Are in-wall speakers worth considering?

Yes I replaced my 5.1 full range system with inwalls Check out the High end Niles 8700 and 8500 nice three ways that actually have bass! And they aren't etched at all in the top. If you check out my systems you will see that I put my velodyne 18" behind the couch and now I don't even have to use my couch shakers for effects!

Even three Niles across the front will sound good, and of course they will never replace a high quality 2 channel system but they some of the best inwalls I have heard and still image better than most stereo demos in shops I have visited. For surround the center channel and the sub are the most important speakers

I also have a 2 channel in a seperate room dedicated room my master bedroom. Inwalls avoid the major battle and you can use the I'll do inwalls if I can have a 103" screen instead of a TV in armoir with 2channel speakers sitting two close to the wall. choice is yours

Classical1: well put, I'm single also, and I moved my Wilson Watt Puppies 7' out of my main room and into my master bedroom and went with inwall's because you can't control other parents undisciplined kids! My friend's 6 yr old son kept banging on the grill of my WP7 and I quickly asked the parents whom I had already discussed the value and the danger of being around my Class A rated amps, to notice their child. They responded quickly the first time but it became a nightmare for me as they didn't after the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and then I had to go in and address the little young man.... I don't want to tell a parent that their little junior just damaged a driver that is going to cost $500-1000 to replace after crating the speaker up and shipping it back or that the paint job of my speaker is going basically cost as much as ..... you get my point...

Another example would be my ex-girlfriends parents over with their grandson and laughing as this rugrat threw my $400 pronto remote into the air, over the coffee table and almost hit my big screen but luckily it just bounced off the floor (carpet), it has never worked right since... Do I tell them that it will be $250 for a Refurb remote? Then he proceeded to bang on the screen (Thank god I bought the one with the glare screen protector...) This is what happens when you feed your kids coffee, coke, and mcdonalds from the age of 2????? WTF!

The point is you can be a great parent, but you can't COMPLETELY control other parents children! (my friend that has young children had Martin Logans because the kids could hit the drivers, he just worried about them being pushed over) He has since switched to wilson's also but these are in his dedicated office and his children respect them and the tube amp but no other children go into that room.

He was the one that helped me to simplify my once Full range HT (then realized that my high end equipment just revealed the $.02 that the DVD producers spent on the soundtrack... so there wasn't much of a loss to me and certainly not to anybody that visits) I miss it a little until I come to my senses and realized that my 2channel rig rocks because I only have one money pit to tweak!

I had my audio system in the living room and my video system in the den and the children would run into the living room with my audio system. As you can see(my attached system) it is not a safe place for children to play around (cut/burn themselves on amps, get electrocuted by the special powercords with air isolators... etc... It only took two times for me to wise up and move my 2 channel into my bedroom, and leave the video system (inwalls for others...)