There are speaker manufacturers who are selling up firing speakers too and selling them as ATMOS. I personally could not care less as I have ZERO plans to got to that sound format. To me it's a total waste of money for honestly no real gain what so ever. Manufacturers are free to flog whatever they want. Dolby suggests what will work best, but it's not like THX that has a defined standard that must be met to get the official stamp logo.
The only part that has me somewhat interested was a comment made by DTS about their DTS-X in that they were saying that object based mixing they could let level control be given to each item, or for example, give a +5db to the voices object and not effect any other object that may be coming through that center speaker. That may be cool for those of use with slightly less accurate hearing who sometimes get stuck with badly mixed movies who loose the voice because too much other non essental audio is getting pushed out the center that it obscures what is being said.
I don't need sound coming from above me to enjoy a movie. I am not about to toss my QS8 surrounds let alone my LFR1100 fronts that are also omni polar.
while I do not share the belief that ATMOS (or DTS-X, AURO:3D or any potential new object based audio system for that matter) is a waste of money. I know there are many people who have it and love it. I respect your point of view as you have made it very clear.
I also respect you not wanting to give up your QS8's as I do not intend to give up mine.
I never wanted this to be as much about ATMOS (DTS-X or AURO:3D) as I really just wanted to know how people liked the sound of their QS8 speakers at ear level. I mentioned the ATMOS part to get folks to understand why I am going to lower my QS8's to ear level (since i'll be mounting 4 speakers at the ceiling level) and I've never heard them at that level before and was just wondering how they performed and what peoples experiences with them at that height were. I love the QS8's exactly where they are and they are the best surround speakers I've ever heard. just listening to them in my 7.1 system is amazing.
Oak, thank you for your responses.
moving forward, I am hopeful to get more folks who as I asked in my OP, who have the QS8's at ear level either wall or stand mounted and how they like the sound of them at that height.
