Good In-Ceiling Speakers??

In-ceiling and in-wall speakers are fairly limited in performance. This being said you can get good speakers for the money. Check out the NHT's. They are durrable and give you very good performance for an in-ceiling speaker. There are some very expensive in-ceiling and in-wall products that do sound quite nice for what they are, but they are not really worth the money. Surround sound is just not that demanding anyway.

Good luck.

I have listened to several very good in-ceiling speakers (to the extent that they are "good" by comparison to floor-standers):

1. Thiel makes an excellent in-ceiling model (altho' expensive) called the PowerPoint. Here's the link to their web site:
http://thielaudio.com/THIEL_Web/Pages/pwrpt.html

2. M&K has been making some of the best surround speakers on the market for a number of years. They make several models that may be of interest to you. Here's the link:
http://www.mksound.com/inwall.php

3. Snell is the third line of speakers that offer high performance. Take a look at the speakers that comprise their "custom" series. For more info, here's the link:
http://www.snellacoustics.com/custom.htm

I've been using a pair from Bay Audio for many years. I bought them at a retailer of high-end audio/video stuff after auditioning MANY. I recently moved them and discovered one bass/MR driver was scratchy. I called Bay asking about buying one. Even with 10-1/2 years on them, they replaced it free of charge.

My kind of company!
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I've had more garbage than good. Speakercraft really disappointed me.
Niles has been good and I was really impressed with Paradigm for the money.