Some other thoughts. "Side" surrounds are OK where you have them, but unless the seats recline, you might want to slide them closer to be more 90 degrees (in line with) compared with the actual listeners ears. Like I said, it is still within Dolby specs to be slightly behind. Some people prefer slightly in front of the listeners ears, but that hasn't been something that many "experts" have talked much about, just people experimenting.

I hear ya about the M3s for Atmos overheads. I just bought four on-wall M3s to replace my four QS8s, but who knows. I may end up with some hybrid with a 9.2.2 setup. Change out my QS8s for the M3s, shift one pair of QS8s up to be "wides", and then sell the other QS8s and VP150 center that I already upgraded a couple of years ago and get a pair of M3s for the overheads.

Girmani likes dipoles for the wides to fill in the space, even though Atmos says that they want all direct/monopoles all around.

Who knows. An 11 channel Atmos receiver is still over $2000 by itself.

Farewell - June 4, 2020