rear surround speaker


I am looking for opinion about rear surround speakers. I want decent soound but don't want to invest a huge sum and also don't have the room. it will have to be ceiling or wall mount. the front speakers are avantgarde uno using tom evans amp and placette passive preamp,center channel is martin logan cinema.AV receiver is marantz 7100 with 100 watts per channel. Room is approx 15 wide, 12 deep and 9 high. welcome any ideas. thanks
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Audio Advisor has wall-mountable $800/pair JM Lab/Focal surround speakers on sale for $189/pair here.

Otherwise, for wall- or ceiling-mount rear surrounds, I'd go with Mirage Omnisat satellites or NanoSats. They have built-in wall-mounts and are omnidirectional, which is definitely preferred for surround.
About those Mirage-licensed Omnisat knock-offs: for the money, they'd be a good value and probably are excellent computer speakers. But for home theater, you might want to consider this: These licensed speakers are nowhere near the same performance or build quality of the originals. The originals use butyl surround titanium deposit poly drivers and cloth-surround pure titanium dome tweeters, are down 3dB at 70 Hz and have power handling of about 175 watts. The knock-offs use a paper driver, go down to about 135 Hz (a full octave higher), and only handle 55 watts. It's the power handling that concerns me the most about HT.

That said, I have Mirage Omnisats, and the way this speaker design radiates and energizes the room is great. At $39 (down from $89) you'd get a lot of that and I can't say enough for the effectiveness of that design.