Just a quick update on my cinema room seeing as this gained a bit of traffic lately. I got some new speakers!
The rears are now Krix KX-1850’s I got off Gumtree for $200. They’re designed to go on a wall and point downwards, but I have them upside down. Probably not the best placement. I need to experiment with raising them higher so they don’t get drowned out by the sofa headrest.
The biggest upgrade however is a 15" Velodyne CHT-15QR ported subwoofer. It was $1,000 off eBay from a bloke out in Mernda who moved house and found it too loud. His loss is my gain as this thing is awesome. Made a massive difference to the movie watching experience. It’s the most expensive speaker in the setup and well worth it (cover off to show off that chunky driver).
You can feel the bass vibrate your seat, feel it in your chest and rattle the walls. I love it! I was gonna get two but honestly, this single 15" is more than enough.
The only thing left now for me to mess with is some sort of curtain/draping around the sides of the room to further darken it.
I’d also like to try disconnect two of the four ceiling speakers and use those sockets on the amplifier for side surrounds to compliment the rear surrounds. There’s bugger all content that uses the ceiling speakers, so two above me feels like enough - particularly in my setup where they’re not far apart enough for proper separation. There’s much more 7.1 content than Atmos content, so I think two side and two rear surrounds with two overheads would be more practical than four overheads and only the two rear surrounds.