What is everyone’s favorite outdoor speakers? My husband is looking for Bluetooth that can be mounted... is there a such thing? TIA
Yes! He wants to hard wire them in. Can you have blue tooth hard wired speakers?
+1 for hardwired.
My phone sends music to my speakers via a computer connected to the receiver, so I can't weigh in on these other solutions. But I just wanted to add this. I put my two outdoor speakers in the obvious place: under the eves, pointed at the pool. Unfortunately for me, the table at which everyone sits is between the speakers and the pool. Nice dinner music ambiance, right? Nope. Even my younger guests want the volume so low (so they can yack to each other while at the table), that the music has no impact at the pool. So my speaker placement advice is to put them where they won't bother anyone, including the neighbors. I think the ultimate solution is to have many, smaller speakers, placed around the pool, rather than just two blasting the pool from just one side. That way, the volume can be lower, but the actual coverage in and around the pool will be better. That might mean waterproof speakers that can be hung on a fence or placed in landscaping. Speaker wire can be run on top of the landscaping, with or without enclosing conduit, so a "surround sound" install might not be as bad as it sounds. There's even ways to get under a concrete walkway if you have to. And if the smaller speaker idea doesn't satisfy the need for big bass, they have subwoofer and can go on, or even under ground (yep, buried). Some that look like rocks!
It's how I'll do it "next time."
Just remember to watch ur length runs and gauge wire u use. There is loss over greater distances. U spec all jobs at 14/2 regardless. Once runs get over 100 feet we spec 12/2. We don’t use direct burial cause we always run conduit and break out each speaker into a splice box and keep moving down the property or around it. That way we can repull but the splice boxes allow us to pull out that speaker drop in that area.
It it will be documented in my nuvo thread once I do my array around the pool.
Jim
Hey Jim,
Did you ever post the Nuevo thread? Sounds very interesting.
was going to do the conduit cause it doesn’t have to really get dug in cause I need topsoil still but it’s so darn muddy man! 3 months to go. I’m hoping to be able to get topsoil by mid March if winter goes easy here.That's no excuse... get out there