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https://www.dolby.com/about/support/...up-guide/#gref
If you don't want to do the ceiling you can go with Atmos speakers that sit on top of the front towers (If you are doing towers).
There are bunch of speakers that offer that,
https://www.visions.ca/product-detai...d=0&sku=Q50ABL
https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/prod...abled-speaker/
Or you can go with a front tower that has this inbuilt,
https://www.focal.com/en/home-audio/...ra/chora-826-d