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New Theater room! Should I upgrade my old Klipsch Setup to Atmos or should I start over?


Thors1982

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I am moving to a new house and I am trying to prepare for my hopefully much much nicer theater room. The new room will be 13ft 8.5in wide and 17ft 9in deep with 9 foot ceilings. The walls/ceiling will be down so I was planning on installing 4 in-ceiling speakers for Atmos.

 

My current setup is a full Klipsch speaker setup from early 2000’s


2x RF7 - fronts
1 RC7 - center
2 RB75 - rear
2 RS7 - sides
1 RSW15 - subwoofer

 

  1. Is it worth it to upgrade this setup to Atmos? Or Should I start over with a new set?
    • If I'm keeping them and upgrading to Atmos, what in-ceiling speakers will match well with them?
    • If I get new speakers what would be a good replacement?
  2. I know RS7s are a type of bipole speaker. Will that cause any problems?
  3. Are these speakers going to sound good in a room this size? I was using them in a much bigger room before however it wasn’t as rectangular or closed in.


Thank you in advance for all the help.
 

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System looks solid, as Wuzz said the 5800's are highly used.  I couldn't go in ceiling so went with the RP-500 SA (I am sure newer versions are out now).  My build is in my sig.   Sounds excellent and now I am going to get started trying to tune more with REW and a UMIK-1 and Ratbuddyessy (I need to read more on it).

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Thank you so much for the replies!!
I will have to look into "REW and a UMIK-1 and Ratbuddyessy" haven't even heard about that

I was browsing the picture thread just for fun and noticed some people have the RS-7s in rear and RB-75s for sides? Is that the preferred method?

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3 hours ago, Thors1982 said:

Thank you so much for the replies!!
I will have to look into "REW and a UMIK-1 and Ratbuddyessy" haven't even heard about that

I was browsing the picture thread just for fun and noticed some people have the RS-7s in rear and RB-75s for sides? Is that the preferred method?


Generally it would be the other way around.

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