This is always a challenge between aesthetics, sound quality and flexibility.
I agree the look of built in speakers is modern and cool looking. But you give up some sound quality and a lot of flexibility.
For my dedicated HT room, 95 percent of the time I am in it, it is dark and I am only looking at the screen and listening to the sound track.
When I was building my HT room, I thought hard about the in-wall solution, but realized that it wasn't a compromise I wanted to make; on sound quality or flexibility (speaker placement and possible upgrading down the road).
I am glad I made the choice I did, just a few weeks ago I upgraded to a VP180. Had I gone with in-walls, I wouldn't have been able to do that as easily, if at all.
I think the QS8's are the way to go!
http://s643.photobucket.com/albums/uu153/worfzara1/HT%20room%20Sept%202010/
