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SpeakerCraft AIM Wide One In-Ceiling Speaker | 
| Brand: SpeakerCraft
Category: CE
Buy New: $279.00
as of 11/27/2009 16:48 CST details
New (1) Used (3) from $141.94
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 24344
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.1
Dimensions (in): 14 x 10 x 14
Perfect Surround Speaker
MPN: AIM WIDE ONE
Model: AIM WIDE ONE
UPC: 664254007132
EAN: 0664254007132
ASIN: B001TK3DZY
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Pivoting 8-inch IMG cone woofer | | • | Dual 2-inch IMG cone midrange drivers | | • | Dual .75-inch silk dome tweeters | | • | Front-mounted ambient/wide switch | | • | Timbre-matched to all One series speakers |
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Product Description
The Aim Wide One features fully pivoting woofers and unique dual mid-tweeter module that is mounted directly over the woofer with 2" dome midrange drivers and 3?4" tweeters facing 70 degrees off axis from each other. The result is ultra-wide dispersion with tremendous fidelity.
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| Customer Reviews:
Solid Construction, Great Sound, Wife friendly. September 28, 2009
C. Nuila (Salt Lake City, UT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a 5.1 home theater setup in my basement living room. Full range tower speakers for the mains, and a full range center channel. I originally had the Speakercraft AIM5 ONE in the ceiling for the Left and Right Surrounds. Those are great speakers and I was very pleased, but felt like I could use a wider, fuller sound from my surrounds. The AIM WIDE is exactly what I hoped for. The sound dispersion is very wide, and it really fills the room, but still has enough direct firing characteristics that it works great with the latest digital surround sound formats from Dolby and DTS. Ideally you want your surrounds wall mounted a little above and behind the listening area, but Wife constraints make that difficult at times. These speakers create a wall of sound that you can angle in toward the listening area with the pivoting driver that I believe is the next best thing to having wall mounted surrounds.
Pick up the speaker and you can tell the construction is durable and in a whole different zip-code that most in-wall/ceiling speakers you find for bargain prices. This thing is a solid 6 inches deep or so, and that is a good thing. It virtually has it's own enclosure and you can tell just by the size of the magnet on the woofer that this thing means business and will sound great. Mounting is straightforward, involving cutting a hole with the supplied template, attaching the speaker cable to heavy duty gold spring loaded connecters, positioning the speaker in the ceiling and turning 4 screws that tighten solid built in securing claws. Due to architectural limitations, I was not able to line up the tweeters on one speaker exactly how they recommended, but have noticed no sonic difference from the other. In reality, the sound dispersion is designed to be pretty wide so it probably doesn't matter which way the tweeter assembly is rotated. With the grills on they are almost flush with the ceiling and you visually forget they are there.
Though not really pictured, the AIM WIDE ONE speaker I received has the ambient/wide switch that is pictured on the Three and Five series. I spoke with a Speakercraft tech on the phone and the best way he could describe the settings was that Wide is the "normal" setting giving you the naturally "wide" sound dispersion this speaker was designed for, while the Ambient setting makes the dual mid/high speakers a little out of phase so that the soundtrack/effects are not so directional, or makes the sound a little more diffuse and is very good for the older non-discrete surround formats like Dolby Pro-logic. If you have a newer receiver and are playing movies with a Dolby Digital/DTS soundtrack, these were engineered using discrete surround channels and the Wide setting would be your best bet in my opinion. Especially if you are playing multi-channel music, you want the Wide setting, as you do not want music audio out of phase. Again this is IMHO.
I think it's worth paying the premium for Speakercraft, for the sound quality, and especially the way they back up their product and treat you right. Call their customer support any time and you'll see what I mean. Top notch.
mr florida April 6, 2009
Steven thomas
Just the most kick a$$ speakers you could have!!! sound dispersion it terrific. not overpowering. As far as rear speakers go these are very good and lifetime warrentee can't be beat.
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