[falcolas]

Atmos’ big feature is to place audio properly no matter how many - or how few - speakers you have.

As long as the receiver has identified the positions of your speakers accurately (something receivers have been capable of with a small microphone since the early 00’s) it should place sounds appropriately.

[psychphysic]

That's Home Atmos. What happens if you take the 128 channel Atmos Cinema inputs and just blindly make stereo out of them?

Perhaps suddenly the very quiet speech the sound engineer carefully made space for in location and frequency is suddenly muddied?

[falcolas]

That’s the thing, Atmos doesn’t care about channels, except for how to use them to represent a sound at render time. And that render is not embedded in the tracks, it’s calculated.

[psychphysic]

You think a home ATMOS system can take and process 128 real time channels at full audio quality!?