In-ceiling: Am I wasting my money?


Hi everyone:

Bought and moved into a new home. The builder has in-ceiling speakers installed in the living room. There are 5 speakers, but I have no interest in using them for HT -  just for music. They appear to be 8" Monoprice speakers, I have no additional details on them.

For the short term, I'm thinking of picking up a Sonos: Amp since I'm already invested in that ecosystem. I can use that to drive 4 of the speakers by hooking them up in parallel.

Now, here's the big question - I was toying with the idea of picking up a 200 watt/chan McIntosh integrated amp and replacing the Monoprice speakers with four higher quality in-ceiling speakers - perhaps something like the B&O 10" Celestial (BOC106) which are really made by Origin Acoustics (but with prettier covers).

So - am I wasting my money by doing this and I'm better off just sticking with the Sonos Amp and maybe upgrading (or keeping) the speakers to something better but not as expensive? Or... full speed ahead?

Note / extra info: Unfortunately, the layout of the room and the decor in it has ruled out a floor-standing or in-wall system... so I'm trying to keep this to an in-ceiling system. The living room ceiling is about 14' high and flat.

Thanks.
eisenb11
I have ceiling speakers which bring quiet background music when I'm  doing something other than listening to music.
@eisenb11....you can save some $ if you look into a used distribution amp. There’s decent ones’ out there’ that will give you ’decent sound around the house’ without thrashing your budget.

Save your bucks, ducks! *G* Spend your major money on the Big System....;)
I once had a good pair of ceiling speakers right above the kitchen sink, and dishwashing was actually fun.
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For background music, the Monoprice/ Sonos stuff is probably fine.  If you want to invest in some excellent ceiling speakers and subs, find a local James dealer:
https://www.jamesloudspeaker.com/categories/30
Their small-aperture series are quite good and their design keeps them from being intrusive to the room, while providing some real performance.  They are on the complete opposite side of the cost spectrum from Monoprice, though.