a whole home sound system is one of those things that used to only be
achievable by people with way too much money on their hands but nowadays you
can dot your house with Amazon Echo get it connect them to powered
speakers and have music in every room to enjoy while you cook clean or have RGB
dance parties of course not everyone wants to see the wires or even the
speakers for that matter so today's video is going to be about on a
converting my Sono setup to one that can be hidden away in my
ceiling not quite like
that so in 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 speakers and
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guys enjoyed this video because you just love seeing me crawl around in my attic
did she get that Center yeah that does look pretty good then you can check out
the video where Brian and I installed air conditioning that
was that was rough it's hot up there it's getting hot here