RE: Can I do 5.1 with ceiling speakers ?

["Nick Tyson - The Edge" <nick@xxxxxxx>]

The NXT speakers have a 'different' sound to conventional speakers which
most people tend to find is OK for ambient background music but not as
comfortable or enjoyable as conventional or sub/sat set ups for a main
system.

Diffuse, disperse and directionless are the way they describe them in the
Farnell link and that sums it up, they tend to sound rather hollow.

Both NXT and sub/sat systems like the Bose mentioned above will need a bass
unit to produce the lower frequencies, after that it's about making a
subjective decision about quality and finding the right compromise between
looks and performance. For my money the Bose (or KEF eggs or JM Labs Sib
&
Cub) will sound much better than the NXT speakers and are pretty discrete
providing you can hide the bass unit somewhere, but if the look of the
picture frame units is more critical for you then go that route and accept
that there's a compromise on the sound quality.

Nick Tyson
The Edge
Tel 01473 288211
Fax 01473 288255
Email nick@xxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: David Harris [mailto:dh140770@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 August 2003 16:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Can I do 5.1 with ceiling speakers ?


Bose 15;s Mk2 (or is it Mk3 now ) ... anyhow they are very small

Don't have any myself, and they are either love or loath from what i
gather,
but I would imagine SQ would be higher than the picture frames?
----- Original Message -----
From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Can I do 5.1 with ceiling speakers ?


Dean,

Re: your centre speaker, NXT Acoustic Picture Panels may be what you're
after:
This one's a bit small,

http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=cpc+catalogue&cate
gory%5Fname=&product%5Fid=252855
These are bigger

http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=cpc+catalogue&cate
gory%5Fname=&product%5Fid=260861

Haven't heard these speakers so can't vouch for quality.

HTH,

Tim H.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Barrett

does anyone do decorative speakers as an alternative that
> could hang
> of my chimney ??
>
>
>
> Dean.

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