Ultimate Guide to Architectural Speakers
By Robert Archer
With consumers demanding better aesthetics from speakers, manufacturers are proving they are up to the task. Here are 37 speakers to keep in mind.

During the humble beginnings of the architectural speaker category, brand-loyalists debated which manufacturer invented the in-wall speaker. Now that the category has matured, those same people are arguing whether in-wall speakers perform better than freestanding products.

No matter what the opinion, one thing that cannot be debated any more is that in-wall speakers outsell freestanding speakers.



For years there was a prevailing notion that architectural speakers didn’t sound as good as freestanding products, but over the past few years the engineering community has narrowed or eliminated that performance gap.

We take a closer look at some of the latest architectural speakers you can employ in place of traditional in-room, freestanding speakers.

Artison LCR Speakers
Through the implementation of its DualMono Center Channel technology, Artison’s Masterpiece, Portrait and Sketch in-wall left, center and right speaker products are said to focus spoken dialog in the center of a flat-panel video screen.

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