Reddit reviews Micca M-8C 8 Inch 2-Way in-Ceiling in-Wall Speaker with Pivoting 1" Silk Dome Tweeter (Each, White)

$250 AV Receiver Denon 720 (refurb w/ltd warranty, has HDCP 2.2 Dolby Atmos)

https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/denavrs720w/denon-avr-s720w-7.2-ch-x-75-watts-networking-a/v-receiver/1.html

$90 Micca MB42X Bookshelves PAIR for Front

$90 Micca MB42X Bookshelves PAIR for Surround

https://www.amazon.com/Micca-MB42X-Bookshelf-Speakers-Tweeter/dp/B00E7H8GG2

$70 Micca MB42X-C Center Channel

https://www.amazon.com/Micca-MB42X-Bookshelf-Speakers-Tweeter/dp/B00HHFBEK6

$42 Micca M8C In-ceiling speakers EACH (for x.x.2 atmos)

$42 Micca M8C In-ceiling speakers EACH (for x.x.2 atmos)

https://www.amazon.com/Micca-M-8C-Ceiling-Speaker-Pivoting/dp/B002YPS6T6

$200 BIC America F12 12" Sub

https://www.amazon.com/BIC-America-F12-475-Watt-Subwoofer/dp/B0015A8Y5M

$550 Projector Optoma 142X (cnet.com "Best Picture for the Money" 2018)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HQCF6R6

$205 Elite Manual 120" Projector Screen

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OLO59EI

TOTAL: $1550

You will also want a universal remote (Logitech Harmony recommended), speaker wire / banana plugs, stands / mounts, HDMI + subwoofer cable. So with this stuff as well you're over budget, but you could grab everything except the sub and add that later, for example.

EDIT: found the projector recommendation here, with more research you might be able to find better (same for the screen):

https://www.cnet.com/topics/tvs/best-tvs/projectors/

The Micca’s? I’ve been really pleased with them and yes you can point the tweeters

Micca M-8C 8 Inch 2-Way in-Ceiling in-Wall Speaker with Pivoting 1" Silk Dome Tweeter (Each, White) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YPS6T6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_57AVDbKGJW5CC

They would likely be fine, but an aimable tweeter is generally preferred for Atmos. The Micca M-8C or R-8C (rimless model) are often the most recommended in the budget category.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YPS6T6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_IpdTBbD10YYQ0

After some research, I chose these for ATMOS ceiling ($41):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YPS6T6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and these for in-wall ATMOS surrounds ($53):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JOPWHK/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They have 800+ reviews, 4.8 stars, and pivoting tweeters.

Where you located? $2k for sound system -

Plenty of Options

You could save $ on in ceiling and surrounds and still have Great Sound......... wall mount surrounds ? You could go with Micca MB42x for surrounds, inceiling - Micca or Polk or Home Theater Direct or Monoprice

https://www.htd.com/Products/Speakers/In-Ceiling-Wall-Speakers/SDX

https://www.amazon.com/Micca-M-8C-Ceiling-Speaker-Pivoting/dp/B002YPS6T6

and Probally do better on sub for just a lil more $ or equal for Cheaper

https://rslspeakers.com/products/rsl-speedwoofer-10s/

http://www.hsuresearch.com/products/vtf-1mk3.html

https://rel.net/shop/powered-subwoofers/serie-ht/ht-1003/

Save $ on receiver too

Denon AVR- x2500H ( I run 5.2.2 Atmos on Denon 2500)

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_033AVX2500/Denon-AVR-X2500H.html?skipvs=T

If Bookshelf you gonna put them on Stands.? Might as Well go for Floor Standing.

Polk Signature Line, Fluance Signature Series, Ascend Acoustics


https://www.amazon.com/Fluance-Signature-Including-Floorstanding-HFHTB/dp/B01AKGPG66


https://www.amazon.com/Polk-Audio-Signature-Speaker-Bookshelf/dp/B06WVFGFD1

http://www.ascendacoustics.com/pages/products/speakers/cmt340m/cmt340m.html

Also Boston Acoustics and Cantons


https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/bosa360gba/boston-acoustics-a360-dual-6.5-3-way-floor-standing-speaker-black-each/1.html

https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/bosa225cgba/boston-acoustics-a225c-2-way-center-channel-speaker-black/1.html


https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/bossoundwareblka/boston-acoustics-soundware-4.5-speaker-atmos-dts-x-on-wall-speaker-black-each/1.html


https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/cms/specials/hot-summer-specials/1.html

Buy 2 Canton GLE 490 get Center Free

Is there room on the sides of the TV for speakers? Ideally they would be a couple feet to either side of the TV.

