Living Room with in-wall 7.1.4 and PJ

I'm really curious about in wall speakers. My plan is when we either buy or build a place is to completely upgrade my home cinema setup and in wall speakers will be ideal given 2 cats and wife wanting a sprog or two running around.

Also you're using the same speaker as a centre that you are using for fronts. Unless I missed something? Will this cause balance issues do you think? Or can it be corrected/balanced out by the amp?

Not trying to nitpick. Genuinely curious!

Another note. When it comes to the electrics, decorating, basically all the prep/setup work. Are you doing this yourself or do you have a firm in to do it?

I can only imagine the looks if I asked a Portuguese decorator to paint my ceiling the same colour as the walls :D

I also really like the blue. Very neutral and understated.
 
I'm pretty sure using same speaker for left/right/centre is recommended because they will all be tonally matched.

My wife and I did the decorating. I work from home, so I've kept a close eye on things. I planned things like the stud wall, so we could sink the speakers in and it made a good target to put the AV plates for ease of wiring. The electrician did all the wiring.

Yea white ceiling is a quite surprise to some, but we like it - and it will help cut down on reflection for the projector. But it's not so dark that it feels like a dedicated cinema room.
 
dancook said:
I'm pretty sure using same speaker for left/right/centre is recommended because they will all be tonally matched.

My wife and I did the decorating. I work from home, so I've kept a close eye on things. I planned things like the stud wall, so we could sink the speakers in and it made a good target to put the AV plates for ease of wiring. The electrician did all the wiring.

Yea white ceiling is a quite surprise to some, but we like it - and it will help cut down on reflection for the projector. But it's not so dark that it feels like a dedicated cinema room.
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Tonally, yes. But my thoughts were more along the speech/vocals suddenly having a lot more power than a typical centre? :D

I'm not sure. Just thinking out loud here. I know from personal experience when I upgraded my centre to my current one which is much newer and more powerful than my fronts that suddenly it was almost overbearing at first. Although thinking about it, it's a large room to fill as well...so more umph for vocals might not be such a bad thing!
 
Phate said:
Tonally, yes. But my thoughts were more along the speech/vocals suddenly having a lot more power than a typical centre? :D

I'm not sure. Just thinking out loud here. I know from personal experience when I upgraded my centre to my current one which is much newer and more powerful than my fronts that suddenly it was almost overbearing at first. Although thinking about it, it's a large room to fill as well...so more umph for vocals might not be such a bad thing!
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There is the Anthem Audio Room Correction which should balance the speakers, comes with a microphone - you connect it to a pc/laptop run the setup and you get a nice PDF report of before & after :)
 
Wish could do a room up from scratch like you, but alas. What amps do you have? I'd defo be looking into dedicated amps for Kef Reference (have Kef Reference myself)

What sub do you have?
 
dancook said:
I'm pretty sure using same speaker for left/right/centre is recommended because they will all be tonally matched.

My wife and I did the decorating. I work from home, so I've kept a close eye on things. I planned things like the stud wall, so we could sink the speakers in and it made a good target to put the AV plates for ease of wiring. The electrician did all the wiring.

Yea white ceiling is a quite surprise to some, but we like it - and it will help cut down on reflection for the projector. But it's not so dark that it feels like a dedicated cinema room.
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You can go same speaker, same brand/range, but unless you go inwall or plan room out from scratch, then most people have to make compromise, or even choose "non matching" on purpose, because you prefer those speaker or speaker type. However flipping the coin, sometimes identical speakers is not what you actually prefer.

And then for surrounds I would not want monopoles speakers, and the speaker make for fronts/center do not make bipoles (which I do prefer) I guess if you do find a brand that makes stereo, center, surround, and atmos speakers you like, and the type -great..but pretty darn rare.

For example if I had M&K S-150 for L/R, this might be great for a home cinema speaker, but I wouldn't like them for music L/R speakers in 2 channel mode as I generally prefer floorstanders. But then if you have the floorstander for L/R then unlikely able to place a floorstander for center as well as it'll get in the way of the screen/display.

"Also you're using the same speaker as a centre that you are using for fronts. Unless I missed something? Will this cause balance issues do you think? Or can it be corrected/balanced out by the amp?"

No problem whatsoever, why would it be an imbalance? If it's dB levels this is done manually, or automatically in the AVR/AV processor.
 
hornetstinger said:
Wish could do a room up from scratch like you, but alas. What amps do you have? I'd defo be looking into dedicated amps for Kef Reference (have Kef Reference myself)

What sub do you have?
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I have a bk electric monolith df plus.

Also using Anthem mrx1120

It's a semi detached house, can't go mad
 
dancook said:
Careful? do you think something could break?

Since there's a limit to how loud I'm going to have it, I will wait before considering a power amp. I've already added a shelf to a custom designed rack in case I need one.
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more power is better than not enough, could be expensive blowing reference tweeters. Reason why I went dedicated amps, as my drivers are no longer available, so rather buy a amp rather blowing treble drivers.

Now use ATI 2000 series amplifiers. 200W into 8ohm, 300W into 4ohm, all channels driven. hehehe
 
Fantastic. Love the wood colour.

Can you enlighten us on a rough "budget" for this? Not specifically for the whole extention but lets imagine the room was already built and ready to be worked on to bring it to this state with your hardware picked?
 
Phate said:
Fantastic. Love the wood colour.

Can you enlighten us on a rough "budget" for this? Not specifically for the whole extention but lets imagine the room was already built and ready to be worked on to bring it to this state with your hardware picked?
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thanks!

It's not difficult to work out the RRP prices of the kit involved, but I feel a bit reluctant to put a price on this room :)
 
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