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Dave Moritz · 04-30-2008, 08:37 PM

It sounds like the space in question is part of the living room which you said was (25' x 11') Even with surround material you will need to treat it as if the entire room is being used for the home theater. The sound will still need to fill the entire room no matter what is playing. What in-walls where you looking at? Are they basically the same drivers? If you do not know if you will be living where you are at in a few years, you may want to go with the bookshelf speakers (Polk RTi A1). The one advantage the in-walls have are the tweeters can be aimed where the tweeters in the bookselfs can not.

To be honest with you I have never owned any in-wall speakers but I am thinking that you might want to go with the bookshelf models. That way you do not have to cut holes in the wall and cover them up if you move. Or you could allways install the in-walls and wire the room for home theater and use it as a selling point if you ever sale the house. The other thing is you might have to mess with putting insulation into the wall and you might get more sound bleeding into the next room with in-walls. So like I was saying you might want to go bookselves, less hastle.

They should give you some decent sound but it may not be as dynamic and full as you would like them to be.

Just out of curiosity what receiver are you going to power these with? I guess I should have asked you this earlier.

Polk has in-wall models from $269.99 a pair all the way up to $2,899.99 a pair beleive it or not.

I was trying to look into the in-walls but they are having problems with there site.

I would go with the biggest speakers that you can place into the space you have for the front left and right with a real good center channel. I would spend the majority of you money on these three speakers and you can cut corners a little on the rear channels. Oh and another reason to not do in-wall in the living room is, what if you or someone else desides to rearange the living room? Then you will have to figure out where to place the speakers again and that could be a problem.

Anyway I am not sure if I helped at all, but I hope it helped in some way?

04-30-2008, 08:37 PM	#7 of 10
Dave Moritz Member Location: Phoenix, Arizona Join Date: Jul 2001 Local Time: 08:37 AM Local Date: 10-08-2008 Posts: 2,421	Re: Wood vs plastic vs in ceiling It sounds like the space in question is part of the living room which you said was (25' x 11') Even with surround material you will need to treat it as if the entire room is being used for the home theater. The sound will still need to fill the entire room no matter what is playing. What in-walls where you looking at? Are they basically the same drivers? If you do not know if you will be living where you are at in a few years, you may want to go with the bookshelf speakers (Polk RTi A1). The one advantage the in-walls have are the tweeters can be aimed where the tweeters in the bookselfs can not. To be honest with you I have never owned any in-wall speakers but I am thinking that you might want to go with the bookshelf models. That way you do not have to cut holes in the wall and cover them up if you move. Or you could allways install the in-walls and wire the room for home theater and use it as a selling point if you ever sale the house. The other thing is you might have to mess with putting insulation into the wall and you might get more sound bleeding into the next room with in-walls. So like I was saying you might want to go bookselves, less hastle. They should give you some decent sound but it may not be as dynamic and full as you would like them to be. Just out of curiosity what receiver are you going to power these with? I guess I should have asked you this earlier. Polk has in-wall models from $269.99 a pair all the way up to $2,899.99 a pair beleive it or not. I was trying to look into the in-walls but they are having problems with there site. I would go with the biggest speakers that you can place into the space you have for the front left and right with a real good center channel. I would spend the majority of you money on these three speakers and you can cut corners a little on the rear channels. Oh and another reason to not do in-wall in the living room is, what if you or someone else desides to rearange the living room? Then you will have to figure out where to place the speakers again and that could be a problem. Anyway I am not sure if I helped at all, but I hope it helped in some way? 1080p High Definition Supporter Lossless Audio Supporter Current Library: 221 DVD's / 69 HD-DVD's / 141 Blu-ray's (210 HD Titles)