 +0000

We’ve been anticipating big new advancements to the Blu-ray format, both in audio and video, for a while. Now they’re both finally official. The first Blu-ray discs with Dolby Atmos surround sound will arrive later this year, and a new 4k Blu-ray video format is planned for next year. Given an either/or choice, which would...

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Dolby Atmos Follow-Up Answers

Josh Zyber — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:00:43 +0000

Our post last week about the upcoming home version of the Dolby Atmos surround sound format elicited some follow-up questions that weren’t covered in the original conference. I asked Dolby to comment, and the firm has provided some answers. This post should be read as an addendum to last week’s article on Atmos. Please see...

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