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InwallTech HD650W inwall speakers


Ron from North Carolina writes:
My home was equipped with pricey B&W speakers years ago. I wanted to add speakers to the other part of my home which were not done at that time. [...]These HD speakers are awesome. They even sound better than my B&W!!

In wall speakers and in ceiling speakers typically DO NOT need to have boxes built or spaces constricted.

These types of speakers are designed with American homes in mind. That means that the makers of these speakers KNOW that your house uses 2 x 4 studs, that our standard stud placement is 16″ on center apart (14 1/2″ of space in between studs), our walls are at least 8 feet high and our ceiling spaces are either attics or joist type structure in between floors.

That means our walls have greater than 3 cubic feet of airspace and ceiling spaces even more than that.

So if I was a maker of speakers, I would make dang sure that my speakers sound good in those spaces without any modification. And that’s exactly what they do. Most all in wall and in ceiling speakers are “Infinite Baffle” design.
In true infinite baffle designs, the front wave output of the woofer is separated from the rear wave output of the woofer with the air mass behind the woofer does not assist the mechanical operation of the woofer. The rest of the article here.

When you constrict an infinite baffle design’s airspace behind, you basically squeeze the speaker from behind and limit the movement of the woofer (the larger speaker on the plate) and that lowers the amount of bass (low sounds) coming from the woofer.
Think of it this way, say you have a glass of water and you are sipping it from a straw. If you place the straw in the free water and suck, you get a nice full stream of water. Now instead of placing it in the water directly, you keep a little water in the straw but put your finger over the other end…try sucking now…what happens? The water can’t move to your mouth and the straw collapses.

When you get your speakers, RELAX! We’ve already thought about how they are going to be installed…AND THEY’LL SOUND GREAT!

We’re getting calls much more frequently about former owners taking their speakers with them. All the foreclosures are contributing to this new dynamic with installing in wall and ceiling speakers in their place.

The problem with this is that almost no two speakers are exactly the same size cut out. They are close and you can usually find something that will work out of the box, but more likely than not, you’ll have to trim a little bit of drywall to go UP in size.

Another problem is that on our website http://www.inwallstore.com is that we don’t like to publish cut out dimensions because you may experience shipping damage or UPS loses your package and you’re in a time crunch and have to go out and buy something local to fill the holes to make final inspection. But now you’ve got that problem above and no two speakers are exactly the same dimension. So we don’t list the dimensions to keep those problems at bay. Rough-in kits/pre-construction brackets present this same problem.

However, you can determine the cut out dimension by subtracting 1 1/4″ from the overall dimensions listed on our site. Try to resist that temptation to pre cut the holes and wait til you get your speakers in hand with that perfectly shaped template that we provide with every speaker.

Bk

This is how I do whole house audio.

Parts list:
1- Harman/Kardon HK3390 Stereo Receiver
4 pr.- InwallTech HD650W
1- InwallTech SS4R Speaker Selector
1- Apple Airport Express
1- Computer running iTunes connected to the house network or having Wifi

It all starts at your computer with the iTunes program. All your music gets downloaded onto your computer either physically with your CD’s or via downloading through iTunes or some other form of digital download.

From this iTunes interface you then basically broadcast your own radio station (what’s playing on iTunes) to your new Airport Express. You can pick which speakers to play to within iTunes. (You can click on the image to see it larger:

When you click on that area in the lower right, you get this dialogue:

If you want to play just to your computer speakers, you can pick just them. If you want both, you can pick both. If you want to send it to your Airport Express, you can pick just that. If you have MORE THAN ONE Airport Express, you can select ALL of them or ANY combination. This takes it one step further in that you can now WIRELESSLY send your music to more than one receiver. Maybe you have two levels and can’t get a speaker wire (or don’t care to go to that effort) to the second floor.

Your new Airport Express has a 1/8″ headphone jack that you plug into your receiver.

Then into back of receiver with the other end of the Y-Adaptor

From here you then have your whole house audio system plug into your receiver, then to the speaker selector, then to optional volume controls and onto the speakers. Here’s a link to a 4-Room Whole House Kit like I have operating (except with ceiling speakers, mine is a cathedral ceiling that I chose to put rectangle(wall style) inwalls).

Now use your iPad, iTouch or iPhone, walk around the house and change the track, search your whole library, change the volume or whatever!

CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT— If you are a FAN you are automatically ENTERED in this contest.
We are giving away a 5 speaker inwall/ceiling Theater Kit!
Here’s the catch (it’s not a bad catch)….we will draw from our FANS when we hit 500 fans. This is where you come in, we need you to “Suggest to Friends” (it’s a link right …below our logo on the upper left) and then your friends need to “Suggest to Friends” until we hit the 500 mark.

We’ll be giving away one of these (your choice) kits.

