Hi all, after planning (and delaying) the install of an audio system in our kitchen I finally got around to it.
I had planned the installation of speakers in the ceiling already at the time the kitchen was rebuilt. I ran speaker wire over the hollow (plaster) ceiling to roughly where I wanted to install the speakers.
Installation of the speakers was fairly simple:
- found the exact place for the cutting the holes with a cable/post finder.
- drilled a hole and cut out the marked circle with a jig-saw. This worked much better than I thought. The ceiling construction is plaster over gypsum-board (not sure what this is properly called in English) and I was worried the edge would crumle. Using a fine saw, I got a nice, clean cut.
- reinforced the ceiling by gluing 22mm multiplex on top
- soldered the speaker wire to the speaker and screwed the speaker into the multiplex through pre-drilled holes
- covered the speakers with grilles I had spray-painted white. Not the best for sound but much better for aesthetics....and this is not my domain...
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Installation of the active part was even easier:
- standard SB2 with wallwart PS connected wirelessly
- an old JVC A-S3 amplifier (my wife's original stereo)
- Both installed on top of a kitchen cabinet. A bit high to operate the amp by hand but that's what a squeezebox remote is for.
- I used old car speakers I still had lying around: Infinity Kappa 652cf.
The result is excellent: Music in the kitchen, tonally well balanced, quite a bit of bass for such a small speaker.
Ferdi
