In wall or Bookshelf

[achani]

I have a dedicated 16'w, 24" long home theater. I have already bought toshiba mt800 projector. I could not decide to put either In wall or Book Shelf Speakers. Room Is Already wired for 7.1 speaker system.

I like Jamo In wall speakers,,, any other options

 

[Leprkon]

the only problem with in-walls is you have to drive them pretty good. BMXTRIX or Ray from RLA can explain this alot better than I can, but if the speaker is in the wall, you don't build up any reflective acoustics like you do from a bookshelf, so you have to A) give the speakers more power to produce a certain volume and B) have to choose the placement carefully, since the sound "sweet spot" will probably be a lot smaller.

 

[Ohmage]

I have a dedicated 16'w, 24" long home theater. I have already bought toshiba mt800 projector. I could not decide to put either In wall or Book Shelf Speakers. Room Is Already wired for 7.1 speaker system.

I like Jamo In wall speakers,,, any other options

Are you going to put all 7 speakers in the walls, or only the surrounds and rear surrounds? What about your subwoofer, is it going in the walls, too? LOL. Maybe, you could do a combination: wall-mounted speakers (maybe dipole) for the surrounds, in-wall speakers for the rear-surrounds, and bookshelf/floorstander speakers and a strong centre for the fronts. You should still be able to get good sound without too much difficulty with the combination. Just my 2 cents.

cheers,

Ohmage.

 

[achani]

Are you going to put all 7 speakers in the walls, or only the surrounds and rear surrounds? What about your subwoofer, is it going in the walls, too? LOL. Maybe, you could do a combination: wall-mounted speakers (maybe dipole) for the surrounds, in-wall speakers for the rear-surrounds, and bookshelf/floorstander speakers and a strong centre for the fronts. You should still be able to get good sound without too much difficulty with the combination. Just my 2 cents.

cheers,

Ohmage.

Good idea, Thanks
Center speaker will be in wall because it will hidden behind the screen. I am buying perforated screen.

 

[plhart]

All inwall speakers will typically have a bit of low frequency gain similar to boosting a bass control. This is "baffle gain" caused by the system's increased efficiency in producing low bass when the speaker is coupled to a large expanse of wall. This coupling can give a chestiness to the sound of the system sometimes to the point of obscuring vocal intelligibility.

The simple fix for this problem is rolling back the center channel bass control if there is one available on your receiver. Note that most HT receivers with bass and treble controls nowadays usually work only on the front left or right channels, not the center.

Better quality, center-channel-specific speakers will usually have bass and treble controls built-in. The bass control is actually a boundary compensation control which allows the system's natural bass gain (when mounted inwall) to be compensated for.

This function is accomplished most times by adding either a large capacitor or a combination capacitor and large value inductor at the speaker system's input. It is these components which give rise to the notion that "it takes more power to drive inwalls" because they do indeed cause a slight insertion loss. That loss, however, is most times on the order of a quarter of one dB and isn't too much to be concerned about.