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Title: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: twoodruff on January 18, 2005, 09:40:43 AM
I am wanting to run some relatively cheap speakers to my back porch area, any recs? I have seen the wireless ones that require AC, hello? is that wireless? Thanks for any ideas
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: Nick in Edinboro on January 18, 2005, 12:44:48 PM
Part's Express carries a lot of outdoor speakers... I know one of them is wireless too for about $90 per speaker.

Others are cool too that look like rocks, etc..

http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?&Webpage_ID=3&DID=7&CAT_ID=49&ObjectGroup_ID=380&SO=2

(http://www.partsexpress.com/images/302-100m.jpg)
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: JAH on January 19, 2005, 11:55:04 AM
The wife bought me a pair of Polk Atrium's off of E-bay ...new in box!  Can't wait till the temp raises up to enjoy them.
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: twoodruff on January 19, 2005, 11:57:57 AM
The wife bought me a pair of Polk Atrium's off of E-bay ...new in box!  Can't wait till the temp raises up to enjoy them.

bragger, self ego inflator
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: JAH on January 19, 2005, 01:19:45 PM
The wife bought me a pair of Polk Atrium's off of E-bay ...new in box!  Can't wait till the temp raises up to enjoy them.

bragger, self ego inflator
name caller!!!! :P

 ;D so what are you going to get?  I've had my eye on the rock type speakers and always wondered how they sound.

Wireless would be cool for up in the trees (if you have them??)
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: twoodruff on January 19, 2005, 01:26:56 PM
The wife bought me a pair of Polk Atrium's off of E-bay ...new in box!  Can't wait till the temp raises up to enjoy them.

bragger, self ego inflator
name caller!!!! :P

 ;D so what are you going to get?  I've had my eye on the rock type speakers and always wondered how they sound.

Wireless would be cool for up in the trees (if you have them??)

I dont know yet, lots of options, this will probably a relative cheap purchase as quality is not so much an issue. Wireless sounds great but they eiher require a/c or like 8 c size batteries, screw that
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: Nick in Edinboro on January 19, 2005, 02:05:38 PM
A lot of those I linked would be an "underground wiring" sorta deal...  Just get the appropriate outdoor/underground speaker wire.

The non-rock looking ones that sorta have a "trash can" look to them I have heard before and they sound surprisingly good.  Not great, but not terrible.  They'd work well hidden behind bushes or mixed in with the landscaping somehow like that...

They had a nice "omni" like dispersion of sound for lack of a better term, really threw the music out there despite their less then ideal location in the garden bed :)
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: Mojowill on January 19, 2005, 04:12:16 PM
I have a set of relativley cheap RCA speakers from Rat shack and they sound decent, they will be on the deck when I get a home of my own, right now they are work room speakers
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: charles on January 19, 2005, 04:24:01 PM
Twood...I've got a pair of Advent wireless a friend gave me that he never used....brand new....I'll sell em to you dirt cheap if you want.
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: Craig T on January 19, 2005, 04:26:34 PM
JBL Vertec's?   8)

http://www.jblpro.com/vertec1/new_vertec/index.html
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: Jason B on January 20, 2005, 08:02:02 AM
Trey,

KEF makes an outdoor speaker that really sounds great. We sell and install these all the time. You should check them out, I recommend them.


http://www.kef.com/products/ciseries/technical/ci500aw_tec.html
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: barren4 on January 21, 2005, 06:48:15 AM
We've been enjoying these on the front porch for about two years now.

http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=3650556

edit because I got the model number wrong while at work. sorry about that
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: Tim on January 24, 2005, 11:21:27 PM
JBL Vertec's? 8)

http://www.jblpro.com/vertec1/new_vertec/index.html

+T 8)
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: twoodruff on January 26, 2005, 11:08:54 AM
JBL Vertec's? 8)

http://www.jblpro.com/vertec1/new_vertec/index.html

+T 8)

yeah I ended up going with these, most practical ones out there
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: scervin on January 26, 2005, 11:31:55 AM
I got some crap Audiosource or something like that off of amazon for $50.  They work fine while tossing bean bags and working in the garden.  Problem I had is I would always leave them on by accident so one night the people in back listened to some thiller movie my wife and I watched.  Another time they got to hear the Grammy's at full volume.  I'm sure those commercials sounded great!
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: twoodruff on January 26, 2005, 01:02:00 PM
thanks scott, just picked up a pair on ebay for $30 delivered
Title: Re: Outdoor Speakers
Post by: scervin on January 26, 2005, 01:29:01 PM
They made it through 2 MI winters and still work!  Hell even if they didn't I was only out $50!

SC