If you are building a new residential or a commercial structure, or if you’re remodeling an existing property, now is the time to plan for a Music Distribution System. It’s easier than you may expect. All you need to start is an existing Hi-Fi Stereo System. If it has at least 50 watts per channel of output power and provisions for a pair or more of speakers (outputs on the back for A and B speakers), it should be suitable as the heart of an entire residential or small scale business music system.

Speaker cabinets already exist everywhere in your building. Of course, you have probably been thinking of them as ‘walls’ and ‘ceilings,’ but due to the nature of their construction, they are ideal speaker cabinets. A typical eight-foot tall wall with a 16 inch stud centers has nearly three cubic feet of interior space. That is equivalent to a speaker cabinet that is one foot wide, one foot deep and three feet tall. You know speakers need cabinets to develop bass response that is why speakers in big cabinets are capable of great bass.

When you buy and install wall-mounted speaker systems, you are only paying for the woofers, tweeter, and frames. It’s the cabinets that make up the bulk of the expense, not only in materials and labor to construct the enclosures but in the excess packing materials, added freight, handling and warehousing that large items dictate.

The walls and ceilings that make up the building serve as terrific speaker enclosures at no additional expense and allows you to place the sound source(s) anywhere without obstruction. In the case of new construction, by planning before the drywall goes up, you can easily provide for Stereo Music in every room. So here’s what you can do.

Inwall Speaker Mounting