Next project.....Installing "in wall" speakers

[Nick Chapman]

Well, I've started running my wires for everything last night, and laying out where I'm going to be placing my "in wall" speakers. Surprisingly, this took a great deal of time to find the perfect location that would be in a good listening position, and still accomodate the house's structure.
I found a few places that I wanted them to go, but after searching with a stud finder, and climbing through the attic all evening, none of those places would work. After about 2 hours of nothing but frustrations, I think I've found a decent place to install them. I start cutting up sheetrock tonight......wish me luck :o

This Home Theater project is taking quite a bit longer than I originally planned. I knew it wasn't going to be easy, and I guess doing it all by myself has added a little bit of time also. But, I know the outcome is going to be worth it.

3 weeks now without any HT stuff hooked up.....I think I'm going through withdraws :(

[Nick Chapman]

Well, the "in wall" speakers are in and everything is wired up. Got my rack built in the closet, and all components hooked up. I've got a couple of things to clean up, then start testing everything. Man I am getting excited! :D

Should be watching a movie tonight if everything goes well!

[Vertnut]

Nick, is the sound quality diminished or muffled at all? I've seen some (a friend installed) that did. Basically, your internal wall is your cabinet. Let us know how it goes.

[Nick Chapman]

I haven't fired them up yet. I seriously hope that my sound quality isn't too much less than what I originally had before with my bookshlef speakers. I know it will be a little less, but I hope it's not too bad. I may have to build a box inside the wall to enclose the speaker to give it a little better sound.
Just a note, the "in wall" speakers are just the rear channels. I am keeping my towers up front, and my large center channel. So even if the sound quality is deminished quite a bit by these "in walls", hopefully I won't be able to notice too bad since they are only the rear channels.

[Nick Chapman]

One of the speakers is installed in an exterior wall. So I won't be able to do much with that one. It has a small amount of air space behind it, plus the insulation.

The other though, is in an interior wall, and there is a TON of space behind it. Hard to explain, but I had to mount them pretty high, and there is a drop down ceiling behind the wall that I mounted it in. So there is 10-15ft of air space behind this one speaker. This is the one I will probably have to build a box in the wall to enclose the air space.

[Sgt Beavis]

Pics or it didn't happen ;)

Today I got all my cables in from Monoprice. I'm going to hang my speakers today.

[Nick Chapman]

Pics or it didn't happen ;)

Today I got all my cables in from Monoprice. I'm going to hang my speakers today.



I didn't get any before or during pictures. But I'll take some afters. Nothing to it really. Once you find a suitable place to mount them, you cut the hole and put them in there. Biggest thing was running the wires through the attic. I have more bumps in my head from all those damn nails shooting through the roof :mad: