[zx10guy]

If you're willing to accept the looks and the mounting/holes you'd have to drill for ladder racks, then you might as well just have the cabling on the floor. Throw carpet runners on top or tape them down to prevent tripping. To me it's just about the same aesthetically.

I'm satisfied with my lowly 5.2 system. For me, it's the criticality of how the room is acoustically set up along with proper speaker placement. I've heard a Atmos system in the home of the owner of a very well known speaker manufacturer. The system was driven by some decent quality equipment. To me it was meh. I don't buy into the more speakers the better. I'm about what sounds good first. Anyone that has auditioned my system has come out amazed at how good it sounds and how the speakers just are not there as it should be.