You probably just want to go with a 3.1 system, because the placement of the surrounds will be so wonky with a corner L-shaped couch and a corner TV that I don't think it would be worth it. You could do in-ceiling speakers, and do a 3.1.2 system though. https://www.dolby.com/us/en/guide/speaker-setup-guides/3.1.2-overhead-speakers-setup-guide.html

For $1,000 3.1.2 system I would get this:
Receiver - $300 (doesn't have eARC, but you probably don't need it)
Front L/R speakers - $200
Front center - $170
in-ceiling speakers - $80
Subwoofer - $250


If cutting holes into your ceiling to install speakers and run wiring is a daunting task, then just do a 3.1 system and you can spend more on the subwoofer. If you can push your budget this very high quality SVS PB-1000 subwoofer goes on sale on the outlet site for $400 several times a year, I imagine it will during labor day subwoofer option 2 - $400. It will be infinitely better than the $250 one linked above.

Denon X1500 $300

LR: Infinity R152 $140

Center: Infinity RC252 $180

Sub: HSU VTF2 $607 w/shipping

Surrounds: Micca MB42X $80

Atmos: Micca M-8C $40/each

Rears might be better with non-dipole placed as high as you can facing down OR in-ceiling speakers since you have the wires up there already. These Micca 8" would work fine. Having speakers wall mounted firing forward above your heads is not going to work best.

I wouldn't recommend anything that you linked. That Klipsch system isn't worth the money and subwoofer won't dig very deep. Spending $240 on the rears is too much money at this price point. I would go with:

AVR: Denon AVR-X1200 $320

Bookshelf L/R: Elac Debut B5 $200

Center: Elac Debut C5 $180

In-ceiling rears: Micca M-8C x2 $82

Subwoofer: BIC Acoustec PL-200 $249

Total: $1031

Awesome. Speaker placement is definitely going to be a bit odd if everything is shoved pretty much into the side wall, but I'll address that below.

• Receiver - Denon X1300
  
• LCR Speakers - HTD Level 3 OR Emotiva Airmotiv (B1 + C1)
  
• Surrounds - Polk RC80i OR Micca M-8C
  
  Listed two surrounds depending on whether you wanted to go 5.1 or 7.1. For a 5.1 the surround channels should be placed to the left and right of the couch (not directly above!) then angled towards the listeners. A 7.1 might not work unless you pull the couch out a bit, as the rear surrounds need to be behind the listener. You might be able to get away with in-wall speakers for rears and keep the couch against the wall, but it's definitely not ideal.
  
  I also listed two brands for the main speakers, just in case you wanted some more options. The HTD's are probably the ones I'd go with for your use case, as they're more geared towards HT so movies and TV.
  
  Hope this helps, at the very least as a starting point. Definitely try to shop around a bit more and get more feedback, and if possible have someone come into your house to help with speaker placement.

Klipsch is good for high quality, and they make a lot of in-ceiling models, but their cheapest is $120 each.

When talking about cheaper versions, do you want any of the speakers to be angled? Or do you just want normal ones that fire straight down? Meaning, if you want under the speakers to be where you listen to them, or is the listening area off to the side?

For straight down firing, these Micca's ($40/each) are good. Now, if you want any/all of them to be angled, I wouldn't suggest mixing brands (at most, same brand in same room/area), there are the Silver Ticket models which are down firing ($32/each) & angled ($60/each).

I'm looking at 8 of these speakers to install in my ceiling. What kind of amp/receiver would I need to make it run well?

Here are my objectives in order of importance:

1. Play music from phones/tablets in any room with speakers, wireless
   
   
2. Connect TVs to the speakers
   
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   I'm a novice with audio stuff, so any thoughts would be helpful!

onkyo ht-3200

7 of these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YPS6T6?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s01

And the subwoofer that came with the onkyo...


