Speaker Dillema

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I was recently gifted a Klipsch R-5502-W II, I was hoping on putting it in my game room since im currently using a $30 center speaker, but the speaker needs 16" to fit in a wall, unfortunately my studs are 14" apart.

I was thinking of cutting the studs and building a box to fit the speaker inside the wall, while also using the box to connect the studs back.

Anybody run into this before and have some tips ideas?

Thank you.