We are remodeling our basement and are looking to add some in-wall and/or in-ceiling speakers for surround sound for movies and sporting events (thinking 5.1). Our room has 3 walls. Looking from the couch the walls are front, left, and back. Follow our guide to speaker placement if you want to get the very best from every beat of music you listen to. How to position your speakers perfectly. Surround sound. If you have surround. 1-16 of 23 results for 'ceiling speaker placement for surround sound' Amazon's Choice for 'ceiling speaker placement for surround sound' Polk Audio RC60i 2-way Premium In-Ceiling 6.5' Round Speakers, Set of 2 Perfect for Damp and Humid Indoor/Outdoor Placement - Bath, Kitchen, Covered Porches (White, Paintable Grille).

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The Rundown

• Best Overall:Polk Audio RC80i at Amazon, “With an eight-inch balanced dynamic subwoofer and one-inch dome tweeter for a warm sound that fills an entire room.”
• Best Installation:Polk Audio 70RT at Amazon, “With a Perfect Fit template for finding the best fit the first time you attempt to install.”
• Best Budget:Pyle PDIC60T at Amazon, “Delivering a two-way sound that's an incredible value for the price.”
• Runner-Up, Best Overall:Klipsch CDT-5650-C at Amazon, “Delivering a surprising amount of bass for in-ceiling speakers.”
• Best Sound:Klipsch’s CDT-5800-C at Amazon, “With some of the best sound money can buy.”
• Best Design:Bose 742898-0200 at Amazon, “An ideal combination of performance and looks.”
• Best Theater:Acoustic Audio R191 at Amazon, “A versatile set that takes the home theater experience to an entirely new level.”
• Best Splurge:Bose Virtually Invisible 791 at Amazon, “A system that works to blanket the entire room with balanced audio performance.”

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Best Overall: Polk Audio RC80i

Manufactured out of moisture-resistant, durable material, the Polk Audio RC80i is a terrific choice for ceiling speakers (added bonus: you can even install them in a sauna or pool area). The eight-inch balanced dynamic subwoofer and one-inch dome tweeter allow for a warm sound that fills an entire room. The adjustable tweeter comes on a 15-degree swiveling mount, so it's easy to make the sound hit exactly where you want. The super easy installation comes right after a prepared hole is made in the ceiling and, with the wires to connect the speaker in place, you need nothing more than a screwdriver to make the RC80i flush with the ceiling. Their white coloring easily helps them blend in and makes them hardly noticeable on a white ceiling, but you’ll never question the sound.

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Best Installation: Polk Audio 70RT

The vanishing series built-in Polk Audio 70RT speakers are outfitted with Polk’s wafer-thin Sheer-grille that magnetically secures the speaker together while protruding a mere 7mm from the ceiling. Installation is easy, thanks to a one-cut, drop-in feature that offers Perfect Fit templates for finding the best fit the first time you attempt to install the 70RT speaker. Past its outstanding fit, the Polk sounds great because of a unique three-way driver that helps deliver full-size speaker performance in a compact package. Also enhancing the audio is a ¾-inch polymer tweeter, a 2.5-balanced driver and a seven-inch dynamic balance subwoofer.

Best Budget: Pyle PDIC60T

Capable of both wall and ceiling installation, the Pyle PDIC60T speakers deliver a two-way sound that's an incredible value for the price. The 6.5-inch design and 8-ohm impedance help boost the sound of the Pyle to a level that makes it ideal for a home theater system. The dual 6.5-inch speaker pairs with a one-inch titanium dome tweeter that’s rated at 250 watts of power and comes complete with a flush mount for the ceiling, as well as a one-inch high-temp voice coil. The included 70-volt transformer handles electricity quite well, while each tweeter offers adjustable direction by sending the sound to a specific area of the room. The bass that’s delivered from the Pyle gets surprisingly low, but really delivers when allowing the total volume to get loud. It’s loud in a way that will have friends questioning where the music is really coming from. The design helps the Pyle blend into a ceiling elegantly or allows you to paint the speaker grille to customize its look to match your decor.

