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Otherwise, effectively both options will sound very similar in actual practice for that "copy" reason and why the other guy's advice has no useful meaning whatsoever as it's clear he has no idea what the AVR/AVP does with 5.1.4 + FW. DTS:X doesn't use anything like that by comparison).
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I don't know how common it's used since you are generally unaware it's there without a way to compare. Notice this images pretty much the same as 7.1.4 in option 1 except there the front wide sounds phantom image instead of the side surrounds.Ītmos, however can use something called "snap to" if the mixing engineer decides to use it, which means the front wides or other speakers might not phantom image because the sounds will be moved to the nearest physical speaker instead. This means sounds for front wides will play from them, sounds for rear surrounds will play from the side surrounds and sounds for side surrounds will play from a point between the front wides and the side surrounds. sides play from two sets of speakers which is an array and will image in-between instead making side surround sounds come from a "phantom speaker" in-between the front wides and 'side' surrounds. What this means is that in essence, you have an array with front wides + side surrounds playing from the front wides and side surrounds + the folded rear content playing from the side surrounds (i.e. However, most AVR/AVPs copy side surrounds to the front wides if you do 5.1.4 + FW. Many complain, however, that a lot of Atmos soundtracks don't use front wides much, if at all. Or yes, you could do 5.1.4 + front wides and have them at the conventional angles (~50-55 for front wides and 110-120 for surrounds. You could still then add front wides at around 45-50 degrees. This will give you a much better effect than just surrounds at 120, IMO. If you want 7.1.4 you put your rear surrounds at 120 and put your side surrounds at around 70 degrees (+/- 15). Would having front width speakers compensate for the absence of back surrounds? Probably not and I think you'd be better catered for with back surrounds rather than replacing them with front width speakers. You'd also engage the back surrounds while portraying 7.1 channel based soundtracks while the front width speakers are only really og much use if and when portraying Atmos soundtracks. I'd tend to suggest you'd get more from having back surrounds than if trying to replace them with front width speakers. While having front width speakers can fill the gap between the front soundstagew and the surrounds, many seem to be disappointed with hust how little these speakers are actually engaged by Atmos soundtracks. The surrounds will ideally need to be at your seated head height though, are very close to this.
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If you've at least 1m behind you then I see no reason why you could have back surrounds in your setup. It is general suggest that keeping the back surrounds is of more benefit than adding addsitional ceiling or height speakers. The same guy who couldn't admit he was wrong about Atmos decoding without heights and slinked off into the darkness when it was obvious he lost. I do my own dialog lift effect now using a mixer to send some L/C/R to the front heights to lift the sound stage up to screen height.
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I could do "Scatmos" for side surround #2 and have full discrete decoding for everything else. Now I'm looking at the Monoprice HTP-1 pretty closely. Before I knew it, I had 17.1 set up including "Scatmos" extraction to go beyond 11.1 and some extra side arrays for multiple rows of seats. I then did some experiments with my old "high on the side wall" surrounds with the ear level speakers disabled in multichannel stereo mode (thunderstorms, planes and the like) to hear how convincing Atmos/Auro/X might be and it was impressive so I started upgrading and adding more speakers. I added a pair of matching front height bookshelf speakers to try it out (It can only output up to 7.1 at once, so rear surround(s) were disabled, but the effect was excellent for moving dialog up to screen height. I used it for 6.1 for many years until I found out it had dialog lift hidden in its DSP modes.