Built-in ceiling speakers in the dining room and bathroom

Dear forum,

can someone recommend built-in speakers for the dining room and bathroom?

My hi-fi system will be in the living room, and I would like to run cables from there to two satellite speakers, which I would like to install in the exposed concrete ceiling in the open dining area.

In the bathroom, there should be a flush-mounted radio with Bluetooth that can be controlled via phone, and a speaker should also be installed in the suspended ceiling there.

The Sonance VP series is top.

For the bathroom thing, you would first need to know what power output it has before choosing speakers.

If you want to run living and dining rooms simultaneously, pay attention to the impedance so as not to kill the amplifier, in case it is not stable enough. What do you mean by satellite speakers? Should the speakers get a high-pass filter?

I recommend you take a look at Cabasse. Great traditional French manufacturer whose employees are still passionate about music themselves, an excellent German distributor who has also been working customer-oriented through specialist retailers for decades, and last but not least: a really excellent price-performance ratio. It starts at about €250. If ultra-flat is required due to the ceiling construction, there are very good solutions at similar prices from the English speaker specialist.

If you want to run the living room and dining room at the same time, watch the impedance so you don’t kill the amplifier, in case it’s not stable enough.

It depends on what he wants. To me, it sounds like he doesn’t want to run the dining room and living room at the same time all the time. Those are then two different outputs on the amplifier and thus don’t matter. The impedance would only be interesting if he really wants to connect them together (parallel/series) and then – as you say – would have to calculate. But I can’t imagine that, otherwise the dining room would always be playing along. Pretty much every entry-level AVR nowadays can handle two amplified audio zones.

These are then two different outputs on the amplifier and therefore doesn't matter.

With modern multi-channel amplifiers, this is the case. With "conventional" stereo amplifiers, there are usually speaker outputs A and B switchable, with right and left being operated in parallel on only one amplifier channel each. So better check once.

Thank you for the tips! Satellite speakers only referred to the distance to the amplifier or to the main speakers. Dining room and living room are not necessarily meant to run together. Probably rather rarely. I have a Yamaha R-N500 as an amplifier.