Thread: Speaker Mounting Question....

Originally Posted by dcravey

I'm in the process of both doing some minor re-modeling at my house, and putting together a new home theater system.

Currently, my house has 10+ year-old in-wall speakers, which I'm looking up upgrade. To allow more flexibility in speaker choices, I'm thinking about having the workers remove the in-wall speakers, patch the holes (leaving the wires or connectors, of course), and installing a small shelf at each speaker location. This would make it incredible easy to put up new speakers: just connect them and set them on the shelves.

Is there any reason why this is a bad idea? Is there any advantage (other than aesthetics preference) to having speakers mounted in-wall, or mounted to the wall versus sitting on a shelf?

If I installed a face plate with good connectors at each location, would I lose any sound quality over just leaving some exposed wire to connect directly to the speakers?

Thanks.......

I think your idea is the way to go, provided you don't have a problem with the existing wiring I would use a couple of these http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2 as connectors, you won't lose or degrade any signal. and it will allow you to use Shelf mounted speakers or wall bracketed speakers without the "dangling" wire effect.

Originally Posted by dcravey

I'm in the process of both doing some minor re-modeling at my house, and putting together a new home theater system.

Currently, my house has 10+ year-old in-wall speakers, which I'm looking up upgrade. To allow more flexibility in speaker choices, I'm thinking about having the workers remove the in-wall speakers, patch the holes (leaving the wires or connectors, of course), and installing a small shelf at each speaker location. This would make it incredible easy to put up new speakers: just connect them and set them on the shelves.

Is there any reason why this is a bad idea? Is there any advantage (other than aesthetics preference) to having speakers mounted in-wall, or mounted to the wall versus sitting on a shelf?

If I installed a face plate with good connectors at each location, would I lose any sound quality over just leaving some exposed wire to connect directly to the speakers?

Thanks.......

There would be no noticeable audio loss with a termination connection plate, I have those as well and I prefer that clean look as opposed to just a wire dangling from the wall, sawz.

The speakers are located at a height of about 8 feet.

If I mount them directly to the wall, I can swivel and point them downwards towards the listening position. If I build a small shelf at each speaker location (which I'd prefer due to how easy speaker installation would then be), I won't be able to swivel and point them.

Is being able to point the speakers a significant consideration that will improve listening quality?