Edit:
Ah http://www.onkyousa.com/imagesNew/systems/ht-s3200/back_large.jpg

So, left side bottom, just to the right of the remote interactive port?

It's labeled as TV/TAPE... Is there any way I could figure out if it's active in FM or CBL/SAT mode without having to do all the hooking up?

Sell the extra surrounds and sub, buy 4 in-ceiling atmos speakers ([similar to these] (https://www.amazon.com/Micca-M-8C-Ceiling-Speaker-Pivoting/dp/B002YPS6T6/)) and you're close?

https://www.acousticsounddesign.com/896-bic-acoustech-pl-980-72-home-theater-system-new-pl-200-ii-denon-x2300w?search=bic&filter=113

Thanks for the replies.

I've seen some recommendations and have been looking all day for the Polk Audio RC60i but they don't seem to ship to my country.

I strumbled across a site that listed some other recommendations (besides the Polk Audio one), and these are some options that actually do ship to my country:

- Pyle PD1C60 https://www.amazon.com/Pyle-PDIC60-Ceiling-6-5-Inch-Speaker/dp/B00LRTLYIA

- Micca M8-C https://www.amazon.com/Micca-M-8C-Ceiling-Speaker-Pivoting/dp/B002YPS6T6/ref=sr_1_1?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1525551460&sr=8-1&keywords=Micca+M-8C

- Klipsch R-1650

Anyone experiences with these? Which one would be the best for Atmos?

I'm using these Micca M-8C's. They're inexpensive, sound great, and are very simple to install.

Would it be feasible to ditch the sub and go with two HTD towers along with HTD Center and either 2 bookshelf or 2 surrounds for the rears? For the Atmos ceiling speakers I was thinking the Micca 8-inch. Possibly even 4 of them if that would work for my setup.

Here's the problem $500 is a tight budget to start with and Dell doesn't have a great way to view their site (had a $200 gift card with my TV) nor are the prices great. For example we usually recommended refurbished receivers for people on a budget and in order to get Atmos an Atmos receiver from Dell you need to get this for $500 whereas the v583 (older model) is $250 and the exact same model is $330 so not being able to take use of a massive discount doesn't help. The other issue is the only passive bookshelf speakers that aren't crappy computer speakers is the Sony core bookshelfSony core bookshelf $120 and tower speakers or subwoofer (which is it? Idk) then they also sell the subwoofer (so maybe the other is the towers?). The core bookshelf speakers are actually pretty good however the subwoofer is worse than others in it's price bracket. However I still think it's your best bet and it's probably a lot better than any of the sound bar subs in your price range since Dell doesn't sell a better sub for the money.

This is my recommendation:

• Sony core bookshelf (ss-cs5) $120 @ Dell
  
  
• Sony core subwoofer (sa-cs9) $158 @ Dell
  
  
• Denon s730h (2017 model year) $220 @ accessories4less
  
  
• Speaker wire 16awg oxygen free pure copper or prebuilt speaker wire with banana plugs @ anywhere
  
  
• subwoofer cable @ anywhere
  
  
• Optionally: speaker stands or wall mounts @ anywhere
  
  Future upgrades:
  
  
• Sony core center channel $120
  
  
• Atmos speakers which can be either: in ceiling speaker like this or slim speakers mounted on the ceiling like this or Sony's matching core Atmos speakers that will sound significantly worse than the other 2 options
  
  
• Side speakers which don't need to be anything special and Micca MB42X or the Polk owm3 are popular options. Don't do wireless for these and your best bet is getting flat speaker wire and either wiring it around or behind your mouldings, under a rug to behind the couch or running the wires in the walls or the floor (what I did). Side speakers are 90-110 degrees from your center channel from your main listening position.
  
  If you have any other questions let me know.
  
  Edit: Also If you're doubting that a 2.1 is a better experience than the others you listed go to Best buy and some of the stores will allow you to demo speakers (or sound bars). It should be immediately obvious that those Sony speakers are in a different league seeing as though the main woofer on the Sony bookshelf is 5" and the Vizio subwoofer is 6" and the Sony subwoofer is 10" and the Vizio doesn't have a single tweeter so are going to be dull and harder to hear dialog in movies.