High-Performance Sound That Disappears Into the Ceiling The Polk Audio 8" In-Ceiling Speaker V80 is from Polk's Vanishing V Series, built to deliver serious sound while all but disappearing into the ceiling. An 8-inch woofer and a swivel-mounted silk dome tweeter give you clear, full-range audio for whole-home music, a home theatre or a patio zone, behind a wafer-thin grille that sits nearly flush. Sold as a single speaker. Why You'll Love It Big, full sound from the ceiling. The 8-inch Dynamic Balance woofer and 1-inch silk dome tweeter deliver punchy bass and clear midrange, so it fills a room properly rather than sounding thin like smaller in-ceilings. Aim the sound where you want it. The tweeter swivels, so you can angle the highs towards your listening area even when the speaker has to go in a fixed spot. Nearly invisible. Polk's wafer-thin Sheer Grille sits almost flush and is paintable, so the speaker blends into any ceiling once it is in. Under the Hood Low-distortion engineering. Klippel Distortion Optimisation tunes the motor, voice coil and suspension for clean output at any volume. Full-range driver pair. An 8-inch composite polymer cone with a butyl rubber surround, paired with a 1-inch swivel silk dome tweeter. Easy to drive. Gold-plated push connectors and 90 dB sensitivity make it an easy load for any amplifier or receiver, from 10 to 100 watts per channel. CHT Insider Verdict The V80 is a lot of speaker for the money, and one of our go-to in-ceilings for whole-home audio and Atmos height channels. The 8-inch driver gives it the low-end weight smaller models lack, and the swivel tweeter and paintable grille make it easy to install cleanly. It is priced per speaker, so order the number of positions you are fitting. Pro Tip: If you are building or renovating, add Polk's pre-construction bracket to mark and protect the cutout before the plaster goes up, and a fire-rated back box where building regs require one. Both make the final install faster and tidier. Specifications Design Type 8" in-ceiling speaker (Vanishing V Series), single Woofer 8" composite polymer cone, butyl rubber surround Tweeter 1" swivel-mount silk dome Grille Wafer-thin Sheer Grille, white, paintable (included) Performance Frequency Response 30 Hz - 27 kHz (-3dB: 45 Hz - 25 kHz) Nominal Impedance 8 ohms Sensitivity 90 dB (1 watt @ 1 m) Recommended Amplifier Power 10 - 100 watts per channel Speaker Inputs Gold-plated push connectors Installation Mount Shape Round Cutout Diameter 23.81 cm Grille Diameter 28.26 cm Flush Mounting Depth 9.21 cm Overall Depth 10.48 cm Optional Accessories PB LC80i pre-construction bracket, fire-rated back box, square Sheer Grille (each sold separately)
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