ᐅ Recessed ceiling speakers in the dining room and bathroom

Dear forum,

Can anyone recommend built-in speakers for the dining room and bathroom?

My hi-fi system will be located in the living room, and I would like to run cables from there to two satellite speakers, which I plan to install flush into the concrete ceiling of the open dining area.

In the bathroom, I want an in-wall radio with Bluetooth that can be controlled via smartphone, and a speaker installed in the suspended ceiling there as well.

The Sonance VP series is top quality.

For the bathroom device, you first need to know what output it delivers before choosing speakers.

If you want to run the living room and dining room simultaneously, pay attention to the impedance so you don’t damage the amplifier, unless it is designed to handle this.

What do you mean by satellite speakers? Are you planning to apply a high-pass filter to the speakers?

I recommend looking into Cabasse. They are a great traditional French manufacturer whose staff are passionate about music, with an excellent German distributor that has been customer-focused through specialist dealers for decades, and last but not least: a truly outstanding price-performance ratio. Their products start at around 250€ (about 270 USD).

If you need extremely shallow speakers due to the ceiling construction, there are very good options available at similar prices from a British speaker specialist.

hampshire schrieb:

If you want to run living and dining rooms at the same time, watch out for the impedance so you don’t damage the amplifier, unless it’s designed to handle that.

It depends on what he wants. To me, it sounds like he doesn’t intend to run the dining and living rooms simultaneously. Those would be two separate outputs on the amplifier, so impedance isn’t an issue. Impedance matters only if he plans to connect them together (in parallel or series) and would then need to calculate, as you said. But I can’t imagine that, since the dining room would always be active otherwise. Almost every beginner AVR these days supports two powered audio zones.

untergasse43 schrieb:

Those are then two separate outputs on the amplifier and so it doesn't matter.

That applies to modern multichannel amplifiers. In conventional stereo amplifiers, however, there are usually switchable speaker outputs A and B, where the right and left speakers are connected in parallel to a single amplifier channel. So it’s better to check carefully.

Thanks for the tips!
Satellite speakers only referred to the distance to the amplifier or to the main speakers.
The dining room and living room are not necessarily supposed to run simultaneously. Probably rather rarely. I have a Yamaha R-N500 as an amplifier.