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I have a Sony HTZF9 soundbar with the additonal rear speakers and just don't feel I'm getting what I should from them.
The soundbar will display Atmos when playing it back but I never feel like there is much coming from the rear speakers and the same for 5.1 DD+. However when I play a 2 channel file and the soundbar displays lpcm I get much more of a surround effect. I understand the soundbar does some of its own magic on the 2 channel stuff but I don't understand why that it's sounding better than an Atmos track.

Speaker config is set as 7.1 with passthrough enabled.
maybe you have some upmixing mode for stereo sound? That would usually put more action on those channels then regular multichannel sound.