We’ve done a little dabbling in importing stuff before with our speaker wall plates. But now we’ve really jumped in feet first with our own line of speakers!
Instead of importing like a lot of “standard brand name” manufacturers do…they’ll design a speaker that they want for a price point and send that “recipe” off to the factory in China/Tawain for them to add their “ingredients” (which may or may not be like the ingredients that we have here) make them and send them back over here to market.
We contacted a very reputable factory that already has established manufacturing capabilities and standards in place for quality and assurances. But we let THEM put together this formula for speakers from THEIR knowledge of which components/materials go together best with THEIR ingredients to come up with a great sounding speaker, smartly designed for the price points we were trying to hold down!
We have started out with 4 models that are the most popular sizes for Home Theater applications, upgraded background and outdoor use.
The M65C should be the best seller of the bunch as it can be used in all of the intended mentioned areas. It will work for a Theater setup, upgraded whole house audio locations and we speced in an aluminum grill so it will work outside as well.
This 8″ version of the ceiling speaker M80C will be a better sounding, higher volume whole house audio type speaker. If you like to vacuum with the music cranked up…this is for you.
The M65W is the standard 6 1/2″ wall styled speaker that will mostly go into Theater applications as front mains, but can also be used in all the other positions as well…center, rears or mid sides.
Our LCR speaker M525LCR is the best “technical” speaker of the bunch. It’s dual woofer configuration enables it to move the same about of air as a larger speaker as it’s on the same plate in close proximity, but by having smaller woofers, they’ll move FASTER so they will sound livelier at any volume level. This will sound best in Theater rooms for sure!

Hedging your purchases against inflation is the best value you can come up with in these times. Watch for most manufactured goods to go up more than 20% this year. Buy now and you save.

For example, copper prices in the last two years have just about doubled. We used to sell a basic grade of Monster Cable 16 gauge 2 conductor wire 500 feet for $99…this year about $200.

A lot of what we’re seeing right now is cutting corners to maintain price points. We’ve had to keep an eye on our suppliers shipping techniques as they cut back on quality of boxes and they’re using no packing material. We even had one supplier just use the manufacturer’s box as a shipping container. Needless to say we’ve had some problems policing this practice. UPS won’t allow a claim, so we put it back on the supplier. Making them responsible has pretty much stopped these practices…but the price is now going to rise!

So if you’re on the fence about a theater system or whole house audio package, don’t be worried that you’re doing the right thing now….go ahead and click away!

Here are some of our better packages right now:
JA Audio Theater Pack for a 5.1 system

4 Room Whole House Complete Kit:

David,

Nope. None of the impedance matching versions out there will have a true off setting, where it totally disconnects from the circuit.

This is because the function of the impedance matching is that the whole circuit needs to remain constant. Meaning that the amp sees 8 ohms of impedance all the time. If one were to be taken out of the circuit, the impedance would change, going up in value, thereby all the other speakers would get more quiet. Which would be undesirable.

But I haven’t experienced that bleed thru with any of the volume controls at all. If you have your system properly initialized with most all of your volume controls set correctly, you shouldn’t hear anything when you turn one off.

Another option to avoid it completely would be to use a speaker selector as your impedance device and when you need to confidently turn off an area, use the button on the speaker selector. Speaker selectors take the leg completely out of the circuit. In this case, you’d use just regular volume controls with no impedance matching.

Brian Kruse
Installer
Inwall.com

On Jun 8, 2008, at 12:33 AM, xxxxx@msn.com wrote:

Name :
David Yee

Message :
Hi,
Can you tell me if the phoenix gold VSL125-RB volume control has a true OFF setting? If not is there one with a true OFF setting? I had heard that w/o this then there is a small amount of sound coming from the speakers even with the volume setting at the lowest?

thx,
David.

Jeff,

The best way to buy speakers on-line is to first get a baseline of what
type of material you like to listen to. Go out and listen to some
speakers and make a note of your observations and then record what they
are made out of.

You can listen to bookshelf types to determine this. Then you can make
a qualified decision online.

Material is BY FAR the most determining factor to your ears.

Brian Kruse
Installer
Inwall.com

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Bruce,

The larger of the two rooms could use 2 pairs in there. I’d suggest you
at least wire for two pair and maybe just cut in one set and see how it
sounds to be safe.

I always use the analogy of the mom and pop grocery store for coverage
issues. Many times in a small shop like that, there will be an
inexpensive stereo near the counter playing “ambient” music. If the
store is somewhat larger, they’ll turn it up so that it covers the whole
store. But what happens is in the front of the store, it’s really
quiet, and towards the back it’s too loud. They just need more speakers.

Same thing in a house setting.

See this for an article about pre-construction brackets:
http://www.inwallstore.com/kb_results.asp?ID=1

And a great bang for the buck type speaker that we have are these:
http://www.inwallstore.com/product_p/jac6aii.htm
These sound very good for the price.

Brian Kruse
Installer
Inwall.com

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