Polk Audio 265-RT 3-way In-Wall Speaker - The Vanishing Series | Easily Fits in Ceiling/Wall | High-Performance Audio - Use in Front, Rear or as Surrounds | With Power Port & Paintable Grille - Black

Great for my living room theatre use.

The mounting of the in-wall speaker is easy and it’s not. In wall speakers are primarily made for new construction installation. With new construction you can more properly place the speakers and bury the wires more easily. These points are especially true for ceiling placement. For old construction, if you are not adept at finding the studs you could make a major mistake and have more work after installation. Burying the wires could be very difficult depending on the distance involved. Overall my installation was not particularly difficult. Having the rear speaker wires already in place made it a little easier. My main gripe about the speakers are the ingenious mounting tabs. You have to be extremely care when clamping the speaker frame to the wall board. If not you can brake the clamp so to render it useless or pull the screw head through the hole that is supposed to supply the force to keep the clamp tight. I’ll probly buy the center speaker also. Even more difficult to install due to having to cut a stud to properly center it.

fit in wall as described , sounds great

The speakers come with the template needed for the perfect size hole and easy layout for your room. The grills are very low profile, attach via magnets, and the grill mesh is very fine with a high-end look. The speakers went in easily and secured to the wall firmly. I used these for my fronts in a 5.1.2 system, matched with the Polk 255crt (center), 65rt (rears), 70rt (ceiling presence) for an ATMOS system. After calibrating my levels I am blown away with the sound! These produce phenomenal clarity in both instruments and voice. The transition from one speaker to the next is perfect, being timbre matched. I couldn’t be happier with the results and I highly recommend these for anyone looking at installing a clean in-wall system.

Pros: small and replaced my old school towers with just as much punch, if not more! Installed flush to the wall cons: none, would buy again

I was looking for a quality in-wall speaker with a good price, these fit the bill! We now have a cleaner look in our family room without compromising the sound. Room size: 19 x 16 x 10 tall ceilings. My set-up: Polk Audio: 2 Front Surrounds 265RT, 1 Center Channel 255C-RT, 2 Rear Surrounds 65RT, BIC America F12 Subwoofer. Onkyo TX-NR636. We listen to music & watch movies, both are great!

Superb speaker for wall

These are just awesome, it pays to get the crossover points right and spend time getting everything tuned, system dont just sound great out of the box.

Sounds and looks good

I ordered these never hearing them before as I like the sound of Polk speakers. I couldnt be happier with the purchase. I use three of these as the left, right, and center in a 7.1 setup while using the 65 rt model to round out my other 4 channels (if you use this as a center keep in mind it is NOT intended to be mounted horizontal). Im not a speaker snob but I do appreciate good sound and full range in a speaker and these things deliver. When I first set them up I had a setting messed up in my receiver that wasnt sending a signal to the sub and I didnt pick up on it for about 5 minutes (obviously these wont put out the boom you get from a sub but the range was full enough that I didnt notice for a bit). I had originally planned on using some cheaper Polk in-walls but I caught a great deal on another site for Black Friday and convinced myself that if I was cutting holes in my walls I better get something I was not likely to regret. I also noticed that many of the in-wall speakers I had been looking at didnt handle as much wattage as these do and my receiver puts out 140 watts per channel, this further simplified my decision. As stated I dont consider myself necessarily a critical listener but I would be highly surprised if many people could tell these were in wall speakers if they walked into the room blindfolded. Toughest part of the install is running the speaker wire and cutting the drywall, the actual mounting of the speaker into the wall is incredibly simple. Highly recommended after about 4 days of use.