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Spending the summer with builders fully gutting our new house, so as a treat for myself I decided to try and install in-wall surround sound in the living room. The fronts and centre are fine - TV is hanging on an external brick cavity wall - however the rears are causing me a headache.
The problem is that to the right of the sofa where we shall mostly be viewing is a brick wall which could easily take an in-wall speaker, but on the left side is a thin load-bearing column which most definitely can't have such a huge chunk cut out of it. The ceiling on the left of the sofa is a possibility however the ceiling on the right contains a thin-ish concrete slab which distributes the weight and can't take a speaker hole.
So, I am currently considering placing a left surround on the ceiling and the right one high on the wall. Has anyone tried something similar? Could I offset the positioning difference with directionality and proper calibration?
The problem is that to the right of the sofa where we shall mostly be viewing is a brick wall which could easily take an in-wall speaker, but on the left side is a thin load-bearing column which most definitely can't have such a huge chunk cut out of it. The ceiling on the left of the sofa is a possibility however the ceiling on the right contains a thin-ish concrete slab which distributes the weight and can't take a speaker hole.
So, I am currently considering placing a left surround on the ceiling and the right one high on the wall. Has anyone tried something similar? Could I offset the positioning difference with directionality and proper calibration?