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a whole home sound system is one of those things that used to only be

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achievable by people with way too much money on their hands but nowadays you

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can dot your house with Amazon Echo get it connect them to powered

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speakers and have music in every room to enjoy while you cook clean or have RGB

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dance parties of course not everyone wants to see the wires or even the

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speakers for that matter so today's video is going to be about on a

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converting my Sono setup to one that can be hidden away in my

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ceiling not quite like

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that so in my review 6 years ago I

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praised the convenience and reliability of Sonos is wireless audio gear but

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criticized the quality of the integrated speakers to be clear they're fine but

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for pick your ears Sonos has a solution anyway their amp lineup of products

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allows you to connect your own speakers to their app for easy wireless streaming

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and control so let's just go ahead and

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grab an amp and a couple of in ceiling

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oh my goodness each room is going to cost me even with the bundle savings

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over $1,200 in and speakers surely I can do

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better than that right yes yes I can one

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of my other criticisms of Sonos was their high prices although to their

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credit they've actually done a pretty darn good job of supporting their

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products if you don't mind using their S1 or Legacy app you can pick up a

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connect amp which is the older version of the amp for as little as

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$250 that's a product from 2008 that is

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still usable today without any kind of subscription fee that's actually a

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rarity among iot device makers if you

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have other newer gear though you're going to want to watch out and get one

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that is compatible with the S2 app so that's one that was made in March 2014

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or newer so for example I've actually got this Sonos Arc their new Soundbar

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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

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my gear was S2 ready for that I ended up

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spending around $370 a unit for two more

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connect amps although I still think that's pretty good bang for the buck

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especially when you consider how well Sonos gear tends to hold its value and

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the fact that they often offer generous upgrade programs so you can consider

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that investment in the Legacy product as sort of a discount on your new one when

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you do eventually have to upgrade on the speaker side of things I actually ended

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up very pleasantly surprised I ordered

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these pul audio rc80i from Amazon

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thinking that uh there was only one

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speaker in the box but as it turns out it's actually just

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$165 for not one but two in sealing

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speakers here we go my kids are getting in ceiling speakers in their bedroom one

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cool feature of these speakers is if you pop the grill you can actually redirect

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the Tweeter slightly according to where you think your audience is going to end

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up and given I've already got a pair of them installed in my living room I can

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say with confidence that you'll be pretty surprised actually especially for

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the price by the sound quality you get out of these things the best part of it

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of course though is that for less than the price of a brand new amp I have got

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my last generation S2 compatible connect amp and a pair of speakers to install in

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this room that's half price baby so the

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story behind this room is this is actually two rooms what you're looking at up on the ceiling is what used to be

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the closets for each of the rooms and at some point they may become two rooms

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again that's why this single room got two air conditioning units so it would

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be nice if we could just do a single speaker in each room did we figure out

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what the deal was like why it didn't fit right away cuz see there's the two

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different well layers we're not painting

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it so we should be popping out the outer layer we should be taking that it's

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tight yeah TI really tight okay so where do you want keep in mind these things

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have to come out that's how they anchored down so it needs to be able to

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touch the drywall so it can't be right next to the stud a little more than 3 in

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it's like so close though does that look good yeah it looks

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great okay I am actually concerned about that one because these things are what

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hold it in place and if the drywall is already cracked there I don't think it's

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going to be structurally good enough to hold it in place this like 2 or 3 lbs no

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it's more than 2 to 3 lb this is more than 2 to 3 lb it's uh from 117 to 112

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So Okay 5 lb 5.8 lb okay and also I feel

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like I need to set the record straight people thought I bought this leopard

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print stuff what I bought it I'm

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obviously a stylish guy oh

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yeah oh balls for those wondering the

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reason we're cutting it from the bottom side is that actually the reason for

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this whole Bullet Hole situation over there was that it was cut from the top

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which can be a lot Messier so uh this is to get a nice clean hole always make

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sure you got a clean hole oh boy what

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did I marry for those who didn't catch it I unplugged this before doing what

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I'm doing with the blade before you guys Reit

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me oh boy you missed by a

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lot all right woo cish it's a good thing

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the uh electrical cable here is an armored one see Brian knew who he was

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dealing with this one in

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first oh yeah nice what kind of

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screwdriver bit does it use uh this cross cross crying out

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loud okay all right that's in there

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pretty good oh wait yeah it is you're on suck

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Duty ah

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oh my nipple oh yeah wow it's so tight

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it even just like sticks there now All That Remains is to run speaker wire

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under here oh well you guys aren't going to be

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able to see this I'm afraid but uh they they go into the back of the speaker

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kind of like like a speaker now I'm just going to don't

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worry not going to put this down all the way or anything

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but I just want to hold it kind of in

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place that's good enough I've got a couple of outlets in my attic that I'm

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no longer using for anything since Brian wired in proper lights here a little

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while ago so I'm just going to plug two

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of these puppies uh one of these connect amps per room I'm just going to plug

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them into power here and then probably realistically I'm just going to throw

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like a a piece of 2x6 or something on

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top of the insulation or maybe I'll just make a little shelf right here and I'm

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just going to Chuck them right here just pop that through there and

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this thing should pick up and I should be able to press play so let's go ahead

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and just grab some music here that's a good

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sign let's run downstairs

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which way do you want them pointed maybe one right here where my hand is and then

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one like where the bean bag is over there okay you ready

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yeah yay yes they're both working okay

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nice okay now let's have a look at what

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kind of sound quality we get if we don't care about saving any money and we were

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to spend like as much if not actually

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more than Sonos own speakers on the in

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ceiling speaker component do you want do you want square or do you want Circle

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for your grill oh oh These are oh these are adjustable too okay never mind never

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mind so these just have a different mechanism for adjusting the angle that

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they sit at I mean that's fine cuz depending where we want to put it we

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might just want to like this would be for like a home theater setup where you'd want to angle it towards the

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listener but here we might just put it in the corner of the room and then just

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kind of angle it out towards the room cuz we're just putting a single speaker in here sorry sorry audio file people

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can we hide it in that corner yeah so we're going to want to angle it kind of

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like that nope can't do it there oh why

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ah there's a joist like right here so basically or

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like here so it' have to be like right there and there's a big thing around it

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like it's not going to fit okay well what if so it would have to come out to

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like here the speaker is actually really heavy it's a good thing that the

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mounting mechanism is separate from it you just pop this in first and then put

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this in and then turn it to lock it pretty

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cool woo it's actually really nice that this

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one has it open like that yeah you can do it all from this side oh yeah that's

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sweet all right let's see how this one sounds

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you know I might actually like the look of the girls on the other one better I

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was just talking to Andy about that cuz the other ones have a ring around them

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so they almost kind of matches everything

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else yeah okay it's a lot better um it's

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a lot more clear well yeah yeah it's way

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better I I don't know if I would pay six times as much or whatever that works out

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guys enjoyed this video because you just love seeing me crawl around in my attic

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did she get that Center yeah that does look pretty good then you can check out

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the video where Brian and I installed air conditioning that

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was that was rough it's hot up there it's getting hot here