
Once you have a home-theater system equipped with height speakers, you'll want to experience it to the fullest and show it off to your friends and family. For more on immersive sound, check out our blog, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X Take Immersive Audio to New Heights. If you have a 5.1 or 7.1 system, all you need to do is add some height effects speakers and make sure your AV receiver can decode Dolby Atmos and DTS:X and drive the extra speakers. (Some have a DTS:X soundtrack, but Atmos is more common.) Of course, to get the most out of watching these movies, you need a home-speaker system equipped to unleash the immersive fun of object-based surround sound. Many Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray titles are now available with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. It literally adds a new dimension of excitement and impact to watching movies! Individual sound sources, such as spaceships, rain, voices and ambient effects, can be placed anywhere in the soundfield, fooling our brains into thinking we're in the middle of the action rather than simply watching it on the screen in front of us. Immersive, “object-based surround sound”-specifically, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X-places speakers around the audience horizontally as well as overhead, creating a more convincing three-dimensional soundfield. Finally, the head-spinning, heart-pounding emergence of 5.1 surround sound debuted in the 1970s, followed by 7.1, leading us to the ultimate experience. Mono became stereo, then three channels, all in front of the audience. Movie soundtracks have evolved dramatically in nearly a century since music and sound effects first appeared in motion pictures, followed by synchronized dialogue and the emergence of “talkies” in the late 1920s. SVS SoundPath RCA Audio Interconnect Cable SoundPath Tri-Band Wireless Audio Adapter
