The Audioaccess in-wall / in-ceiling speakers are priced EXTREMELY well right now. I suspect that in comparison to other in-wall technologies that are now a little more in vogue you give up whole lot of "sleath factor" and that is really the main reason for the close out pricing. Build quality of even "top name brand" in-wall speakers will not rival the Audioaccess stuff, which is one reason why it was a favorite of custom installers. Sound quality is certainly FAR better than the "ok for background music" variety of in-wall speakers that too often got spec'd for "custom home theater" but to get in-walls thatt really give even any moderatly priced bookshelf monitors a run for their money you could easily spend 10x before you really heard any major differences. Of course the "gotchas" with any in-wall installation are that the whole wall cavity becomes an "enclosure" and the relative effficiency and sound quality can suffer terrribly from a hasty installation.

Even with the most careful in-wall installation I would strongly recommend the best "room correctiong" surround processor you can afford both monetarily and "waiting period" -- the 978 ought to do a great job with MultiXT32 or you could jump on the Marantz offerring from our hosts. The list of "rivals" is well documented in those threads...