Speakers hung from ceiling on aircraft cable.

Many a pair of Bose 901s were suspended by 4 chains per from the ceiling. Much cooler than the pussified tulip stands of the day.
Funny now I quite like the tulips. 
Problem was the 901s still did not sound that great so after a few months I moved on to the Corner horns. They were not on chains.

Back in 1985-1987, I suspended my small Polk Monitor 4As. I used a finished wood base, with 3 brass eyescrews, just bigger than the speaker base. I used black nylon braid fishing line to a brass ring; brass chain to a ceiling hook into the ceiling joists. I had use lateral black line to keep from twisting.

it sounded VERY GOOD! I used a passive subwoofer. 

Imaging was first rate. A very open, spacious sound. 

@chorus...and a Good Thing that likely was. 👌

Re Newtons’ 3rd; his apple only fell down. Driver cones, back and forth.
Even with varying fq, there’s cancellation there. *s*

richopp, actually the imaging isn’t lost entirely, since it’s into a closed space vs. say, an outdoor venue. For some ’quiet’ evening work, it certainly exceeds the typ. ’job site boombox'....;)

Either a cd into the player or Spotify from the cell, the receiver with an old SAE 2 channel parametric into the ’arrays’...’pause’ for machine noise....

It may not be ’phile, but it’s not so bad...and spl is Not an issue. *G*

@jrwaudio....only if the hooks go to harnesses....his 'n hers....;) *L*

Not long after I first met spouse, she moved into an apt. that featured 2 h.d. eye lags into the ceiling....

We looked.
We looked @ each other.
We laughed...and said, 'nah'.
"It'll be some years before we're 'up' for That."

Still 'not there'...she's acrophobic, and I'm not a fan of moving targets...;)

I have done this with my Dolby Atmos height speakers and it works like a charm.
i used 1/16” SS cable with eyes screwed into cabinets and ceiling. Find the balance point, use 1 eye top of speaker and 2 at the bottom.
works great !