Way OT - Sound differences? Want to do in-ceiling speakers, do they sound good?

[hakwuzhere]

Shoo, if youve got bookshelves and your a "stereo" fan... you should just get some decent bookshelves... a sealed enclosure speaker will outperform an infinate baffle speaker 9 times out of 10...

When I buy a house, my stereo room is going to have an amp stand with a decent sub underneath and two bookshelf speakers on stands to the left and right... with my listening area in the perfect sweet spot Itll either be McIntosh or Rotel powered... with prolly Canton bookshelves and a velodyne sub.

[RobPatt]

working the tradeoffs... will prob do regular floor speakers else smaller (big bookshelfs?) on stands....

Shoo, if youve got bookshelves and your a "stereo" fan... you should just get some decent bookshelves... a sealed enclosure speaker will outperform an infinate baffle speaker 9 times out of 10...

When I buy a house, my stereo room is going to have an amp stand with a decent sub underneath and two bookshelf speakers on stands to the left and right... with my listening area in the perfect sweet spot Itll either be McIntosh or Rotel powered... with prolly Canton bookshelves and a velodyne sub.

[Gayle]

Last year my girlfriend got a plasma tv and surround sound in the ceiling. We watched Lord of the Rings and X Men that were "dolby theatre" quaulity.

About her TV, I was like "yeah, yeah, thats nice" but the surround sound was like "omg, that's truly awesome! I want that". It was chilling to hear the soldiers walking with their staffs banging the ground and when the wall broke and the water came pouring out--it was just amazing. The couch underneath me shook without the sound hurting my ears.


I think the reason the sound quality was so good was the "dolby theatre" and there is not a lot of it out there. It is like high def content--the players are here but the availablity of the content is still too limited.