7.1 surround sound

Where will it end, was just looking at 13 channel receivers.

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_033AVRA110/Denon-AVR-A110-110th-Anniversary-Edition.html

I thought the request was to keep the beam playing LCR, but have 2 rear surrounds AND 2 side surrounds.  Even if the additional ones were for wide front speakers, that wouldn’t mean turning off the Beam’s L & R, as you would not have a 7.1 setup.

Where will it end, was just looking at 13 channel receivers.

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_033AVRA110/Denon-AVR-A110-110th-Anniversary-Edition.html

 

 

Not sure why they call it 13.2, since there are 15 speaker ports.

The last two are for “Front Wide” speakers, I think that they just play what the front R/L channels play but on a second set of speakers set further apart than desirable for Stereo imaging.

i hope it is coming soon! dts was finally added so now let us add more speakers to the home theater setup, please Sonos!

Add me to the list of folks who can’t wait for this type of added functionality.

Imagine the front soundstage w Arc working in tandem w 2 Fives!

The point of going to 7.1 isn’t the front, it is splitting of the surround channel into discrete side and rear channels.   I would be fine with a soundbar handling all 3 front channels of a 7.1 soundstage.  I’m more interested in having separate surround and rear channels, particularly for gaming, but also for better movie surround sound.  I’d totally buy another pair of Ones if they enabled that.   

To clarify, because it sounds like some folks are a bit confused, a potential 7.1  setup would be Arc for FL, FR, C, and overhead Atmos effects; Sub; 2 Ones for SR&L (to the side of listener) and a pair of Ones for SBR&L, behind the listener.

They only did half a job with DTS, no DTS-X support iirc.

Probably quite a licensing (and development) cost to add those other codecs to both the existing and new Sonos products, for something used by a minority, but maybe one day we will see the option to purchase (or lease) such codecs on Sonos, but I’m not sure Sonos would recoup the money spent. It’s a difficult one. How much would you pay to have the other DTS codecs added?

I’d love to be able to add One’s as Front Wide Left/Right’ish. I love my Arc, but it’s sitting a bit low on 80+ screens. Suplementing/repeating R+L One’s to raise the center of the sound a bit would be nice.

Has anyone tried the Arc,Sub, and connecting 2 pairs 8ohm In-Ceiling Surrounds to the Sonos Amp. I know the Amp can handle the load,but wonder how it would respond during the Trueplay setup of the room. Just curious if anyone has tried this. We have not as of yet,but just came up last week in conversation.