Feb
29
I’m often asked, “Are in-wall speakers really good enough to use as rear surrounds?” I get this question most often from folks who’ve invested quite a bit of money for their front channels and are a bit dubious that in-walls (this applies to in-ceilings as well) can perform in the same league as their floor-standers. Make no mistake, in-walls have come a long way in recent years. It’s likely that some of them may even sound better than your current front channels.
In the past, in-walls were made with flimsy plastic frames, low quality crossovers, paper driver cones, and were best suited for background-noise. These days it’s possible to find in-walls with metal baskets, injection-molded frames, crossovers that rival those found in some traditional speakers, polypropylene drivers and are best suited to blowing your socks off.
A couple of in-wall speakers in the ‘knock your socks off’ class would be the Klipsch KL-7800-THX in-walls with 8-inch aluminum woofer and one-inch titanium-dome tweeter, or Energy’s’ Veritas V2.2WM 3-way, custom series, in-wall speakers with aluminum dome mid-range and tweeters with 6.5” woofer.
From there and moving even higher up in the high-end food chain, would be something like PSB’s CW800E (pictured left) in-wall speakers priced at a budget busting $2,749.00 each. Obviously these are some extreme examples of in-walls that can hold their own against tradition speaker types, but there are plenty of others to choose from at all price points. As always we recommend listing to any speaker before you buy it.
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