Audiophile Grade In-wall Speakers Reviews

Not everyone can have bookshelf or floorstanding audiophile speakers in every room of their home but nearly everyone has a taste for speakers that truly sound fantastic. Today’s high end in-wall speakers can finally compete with the uber-high-end floorstanding audiophile speakers thanks to room correction and new in-wall technologies. Many home theater enthusiasts are using in-wall speakers for their front three speakers and or for side and or rear channel speakers. There is a new era of in-wall speakers now thus you don’t have to see your speakers to be WOWed by how they sound. Read reviews of the best in-wall speakers from Sonance, Niles, Wisdom Audio, PSB, Meridian, Paradigm, Noble Fidelity and many others.

Everything You Need To Know About In-wall Speakers

1.0 Overview About In-wall Speakers
2.0 Types of In-wall Speakers

2.1 Traditional In-wall Speakers
2.2 Rimless In-wall Speakers
2.3 In-wall Subwoofers
2.4 In-wall Speakers Behind Drywall

1.0 Overview About In-wall Speakers
In-wall speakers are core ingredient in the custom installer in more and more aspects of his or her projects. In-wall speakers are used in distributed audio systems for their stealth presentation of musical content without the need for bulky speakers. Its not uncommon to see an all in-wall speaker home theater or even in-wall audiophile speaker systems that have systems costing as much as $50,000 per pair and designed to be installed right in your drywall.

2.0 Types of In-wall Speakers

2.1 Traditional In-wall Speakers
Traditional in-wall speakers are designed to be cut into your drywall and fit into the space between the studs in your walls. In recent years, speaker designers have added pointable tweeters, equalizers and sound boxes that tune the audio performance of the speaker to a box that is designed to fit into the wall. This takes away the unpredictable audio environment in between someone's studs in their walls and creates a much higher performance and audibly superior result. Traditional in-wall speakers come in sizes that are round, square, rectangular and other less traditional shapes.

2.2 Rimless In-wall Speakers
One of the newest trends in in-wall loudspeakers was started by Sonance which is to engineer in-wall speakers that have no baffle thus sit absolutely flush to the dry wall. While on the surface, it seems like this would be a no-brainier, the engineering behind such a speaker is very sophisticated. Just ask any of the dozen companies trying to rip Sonance off for their very good idea. In a modern home installation, baffle-less or rim-less in-wall speakers look fantastic compared to in-wall speakers with baffles. These speakers also come with fabric grills and other out-of-the-box solutions that make in-wall speakers look less and less like actual speaker yet emit audiophile quality sound.

2.3 In-wall Subwoofers
In-wall speakers tend to not have much bass because of the lack of cabinet volume and small woofer drivers. Because of this more and more in-wall speaker companies are making in-wall subwoofers that are designed to fit inside the space between two studs and use a sound box to make deeper audio signals to make for a more powerful in-wall speaker experience especially for in-wall home theater systems that don't have room or the aesthetics for even a small traditional subwoofer.

2.4 In-wall Speakers Behind Drywall
One of the newest trends in in-wall loudspeakers was started by Sonance which is to engineer in-wall speakers that have no baffle thus sit absolutely flush to the dry wall. While on the surface, it seems like this would be a no-brainier, the engineering behind such a speaker is very sophisticated. Just ask any of the dozen companies trying to rip Sonance off for their very good idea. In a modern home installation, baffle-less or rim-less in-wall speakers look fantastic compared to in-wall speakers with baffles. These speakers also come with fabric grills and other out-of-the-box solutions that make in-wall speakers look less and less like actual speaker yet emit audiophile quality sound.