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my review 6 years ago I praised the convenience and reliability of Sonos is wireless audio gear but criticized the quality of the integrated speakers to be clear they're fine but for pick your ears Sonos has a solution anyway their amp lineup of products allows you to connect your own speakers to their app for easy wireless streaming and control so let's just go ahead and grab an amp and a couple of in ceiling oh my goodness each room is going to cost me even with the bundle savings over $1,200 in and speakers surely I can do better than that right yes yes I can one of my other criticisms of Sonos was their high prices although to their credit they've actually done a pretty darn good job of supporting their products if you don't mind using their S1 or Legacy app you can pick up a connect amp which is the older version of the amp for as little as $250 that's a product from 2008 that is still usable today without any kind of subscription fee that's actually a rarity among iot device makers if you have other newer gear though you're going to want to watch out and get one that is compatible with the S2 app so that's one that was made in March 2014 or newer so for example I've actually got this Sonos Arc their new Soundbar I'm working on a review of that make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it so I needed to make sure that all of my gear was S2 ready for that I ended up spending around $370 a unit for two more connect amps although I still think that's pretty good bang for the buck especially when you consider how well Sonos gear tends to hold its value and the fact that they often offer generous upgrade programs so you can consider that investment in the Legacy product as sort of a discount on your new one when you do eventually have to upgrade on the speaker side of things I actually ended up very pleasantly surprised I ordered these pul audio rc80i from Amazon thinking that uh there was only one speaker in the box but as it turns out it's actually just $165 for not one but two in sealing speakers here we go my kids are getting in ceiling speakers in their bedroom one cool feature of these speakers is if you pop the grill you can actually redirect the Tweeter slightly according to where you think your audience is going to end up and given I've already got a pair of them installed in my living room I can say with confidence that you'll be pretty surprised actually especially for the price by the sound quality you get out of these things the best part of it of course though is that for less than the price of a brand new amp I have got my last generation S2 compatible connect amp and a pair of speakers to install in this room that's half price baby so the story behind this room is this is actually two rooms what you're looking at up on the ceiling is what used to be the closets for each of the rooms and at some point they may become two rooms again that's why this single room got two air conditioning units so it would be nice if we could just do a single speaker in each room did we figure out what the deal was like why it didn't fit right away cuz see there's the two different well layers we're not painting it so we should be popping out the outer layer we should be taking that it's tight yeah TI really tight okay so where do you want keep in mind these things have to come out that's how they anchored down so it needs to be able to touch the drywall so it can't be right next to the stud a little more than 3 in it's like so close though does that look good yeah it looks great okay I am actually concerned about that one because these things are what hold it in place and if the drywall is already cracked there I don't think it's going to be structurally good enough to hold it in place this like 2 or 3 lbs no it's more than 2 to 3 lb this is more than 2 to 3 lb it's uh from 117 to 112 So Okay 5 lb 5.8 lb okay and also I feel like I need to set the record straight people thought I bought this leopard print stuff what I bought it I'm obviously a stylish guy oh yeah oh balls for those wondering the reason we're cutting it from the bottom side is that actually the reason for this whole Bullet Hole situation over there was that it was cut from the top which can be a lot Messier so uh this is to get a nice clean hole always make sure you got a clean hole oh boy what did I marry for those who didn't catch it I unplugged this before doing what I'm doing with the blade before you guys Reit me oh boy you missed by a lot all right woo cish it's a good thing the uh electrical cable here is an armored one see Brian knew who he was dealing with this one in first oh yeah nice what kind of screwdriver bit does it use uh this cross cross crying out loud okay all right that's in there pretty good oh wait yeah it is you're on suck Duty ah oh my nipple oh yeah wow it's so tight it even just like sticks there now All That Remains is to run speaker wire under here oh well you guys aren't going to be able to see this I'm afraid but uh they they go into the back of the speaker kind of like like a speaker now I'm just going to don't worry not going to put this down all the way or anything but I just want to hold it kind of in place that's good enough I've got a couple of outlets in my attic that I'm no longer using for anything since Brian wired in proper lights here a little while ago so I'm just going to plug two of these puppies uh one of these connect amps per room I'm just going to plug them into power here and then probably realistically I'm just going to throw like a a piece of 2x6 or something on top of the insulation or maybe I'll just make a little shelf right here and I'm just going to Chuck them right here just pop that through there and this thing should pick up and I should be able to press play so let's go ahead and just grab some music here that's a good sign let's run downstairs which way do you want them pointed maybe one right here where my hand is and then one like where the bean bag is over there okay you ready yeah yay yes they're both working okay nice okay now let's have a look at what kind of sound quality we get if we don't care about saving any money and we were to spend like as much if not actually more than Sonos own speakers on the in ceiling speaker component do you want do you want square or do you want Circle for your grill oh oh These are oh these are adjustable too okay never mind never mind so these just have a different mechanism for adjusting the angle that they sit at I mean that's fine cuz depending where we want to put it we might just want to like this would be for like a home theater setup where you'd want to angle it towards the listener but here we might just put it in the corner of the room and then just kind of angle it out towards the room cuz we're just putting a single speaker in here sorry sorry audio file people can we hide it in that corner yeah so we're going to want to angle it kind of like that nope can't do it there oh why ah there's a joist like right here so basically or like here so it' have to be like right there and there's a big thing around it like it's not going to fit okay well what if so it would have to come out to like here the speaker is actually really heavy it's a good thing that the mounting mechanism is separate from it you just pop this in first and then put this in and then turn it to lock it pretty cool woo it's actually really nice that this one has it open like that yeah you can do it all from this side oh yeah that's sweet all right let's see how this one sounds you know I might actually like the look of the girls on the other one better I was just talking to Andy about that cuz the other ones have a ring around them so they almost kind of matches everything else yeah okay it's a lot better um it's a lot more clear well yeah yeah it's way better I I don't know if I would pay six times as much or whatever that works out to but uh well are you sure cuz you do that for your computer 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