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This is a very good way to install speakers. You must be sure, of course, that JBL SP8C In-Ceiling Speaker is the speaker you will install into it. I installed four speakers without the rough-in kit, with drywall guys forgetting to cut out marked openings for two of them! So, when finishing my basement, I bought the rough-in kits, screwed them where I wanted my speakers to go, ran the wires to them, and that was it. Since the rough-in kit protrudes 1/2" beyond the level of unfinished ceiling, just like any electrical box, the drywall guys easily cut out for each kit in the same way as they do for any wall or ceiling mounted electrical box.

A word of caution: each RIF-8C Rough-In Frame Kit you order is enough for one PAIR of speakers. I must have missed that somewhere--I simply don't remember that being noted on any of the sites where I looked--but I ordered the same number of RIF-8C Rough-In Frame Kits as speakers I planned to have. That was twice as many as I needed :) There are two individual rough-in kits in each pack, for two speaker openings!

Great kit! makes installation very easy. seller doesn't specify Qty. per kit, I found out the hard way that every kit is for a pair of speakers and not one.