3D audio hounds, "steal these gems."

We’ve yakked your ears off about Dolby Atmos, the audio system that adds a height dimension to surround sound for true 3D audio. When you’re watching an Atmos-enabled movie on an Atmos-enabled system, you can hear things above you as well as in front, behind, to the left, and to the right of you. You used to need a ridiculous fortune to have it in your home. Now all you need is an Atmos receiver, like we’ve sold before, and Atmos-enabled speakers, like these Pioneer bookshelf speakers here.

With both upward-firing and front-firing speakers for different audio channels, these speakers do both the height thing and the left-right thing. You’d probably want to fill out your surround array with a few more speakers, for the rear or side channels. If you’re doing sound for a huge theater room, you might want something bigger. But adding these speakers to your (not included) receiver gives you an instant, simple Atmos setup.

Why these speakers, particularly? Because they got kick-ass reviews: an average rating of 4.7 on Amazon at almost twice the price. One Amazon reviewer was so overcome with joy that he lost his command of the English language, pleading “keep un poppular so we can steal these gems.” We like that guy’s style. If you’re wondering how effective this kind of Prisoner’s Dilemma strategy is, well, here’s your answer: these speakers are now on Meh. Way to go, dude.

More typical are superlatives like “really amazing” and “stunning” and “incredible” and “life-changing”. You could probably stand to have your life changed at least a little, especially to the minor extent that a speaker system could do that.

Even if you don’t watch a lot of movies featuring helicopters or pterodactyls swooping overhead, this whole Atmos thing literally adds a new dimension to surround sound. Fortunately, this once-lavish audio system is starting to find its way into discount channels like this one right here. If you don’t have an Atmos receiver yet, you can start amassing your setup here. It looks like Atmos is winning the next-level audio race. And you want to be ready when some film studio finally answers our numerous emails and makes a movie about pterodactyls fighting helicopters.