I Have Speakers In My Ceiling

Something easy to install is a priority but the main concern is audio quality.

I have speakers in my ceiling.

I have no idea what i m doing so let me start there. Adding your old wired speakers into a wireless setup provides some great benefits. How do i connect the the speakers to my receiver ensuring a proper 4 8 ohm load is shown to the amplifier. The bottom line.

My house has ceiling speakers in multiple rooms including a volume control in each room. Wiring multiple speakers to one amp if you have more than a pair of cables going to just one pair of speakers then you have to be more careful. The dining room has two buiilt in speakers in the ceiling. However in some cases it s just not practical to install a pair of.

If possible i would rather not use a separate zone 2 amplifier as some rooms such as the guest bedrooms. We call this impedance though rather than resistance because a speaker doesn t act like a simple resistor. Amplifiers are designed to work with a certain load and that s measured in ohms. In the living room there are 2 front speakers and 2 rear speakers.

Traditionally ceiling speakers have been designed to work with amplifiers that understand a left or right channel only so you would always buy a pair of ceiling speakers to set up as a stereo pair. This is still the case as this is how they will be wired to the sonos amp. Whilst ceiling mounted speakers have many advantages over floor standing speakers and you can t argue their understated aesthetics they do bring with them a few problems for companies to counter with their engineering. These speakers have the same options as in ceiling speakers but instead are normally mounted to the room s walls instead of ceilings.

This option can be used for a superior tv surround sound experience as the sound will be at listening height as opposed to a ceiling speaker where the sound comes from above. My receiver has a powered zone 2 option. The living room has speaker wires coming out of the wall. What to look for when buying in ceiling speakers.

However regardless of the wireless audio source signal transmission and reception method used you will still have to make a physical cable or wire connection to your speakers to make them work.