Yes, but certainly some people have that kind of room and specially speakers in the roof in a real situation.
One of our houses has high quality speakers in ceiling (fronts, mid, rears). 5 speakers driven by a very capable AV amp.
Unobtrusive, fine for TV etc.
No comparison to a pair of floorstanders in the same room for music.
Wall mounted we’ve never considered.
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yes as others have said - you might need to go to a specialist dealer who has models on demo to hear and compare, but KEF, JBL, Monitor Audio to name but a few have an interesting range of in wall speakers from the modest to the extravagant.
There are several advantages to in wall speakers with reflection reduction and good tight bass. I remember going into some rather impressive recording and production studios many years ago now, and they had large in wall monitors that sounded jaw droopingly impressive. I guess the down side is that you can’t really point at the listening sweet spot and not so easy to change when you want something different a few years later.
I would steer clear of in ceiling speakers for serious music replay - I have heard some rather good - even loud with descent bass - but not in the same league as quality in wall or hifi speakers, at least the ones I heard
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Yes, in recording studios it is common to angle the walls towards the principal position. Not so easy in most domestic situations. If speakers have wide dispertion it maight nit makw a difference, but that could be negative if untreated side walls are near.
well domestic in-wall speakers are designed with off-axis response factored in. They know they aren’t going to be used with toe-in and similarly, tweeters are unlikely to always be at ear level because in a domestic environment, people have furniture at that height.
@Simon-in-Suffolk I believe the current JBL in-walls are supposed to be exceptional value for money but really for the AV market. Probably their nearest performance parallel is the low cost Qacoustics in-wall range.
I’d really reiterate my previous post about not discounting on-wall as a compromise. You get the trunking for the cabling laid and put smack centre of where any speaker would go. When you mount an on-wall speaker with anchors and screws, you can always re-use at least one of those as-is if you change speakers and just add additional anchor points as needed when speakers change. While this adds holes to the wall, rememeber they will only be visible if you transition from a really large speaker to a much smaller speaker. You won’t have to replaster or paper/paint the wall when speakers change.
It was such hard work but I really got excellent results from on-walls (and in-ceiling). They are not invisible, but wall proximity furniture is unimpeded. I had really written off wall mounted anything for serious music (mainly due to less than stellar results with standmounts on wall brackets) but now I realise that if I had to go back in time to some of my tiny space challenged apartments where I had concluded hifi was not possible, I should have and could have done proper hi-fi on-walls. Sort of kicking myself now.
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