Yea this is a multi-pronged project with a lot of strange needs.

1. My daughter's room is over it, and there's no insulation over these. At a minimum, we wanted sound dampening over them.

2. They are super old, and maybe we could justify replacing them, but ultimately they have decent range and sound pretty good.

3. If we took the in-wall wiring and made little outlet-cover plugs and dropped some speakers below the ceiling, we could aim them better and solve the sound insulation problem.

4. Wife's tolerance for new/patched ceiling holes is 0 and to be fair mine is close to 0, I hate ceiling texturing and it never looks right.

5. We have a theater room upstairs with proper sound...this is mostly the "kids watching youtube and playing switch" room. It's super long and NOT optimal sound.

6. The budget for any project work is influenced by the fact that we're about to put a bid in for a 170k 15 acre property to develop into a retirement home.

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I think the first attempt will be to make a metal rectangle (1/16 thick, 1/4 wide) and try to stretch some fabric over it, then slot it into the speakers. That plus some fiberglass insulation rectangles over the speakers will PROBABLY maximize results with the amount of budget we want to invest.