in-wall speakers going into gas fireplace chimney cavity

eyedev
eyedev Posts: 18
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I will have my front and center speakers in the cavity for my gas fireplace. There's about 12" or more of space around the 6" chimney pipe on all sides. Inside that pipe is the actual 4" chimney exhaust so it doesn't get terribly hot in this cavity like you'd think. I'm installing the LS series speakers (255c-LS and 265-LS) in this wall. There are studs obviously so I could just 1) build a box out of 2x4s between the studs and put a piece of 1/2" plywood on the back and fill the space loosely with polyfil this box would be 4" deep, 2) make this "speaker box" larger by making the box deeper (maybe 6" deep on top of the 4" studs for a total of a 10" deep box) and filling with polyfil, or 3) keep the speakers as is with no box at all.

What would you do?
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,990
    I wouldn't consider putting speakers in a cavity to begin with. A pic of what your trying to do would help.
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  • littlewoodboats
    littlewoodboats Posts: 823
    If your fireplace is installed to code I would not worry about heat. My concern would be vibration transmitting through the chimney and out of the fireplace.
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,333
    Anything is possible. I remember paulsteve posted a pic of his large SDA 1 speakers wall mounted as shown below:

    29bjigo7vsft.jpg
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  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,629
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    Anything is possible. I remember paulsteve posted a pic of his large SDA 1 speakers wall mounted as shown below:

    29bjigo7vsft.jpg

    Is this real?
    Or is that one of those, how, not to place speakers!
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  • K_M
    K_M Posts: 1,629
    tonyb wrote: »
    I wouldn't consider putting speakers in a (Wall) cavity to begin with. A pic of what your trying to do would help.

    Fixed... ;)
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  • mrloren
    mrloren Posts: 2,465
    K_M wrote: »
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    Anything is possible. I remember paulsteve posted a pic of his large SDA 1 speakers wall mounted as shown below:

    29bjigo7vsft.jpg

    Is this real?
    Or is that one of those, how, not to place speakers!

    Yeah it is a bit nuts, I would not be in that doorway in an earthquake .
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