Runner-Up, Best Overall: Klipsch CDT-5650-C

Offering an easy installation and premium sound, the Klipsch CDT-5650-C is a close second for the best ceiling speakers. Featuring a one-inch titanium tweeter and 6.5-inch pivoting cerametallic woofer, the high-performing sound incorporates a gimbal mechanism for directing the sound in the right direction. Connecting the Klipsch to either a 5.1 or 7.1 channel home theater system will get you set up and ready to go with 50 watts of power (200 watts peak) for a sound that has no problem getting quite loud. The audio is both crisp and accurate, with the highlights being the mids and lows. There's also a surprising amount of bass, which is unexpected for in-ceiling speakers. The minimal sound distortion at high volumes is another surprising result, which makes the Klipsch ideal for watching Blu-ray or Netflix movies at a high enough volume to feel like you’re right in the action. With the woofer capable of shifting 15 degrees in any direction and the 360-degree rotation of the tweeter, you'll have total flexibility with the Klipsch (and that’s a great thing).

Check out our other reviews of the best Klipsch speakers.

Best Sound: Klipsch’s CDT-5800-C

To be blunt, Klipsch’s CDT-5800-C in-ceiling speakers have some of the best sound money can buy. Powered by a one-inch titanium tweeter and an eight-inch pivoting cerametallic woofer, the Klipsch offers a high-performance and beautiful sound system that’s worth every penny. While an in-ceiling speaker is often limited by its fixed location, Klipsch’s adjustable controlled dispersion and horn-loaded technology help direct sound exactly where it needs to go with minimal effort and maximum results. Both treble and bass sound crisp and loud to match any kind of movie or music. It's available in white, but the speaker grille can be painted to match the color of any room.

Best Design: Bose 742898-0200

Seamlessly blending into the ceiling, the Bose 742898-0200 speakers are an ideal combination of performance and looks. The five-inch woofer and two strategically positioned ¾-inch tweeters offer a high-quality sound that is hardly matched by competitive in-ceiling speakers. Boosting the audio performance of Bose’s unique and exclusive Stereo Everywhere works to cover an entire room with stereo sound without any drop-offs. Beyond the sound is the visual appeal of Bose’s design. The near-bezel-less design and construction enables the speaker virtually disappear once installed into the ceiling. Available in white, the Bose speaker system adds an easily-paintable grille for matching any home decor and maintaining the invisible look and feel no matter your ceiling color. Additionally, installation is a snap, thanks to the integrated dogleg clamps and magnetically attached grille that drops right into a pre-cut ceiling hole with ease.

Best Theater: Acoustic Audio R191

Offering power between 20 to 200 watts per speaker, the Acoustic Audio R191 delivers a versatile set that takes the home theater experience to an entirely new level. The polypropylene 5.25-inch woofers, 12mm soft dome tweeter and 8ohms of impedance pool together to make the R191 sound crisp and clean. The paintable frame and grille offer both easy installation and the flexibility to change up the look to match your home’s coloring. The low-profile housing is designed to be easy to install with cutout templates for helping to discover the exact sizing that needs to be cut from the ceiling. The R191 has an all-weather design that works both indoors and outdoors.

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Best Splurge: Bose Virtually Invisible 791

The Bose Virtually Invisible 791 offers a high-quality sound that is hard to beat. The lone seven-inch woofer pairs with two strategically positioned one-inch tweeters for incredible sound. And there's also Bose’s signature Stereo Everywhere technology for balancing the sound in an entire room. Unlike competitors that can only focus their ceiling speakers in one direction, the Bose system works to blanket an entire room with balanced audio performance. And the result is both rich and clear low-end frequencies and strong high-end frequencies. The easy installation pairs with an ultra-slim bezel that makes the Bose model drop right into the ceiling (via a precut hole) and is secured in its position with dogleg clamps, drawing as little attention as possible. The detachable speaker grille can be removed and painted to better fit a room decor.

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Honestly I don't think it could work well enough to recommend as you are sitting so far away from the tv
Look at the thin on wall speakers they don't take up much space and you with be far far better off
http://axiomaudio.com/wallspeakers.html
Minimumly the center needs to be facing the seating area directly above or below the tv




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Yes, the center channel speaker goes either directly below, or above the TV. It is very typical that the three front speakers are not all the same height above the floor. My center channel speaker is 6 1/2' above the floor with my L&R speakers being standard towers (~4' tall). I do have my center channel speaker tilted down so it points at my head level at our main seating area. (BTW - - The left and right front speakers are not called surrounds, that term is reserved for speakers 4 & 5.)
(I see that crazyrob425 beat me to the send button. The Dobly site is excellent. THX & DTS have very similar sites.)

