This 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos Theater Inspired Me To Build My Theater

My brother has a Dolby Atmos home theater. We tour his theater and he shares his equipment
GoldenEar Invisa SPS
GoldenEar Invisa MPX
GoldenEar Invisa 650
GoldenEar SuperSub X
Denon 3700H
Epson 4050UB

[@cmizeur]

Let him borrow a few of your acoustic panels and see if a difference can be heard.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Acoustic panels are his next upgrade. He’s planning to order them shortly. We’ll make a video and test the difference. Thanks for watching!

[@texxhexxmm]

I installed 2 vicoustic Diffusors above listening Position..big improvement!i ordered 4 more😮😅 Also have many Absorption Panels and 4 other diffusors.

[@gregjones2472]

Cool, looking forward to see his opinion on the acoustic panels

[@TerminatorJuice]

I'm not going to lie, I didn't watch the whole video, but I have two words for your brother... Acoustic. Panels.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

That’s the next item on the list. Will make a video when we install them.

[@byucatch22]

A couple of handsome dudes...y'all must have good genes.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

😆😆 excellent genes

[@agordon7369]

You’re lucky to have as big of a room as you do I decided to be an old 1940 home so I have extremely low ceilings and a beam that runs through it as well. So the beam is going to have to split either my left/right or front/rear atmos speakers. Because of the room dimensions it will probably separate my left/right atmos. I’m hoping that ARC with the anthem receiver can do a good job with correcting the atmos sound well enough.

[@EverythingHomeTheater]

Awesome brother. Good to share hobbies.

[@nonametofame]

Thank you for the tour. I appreciate the continued content. Would be great to see a future one covering shopping options for his sound panel upgrades, especially placement and aesthetic selection.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Thanks, glad you’re enjoying my videos! I’m hoping to make a video about his acoustic panel upgrade when he gets it done.

[@outofline9999]

Nice to see his theater, it should have been on our tour. I would like to come and hear it. Jer needs a tour of his theater, perhaps you could shoot it.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Definitely! Yes to all.

[@KenjiEspresso]

Nice looking!

[@gregbartley2475]

Very nice build, Golden Ear makes some quality speakers. My theater is often used for music listening so I went with floor standing speakers but I get the appeal of in walls.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Which floor standing speakers did you choose?

[@gregbartley2475]

@@GeorgeTheaterAtHome Aerial Acoustics 7T l/r and 7CC center. They don’t advertise so not well known but highly regarded.

[@gregbartley2475]

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[@hatoraidcowboy]

Golden Ear is one speaker company I havent heard yet.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

You gotta hear ‘em! Their sound is remarkable. I’m surprised they don’t get more chatter and buzz in the HT community.

[@hatoraidcowboy]

@@GeorgeTheaterAtHome Yea you dont hear about them as much but everyone that has them seems to love them

[@pedroortiz9744]

Acoustic panels and maybe some courtin

[@duduking]

I like it 👌

[@pedroortiz9744]

Acoustic panels and maybe a courtain in that hole it will be a better acoustic

[@Dolby3636]

Hi why your creat ATMOS! ... Or chose.. This.... Auro 3d or DTSX... IS .. Better?

[@electronash]

15:07 - For the first half of the 90s, before I got my first "proper" AV Receiver with Pro-Logic decoding, I had a pair of rear speakers hooked up to the same (Stereo) Rotel amp. But, instead of duplicating the Left/Right channels to the rear speakers, I wired them in a "Hafler" style configuration. That was where I wired the two rear speakers in series, then hooked them up across only the Positive connections for Left and Right on the amp. It worked surprisingly well for Pro-Logic content, and even for older Stereo music. (the rear channel on Pro-Logic 1 was essentially mono anyway, and decoded in pretty much the same way, taking the "difference" between the Front Left and Right channels.) Have a look on Wikipedia for "Hafler circuit" for a better explanation. It only really became a problem on lower quality linear stereo tracks on a VCR had mismatched channel levels. Or when playing low-bitrate MP3s (or MPEG-compressed channels on Digital Satellite.) You could hear the "warbling" sound of those low bitrate soundtracks in the rear speakers occasionally.

[@electronash]

I recently found the model of my old rear speakers again online. They were the "Kolster KS651", or very similar model. Omnidirectional speakers, where the driver faced towards the ceiling, and a cone deflected the sound. Only rated at "15 Watts peak", but they sounded great for a super low-budget surround setup. lol Obviously I didn't have a Center speaker at that point, so it was just the phantom center from the front Left/Right.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Love it! We’ve come a long way from those days.

[@electronash]

@@GeorgeTheaterAtHome After my first couple of paychecks from my first real job (Nortel) in 1999, I bought my first AVR with DD 5.1 and DTS decoding. That was the Sony STR-DB830. Then bought the first DVDs, which were Goldeneye and The Matrix. I was *stunned* at the very audible difference between Pro-Logic and DD 5.1. The separation of the channels, and especially the subwoofer / LFE track. And that was it. I was hooked. lol A few years later, I bought the front three M&K S-150 speakers for only £1,000, then eventually the MK-350 sub, for about £600. That was another astounding difference to whatever cheap speakers I'd been using before. Sadly, I had to sell most of the M&K stuff when downsizing to a smaller house in 2015. I'm now using RSL CG23M set into the front wall behind the screen, and CG3M for side surrounds and four heights. It's still not calibrated yet, but sounding pretty good for a tiny shoebox room.

[@electronash]

I've been building my own AVR, with 11 (actually 12) channels of Class-D amps, using the TPA3255 chips. Plus the same Cirrus DSP used in my previous Anthem MRX-720, for decoding Atmos/DTS-X/DD/DTS. It of course has HDMI inputs with 4K60 passthrough as well. I can build the AVR for far less than it would have cost for a commercial one with 11-channel decoding. Now I need to do the final push to make it more practical to use.

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Whoa that’s cool! Building your own AVR! Very cool project!

[@Gateseleven]

golden ear sound expensive i never heard of them, but with that name they can take top .$$$

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

They are definitely not cheap. But I wouldn’t say prohibitively expensive.

[@Music.Movies.67]

From what l have heard, in wall speakers generally don't measure as well as Standmount and Floorstanding speakers

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

It’s true. There is typically a compromise with in-walls. However, the GoldenEar in-walls are a significant quality. They perform extremely well, despite being in-walls. Thanks for watching!

[@busterbrown1686]

Is the $450 invisa 650 ceiling speakers over kill for Atmos speakers ? Would aimable be better suited ?

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

Possibly a bit overkill. Bookshelf speakers are a better value and can be mounted to the ceiling and aimed directly at the listening position.

[@wendellwendellb339]

Is your brother considering getting a 5 and 4 channel amp to power all his other speakers?

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

That’s also something I’ve been nudging him towards. But I’ve mainly focused on the need for acoustic treatment.

[@wendellwendellb339]

@@GeorgeTheaterAtHome Hey, one thing at a time. He will get there. I was told no rush, when I inquired about MultEQ-X, and the Mini DSP 2x4 HD for my 5.4.6 setup.

[@premshashi]

How far off are the 2 seating riws from the screen?

[@GeorgeTheaterAtHome]

I think it’s about 10 ft