The speakers are in the house. Actually, the speakers are in the house and mounted, except for the rear center. (I'm still waiting for Monoprice to get wire back in stock...) I'm going to swing by Radioshack this afternoon and pick up a sound meter and calibrate them tonite. We checked out some music that we had initially gone speaker shopping with (Meddle and OK Computer) and it sounded fantastic. We watched Clerks II, to make sure dialogue on the center channel was okay. It sounded amazing, even in the chair, which is about 45 degrees off center from the TV.