Recessing Speakers In Wall...help?

SIGNGUY

i purchased the RM7500 speaker system and it is nothing short of AWESOME...do any of you own these? what do you think of them?
anyway....
.....i am building a home theater and i want to "recess" the front left,right and center "into" the wall...i am thinking about making the "boxes" in the wall an inch or two larger than the height and depth of each speaker, having the face of each speaker flush with the wall surface....at sitting ear level of course...
what do you think? do you have any suggestions? will it sound ok?
any advise would be greatly apreciated....SIGNGUY

RuSsMaN

It will make for a 'clean' install, however, I would make sure the front baffle of the speakers is at least slightly forward of the wall itself. I worry about a 'megaphone' or some such effect occuring.

As far as HT goes, I like the mains flush or in front of the screen itself, you may want to tweak the delay settings on your receiver (assuming you are not using a plasma or super thin set mounted flat on the wall)

You may want to consider some isolation pads for the speakers, maybe even some dampening behind them in their new 'box'. Someone may correct me on this, but I believe the sheetrock used here (texas) has a resonant freq of around 400Hz, which can be a critical midrage area.....

Cheers,
Russ

gidrah

I agree with Russman on all 3 points. You might even want to pick a couple sheets of drywall, and do a temporary install to see how it sounds before you tear into the wall, run the cables and all.

Good luck! Sounds like a great idea.

hoosier21

I agree with Russman that installation could be tricky. The sound might not be as clean with the speakers are inside a box. Also they (right and left speaker) are 5+ inches deep, they won't fit in the wall, all the speakers in that system minus the subwoofer are made to where thay can be wall mounted, maybe this would work better. Just my thoughts.

Micah Cohen

My thoughts are, why hide these nice-looking speakers? They're shallow and curved, aren't they made to be wall mounted and look cool?

http://www.polkaudio.com/home/products.php?category=2&speaker=32

MC

SIGNGUY

first of all...thanx for all of your help
i dont really want to "hang" them on the wall, so to speak. although i DO understand about the rear power ports and the negative, "boxy" sound that may occur.
what i am doing is building a wall about 4 feet forward from the exsisting wall behind my TV that will "frame" the TV screen, making the screen surface flush with the wall...i hope im explaining this properly.
i will probably add another 27" monitor for use with video games or for surfing alternate channels as in picture in picture.
i have a 61" Toshiba Cinema Series TV..had it about 4 yrs and love it.
anyway...i have a rather dark and cozy livingroom and plan on the wall being finely crafted and very classy looking (wood, not drywall)similar to the ones in the pic i have attached here.
so...seeing the pic and knowing a little more about my plan im sure you can see why i wanted to recess them...seeing that they are "bookshelf" speakers im now thinking about just placing them on shelves in the wall instead, thinking that that will give enough room around the speaker for the bass to "travel" around the speaker which is more in line with their intended use. (instead of in a box)
what do you think of that idea? also, does the same apply for the center speaker?
thanx again....

SIGNGUY

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