Impressed, driving these with a Sonos amp, paired with a sub. Excellent sound quality for the $

Sounds great for the price. The mounting clips are flimsy and can pop out of place while installing in the ceiling.

The speakers are fine - this review is regarding the install. I've installed the old model of these speakers before and haven't had a problem. This time, 2 of the 4 mounting ears on each of the speakers became misaligned, jammed up, and became unusable. Now each of the speakers is only held up by the 2 that worked. I wish that Monoprice would beef this design up or include a couple extra in the packaging for when 50% of them fail.

decent for the value; speaker looks gorgeous; slim/almost nonexistent border/edge makes it look very sleek compared to other speakers in its price range. It was missing some depth of sound, however; bass was meh, and so were the mids. perhaps they may have sounded better if there weren't other speakers compared to it. highs were pretty decent; guitar, etc. came out sounding pretty good. These speakers were also compared against some Monoprice Alphas, Dayton Audio CS820c, Dayton Audio ME820c, Micca R-8c, and BIC Acoustech HT-8C.

My ranking would put these at the bottom of the list; they look good, but sound meh. Still, price point is pretty good.

I bought these 8" speakers to fill the 4 holes that my Klipsch 3800's used to occupy before I moved them to a dedicated theater room. I didn't buy the Monoprice speakers because I thought they would be great speakers, but rather I needed something to make the living room a bit more lively when we just wanted to watch regular TV or listen to music. These can't hold a candle range wise to my Klipsch but they are decent speakers for the price and the average consumer will enjoy them.

Pros: Decent quality, decent for music (i don't have them broke in fully yet, so I might update the rating)

Cons: The bass is really not there but that is what subwoofers are for. MOUNTING SYSTEM IS BAD, see below. Instructions for mounting are also very poor in my opinion.

THE BIG CON: The mounting arms and screw combinations they use are not well designed. Ensure that you test screw each mounting arm fully at least 2x to ensure the screw does not get stuck in the arm or it will skew outwards and cross thread. The problem is that the screws are too short to and there is not enough length to get them started which results in the arm twisting out of the channel. Also, the screws do not allow you to really get the arms tight to the drywall surface because they are not threaded the entire way down. I might have to take them out again and get longer screws with full threads down to the head to make them really flush with the ceiling. This is something I would suggest doing.