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I'm going to construct an 11' high cover for the patio below. It is 42' wide, so I will probably use a "double stereo" approach; L and R channels on the front and back left side, then R and L channels on the front and back right side.

What model speakers and/or enclosures should I be looking at? The all-time low temperature here is 25 F.

Thanks!

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Poke around this site and see what they have. I have bought from them before and had a good experience.

Patio speakers:


Parts-Express.com - Search Results

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If your handy you could make a couple of these. Look how much you'd save cause I think you'd only need 2.

http://www.stereo.holgerbarske.com/p.../kleinhorn.jpg

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Richard - can't help you with the speakers - but your yard is SO NEAT AND TIDY!! I am so impressed!

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:ha: THANKS! That really made my day! :ha:

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Bose makes some excellent outdoor speakers!

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Love your back yard Richard. Makes me remember what blue skies & warm weather is like :)

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As does Boston Acoustics.

Outdoor - Speakers - Boston Acoustics - Speakers, Home Theater, Mobile Audio, Sound Systems and More

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I Second that Boston Acoustics sounds VERY nice they are a high end speaker at a decent price!

Also Look at Speaker Craft there sound is good and have a lifetime warranty which is great for anything outdoors. About how much are you looking to spend? Are you going to want soft mount, rocks, other? It sounds like you want two sets of speakers. Are you looking for Top Qualify sound outside or kind of just background music?

What ever you do get, do not settle for less then 8" drivers!

If you are looking for home Audio I have some Boston Acoustics in wall's right now, a Pair of VRi593 and a Center Channel VRi553

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I have Boston on my computer, but I have some friends that have outdoor speakers that look like rocks (very good quality sound - manufacturer unknown)

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See the patio in the picture below? I am putting over it an 11-foot high patio cover (parts arrived today!). The overall shape is a rectangular box. The supports are 1.5 inch tubular steel. The sides and top are covered with 30% shade cloth. It is tall enough to clear the window on the left side of the house yet fit under the eve.

The speakers will be mounted in the corners of the patio cover just below the "ceiling". The cost of the cover was $1700, and I'm only willing to pay a small fraction of that for speakers. For example, $600 for 4 speakers is the wrong price. On the other hand, I'm not going to settle for cheap public address system! :D

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I have seen those speakers that look like rocks. Just too cool!!!!! And, they sound great.

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Yes, The rocks do sound good.

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I built a set of back loaded horns with 3" tang bands I'd put up against most 8" drivers anyday.

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In the early 1970's I worked in a state of the art electronic music studio. In 2006, the Polk audio speakers that came with my wife's Sony computer monitor were significantly better than the speakers in our studio 30+ years ago. So high-fidelity is relative. I have a set of 5 Mirage speakers powered by a Yamaha receiver in my living room. If I can find something inexpensive but similar quality for my patio I'd be thrilled.
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I bought a set of these some time back and put them in my sofa while the wife was away. I never told her and one night I put in a Star Wars movie and cranked them on. She was like "Why is the sofa shaking"? I just acted like she was crazy and said I didn't feel anything. Had her going for a few! lol

Tactile Transducers

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You should look at some of the JBL speakers as well. Its going to be hard to find quality outdoor speakers for less than $100 a peice unless you buy them used.

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Wow, and here I'd just get the boxes and guts for outdoor monitors (the kind used for concerts) and assemble those.

My yard is currently wired with Marshall high-output wedges I put together myself (for about 1/3 the cost of buying assembled ones, I spent less than $1000 on the whole kit and caboodle, mixing board, CD/Casette decks, dongly bits), which is all connected back to a distrow and a small 50-channel mixing board, all in its own little shed. I can control my parcans from there too.

The only thing is that I had the distrow to begin with. If you don't have mobile lighting-director equipment already, this option could get more expensive for you.

EDIT - You want smaller, mountable instruments, don't you? Stuff that's leech-powered, not direct....

Go to the nearest car audio store, purchase a set of good woofers (two instruments), two pairs of good mids, and two pairs of tweeters. Then just build your own boxes out of luann or good plywood, and cover them in vinyl (you can get this at most respectable fabric stores). You can get wire and connectors at Radio Shack or similar dealers, and mounts from the hardware store where you bought the plywood. Construct four boxes to hold the mids and tweeters, and a pair of boxes for the woofers. You can twin the woofer wire with two of the mid-high boxes (ideally, the left and right rears) to end up with four dolby-jacks that can be plugged directly into your sound system, or filtered through a little 6-channel mixer. I have wired houses in this manner for less than $500 using Bose and Sony XPlod instruments - if you want Harmon Karden it will cost a bit more.

Then, if you find that your sound is particularly muffled after a damp night, you can always go and buy just the vinyl or waxed paper speaker cones and swap those out. However, since your instruments are going to be under the protection of the deck roof (if I'm not missing something here) you shouldn't have that problem.

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Oh its protected? Then I vote for these:

http://www.gadgetlounge.net/images/AvantGuard.jpg

Its only bout $10,000.00 for the set.

oops update: $12,470.00

Better pic: Avantgarde Acoustic - Galerie

click on: customer | Europe | 29.03.2007

I don't believe this but I heard you can grow these from seed but the germination is slow.