After passing our 3 year anniversary of pool ownership I finally decided to get back to a project I had planned to do the first year...
Adding speakers and electrical plugs to our pergola.
I worked on the project over the weekend and with a few more tweaks will be done. It only took 3 years to get around to it!
Originally I wanted to add a bluetooth speaker amp and purchased a Pyle Bluetooth Receiver Wall Mount to go into a single gang box - I also purchased a power transformer to convert the voltage to work with the Pyle unit (I have these sitting in the garage). I also had a nice set of Polk Audio Atrium 4 speakers just sitting in the garage...
For the past 3 years I have relied on our TV to do music (using a Roku stick to play Pandora, Amazon Music etc...). However, the speakers in our cheap TV just didn't sound that great.
Fast forward to the last few weeks. I decided to switch gears completely for the sound amplification part of the system and purchased a little Class D amplifier for $120 - a SMSL Q5 Pro digital amplifier. This is a nice speaker driver with a optical input that I can connect directly to the TV.
The idea is to put the small amp on the back of the TV, along with the power supply, and it will be protected when I use the TV cover.
I put our speakers up on the pergola Saturday and did the AC wiring and conduit on Sunday. I will be finishing the speaker connections in the next few days. For now I have it working and the sound improvement is amazing.
Hopefully I don't get the neighbors mad at me