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You don't have the Reduce Loud Sounds feature of the Apple TV turned on, do you? There is a bug in tvOS 15 where that feature can cause some channels to not work right when playing Atmos content.
 
That's only a 7 channel receiver. The other two are an alternate zone or other configurations. You will only get 7 channels at once on that receiver.
 
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