Where to put speakers -- for music and movies?
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Speakers in ceiling or in wall? Or on a stand?
Comments (12)Coincidentally I have exact same rooms wired for sound. Family Room is also our main movie area - couldn't dedicate floorspace to a media room. Main channels and center are free standing, prewired for upper front surround (frivolous to most but I dig them - newer surround modes utilize front 'height' channels) and RBH ceiling speakers in the rear. Didn't bother with side channels. The ceilings are adequate and unobtrusive visually but I wouldn't put them in near the same league in terms of sound quality as my other speakers. Powered REL sub is off to the side. Master has in-wall front channels, no center (prewired for a free standing one) and in-ceiling surround. All RBH. Powered sub is off to the side. The system sounds surprisingly good after Audyssey calibration. Good room calibration software makes a tremendous difference and provided proper initial speaker positioning, can help correct all sorts of room-related response anomolies. Basement playroom is pretty similar to Master but I've never actually used it. In-wall speakers will always be a compromise - the wall acts as a huge baffle and causes response issues that are difficult to address through speaker driver/crossover engineering. But we live in the real world where wives matter and budgets rule so that's why I have them. Also be sure you run network to TV locations as well as receiver/processor locations. I store movies on a Network Attached Server and can essentially feed movies/shows to any location in the house. Good luck! Good sound is good for the soul. Bad sound may land you in Bose purgatory....See MoreMusic Distribution System and Speakers
Comments (1)Hi Matt, I donÂt have any experience with that system, but I am an owner of an 8 zone/4 source Matrix system. I have used PSB ceiling speakers in my home (retail in Canada, about $200+ each) Some zones I have 4 speakers, in one other I have used only 2 speakers. Here are some ramblings: Key pads are a must have; the Pronto remote is only one of others that may work your system (check out Harmony remotes as well); I am a bit of an audiophile, so I wouldnÂt use ceiling speakers for critical stereo listening in your theatre room, nor would I use ceiling speakers in the theatre room for surround sound effect; ceiling speakers (imo) are a bit too light for good bass effect as well in your theatre room. I donÂt missed the bass in the rest of the house so much; Systems that can draw on more than one source at the same time is great as well. If you have black/brown outs, get a surge protector. Consider a media computer to install within your system; I donÂt quite have 18" of room between floors, but this is the set up that I have: Pink insulation between the floor joists; Air space, about 6"; Then where I have a dropped ceiling , I have more pink (2") on top of the acoustic tiles. This seems to be good sound insulation. The only trouble spot is above the excersise room which is not a dropped ceiling. This is under our walk-in closet, and it seems to rattle quite a bit. This room is drywall ceiling and is screwed right to the floor joists, so the transfer of sound is unfortunately quite good. Hope this helps you out....See MoreFrozen: the Worst Movie Music in History?
Comments (58)The little girl next door discovered "Let It Go" a few weeks ago and has been singing it outside. All. The. Time. Unlike many of you, I actually like (or at least liked) the song, but heavens to pete is it overexposed. My daughter has been receiving musical instruction in school including reading music. She had vocal music in K-3 and strings (she plays violin) in 4 and 5. She's signed up for orchestra as an elective in middle school. I think the music program was primarily funded (possibly entirely funded) by PTA fundraising and by grants but it's been great. I sing in a church choir and until last year was also part of a small women's ensemble that sang monthly at retirement homes (we went on hiatus when my director fell and suffered a head injury--I'm afraid now that we're never going to resume. I learned to read music with piano lessons as a kid, but it was also taught in elementary school music class. And then I was in choir all through junior high and high school (and a bit in college). I went on a road trip with my daughter earlier this summer, and when we first got on the road I thought she was going to want to listen to nothing but top 40 the whole trip. I made a case for listening to country in the areas where that was 90% of what was on the airwaves (there aren't many country stations where we are from). We also listened to some classical, some religious choral music, some 80s power ballads, and a bit of metal. One of the things that drives me crazy about many young people is their rigid conviction in the superiority of whatever narrow set of music happens to be on trend at the moment (this bugged me even when I was a teen). I'm happy to have a kid with eclectic tastes (for now, anyway; she's not a teen yet)....See MoreNeed help - inwall speakers
Comments (24)Speaker wattage isn't really important. Honestly any of the speakers with the 12db per octave crossover will be fine. Stay away from the 6db crossover. Some people say that your amperage per channel needs to be 1.5 - 2 times that of the speaker but really it is not a big problem. Sensitivity and impedance are the important pieces of the puzzle and the Monoprice options are solid, with 91db and 8ohms. You are probably not going to put that much power into them so don't worry about it....See MoreBrent B
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