A 5 1 4 or 7 1 4 system uses four ceiling speakers or four dolby atmos enabled speakers or modules.
Dolby atmos ceiling speaker placement 5 1 2.
Then choose a central seating point and angle your speakers at it keeping them at your ear height when you are seated unless noted otherwise.
Dolby atmos speakers either go in the ceiling or on top of your main speakers to fire up and bounce off the ceiling.
So if the first digit is a 5 for example this means there is a left center right and a pair of surround speakers.
Dolby atmos speaker layouts parallel the 5 1 and 7 1 setups for surround sound.
To add overhead sound you can use two or four speakers mounted in or on the ceiling or use dolby atmos enabled speakers that fire sound upward toward the ceiling from where it s reflected back to the listening area.
A 9 1 2 system adds a pair of front wide speakers to a 7 1 2 layout.
A 5 1 2 or 7 1 2 system uses two ceiling speakers or two dolby atmos enabled speakers or modules.
Then choose a central seating point and angle your speakers at it keeping them at your ear height when you are seated unless noted otherwise.
5 1 2 overhead speaker setup how to set up your system to create an optimal sound system enabled with dolby atmos first familiarize yourself with the role and position of each speaker.
Dolby atmos system with as many as 24 speakers on the floor and 10 overhead speakers.
The sib evo 5 1 2 package combines two compact sib evo dolby atmos speakers to handle left right and height channels with a slim cub evo subwoofer and three smaller sib evo satellites for centre.
The naming of dolby atmos speaker configurations is based on the standard nomenclature stereo 5 1 and 7 1 but adds a number at the end to specify the number of height speakers.
Adding two height channels creates a 5 1 2 or a 7 1 2 system.
However an installation using dual height speakers is considered bare bones dolby recommends using four height speakers to get a more enveloping realistic experience.
Qper dolby using two height speakers in a 5 1 2 configuration is good enough to get atmos see this earlier ask s v exchange on the subject.