Building a box would require cutting large square openings into the ceiling vs the standard round speaker cutout requirement. Building boxes is fine if the above area were an accessible attic, but that is not my case. Thanks for the suggestion.It's easy enough to build a box out of MDF. Just contact the manufacturer to find out the optimal box volume, apply math, and glue together a box.
Dynamat makes a "DynaBox" enclosure.
How often is someone going to be in the living room while you're watching movies in the basement?
I guess that is a good point. My SVS sub is always going to be more of an annoyance to my wife vs 6.5” Atmos speakers doing very little work. Thanks for the perspective.I'm looking at getting in ceiling as well and was wonder how would the sound affect the room above, but I'm sure all my other speakers will be heard way more than the Atmos speakers. I'm in a new construction home and they don't make them out of anything.
Dynamat makes a "DynaBox" enclosure.
Building a box would require cutting large square openings into the ceiling vs the standard round speaker cutout requirement. Building boxes is fine if the above area were an accessible attic, but that is not my case. Thanks for the suggestion.
Do you think any of the in-ceiling speakers, at least below $500 MSRP, that dont have those issues? Im curious about something like this for example CI Home H65-A. I hear your post loud and clear that in general they are not going to be as good as bookshelf speakers etc, but it would help if you could clarify how big of the tradeoff it is, and if there are still recommended in-ceiling speakers or if you are saying to steer clear of in-ceiling speakers period? (at least, unless you DIY an enclosure and baffle, or find one that fits your speaker models, neither of which I know how to do).Short course. Speakers with properly designed enclosures and baffles are always "better" for a myriad of sonic/acoustic reasons. Key words: properly designed. Additionally "open" ceiling speakers in particular are inherently low efficiency. If a ceiling speaker is overrated at 85 or 87 Db/spl and the real world installed efficiency actually drops because it's installed in an unsealed hole with drywall for a baffle; and lets say the system has 4 of the same speakers, at typical listening levels those 4 speakers can "suck the watts" right out of a AVR being used to power a surround system. Every 3Db increase in volume requires double the Watts.
