Anyone have a good recommendation for some nice in-wall speakers for the house? I'm gonna install myself. Don't wanna spend a lot of $$, and second hand stuff is fine with me (I wired my old screened in porch with outdoor speakers, amp, vol control for $300 (all bought off E-Bay) Thanks (links are good!)
See if you can find a deal on Jamo products- I am a bit insane on hi-fi and would not normally take an in-wall speaker- at least one that is not custom built- too seriously. However, I have two pairs of a model by Jamo (probably long discontinued by now) that service a background music system in our living room/dining room/kitchen area. These are not true in wall installations, but rather small planars- and they sound incredible- very natural midrange, real bass within limits, etc. I believe that the company hit a pothole a couple years ago- but was resuscitated and is now back in business. I believe that they currently offer a variety of in-wall speakers.
Bass is non-directional, so you can do like we did once and and build in a large woofer (about 20 inch) into your fire place....obviously only if you live in a moderate climate!! You can then focus some horn-loaded mid ranges higher up that wall and at a suitable spacing for a stereo image....same with the tweeters. With a decent crossover and a strong, clean amp driving it all...it will blow your clothes off !!
Thats what we did. Speakers in the walls in the living room, kitchen, reading room, dining room and then a big woofer on the floor behind the tv stand
Vann's alway has deals on in wall speakers in their clearance center. For background or rear channel surround they will do. KEF.
My A/V guy is recommending these. Glad to hear someone back him up. I believe that they were taken over by Klipsh.
One of our own F-Chatter, John (sweetspotav) installed these JBLs in my HT/Living room and they are fantastic! 3 for front: http://www.jbl.com/home/products/product_detail.aspx?prod=HTI6&Language=ENG&Country=US&Region=USA&cat=ISP&ser=HTI 2 for rear: http://www.jbl.com/home/products/product_detail.aspx?prod=HTI6C&Language=ENG&Country=US&Region=USA&cat=ISP&ser=HTI Paired with my Velodyne sub in the corner of the room, its awesome! Send him a PM for more info.
