HI Jon,

Congrats on your TV purchase. Nice choice!

I'm a big fan of in-wall speakers for home theater. Well made in-walls sound fantastic for home theater use and really good for music as well. We just built a second demonstration room here at our office (blog and photos on this project coming very soon) and we were sure to install a complete inwall and inceiling speaker system for demo purposes.

Without a doubt, in-wall speakers make great surround candidates. As you probably know, the surround speakers are there to offer ambient sound, steer effects and reinforce what is coming from the front end of your system. It is important that they be timbre and/or voice matched with the other speakers in your system to maintain coherency. In fact, were you to place a pair of our 532-LR bookshelf speakers right next to a pair of installed in-wall speakers, I could switch between the two and you probably wouldn't notice any difference.

Placement is really important. Often an in-wall or in-ceiling speaker will allow you to put a speaker in a more ideal surround location than could be achieved with a bookshelf or satellite speaker. Send us some pics of your room and we'll have a look, but It sounds like in-walls will make a nice solution for you.

Last thing: The inwall and inceiling speakers use identical parts. One is rectangular, the other circular. If you want to install an in-wall speaker in the ceiling, go for it. I've done so in several installations.