ok i'll be totally honest with you. i'm just not a fan of bose for the fact that speakers half the price can be had that are better. with bose the customer pays for their advertising.
companies like russound, niles, sonance, triad make speakers that are cheaper and give better quality.
i'm just saying, not knocking them, but you can then put that money to other things needed.
but they will work.
you placement is fien of they are a single speaker that does stereo sound, but if each speaker is a left and a right you will loose sound cause the right and left speakers are too far apart. do you follow? in ur setup you have 4 speakers that are stereo if made like that or you have 2 pair of stereo speakers.
if they are 2 pair actually only you will need more coverage. if each speaker acts as a R and L steroe speaker you are good.
picture sitting under your rain wall and that 1 speaker is next to you. if it is only a L channel or a left channel you will only hear what is coming out of that speaker since u are so close to it.
regarding audio source. don't worry about the texas heat. most units have good fan cooling these days. worse worse case you buy a mountable fan that is made to cool components. they sit right ontop and pull air away with a small fan.
what about sources for audio? does the bose have built in internet streaming? you just hooking a cd player or iphone up to it?
jim
Jim... here's where my head is at
I've been reading great reviews of the Bose 51 speakers. I'm thinking 2-4 would be enough for us. I can run a reciever from the cabana as there's power there and I can run speaker wire anywhere I need from back there. My issue is I don't know what reciever to use. I like the slim, wall mountable form factor of the Bose SA-5. I could easily hide that on the wall behind the tv. The concern I have that it's not really outdoor rated. I'm not worried about it getting wet, rather the high temps here in Texas. Any other ideas (don't say Sonos)...?
Here's the overview of the yard. The red X's are where I envision those Bose 51's.
Thoughts??
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I have a pair of the Bose 51s, along with 2 pairs of Bose 251s mounted on my house. I love them, all controlled by the SA-4 and 5 amps (had two SA-4s before they replaced with the 5). I would not recommend having the amps outside. We have ours inside the house and ran the speaker wire out.
As far as placement, I would add another pair and put one on the other side of the fire pit area and another on the other side of the cabana. You will need to turn them up loud to get coverage with only 4, having the extra pair will get you more even coverage and you won't have to turn the volume up as loud to hear it from anyplace in the pool area. The directions in the box say to place them about 8-10' away from each other if I remember correctly for the best stereo sound. That's a little close, but I wouldn't go more than 15-20' apart.
so is each speaker stereo or are they a R/L channel?
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TIC Audio actually invented these in ground speakers. The sound quality is just as good and much less expensive. TIC is what you see at theme parks. The model to look at is the GS3. You can find refurb models direct from TIC on eBay for under $75 each. Be sure sure to run the speaker wire in conduit
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most companies like bose don't make thier own stuff. they OEM them. NAD was huge with this years ago. Thier bluray players were toshiba. so much that if you took the unit apart you saw tosh making inside.
best example of this is ATI. they make amps. very very good amps at that. hand made again in USA. they also make amps for boutique companies such as theta, lexicon, mark leviston. . . same thing. just nicer bodies but the guts are exactly the same. sometimes the heat control in them are diff, but no big deal. sound the same.
I am going to list your name under "Music set up". That way when anyone has a question about this we can click on your name and sent you a note to come check out the thread! What do you think about that??
