AudioSource IC6S Round Ceiling Speakers, White (Pair)
By: Phonemate Average Rating: 5.0 Total Reviews: 9
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 On: 2006-05-16
For the price this product represents a tremendous value. For general whole house sound system these are great speakers. I will not use them in my home theatre application though. For that I will invest more money. But for general listening these are great. I have a 12 zone whole house audio system, and these are perfect. I highly recommend them.
On: 2006-04-11
My wife and I closed on a new house 6 months ago, and before that, we were able to get in and prewire the house for speakers. We had paid the builder something outrageous like $1200 to prewire the living room for 5.1 surround sound, but I wanted speakers in other rooms as well and didnt want to pay top dollar for it. I wound up buying 3 100 spools of Monster in-wall speaker cable for about $100 each and wired the master suite for 4 speakers in the bedroom and 2 in the bathroom, and one of the other bedrooms for 4 speakers. I did a lot of research on speakers before finally deciding on these AudioSource ones. The reviews were great and the price couldnt be touched. I got 5 pairs of speakers for $50 a pair. Add that to the wiring cost and I spent $550 to prewire and install 10 great-sounding in-ceiling speakers. As a comparison, the living room prewire cost $1200 from the builder and it didnt come with speakers. I already had some high-end B&W speakers for that room, so I went with those and my Denon reciever downstairs.
Im no audiophile, but my unscientific comparison would put the AudioSource setup with a $200 Sony reciever and $50 center channel speaker at about 90% of the quality of the better B&W speakers w/ Denon reciever (which sounds totally awesome). I spent roughly $1800 on the reciever and speakers for the living room, plus another $1200 on the prewire. Total about $3000. In the bedroom, I spent $150 on speakers, $150 on cables, and $200 on the reciever, total about $500.
Im not handy at all and I installed all 10 without a hitch in a day. Overall, great speakers for the money, easy to install, and a great price.
 On: 2005-12-20
I was a bit skeptical - however after reading reviews and having a friend who has them throughout his house, decided to buy just one pair and install them. Once I adjusted bass/treble on my amp, they sounded great. I have heard klpishes and bose and those are much much more expensive. For the money, these are great. I was cranking them and they did not distort. The 6 inch provides a good bit of bass as well. That also depends on what you are using to push them.
Very satisfied. I am purchasing more soon to do my entire main level and basement.
On: 2005-11-23
I was a little hesitant to purchase these, but after reading the reviews and the seeing the price drop, I had to commit. I usually purchase Polk or other high end speakers, but I needed something for an A-BUS system that wont be played very loud. These speakers are great for the dining room, kitchen, master bed and loft. In these locations music is played at a moderate level for dining and family enjoyment. Its not where we blast our favorite music, and the speakers perform very well. And somehow the music travels very well horizontally. So even if you dont have speakers installed in every room, you will likely hear music throughout the house. This is one pleasant surprise I didnt expect. By the way, I compared these to my Polk RC80i and the sound quality was very similar. I could tell by turning up the amps that the Polk is a little better quality, but at low levels of volume, the IC6S does a good job at keeping up. So if you are doing multi-room audio, you may want to consider the IC6S.
On: 2005-10-20
I just recevied my shipment of speakers and installed them all in one day. These speakers are a snap to install and drawing out your game plan is a big plus prior to installation. They sound great and for the price in my opinion, ther is not a better speaker on the market. I installed approx 11 speakers through out my house and the ambient music is great. I also used 4 of them in my den for my surround sound system they look and sound great. My nephew who installs home audio for a living turned me on to the speakers and he also feels they are the best bang for your buck. Lets just say this i have Approx $350.00 dollars invested in my whole house speaker setup and it sounds just as good or better then the model homes wich came with a builders option upgrade right around $3,000 dollars. No rocket science here.
On: 2005-04-10
We installed these speakers in the ceiling of the TV loft in our new home. They came highly recommended by our builders installer, but Amazon had them for about 1/3 of the price!
We had the house prewired, so install was a snap.
The sound is great for our TV loft, we can turn them up to good listening levels (and a bit beyond) with no distortion. Will I install them in our future home theater? Maybe for some surround sound, but not as my primary speakers. They are a great choice for ambeint or surround sound, at a great price.
On: 2005-03-28
I just installed these speakers this weekend in my kitchen and I have to say that they are more impressive than I thought they would be for the money. I wanted something for ambient music or so that if my wife or I am cooking, we can listen to the TV (all hooked up to the receiver that is powering these speakers). Installation is easy, but a little messy given you are cutting drywall. Use a jig saw and cleanup afterwards, I couldnt imagine using a knife to cut that big of a hole in a ceiling. Be sure to pick up a volume control from somewhere (amazon and compusa have good/cheap ones) so that if you end of doing multiple rooms with these, you can individually control the volume of each room.
On: 2004-12-08
I had to install them right away when they arrived after a week of waiting. I openend the box and there they are nice good size and plenty of power and I like the rotating tweeter. I read the instructions first and saw how easy it was to install. The only thing are to drill the holes in the wall if dust is not a matter use the rotor zip it cuts a nice and easy circle but it makes a big mess the other option is less messy and takes a bit longer is with a bred knife(less dust). I would even recommend to drill the holes from the addick and the person below to hold a box so all the dust and parts are falling in right away. These speakers are great and give a full sound with good base. My speakers are set about 18 feet apart and watching a movie or just listening to a cd makes you feel your right in the middle of the action. I would recommend to get 16 gauge wire for those speaker the smaller 18 or 20 gauge in the instruction may not bring the quality back from those speakers.
On: 2004-06-11
I use these speakers for ambient room music. I have a open floorplan house and put these speakers in the wall high enough to be somewhat omnidirectional. I like the round look in the wall better than the square versions. When shopping for speakers, I looked at all brands. A piece of advice on a expert distributor website was not to spend too much on in wall speakers as they are not working in an engineered speaker box, which is critical to speaker performance. In other words, more money doesnt buy you much. For ambient music, these speakers are great. They have excellent fidelity and while you cant pound out the bass, the rest of the music duplication is really good. The tweeter is very lively on this speaker, which surprised me. The size is around 8" outside diameter, so the IC8S speakers would have been huge. They were a snap to install as I had a good wall chase for running the wire. Im very happy with this product.
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