Ceiling speakers are a potentially easier way of completing this as you can mount them behind your seating area and use them as the rear channels.
Mounting speakers on ceiling vs walls.
While sound vision hasn t yet reviewed a system with svs prime elevation speakers the company s 45 day in home trial makes it a compelling option.
If you choose to mount your speakers in the ceiling then you won t have to worry as much about positioning your furniture around floor.
Have the speakers smallest holes in the walls i think cons.
The difference between the two is quite simple in and on wall speakers are mounted front firing with the woofers pointed horizontally across the room while ceiling speakers are mounted down firing from the ceiling above.
But if you are seriously limited in terms of placement then towers or bookshelf speakers aren t always the best choice.
Or just get much more wiring to go up and over the studs same issue running wire over ceiling plus i don t have obvious rear wall locations because of my layout.
Whereas in ceiling speakers are firing down at the top of your head.
Wall mounted speakers represent a likely compromise and in ceiling speakers even more so.
9 ft flat ceiling.
Mounting a speaker in a wall which becomes a baffle.
The frames of our round in ceiling speakers retrofit into many popular and existing cut outs while the patent pending baffle latches mean super quick super simple tool free mounting.
I have a 110 inch projector screen.
The majority of in wall and in ceiling speakers were designed to bring sound into a room without being visibly intrusive.
Rectangular room 14 ft wide.
The in wall center channel is below it and on each side is the right and left speaker in wall.
I currently have a 7 1 system.
Basically if you can use regular tower or bookshelf speakers then that is the choice that most of us would find the most comfortable.
Atmos enabled speakers are specifically engineered to bounce sound off of the ceiling.
I have 4 ceiling speakers.
The first choice you need to make is whether you want in wall on wall or ceiling speakers.
As for mounting an atmos enabled speaker in the same manner near the ceiling that option is a no go.
Some old pioneer speakers i.
These typically inexpensive speakers rarely have an enclosure and quite a few laws of physics are ignored as well as almost all the thiele small parameters.
In wall speakers will sound better than in ceiling speakers because they are projecting sound at ear level.
So on wall or in wall speakers are used.
60 inch pioneer kuro along the front short wall 14 ft bose 601 mains bose 301 side surrounds.
I have an onkyo rz 810 receiver.
The main driver is angled 18 and can rotate 360 in its frame while the tweeter can be positioned and adjusted for precise directional control.
I ve had this set up for about 3 years.
2 are about 4 feet in front the screen and the other 2 are right behind the main sitting area.
When choosing an in wall or in ceiling mounted speaker it is important to buy a model that has what s called a back box.
Better looking than wall mounted cons.
Ugliest risk of poor mounting speakers falling not sure how to run wire across vaulted ceiling.