![]() This helps other trades not mess around with your installation. Choose a source-mainly, my Autonomic Mirage server playing Pandora, Tidal, Sirius-XM, and Internet Radio-and you are ready to rock.īefore you are ready to dial in your system, your general contractor or AV installer likely will install a placeholder in the studs where the speakers will go. Simply select "music", the zone (in this case "dining room"), and set the volume. My Crestron "SWAMP receiver" feeds easily 10-plus zones of music throughout my home via a very cool interface on an Apple iPad. There are slick, Crestron-controlled LED cans in the ceiling, but there's no sign of speakers. My home's décor is modern, as it's a 1950s "mid-Century" property that's been redone to 2015 standards. My installation firm, Simply Home Entertainment, is getting more and more requests for speakers with this invisible look, especially in more modern homes. ![]() My Sonance IS4 speakers are installed in my dining-room ceiling. The question is, how do they sound? I will get to that in just a second. The cosmetic advantage of these speakers is obvious to the eye, as they help reduce what architects call "wall (or ceiling) acne"-thus reducing the number of fixtures on the ceiling. This might sound crazy but, believe it or not, it works.and works pretty well. The Sonance IS4 speakers are designed to be transducers (technically all speakers are transducers) that vibrate in a way that uses the surface on top of them to help them make sound. This genre of speaker tends to not work as well behind materials like plaster and cement, as those materials are too rigid to function effectively. The Sonance IS4 speakers are transducers that vibrate while being covered by any number of surfaces, such as skim coat (like drywall), wallpaper, and wood. Priced at $1,600 per pair, these transducers are designed to compete more with today's modern in-wall speakers that have traditional grills. This review is about Sonance's IS4 invisible in-ceiling speaker, which is on the larger side of the spectrum of invisible speakers. Sonance, a leader in architectural speakers design, bought a company called Sound Advance about 10 years ago to delve into this edgy new world of speakers, and today the company has a full line of speakers in its Invisible Series that range from small speakers that augment sound in residential rooms or commercial locations to larger, more full-range hidden speakers. Many AV consumers don't know that it's now possible to hide in-wall or in-ceiling speakers in ways that they literally cannot be seen but definitely can be heard.
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