Home Cinema ceiling speakers.

[anonymous-user]

Going to begin my house renovation and extension hopefully in the next few months once CV allows.

Have a new 6 x 4 metre living room that will need a 5: 1 system and do not want any floor based speakers. Window positions will not be good for any wall based speakers either, so in-ceiling it is.

VEX supplied me with some lovely sounding Monitor Audio ones for my last project and am very happy to go that route again but just wondered if anyone thought I should consider others.

@VEX - these are going into a flat roof so would getting the CP sealed back speakers be a good idea? Does the sealed back avoid the need for fire hoods’?

Cheers all!

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

We have a 7.2 gallo system in which the sides and rears are ceiling mounted... Despite being discrete little things, they always attract very positive comments by all who hear them. They're very musical too... Bought them from a pher (plotloss) years ago and I still love how they sound.

[drgav2005]

We're currently building our new home... well, technically we will restart once this CV is out of the way!

I'm using KEF speakers in our living room for the 5.2.4 system - excellent selection here to suit all sizes / applications / budgets: https://uk.kef.com/collections/in-ceiling. They have a fairly low profile and fitted between our joists with ease. Ended up using Hoody 2 speaker hoods - easy to fit. The KEFs sound sublime. Good luck with the build!

[AMST09]

Artcoustic

You want something that is directional and is designed for cinema room purpose instead of just normal in ceiling speakers.
Most decent speaker brands will make them like monitor audio.

[VEX]

As with everything, it is really down to budget.

MA are still an excellent brand and low to mid range speaker offering, as are KEF, Sonance and many many others.

Artcoustic are an interesting one, they seem to be either loved or hated in the industry, personally I love the look and functionality of them but have always hated the demos at the uk sales centre. Always driven to hard and distorting - to be fair the last one was a 2015ish and I would be happy to review again.

I have GoldenEars here at home, love them but their high end angles in-ceiling do look pricy until you hear a full Atmos system using just in-ceilings.

As for Closed Back speakers, I’d need to check with manufacturer, I suspect that they will still need hoods because if the fixings failed (only plastic) and the speaker fell out, a gaping hole would be left, the fire hood would protect this.

Happy to chat more here or on email - to anyone to be honest! Lockdown is taking its toll!! Lol

V.

Edited by VEX on Friday 1st May 23:14

[anonymous-user]

Cheers all.

I’ll check out all the above and try to arrive at a project budget once my build costs are fully understood.

[JimexPL]

I agree with everything VEX has said - most of the low-mid range speakers from established brands are similar in terms of performance and I'd struggle to pick one above another.

Artcoustics seem to be fussy about the room they're installed in, and need expensive amplification to work well. I'd avoid unless you are set on their looks.

My stand out favourite at the moment is Dynaudio, with the first in-ceiling speaker that's made me get rid of some bookshelf speakers -

https://www.dynaudio.com/custom-install/performanc...

I'm happy to supply with a PH discount ofVEX is unable to.

And unless you go for commercial closed back speakers I think you'll need hoods.

[anonymous-user]

The speakers are going in a single story flat roof so no need for hoods I believe.

[VEX]

I believe you are right Gary.

Single storey dont require fire/accoustic hoods above for building regs, however I would certainly recommend fire hoods, which are no way as expencive as fire/accoustic ones.

V.

[anonymous-user]

VEX said:

I believe you are right Gary.

Single storey dont require fire/accoustic hoods above for building regs, however I would certainly recommend fire hoods, which are no way as expencive as fire/accoustic ones.

V.

Thanks for that VEX, I'll keep that in mind as I move forward.

[Mike Hammer]

While I was remodeling my home theater, I decided to take a look at ceiling speakers to increase my surround sound

[Wattyboy]

Take a look at Blucube ceiling speakers.

That is what I have - recommended by a local shop that had high end speakers but did not sell these but recommended them as better than what he had. I did spend c5k on other stuff hence why he was quite honest about speakers.

[zooooom]

PMC do in-wall in-ceiling speakers, which sound petty good.....

[anonymous-user]

Mike Hammer said:

While I was remodeling my home theater, I decided to take a look at ceiling speakers to increase my surround sound

Thanks!

[neth27]

Wouldn’t it sound odd? Watching a film and all the sound coming from the ceiling.

[VEX]

neth27 said:

Wouldn’t it sound odd? Watching a film and all the sound coming from the ceiling.

It sort of depends on a couple of things.

1. If you’ve had or heard anything like it before.

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2. The quality and angle of the speakers.

In the case of the speakers, all but the cheapest in-ceilings have directional tweeters so at least the mid/high frequencies can sort of face you.

As you go up the ranges some manufacturers produce complete angled units so the whole thing is pointing at you. My system here has a ceiling centre as it’s in front of patio doors, but genuinely you wouldn’t know the sound comes from up there.

One manufacturer demo’ed a complete 7 or 9 channel Atmos room using just in-ceilings and subs at our USA Trade Show a couple of years back. It got amazing reviews.

[anonymous-user]

As VEX says.

In my last place I had no idea that the sound was coming from the direction of the ceiling.