I Have Speakers In My Ceiling

We just moved into a home that is pre wired for speakers.

I have speakers in my ceiling. Something easy to install is a priority but the main concern is audio quality. I have no idea what i m doing so let me start there. These speakers have the same options as in ceiling speakers but instead are normally mounted to the room s walls instead of ceilings. 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.

Amplifiers are designed to work with a certain load and that s measured in ohms. We call this impedance though rather than resistance because a speaker doesn t act like a simple resistor. 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.

The bottom line. 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. In the living room there are 2 front speakers and 2 rear speakers. How do i connect the the speakers to my receiver ensuring a proper 4 8 ohm load is shown to the amplifier.

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. If possible i would rather not use a separate zone 2 amplifier as some rooms such as the guest bedrooms. However in some cases it s just not practical to install a pair of. My receiver has a powered zone 2 option.

The living room has speaker wires coming out of the wall. We just moved into a newer house that has built in speakers. 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 house has ceiling speakers in multiple rooms including a volume control in each room.

This is still the case as this is how they will be wired to the sonos amp.