Should speakers be placed symmetrically around a centred feature like artwork or a mural?

Yes, when the room is designed around a symmetrical focal point — a matched pair of speakers flanking the feature preserves the visual balance rather than a single off-centre speaker disrupting it.

Can Cedar be used as a stereo pair?

Yes — Cedar is commonly installed in stereo pairs for music and film listening, particularly in rooms where a wider, more even soundstage is wanted.

What subwoofer pairs with a stereo Cedar setup?

A single Juniper subwoofer (350W RMS, 25Hz–200Hz) is typically sufficient to anchor the low end for a stereo pair of Cedars in a standard-sized lounge.

Is Cedar available in black?

Yes — Cedar is available in black along with other standard finish options.

How does Cedar compare to Cane for a lounge system?

Cedar offers double Cane's power handling (100W RMS vs 50W RMS) and higher sensitivity (96dB vs 92dB), at the cost of additional mounting depth (74.9mm vs 23mm) — a trade worth making in larger rooms or where higher fidelity is the priority.

Should every room in a multi-room home use the same speaker model?

Not necessarily — many multi-room projects reserve a higher-output model like Cedar for the room where fidelity matters most, using a thinner, lower-power model elsewhere in the property.

Case Study: Cedar Flanking a Mural in a Home Lounge

Two XSCACE Cedar speakers symmetrically flanking a wall mural on fluted dark wood pilasters

A home lounge with a purple wave-pattern mural, navy leather barrel chairs, and a brass drum coffee table used a symmetrical layout that a single off-centre speaker would have visibly disrupted — so the design placed two black-finish Cedar speakers on matching fluted dark wood pilasters, one either side of the artwork. It's a deliberate stereo layout that doubles as a framing device for the mural itself.

Case Study at a Glance

Property: multi-room residence — corridor, living room, wine cellar, mural lounge
Product: Cedar (74.9mm, 100W RMS, 96dB)
Mounting surface: fluted dark wood pilasters (lounge)
Finish: black aluminium
Goal: a matched stereo pair framing a symmetrical wall mural

Reserving the higher-output model for the room that needs it

Not every room in this property used Cedar — it was reserved specifically for the mural lounge, the room the client identified as where they wanted the fullest, highest-fidelity sound in the house. That kind of selective specification, rather than running one model everywhere regardless of room demands, is common in larger multi-room projects where budget and acoustic priority are matched room by room rather than spread evenly.

Symmetry as a design constraint

When a room is built around a centred, symmetrical feature like a mural, speaker placement has to respect that symmetry or the whole composition reads as unbalanced — which is why this install used a matched pair flanking the artwork rather than a single speaker positioned for coverage alone.

Part of a larger multi-room system

This mural lounge was one room in a larger residential install that also included a tropical-leaf-wallpapered corridor, a minimalist living room, and a home bar and wine cellar with a backlit onyx ceiling — Cedar was reserved specifically for this lounge, the room where higher-output, higher-fidelity sound mattered most.

The system

A Juniper subwoofer (350W RMS, 25Hz–200Hz) anchors the low end for the paired Cedar speakers, delivering full-range sound for a room used for both music and film.