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I totally agree with the others that are in total agreement.
I doubly agree with regard to the fronts.. DON'T do it. You might be able to slither by with the rears in the ceiling but not the fronts.
My neighbors have a nice house, maybe 10K sq/ft or so. Living room has 14' ceilings or something near that. (they have an elevator... )
Anyway, I was over there once and she got ALL excited..'come in here and listen to the surround sound'
Turns out it was all in ceiling. As it happened, the local news was playing and the weather man was talking. The TV was in front of me yet the voices were coming from above.
It was rather erie. Much like the Voice of God from above, telling me it WAS going to rain tomorrow..
Knowing the budget they spent on their land and house, it would not surprise me that they put 10/15K into this setup. Frankly, I would not pay $500 for what I heard.
I think you could probably get away with the REARS being in the ceiling and some ceiling speakers can also be aimed. Just give it some deeper thought first regarding the front speakers. Better yet.. if you can get to my neighborhood, maybe I could get you an audition over there and you could hear first hand what I'm talking about.
Either that would be enough to make you committed to avoiding in ceilings for the front or, you put more importance on asthetics than the sound. (which is perfectly acceptable as long as you understand/accept the trade-offs)



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That is why I am making my own wall to house the fronts and center! Got to love the carpentry skills! The center that I am going to get from Monoprice is a bit wider than 16', but I can account for that when I make the framing up for the 'soffet'. I have decided that only the rears are going to be in-ceiling because that is the only option I have with the type of wall and location that the sofa HAS to be in. If the back of the sofa is about 5 inches off the wall, would it be best to have the in-ceiling speakers aiming straight down, or should I try to aim the speakers so that it bounces off the rear wall so accoustically it seems that the sound is coming from in back of you as much as possible?

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I think the less sound you have bouncing around the better, but someone else should weigh in on this.
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'That is why I am making my own wall to house the fronts and center! Got to love the carpentry skills!' Must be nice, I can draw a straight line with a very good ruler (most of the time).
Just to be clear; you mentioned 'rears' above. Do you mean speakers 6 & 7 of a 7.1 system, or are you really referring to 'surrounds' (speakers 4 & 5)? (These terms are often confused.) Surrounds should be mounted at 90 to 110 degrees from your main listening area, and rears should be mounted directly behind the seating area. If you are mounting your surrounds on your side walls, and rears as you mentioned directly above your seating area, then IMO speakers 6 & 7 will not bring much to the party unless your room is very wide. With your carpentry skills you probably do not have much to lose by installing speakers 6 & 7 above your seating area, but I would not expect to hear a great difference between a 5.1 & a 7.1 speaker array.
I will use my speaker array as an example of how NOT to do a 7.1 system. My 6 & 7 channel speakers are ceiling mounted (long story on how that happen), and they are mounted about 2' behind my two main seats, but are about 15' apart (almost directly above my stand-mounted surround speakers). The ceiling speakers are very poor to begin with, and since they are not properly located (should be directly behind my two seats about 2 -4' apart), I cannot even tell if they are on or not. For several reasons I am stuck with this poor arrangement, so really I have a 5.1 system with 7 main speakers.

Originally Posted by mekkerl I put my TV over our fireplace..a project we did about two years ago. Best decision we made. Love the height of the TV and all the viewing locations it creates being that high. Also, putting the TV over your fireplace creates ONE focal point in the room. If you were to put the TV on another wall..there is your second focal point of the room! Keep with your idea and put it where you want..just make sure you test the height with a piece of cardboard, etc..

Just because I've done this for 20 years doesn't make always right. You are correct that the sight lines can be excellent, especially with today's open floor plans. For a primary home theater/surround sound location it's awful.
Out of hundreds of jobs (flat panel specific) I have yet to see one that wouldn't have performed better in an unused bedroom. I say this for a number of reasons.
1) lower tv height = easier to watch
2) less ambient light = better image
3) better speaker locations = better sound
4) improved sound isolation (close the door/heavier door/solid door/sealed door = better sound & less likely to disturb/annoy other family members
TV's often take away from the cozy, relaxed environment that a fireplace creates. It's almost like going to a theater to watch a movie in the lobby/concession area. Convenient yes, ideal no.
There are a number of other reasons.
At the end of the day I do what my customers request. Additionally, I always recommend what will perform best first. I provide alternatives that may not have been considered. I rarely tell a client not to do it (unless for safety or cost reasons). I simply think it's RARELY the best choice though it's always an obvious one.



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Yep! I guess that speakers 4-7 are all really surrounds, but to keep things a little less confusing, 6 & 7 are referred to as the rear speakers.

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