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[Edit] (large format) ,[/] Surround American made monitors designed by the Pet Sounds engineer Alan Sides.

https://oceanwayaudio.com/as-the-sea-level-rises-for-immersi...

British (also available in consumer version and pretty finishing): ATC SCM150

https://atc.audio/hi-fi/loudspeakers/classic-series/scm150/

American: JBL M2 https://jblpro.com/products/m2

(Or just buy JBL commercial theater smaller models like many installers do)

German: Neumann KH420 https://en-de.neumann.com/kh-420

Yamaha NS-5000 https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/speaker_s...

All these cost about thirty thousand dollars including appropriate amplification and tax before installation. I make this a loss leader run by all the industry for labor and materials only. Every one is a halo product and worthy of that description.

Audiophiles, aka audio nerds, have always given me a chuckle in a good spirited way. The Ocean Way link is a great example. Just look at the image of that mix bay. The first one looks normal-ish with a left-front and right-front cluster and assumingly a matching center channel right in front of the console. Alongside that center channel is probably a few near field L/R pairs. So far, so good. Scroll down though, and we start to see the where the -phile takes over. The introduction of the side speakers are where the true geeky levels start oozing. You can see the side channels in pair of near field speakers as well as the rear surrounds in the very top of the image. However, it's the fact that there's now a bit of rigging brought in to fly a couple of speakers directly overhead. I'm also guessing there are more speakers on the rear wall that were not in the frame. I'm guessing it sounds pretty amazing, but no mere mortal can afford the home version of that making it well outside the acceptability of main stream. Hence the plight of DVD-Audio.

I am always amazed at the sound field imaging that can be created from some very well produced stereo. Just 2 n-way speakers, a good amp, and the mind of a great engineer.

You need much more than stereo for Atmos mixing, including overhead speakers.

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