Originally Posted By: nickbuol
You don't give up wall surround and replace them with ceiling ones. You take a regular 5.1 or 7.1 setup (you talked about going 7.1) and then ADDING 2-4 additional speakers to the ceiling. Thus the 7.1.4 I mentioned before. You have 11 speakers and 1 subwoofer channel (split between however many subs you want).


Yeah I got it now. My initial question was would it be reasonable to move my on wall surrounds to in ceiling so I could use more of the wall space for décor. That's when someone chimed in with the Atmos and here we are. Glad I asked, learned a lot.

It all matters.....just not that much.