Hifi wall mounted speakers recommendations?

giovanni

giovanni

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Hey guys, I want to buy a new set of speakers to mount on the wall for my home hifi. I have found these, which look nice and seem to be exactly what I want, but I know nothing about the brand and have barely found reviews.

Do you guys have any suggestions? Any other options to consider? Do you know the AtlasIED brand?

Thank you guys in advance!
 
giovanni said:
Hey guys, I want to buy a new set of speakers to mount on the wall for my home hifi. I have found these, which look nice and seem to be exactly what I want, but I know nothing about the brand and have barely found reviews.

Do you guys have any suggestions? Any other options to consider? Do you know the AtlasIED brand?

Thank you guys in advance!
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I wonder about a single driver speaker for that application. I think all the home stereo speakers I’ve ever owned have had some kind of tweeter.
 
Erik S said:
I wonder about a single driver speaker for that application. I think all the home stereo speakers I’ve ever owned have had some kind of tweeter.
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Yeah I was wondering about that too. But they are nicely compact.
 
That’s really more of a “distributed sound system speaker—think classrooms, etc. (the transformer for 25/70 volts was the giveaway). Personally, I like the single speaker approach, but my guess is that’s a $5 raw driver in there. Is that right around your budget range, and you’re going to use them with an amp or reciever?
 
Alan W said:
That’s really more of a “distributed sound system speaker—think classrooms, etc. (the transformer for 25/70 volts was the giveaway). Personally, I like the single speaker approach, but my guess is that’s a $5 raw driver in there. Is that right around your budget range, and you’re going to use them with an amp or reciever?
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I was gonna use them with an amp. If I could find something higher quality with the same compact design and nice looks I would get that instead.
 
Those are for surround speakers, not mains.
I highly recommend ribbon tweeters. They're a little more directional than most domes but they are sooo much smoother, faster and lower distortion. AMT tweeter speakers have gotten much more affordable in recent years. Emotiva, Adam, Eve, and my beloved Martinlogans all use AMTs. I think presonus and even monoprice have some.
Doublecheck what is needed to drive them though. My MLs are 6 ohms.
 
jwin615 said:
Those are for surround speakers, not mains.
I highly recommend ribbon tweeters. They're a little more directional than most domes but they are sooo much smoother, faster and lower distortion. AMT tweeter speakers have gotten much more affordable in recent years. Emotiva, Adam, Eve, and my beloved Martinlogans all use AMTs. I think presonus and even monoprice have some.
Doublecheck what is needed to drive them though. My MLs are 6 ohms.
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Ah of course they are, I saw that but then immediately forgot like a goldfish.

I need 8-16ohms. Can you send me a link to the ones you have?
 
They have changed in the 12 years since I bought mine but this is the closest current production
For wall mount, I'd say check eBay for Matin Logan SLM. I believe both ML and emotiva have actual in wall speakers as well, designed to site between 16in centers.
 
jwin615 said:
They have changed in the 12 years since I bought mine but this is the closest current production
For wall mount, I'd say check eBay for Matin Logan SLM. I believe both ML and emotiva have actual in wall speakers as well, designed to site between 16in centers.
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Those are floor speakers no?
 
Speakers that are labeled as "surround" speakers work fine as main speakers—with the notion that they typically don't have much lower bass response. But very few speakers that are just a few inches deep (and not large in other dimensions) have much bass in any case. My guess is (and that's al this is) is that the Emotiva's would be very listenable, but will be bass shy. We have a big flat TV with a 5.1 system—small speakers at the front and front sides, with two surround speakers up in the rear and one subwoofer. There have been times when the subwoofer didn't automatically come on, and if music was playing on a soundtrack, we typically couldn't tell. (It's always the helicopters and explosions that give it away.)

So, to an extent, you're the only one that can decide how you feel about not much bass. At their spec, -3dB down at 75 Htz, you would notice, less so on folk or acoustic jazz, more so on rock etc. However, if you got them and added a small self powered subwoofer, you'd have a reasonably full range system. I'd expect a small sub to be around $200 and up.

Our stereo speakers are ones that I made, that each have just a single ~5 inch speaker in them, in a medium sized floor style enclosure that is technically a transmission line. They handle bass (like an upright bass or tuba) extremely well, but electronica sounds castrated on them.
 
So here’s my setup: I have my amplifier with record player in a room we call the library (although there are barely any books in it). This room communicates with the dining room / kitchen via a very wide opening, no doors. So we hear music fine in the kitchen, but I wanted to add a couple more speakers to install into the dining room on the wall against the ceiling so that it’ll sound even better. I’m not super worried about bass since there should be plenty coming directly from the library. Or as you said I can add a powered sub if needed. We never really listen to electronica. Classic rock, pop, jazz, lots of classical music…
 
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