[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by dan79brooklyn

But I'm confused...If in walls are so bad, why does nearly every manufacturer make several different models of these types of speakers?

Cause they sell.

The custom install biz became "The Model" in the '90s as wives started to have a much greater voice in the av decision. They wanted invisible. Since that time, speaker manufacturers have bent over backwards to follow the $s - at the expense of sound quality. I have seen $500K custom jobs that had nothing other than $125.00 speakers throughout. Muzak became more important than music.

Ian