Ceiling speakers for whole house audio  

Has anyone installed Sylvania SL 600 speakers for their whole house audio? How do they sound? They are only $55 on buy.com and seem considerably better than the $38 Dayton 6.5" speakers on PartsExpress (which seem to be the cheapest option around). Also, the Dayton's look like they have a bracket for installing directly onto the sheetrock on an existing ceiling (like old work electrical wall boxes, they have clamps that screw down tight). Would anyone know if the Sylvania's come with this? It is too late for pre-construction brackets for me.

P.S.: Here is a link to them.
http://www.buy.com/prod/sylvania-sl-.../90111723.html

I am not building a home theater room--this is for "good enough" audio throughout the house.

6 rooms * $200 = $1200
6 rooms * $50 = $300

If I was a builder I wouldn't even have bothered asking.

When you are new to home audio and especially ceiling speakers, you have no idea what is "quality" and what is "cheap."

First of all, I posted a question about a month about and got several replies telling me to buy one or two decent pairs of speakers in the main rooms, and install the $35 Dayton speakers in the rest of the rooms. The people who said so said from personal experience that they were glad they did, as the cheap ones were all they really needed for these secondary rooms.

I am installing speakers in 6 places... Family room, office, guest bedroom, master bedroom, master bathroom, and garage. The family room speakers and teh master bedroom speakers will get the most use (and are the largest rooms), and the rest will not need top-quality speakers.

None of these should be subjected to water or moisture or I have bigger problems than poor quality speakers.

What I was wondering is whether these speakers, which seem to me to be much better than the $35 pairs others have suggested, would be worth the slightly higher cost and/or be able to perform well even in the larger rooms.

For one measure, the $35 Daytons say their speaker frequency response is something like 60Hz-20000Hz, and the Sylvania's 45Hz-20000Hz. In my experience that extra 15Hz of bass response is a big deal.

I see the point about bathrooms and moisture... but I wouldn't know what to look for and I know I'm not going to bother to get something weather proof (it would be too much work to weed out those marked "weather proof" as a mere marketing ploy to increase the price 50%).

The problem is, I can't afford several hundred per room. I could let a couple rooms go for now (like the garage and guest bedroom), but cutting back any more and I might as well just use a stereo. I have been looking at the Russound CAA66 which would be less than $200/room, plus speakers.

I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to say the Sylvania's will sound great. My only real-life experience in this area is the speakers my parents have installed - I couldn't get to the back of them so I don't know exactly what brand, but they have no labels anywhere so I assume they are fairly generic -- and they definitely sound good enough for me. I wouldn't use them for a home theater of course, but for low to mid-high volume (workout-music level or something) they sound very nice. Unfortunately the contractors they had install them are long gone.

BTW, the project is totally DIY, and I will be able to add to it later or replace poor speakers if I have to. The priority now is to make use of the wiring I already installed :)

Also, I didn't mention kitchen because it is pretty much part of the family room/dining room, and that is why I will be ok with paying for better speakers in that room. It's not a very big house, 1400 sq. ft. main floor, 1400 sq. ft. basement (unfinished for now).