Sound From Every Direction, Speakers From None.
Surround and Dolby Atmos layouts planned to the seat, then built into the walls and ceiling.
A 7.2.4 room, annotated.
Seven speakers around the seats, two subwoofers and four in the ceiling: where each one lives in a Dolby Atmos home theater installation.
Left, centre and right, behind the screen
Three front speakers sit behind the picture, so voices come from the faces speaking them.
Surrounds in the side walls
In-wall speakers beside and behind the seats, under grilles painted to match the panelling.
Four height channels in the ceiling
In-ceiling speakers above the seats carry Dolby Atmos overhead.
Two subwoofers
Two subwoofers share the low end, placed so the bass is even from seat to seat.
The processor and amplifiers, in the rack
Out of the room, in the equipment rack, so nothing in the cinema hums or glows.
Left, centre and right, behind the screen
Three front speakers sit behind the picture, so voices come from the faces speaking them.
Surrounds in the side walls
In-wall speakers beside and behind the seats, under grilles painted to match the panelling.
Four height channels in the ceiling
In-ceiling speakers above the seats carry Dolby Atmos overhead.
Two subwoofers
Two subwoofers share the low end, placed so the bass is even from seat to seat.
The processor and amplifiers, in the rack
Out of the room, in the equipment rack, so nothing in the cinema hums or glows.
Every channel, mapped to a seat.
The same room as a plan: seven speakers at ear height, two subwoofers and four overhead, every one aimed at the seats.
Bed layer
Left, centre and right behind the screen; surrounds beside and behind the seats, at ear height.
Height layer
Four in-ceiling speakers, two ahead of the seats and two behind, for sound overhead.
Low frequencies
Two subwoofers, placed for even bass from the first row to the last.
Acoustic treatment
Wall and ceiling treatment designed alongside the speakers, so the room adds nothing of its own.
Calibration
Every channel measured and timed to the main seat, then balanced across the rest.
Who makes the speakers, and what drives them.
Speakers from the makers whose control systems run the room, specified for each channel and amplified from the rack.
Crestron Reference and Ultimate
In-ceiling, in-wall and subwoofer speakers from the Reference and Ultimate series.
A cinema run on Crestron, with the speakers, the amplifiers and the control from one maker.
The in-ceiling models carry the height channels, set flush into the plaster.
Control4 speakers, built to order
Control4's own in-wall, in-ceiling and cabinet speakers, made to order for the room.
A cinema run on Control4, with a front stage built for its own wall.
Behind an acoustically transparent screen, where the speakers are heard and never seen.
Control4 amplifiers
Rack amplifiers that drive every channel from the equipment room.
Whether the room runs on Savant, Crestron or Control4, the amplification lives in the rack.
Every channel of a Dolby Atmos layout gets its own power, out of sight and out of earshot.
Surround sound questions, answered.
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What is the difference between surround sound and Dolby Atmos?
Surround sound places speakers around you: left, center and right at the front, with surround speakers to the sides and behind. Dolby Atmos adds height channels in the ceiling and places sound in three-dimensional space rather than in fixed channels, so effects move over you as well as around you. Subwoofers carry the low frequencies for both.
Can surround speakers be invisible?
Yes. In a cinema the surround and height speakers go into the walls and ceiling behind paintable grilles, and the front speakers can sit behind an acoustically transparent screen. Elsewhere in the home, speakers can go behind the finish entirely, plastered over, so you hear the music and never see where it comes from.
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