I am new here but I am confident some of you can give me some good advice. My living room is pre-wired for surround system (4 surround speakers) on the ceiling. I have a relatively small budget (close to $500). Initially, I was looking at Sony HTIB's in that price range. However, my wife is very much against the idea of mounting the satellite speakers on the ceiling. She does not care if I use those, however she wants me to mount them in such a way so they are flush with the ceiling. I am not sure if I can do that without using ceiling speakers and those can get pricey since I will have to get receiver, sub and multiple ceiling speakers. Any suggestions???
I would think you could mount them behind grilles in the ceiling, but you might have to custom design brackets for them, and I'd want to be certain the sound quality was what you wanted before I tore up the ceiling drywall.
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2002 Ford Focus Sony CDX-GT410u Sony XT-100HD HD Tuner Stock speakers, no amp, no subs
It isn't too hard if you are handy with a saw and a router to make a really nice in-wall/ceiling speaker bracket. for just about anything. I recently made a bracket to stack a pair of 4" Sonance in-ceiling speakers to make them fit in a small space in a powder room wall.
I usually use MDF for the bracket and 1/4" luan for the grill board. If you are mounting sealed speakers I'd leave the box intact and bring them in from the back of the bracket. Round over the speaker opening and bracket edges with a router. Cover the grill in an opaque but loose weave cloth that matches your ceiling. Mount the things with toggles or fabricate some spanner brackets (old radio rear supports are perfect for this, but I don't suppose everyone has those laying around). Caulk and paint the bracket to match the wall. I use velcro dots to attach the grills.
Good luck!