Rather than being fixed to the main casing, the tweeter is on a pedestal emerging from the centre of the woofer … the place where the dust cap would normally be. Still, that’s better than nothing.īut there’s more to it than that with this one. So, as is often the case with high quality installation speakers, the tweeter can swivel around a little in its mount, so you can get a few degrees closer to its axis. And overhead mounting of speakers does not conform with anyone’s idea of the proper location for home theatre speakers.
Incidentally, while these come with a paintable perforated steel grille that’s round in shape, you can purchase optional square grilles if that would better suit your décor.Ī problem with ceiling mounting is that a regular tweeter would not be firing anywhere near the sitting position, unless you located it directly overhead. Most conventional homes wouldn’t fit that in their walls, although that’s fine for ceilings. It’s not just the round shape, but that the casing extends just about 120mm back into the cavity. The VP66R speakers seem clearly designed for ceiling mounting. And even though these sported much smaller (114mm) bass drivers, they were considerably more expensive.
#SONANCE VP42 DRIVERS#
The VP66R speakers were quite large with 165mm bass drivers, fronted by a 25mm tweeter, while the VP48 speakers were rectangular with the two drivers laid out as though they were a conventional box speaker. For this edition of Connected Home, Amber gave us a little taste of Sonance’s ‘Visual Performance’ range, providing two pairs of in-wall/in-ceiling speakers that took quite a different approach to the task of delivering sound. Locally it is distributed by Amber Technology. Sonance, based in San Clemente, California, is a long established maker of installation loudspeakers.
#SONANCE VP42 SERIES#
Sonance’s newly relaunched VP series of installation speakers prove that good things come in small packages, writes Stephen Dawson.
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