The Disadvantages of In-Wall Speakers

Everybody wants their home theater room, or whatever room they watch television and movies in, to look and sound awesome. Whether you’re designing the room yourself or using someone like Warner Audio & Video to create the room for you, there are some major decisions to be made. One of those decisions involves choosing a type of speaker for the room. Speakers take up space in the room and affect its looks, but more importantly they will determine whether the sound of your home theater system knocks you off your socks. Many people are tempted to go with in-wall speakers, but there are reasons to think twice about it.

Advantages

There are a couple of advantages of in-wall speakers that make them tempting. First, they take up very little space in the room. If you have a smaller room that’s already crammed full of furniture, adding a large speaker system can make it feel even more cramped. Second, because the speakers are in the walls, all of the wiring goes through the walls. This can make the room look cleaner and prevents any accidents that might occur from people tripping on cables or wires. The advantages are nice, but you have to weigh the disadvantages as well.

Sound Quality

In-wall speakers typically can’t compete with the sound quality of their free-standing or wall-mounted counterparts. In-wall speakers have a drastically different form from other speakers, and the form of a speaker affects its performance.

Mobility

Another disadvantage of in-wall speakers is that once they are installed, it is very difficult to move them. You are essentially creating a large hole in your wall or ceiling and running wires to it. Should you decide at some point that you want to rearrange your room, you’ll have to patch the old hole and reroute all the wires, whereas with regular speakers you could simply unplug them, move them, and then plug them back in.

Price

Another disadvantage of in-wall speakers, assuming you don’t have unlimited funds, is that in order to get good sound quality, you’ll have to spend a lot of money. There are in-wall speakers on the market that will knock your socks off; they’re just significantly pricier than other speakers of comparable quality. So, before you or Warner Audio & Video start setting things up, make sure you’ve chosen the right type of speaker.