Opportunity for in ceiling/wall speakers; Advice?

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Hey all,

So, getting a new place, and it needs a bit of work done on it, some decorating, boiler install etc.
And I was thinking there's an opportunity to install some speakers in the living room/round the house to have a good home audio solution.
Anyone have any experience with this?

I'm not a massive audiophile, just like to have some music on while bouncing about the house, and partial to a nice sit infront of a move/netflix.
From looking around people seem to suggest in wall speakers are better for Films, but in ceiling's good for whole house sound, is there a happy compromise? or a can you mix and match with different 'profiles'?

any help welcome
 
I suppose I'd thought about it like when you select different inputs on an amp,
You put on 'movie mode' and I'd have the tv room doing its surround sound thing
put it in music and Play music through the house.

Each room as it's own music space sounds perfect, I thought the best I could hope for is 'same music throughout the house, and able to mute/volume control different rooms'
 
Alright,
so, I'm not opposed to running cables through the ceiling/walls,
The whole place is really getting a once over, kitchen/bathroom re-done etc.
So what is a 'shopping list' I need to be looking at here? assume I have nothing :p Is it all based on square footage of room etc?
 
Oooh, there's far more options than I thought!
Apart from the main TV room I think I could live without tvs connecting in the bedrooms.

I've got a cupboard that I'd planned as a networking cupboard and the server. What sort of heat are we talking here? Average rack server, or something more heafty?
 
Alright, well I'll see, when I say a cupboard, it's an open fronted alcove in the spare room, so I wasn't planing on sealing it in a box type thing.

So Is there anything you could point me to to help learn?
Like the consideration I need to make on number of rooms/different features? Because I clearly aren't up to date with the capabilities haha
 
Thanks for the Response SimonR

That's good to know, I'm a fairly small space and I'm trying to map some actual wants:

I'm wanting to play music across the living room, kitchen, hall as one.
Have the gym be a different zone.
Ideally be able to adjust the volume in each room independently.
I wouldn't mind if It was just 'music in the gym and I can mute the rest of the house' if that makes sense?

Kitchen (3m x 2m)
Living Room (5m x 3.75m)
Hall
Gym (2.7m x 2.7m)

Then I'd like to have the living room have a 'tv mode'? as in it would control the speakers in the living room independently for films/tv.
 
I like the sound of your system! haha
Though I'm not a fan of alexa/home assistants.
The Idea that people can bluetooth to it would be good, otherwise I'd thought controlling through an app/tv(either tv output or tv as a monitor of the htpc)
I had initially thought like 2.5k? but that was without much knowledge of how to get everything I'd want, could creep up, but as renovation needs done first I'd like to get the stuff that needs installed in walls/ceiling done first, then could buy the stuff to drive it later haha
 
Here's some photos of the living room, where I'd want the TV space. I'm considering pulling the whole fire bit out when I get the boiler changed and possibly having that as the TV space
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Sounds a reasonable use of the space

I had considered tucking everything in the cupboard in bedroom 3? Is that just going to cause me problems running cables /controlling things?
 
So, if I go with fireplace goes, TV there, cabinet for the equipment etc.
As there is a window to the right, what would the best plan be for the rest of the speakers? Would in ceiling ones be good? Or is that just a fad when going for surround sound?
 
Right, had a wee read
So 5.1.2 sounds my thing I think for the TV space. Atmos sounds nice haha
Now would the rears being mounted in the wall be reasonable? Ideally I'd like everything as unobtrusive as possible, but front right and left being bookshelf /free standing sounds fine.

So, if I had that, then 2 speakers in my kitchen ceiling for general music, and ideally another 2 in the small bedroom (gym)
Could I drive that all from one unit in the living room, or am I looking at pre amps at this stage? Or is that all down to speaker choice?
 
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