In a world where speaker objets d'art exist such as the JBL L100 or B&O’s Beolab 90s, it’s always felt to me that if you’re lucky enough to own some high-end hi-fi speakers, they should be proudly on display in your home.
To that end, the notion of residential 'invisible speakers' always seemed like a solution to a problem that didn’t exist, in my mind. Installed in recesses behind walls or ceilings, allowing you to magically hear your music and movies without the speakers being in view at all, they perhaps made sense to me for commercial settings and places where floor space is at a premium — that's why in-wall speakers are so popular in home theater installations — but otherwise the tech always came across as somewhat gimmicky.
