Thread: Ceiling Speakers for Home Theater

My house was prewired for surround sound, but the location and the wiring was unknown. I paid a guy $50.00 today to locate and identify the speaker wires in my ceiling. I am in the market for flush mount ceiling speakers, fronts left right, rears left right, and center channel. Tone def so a super high quality is not necessary but I do not want it to sound tinny. Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks Vlad, the Monoprice speakers are kind of hard to believe cost whys. I did contact the live chat, they were most helpful. I got a 6 speaker surround sound unit. I am going to use the subwoffer I got but will need a center channel, rights and left. Not sure which ones to get, they all preiced pretty reasonably.

I did that, they said they got a 30 day guarantee. Not sure which ones to purchase now.

I was looking at all of those speakers, thanks for the suggestions. I have come to the conclusion that it is more difficult to pick out speakers than to decide on what TV to buy. It is going to be a lot of work getting these into the ceiling then to find out they sound like sh!t would be a real downer.

I did notice the frequency response is a little higher on the lower end with the monoprice speakers than a high end POLK, JBL, Boston. Decisions, Decisions

These are getting my attention. I like the angled speaker, 10 ft ceilings and a big room I need to be able to direct the sound to a single spot. Use these for fronts, rears, center channel

http://www.htd.com/Products/high-def...iling-speakers

Those are quite pricy, do they sound good for the money? I see your point on the 8" speakers from MP. Took another look at the MP apeakers, they seema little to good to be true, but the price is hard to beat. Hate to get more tied up in my speakers than the TV.

Originally Posted by vläd

Monoprice also has an angled ceiling speaker. The angled Monoprice is an 8" where the angled HTD is a 6.5".

I can see your point on the angled speaker, but I'm not sure that I would be concerned about it unless you had vaulted ceilings which I did have to contend with. I ended up with the Sonance that actually piviots, allowing you to flatten out the speaker on a sloped ceiling.

Running into another bump in the road. I am running a Home Theater in a Box, panasonic sc-btt195. It is stated to be 1000w at 3 ohms. 160w per channel at 3 ohms, the sub wof is 200w at 3 ohms. Will I be able to hook up 8 ohm speakers and get quality sound from them. Full volume is not something I forsee as a must have.

As far as I can figure out whats going to happen doing this. I may get reduced volume of what the speakers are capable of, but it should drive them adequately. There should be no damage to either the speakers or the amp as far as I can tell. I may do this for the short term and eventually start looking for a receiver.

I am really leaning towards these speakers, the ability to adjust Bass, Treble, with in the speaker, the angle of them seems to better fit my situation as well. The 8 inch speakers of similar from Monoprice with the shipping are only $45 dollars cheaper. Monoprice has quite the shipping charges.

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