Excellent Budget Atmos Setup

Great speakers for a budget Atmos home theatre if you can't get into your ceiling to run cable. Slight lowlight is the mounting bracket on the center speaker pulled right out of the back of the speaker when trying to loosen it from an under-TV mount to adjust the bracket. The nut holding the mounting bolt inside the speaker is rolling around inside the speaker box now, and I'll likely need to try an Epoxy to reattach the bracket to the speaker so I can mount it again



Otherwise, my only quibble with them would be the lack of shielding to isolate sounds coming from the forward facing speaker vs the up-firing speaker. Rather than having the top of the speakers on an angle to match the immersion speaker angle, it would be better to square them off at the front so that there's at least a little wall forcing the immersion speakers to fire up without sound creeping forwards, to really distinguish that the audio is coming from above.



As for the sub, it's probably the highlight. Even at volumes low enough for my 4 year old to comfortably watch a Disney movie, when there's some action and bass going, I can feel the vibration of the sub standing 10 feet away. I ran cables for 2 subs at some point in the future, but with the power this one gives out, I don't think I need a second one to fill my space (want is another story). I wish Monoprice sold this sub as an individual item, I'd honestly consider getting this set again on sale in the future just to get another sub and sell the speakers.