Anyone ever bought a Model Home with Speakers in the ceilings?

[jlaavenger]

Anyone ever bought a Model Home with Speakers in the ceilings? I'm considering one and wondering if the speakers will make for good home theater.

[WongWei]

model homes aren't built with the best materials , I would guess the speakers aren't the best quality .... take a look at the brand and specs of the speakers

[DFWHD]

Ceiling speakers do not provide the same level of sound quality when compared to traditional speakers. We purchased a pre-existing home a couple of years ago and due to the wife not wanting to see speakers on the floor or wall (on-wall, not in-wall) in the living room home theater setup, I had to do ceiling speakers. I ended up going with Speakercraft Aim 8 series speakers which sound okay, but they do not sound nearly as good as traditional speakers IMO. As a matter of fact, I'm redoing my upstairs game room this week to become my new mancave. The game room will have a 61" Samsung LED DLP, Pioneer Elite AVR, Def Tech speakers (SM450's for the fronts, a CLR2002 as center and BPX1.2 for surrounds) with an SVS sub finishing things off. This is now where I'll be watching most things. Moral to the story - do the right thing the first time and avoid ceiling speakers. It will save you money down the road!

[Bourne1]

Hmm; the only way I would use ceiling speakers would be for my rear surrounds. I would see what brand they used. If it is an off-brand that you can get at Lowes or Radioshack, I would replace it with Monitor Audio or Polk. Both make a good in-ceiling speaker. If you do decide to keep them, at least make sure your front sound stage are either floor standing or bookshelves. I wouldn't use in-ceiling for the fronts and center.

[Beta Man]

There are some very good in-wall and in-ceiling speakers out there....... You can get a 5.1 set of them from $1,000 or so..... to $50,000 depending on what ones you want, but the ones that come in a pre-built house like that, will more than likely (99% chance) not be good quality at all.

If the house is built with them, then it'll be wired for them, and you could always just replace them with better speakers

[mr.hidef]

oooooh!......I love these.

http://paradigm.com/en/reference/in_...-6-17.paradigm

[Steve]

If you're going to look at replacing them, the Mirage Omnicans seem to be among the better in-ceiling speakers. They may be worth looking at as well. As pointed out already, the house is pre-wired for them, and even if you wanted to go with a bigger speaker, you would only have to make the hole in the ceiling a little bigger.

[JimShaw]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

There are some very good in-wall and in-ceiling speakers out there....... You can get a 5.1 set of them from $1,000 or so..... to $50,000 depending on what ones you want, but the ones that come in a pre-built house like that, will more than likely (99% chance) not be good quality at all.

If the house is built with them, then it'll be wired for them, and you could always just replace them with better speakers

Replaced them is exactly what I did and added a couple more